We recently gave approximately $160,000 toward childhood arthritis research in the form of research grants. The grants are funded through theChildhood Arthritis and Rheumatology Research Alliance (CARRA); small grants were given to pediatric rheumatologists and fellows small grant research awards were given to third year fellowship students.
Spring Small Grants
Three small grants of$25k eachwere awarded. Congratulations to:
- Erica Lawson, University of California, San Francisco (San Francisco, CA):The Impact of Pediatric-to-adult Care Transition on Health Care Utilization and Medication Adherence among Youth
- Sheila Angeles-Han, Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center (Cincinnati, OH):Measuring Vision-related Function and Quality of Life in Children with Uveitis
- Kimberly Lewis, The University of Texas at Austin (Austin, TX):A Pilot of Metabolomics in Symptom Science: The intersection between Pain, Fatigue and Cardiovascular Risk in Teens with Juvenile Idiopathic Arthritis
Fellows Small Grants
Seven Fellows Small Grants ofup to $25k eachwere awarded. Congratulations to:
- Jessica Neely, University of California San Francisco (San Francisco, CA):Longitudinal Immune Profiling for Biomarker Discovery in Patients with Juvenile Dermatomyositis ($24,343 grant award)
- Anna Patrick, Vanderbilt University Medical Center (Nashville, TN):Effector T Cells: An Assessment of Activity in Polyarticular Juvenile Idiopathic Arthritis ($24,998 grant award)
- Cory Stingl, Duke University (Durham, NC):Precision Decision in the Treatment of Juvenile Dermatomyositis ($19,278 grant award)
- Albert Chow, Seattle Children’s Hospital (Seattle, WA):Oral Health and Microbial Dysbiosis in Juvenile Dermatomyositis ($24,950 grant award)
- Evan Mulvihill, Nationwide Children’s Hospital (Columbus, OH):Analysis of CB4 Gene Copy Number as a Predictor of Cardiovascular Disease in Systemic Lupus Erythematosus ($25,000 grant award)
- Natalie Rosenwasser, Hospital for Special Surgery (New York City, NY):Development of Novel Urinary Biomarkers for Lupus Nephritis ($25,000 grant award)
- Meiqian Ma, Cohen Children’s Medical Center (Queens, NY):Validation and Usefulness of the 2012 SLICC Lupus Classification Criteria for Pediatric Lupus ($11,275 grant award)
Visit theCARRA websitefor details on other funding opportunities. To stay up to date on Arthritis Foundation scientific initiatives and research projectsvisit us here.