Past Awardees

Patricio Escalante, M.D., Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine Optimized EliSpot Method for the Immunodiagnosis of Latent Tuberculosis Infection
Andrew Limper, M.D., Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine Myofibroblasts in Lung Fibrosis: Disease Activity and Treatment Selection
William C. Oliver, Jr., M.D., Anesthesiology The Validation Of A Device To Monitor The Lactic Acidosis In Relation To Hypoperfusion During Pediatric Congenital Heart Surgeries
Moses Rodriguez, M.D., Neurology Natural Autoantibody-Mediated Microcontact Printing Coupled Electrophysiology to Estimate Neuronal Survival and Regeneration
Wolfgang Singer, M.D., Neurology Sweat Gland Nerve Fiber Density — A Novel Tool to Assess and Quantify Small Fiber Neuropathy

Shigao Chen, Ph.D., Physiology/Biomed Engineering and Allen Brown, M.D., Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation Quantitative Evaluation of Muscle Spasticity with Ultrasound for Stroke Patients
Bryan Klassen, M.D., Neurology High-Resolution Eletrophysiologic Recording During Deep Brain Stimulation Surgery Using a Custom Hybrid Electrode
Jay McLaren, Ph.D., Ophthalmology Digital Assessment of Glaucomatous Optic Nerve Progression
K. Sreekumaran Nair, M.D, Ph.D., Endocrinology A Novel Method to Measure Accumulation of Old Proteins
Mark Stegall, M.D., Transplantation Surgery Novel Method to Predict Functional Decline in Renal Allografts Using Intragraft Gene Expression
David Viswanatha, M.D., Hematopathology Single Step PCR and Sanger Sequencing for Mutation Identification in DNA Samples

Lilach Lerman, M.D., Ph.D., Nephrology and Hypertension Development of Adipose Tissue-Derived Mesenchymal Stem Cells for Human Chronic Kidney Diseases
Armando Manduca, Ph.D., Physiology and Biomedical Engineering 5-D MR Imaging (Simultaneous High Spatial and Temporal Resolution MR Angiography and Perfusion Imaging) With Novel Reconstruction Techniques
Qian Shi, Ph.D., and Rui Qin, Ph.D., Health Sciences Research Development and Implementation of the Hierarchical Bayesian Design in Clinical Trials with Multiple Disease Types
Gregory Worrell, M.D., Ph.D., Neurology Statistical Parametric Mapping and Single Photon Computed Tomography

Muthuvel Jayachandran, Ph.D., Surgery A Novel Method to Identify Early Disease Processes in Asymptomatic Individuals
Cynthia McCullough, Ph.D., Radiology A Methodology to Assess Dynamic Joint Instabilities Using 4-D CT Imaging
Christopher Ward, M.B., Ch.B., Ph.D., Nephrology and Hypertension High Throughput Processing and Mass Spectrometry Analysis of Urine Exosomies: A New Source of Disease Biomarkers

Yan Asmann, Ph.D., Health Sciences Research Comparison, Validation, and Development of Algorithms for Copy Number Variation Analysis using Affymetrex and Illumina Genome-Wide SNP Arrays and Spike-in Formid Clones
Ricardo Lloyd, M.D., Ph.D., Laboratory Medicine and Pathology Diagnostic and Prognostic Uses of MicroRNA by In-Situ Hybridization
Thomas Behrenbeck, M.D., Ph.D., Cardiovascular Diseases Myocardial Microcirculatory Function Assessed by Computed Tomography
George Klee, M.D., Ph.D., Laboratory Medicine and Pathology Experimental Pathology MS Methods for Detection and Quantification of Serum Glycoproteins
John Lieske, M.D., Nephrology and Hypertension Using LC-MS to Identify and Quantify Peptide Fragments of Albumin in Urine as an Early Marker of Renal Disease

Abdul Jaleel Abdul Rahiman, Ph.D., Endocrinology, Diabetes and Nutrition Identification of Newly Synthesized and Older Proteins and the Analyses of their Post Translational Modification(s)
H. Robert Bergen III, Ph.D., Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Confident Protein Identification Enhancement
Paul Claus, M.D., Preventive, Occupational and Aerospace Medicine Mobilizing Bone-Marrow Derived Stem Cells and Progenitors by Hyperbaric Oxygen: A Clinical Study in Healthy Subjects
Joseph Matsumoto, M.D., Neurology Statistical Imaging of Intracranial and Scalp EEG
Ravinder Singh, Ph.D., Laboratory Medicine and Pathology Development of Robust LC-MS/MS Based Methods for the Absolute Quantification of Proteins and Peptides