2016 Pilots: Center- and Program-Specific Themes
EMORY-BASED CENTERS AND PROGRAMS
CENTER & CONTACTS
Children’s Center for Neurosciences
Research (CCNR)
Directors: Ton de Grauw, MD, PhD & Alex
Kuan, MD, PhD
Coordinator: Jennifer Villaseñor
Children’s Center for Transplantation and
Immune-mediated Disorders (CTID)
Director: Subra Kugathasan, MD
Coordinator: Jennifer Villaseñor
Marcus Autism Center (MAC)
Center Director: Ami Klin, PhD
Associate Director of Research: Chris Gunter,
PhD
Coordinators: Christina Wessels and Christa
Payne
Children’s Heart Research and Outcomes
Center (HeRO)
Director: Mike Davis, PhD
Coordinator: Kristen Herzegh, MPH
Center for Childhood Infections and
Vaccines (CCIV)
Director: Paul Spearman, MD & Marty Moore,
PhD
THEMES & REQUIREMENTS
Human Imaging
--Must involve human imaging at the Center
for Systems Imaging (CSI) at Wesley Woods
--CSI will provide one complimentary hour of
MRI or PET scan time (excluding
radiopharmaceuticals) for every hour of scan
time purchased with pilot grant funds up to a
maximum of 10 complimentary scan hours.
Click here for imaging rates.
--Investigators must comply with CSI’s other
seed grant policies, namely that if an
investigator is awarded funding for future
scans based on their pilot, she/he must do the
scans at CSI. All policies are available here.
--Mock scanner also is available at CSI for
practice sessions with children ($40/hour).
Epilepsy/Clinical Neurophysiology
--PI must be faculty member at GA Tech
--Must relate to epilepsy or clinical
neurophysiology
--Translation of basic science into solutions
that address problems of immune-mediated
diseases and transplantation
--Technologies and innovation for disease
monitoring in chronic immune mediated
disorders
--Collaboration with GA Tech investigators is
encouraged.
--MAC will support research which is clinically
or translationally relevant to autism and
related disorders, including:
o treatment clinical trials;
o implementation science, including
cost-benefit analysis, value-based
proposition, or service utilization;
o genetic studies of autism or autismrelevant phenotypes; or
o understanding of mechanisms in
autism pathobiology.
--Proposals must factor in diagnostic
characterization costs if new patients are
involved in the study.
--Encouraging all cardiovascular research
ideas related to child health
--At least one of the faculty investigators must
be a primary or affiliate member of CCIV.
--Themes:
2016 Pilots: Center- and Program-Specific Themes
Coordinator: Karen Kennedy, PhD
Junior Faculty Focused Awards (JFF)
Program Officer: Stacy Heilman, PhD
Coordinator: Karen Kennedy, PhD
Antimicrobial Resistance
Program Officer: Barbara Kilbourne, RN, MPH
Coordinator: Jennifer Villaseñor
Postdoctoral Medical Genetics Research
Program Officer: Subra Kugathasan, MD
Coordinator: Jennifer Villaseñor
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Translation of basic science into
solutions that address problems
affecting the health of children
o Technologies and innovation for
infectious disease research
o Clinical infectious disease research:
immunology and vaccines
--Child health focused clinical, translational or
basic science projects
--Special eligibility requirements:
o PI must have a current rank of
Assistant Professor at Emory and be
no more than 7 years into their faculty
appointment.
o PI must have NIH New Investigator
status, meaning she/he has not
previously competed successfully as
PD/PI for a substantial NIH
independent research award. Click
here for a detailed definition and
exclusions.
o If the PI’s primary faculty appointment
is not in the Emory DOP, the PI must
have medical staff privileges at
CHOA.
--Research proposals investigating topics
related to antimicrobial resistance are being
accepted with prioritization of topics related
to:
o Hospital acquired infections due to IV
lines/central lines (e.g. biofilm
formation and surface coating to
prevent spread of bacteria)
o Antibiotic prescribing in outpatient
populations (priority will be given to
projects that capitalize on the
Children’s Care Network)
--Available only to postdocs doing medical
genetics research
GEORGIA TECH-BASED CENTERS
Center for Pediatric Innovation (CPI)
Director: Bob Guldberg, PhD & Kevin Maher,
MD
Coordinator: Hazel Stevens
Center for Pediatric Nanomedicine (CPN)
Director: M.G. Finn
Coordinator: Erin Kirshtein
Center for Transforming Pediatric
Healthcare Delivery (CTPHD)
Director: Elizabeth Mynatt, PhD
Coordinator: Sheri Russell
--Bioengineering solutions to advance cellbased therapies and biomedical devices for
pediatric clinical applications
--Encouraging interactions involving functional
nanostructures for diagnostic and therapeutic
applications
--Innovation to improve the access, quality,
cost-effectiveness, and patient experience of
pediatric healthcare delivery