Clinical Research Center Announces Junior Faculty Research Awardees
The Miller Office of Research has awarded Tamara Isakova, M.D., M.M.Sc., assistant professor of medicine, and Jair Munoz Mendoza, M.D., assistant professor of medicine, the 2011 Clinical Research Center Junior Faculty Research Award.
The Clinical Research Center Junior Faculty Research Award is an internal funding program that supports junior investigators who use the University’s Clinical Research Center to generate preliminary data that will be used for career development grant submissions or already funded career development awards. The award allocates $2,500 toward the costs of conducting clinical research at the center.
Isakova’s protocol, “The Independent Contribution of Kidney Injury to FGF23 Levels in Chronic Kidney Disease” will supplement her NIH career development project (a K23 award).
Mendoza, a NIH Minority Supplement Award recipient, will be investigating “FGF23 and Mineral Metabolism in Morbidly Obese Patients Undergoing Bariatric Surgery.”
The 2010 winners were Sarah Messiah, Ph.D., M.P.H, associate professor of pediatrics, for her NIH career development project (a K01 award), “Growth and Cardiometabolic Risk Among in Utero Drug Exposed Children,” and Veronica Accornero, Ph.D., associate professor of pediatrics, for her Developmental Center for AIDS Research (D-CFAR) study, “Male-Female Differences in the Association of Drug Involvement, Risky Sexual Behavior, and STI/HIV Infection in Late Adolescence: Role of Executive Functions and Decision Making.”
Applications are reviewed on the basis of scientific merit and the potential for external funding. For more information on the center, please visit uresearch.miami.edu/crc or contact Joanne Krasnoff, Ph.D., at .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address).
