Irving Institute Announces 2016-2017 CaMPR Planning Grant Recipients
The Irving Institute for Clinical and Translational Research, home to Columbia University’s Clinical and Translational Science Award (CTSA) Program hub, announces the recipients of the 2016-17 Collaborative and Multidisciplinary Pilot Research (CaMPR) planning grants.
The Collaborative and Multidisciplinary Pilot Research Pilot Award (CaMPR) is a two-phase award that provides planning and start-up funds to support the formation of newly-configured investigative teams with the aim of addressing a significant health problem at the cellular, individual, or community level. The planning grant recipients are:
A Dyadic Caregiver-Child Exercise Intervention in Underserved Families at High Risk for Autism Spectrum Disorders
- Sylvie Goldman, PhD, Neurology (Principal Investigator)
- Kalapana Pethe, MD, Pediatrics (Co-Principal Investigator)
- Carol Ewing Garber, PhD, Applied Physiology
- Amelia Boehme, PhD, Gertrude H. Sergievsky Center
- Jennifer Bain, MD, PhD, Neurology: Pediatrics
- David Leeds, BA, Neurology: Pediatrics
Improving the Electrical Coupling and Conduction of Tissue-engineered Cardiac Constructs for Clinical Application in Children with Congenital Heart Disease
- David Kalfa, MD, PhD, Surgery: Cardiothoracic (Principal Investigator)
- Gordana Vunjak-Novakovic, PhD, Biomedical Engineering (Co-Principal Investigator)
- Kenneth Shepard, PhD, Electrical Engineering
- Glenn Fishman, MD, NYU School of Medicine
Association of Depression and Cognitive Impairment with Hearing Loss and its Remediation in Older Adults
- Bret Rutherford, MD, Psychiatry: Geriatrics (Principal Investigator)
- Justin Golub, MD, Otolaryngology/Head & Neck Surgery (Co-Principal Investigator)
- Adam Brickman, PhD, Neurology
- Hae-Ok Ana Kim, MD, Otolaryngology/Head & Neck Surgery
- Martina Pavlicova, PhD, Biostatistics
- Elizabeth Olson, PhD, Biomedical Engineering
Deep Brain Stimulation Therapy for Autism with Self-Injurious Behavior
- Nora Vanegas-Arroyave, MD, Neurology: Movement Disorders (Principal Investigator)
- Sameer Sheth, MD, PhD, Neurological Surgery (Co-Principal Investigator)
- Sylvie Goldman, PhD, Neurology
- Lori Quinn, EdD, Health and Behavior Studies
- Jeremy Veenstra-Vanderweele, PhD, Psychiatry: Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
- Jeffery Cole, PhD, Neurology: Epilepsy