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2013 Emory+Children’s Pediatric Center Seed Grant Program Awardees (formerly EECRC)

Congratulations to the 2013 Emory+Children’s Pediatric Center Seed Grant Program awardees: (formerly EECRC)

Eric I. Felner, MD, MSCR, Department of Pediatrics, Division of Endocrinology & Diabetes
“Liraglutide Delivery Using an Absorbable Microneedle Patch”

Kelly Goldsmith, MD, Department of Pediatrics, Division of Hematology/Oncology
“In vivo investigations to confirm COUP-TF1 as a novel biomarker of therapy response in neuroblastoma”

Jeanne Hendrickson, MD, Department of Pediatrics, Division of Hematology/Oncology
“Antigen specific non-responsiveness following red blood cell transfusion:  an unexpected benefit”

Astrid Kosters, PhD, Department of Pediatrics, Division of Gastroenterology, Hepatology, and Nutrition
“A novel transport protein, Slc10a6, with potential anti-inflammatory substrates:  regulation and functional analysis during hepatic inflammation”

Andrew Muir, MD, Department of Pediatrics, Division of Endocrinology & Diabetes
“Insulin Sensitivity in Rhesus Monkey Juveniles: Developing a Surrogate Marker of Metabolic Disease”

Tracy-Ann Read, PhD, Department of Neurosurgery, Division of Neuroscience
“Identifying the cellular origins of Atypical Teratoid/Rhabdoid Tumors (AT/RTs)”

Timothy C. Slesnick, MD, Sibley Heart Center Cardiology
“Exercise cardiac magnetic resonance imaging of single ventricle patients after Fontan surgery:  Effect of circuit power loss and branch pulmonary artery architecture”

Parminder Suchdev, MD, MPH, Department of Pediatrics
“The role of maternal and infant micronutrient status on rotavirus immunity following rotavirus vaccination”

Chunhui Xu, PhD, Department of Pediatrics, Division of Cardiology
“Human induced pluripotent stem cells modeling muscular dystrophy-associated cardiomyopathy”