2013 New Award Recipients by Disease Primary Disease Focus: Juvenile Arthritis, Juvenile Rheumatoid Arthritis Erica Freeman Lawson, MD University of California, San Francisco Transition to Independence: Optimizing Outcomes in Childhood-Onset Lupus Postdoctoral Fellowship Primary Disease Focus: Osteoarthritis Jailal Nicholas George Ablack, PhD University of California, San Diego MARCHing to a Halt: MARCH1 regulates Lymphocyte Proliferation through CD98 Postdoctoral Fellowship Deva Chan, PhD Rush University Medical Center Directing Chondrogenic Repair Tissue in a Novel Murine Microfracture Model Postdoctoral Fellowship Alice Huang, PhD Shriners Hospitals for Children - Portland The Role of Activin in Tendon Development Postdoctoral Fellowship Megan Ruiter, PhD University of Alabama at Birmingham Ethnic Differences in Osteoarthritis Pain and Sleep Postdoctoral Fellowship Vincent Willard, PhD Duke University Medical Center In Vitro Models of Osteoarthritis for Personalized Medicine Postdoctoral Fellowship Michelle Yau, MPH University of Maryland, Baltimore Elucidating the genetic architecture of osteoarthritis progression Doctoral Dissertation Award Primary Disease Focus: Other Sokratis Apostolidis, MD Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center The role of PP2Ac in the Th17/Treg cell balance in SLE Postdoctoral Fellowship Disease: Lupus Kenneth K.C. Bramwell, PhD University of Utah Positional Cloning Implicates Gusb in the Pathogenesis of Lyme Arthritis Postdoctoral Fellowship Disease: Lyme Disease Maureen Dubreuil, MD Boston University Cardiovascular Disease and Diabetes in Ankylosing Spondylitis Clinical to Research Transition Disease: Ankylosing Spondylitis Yiu Tak Leung, MD, PhD University of Pennsylvania IRF influences on the Epigenetic Landscape in SLE Postdoctoral Fellowship Disease: Lupus Julie Paik, MD Johns Hopkins University Neuropathy in Scleroderma Clinical to Research Transition Disease: Scleroderma Shaofeng Wang, MD, PhD Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation Functional Study of SLE-associated Risk Variants in UBE2L3 Postdoctoral Fellowship Disease: Lupus Minjun Yu, PhD Columbia University A Novel Mouse Model for Immune-Mediated Skin Fibrosis Postdoctoral Fellowship Disease: Scleroderma Primary Disease Focus: Rheumatoid Arthritis and Related Diseases Michelle Rosan Abelson, PhD University of Pittsburgh IL-17-Mediated Regulation of C/EBPbeta: Signaling and Response in Arthritis Postdoctoral Fellowship Hildur Hronn Arnardottir, PhD Brigham and Women's Hospital Novel Resolvin D3 in the Resolution of Inflammation and Murine Arthritis Postdoctoral Fellowship Sourojit Bhowmick, Ph.D Yale University Genetic Analysis of Follicular Helper T cells in Immune Responses Postdoctoral Fellowship Delesha M. Carpenter, PhD University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Understanding how RA patients process conflicting information about DMARDs New Investigator Grant Cheilonda Johnson, MD, MHS Johns Hopkins University Determinants of Rheumatoid Arthritis Associated Interstitial Lung Disease Postdoctoral Fellowship Byung-Seok Kim, PhD University of Texas, M. D. Anderson Cancer Center The Role of RORgt in Treg Cells in the Regulation of Autoimmune Arthritis Postdoctoral Fellowship Michelle Ormseth, MD Vanderbilt University HDL Dysfunction in Rheumatoid Arthritis Clinical to Research Transition