Intramural Research Awards 2007

Each year, The Saban Research Institute and the Department of Pediatrics at Childrens Hospital Los Angeles provide competitive awards to encourage basic and clinical research by faculty.

Post-Doctoral Award

Tanja Gruber, MD, PhD
Division of Hematology/Oncology
Mentor: Markus Müschen, MD, PhD
“Activation Induced Cytidine Deaminase as a Causative Agent of Therapy Resistance in Philadelphia Chromosome Positive Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia (ALL)”

Academic Career Development Award

Susan Wu, MD
Division of General Pediatrics
Mentor: Wilbert H. Mason, Jr., MD, MPH
“Nebulized Hypertonic Saline for Treatment of Viral Bronchiolitis”

Elisabeth Raab, MD
Division of Neonatology
Mentor: Henri R. Ford, MD
“Impact of Probiotics on Feeding Tolerance and Incidence of Bacteremia in Neonates With Gastroschisis”

Career Development Awards

Sebastien Bouret, PhD
Neuroscience Program
Mentor: Richard B. Simerly, PhD
“Prenatal Nutrition and Hormone-Dependent Neurogenesis in Hypothalamus”

Yong-mi Kim, MD
Division of Hematology/Oncology
Mentor: Markus Müschen, MD, PhD
“Identification and Functional Analysis of ALL Stem Cells”

Clinical Research Academic Career Development Award

Jeffrey I. Gold, PhD
Departments of Anesthesiology Critical Care
Medicine and Pediatrics
Mentors: Ernest Katz, PhD; Marvin D. Nelson, Jr., MD
”Using fMRI to Examine the Neurobiological Basis of Virtual Reality Pain Attenuation”

Career Development Fellowship Award

Vanessa Taupin, PhD
Gene, Immune and Stem Cell Therapy
Mentor: Paula Cannon, PhD
“CCRS Co-Receptor Knock Out in Human HSC as an Anti-HIV Gene Therapy”

Christine Burt-Solarzano, MD
Neuroscience Program
Mentors: Mitchell E. Geffner, MD; Richard B. Simerly, PhD
“Perinatal Nutrition and the Maturation of Glucose Metabolism and Hypothalamic Feeding Circuits in Mice”

Saro Armenian, MD
Division of Hematology/Oncology
Mentors: Richard Sposto, PhD; Smita Bhatia, MD (City of Hope)
"Late Cardiac Complications in Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplant Recipients”

Brynie Collins, MD
Division of Gastroenterology
Mentors:  Edward D. Gomperts, MD; Henry Lin, MD
“Defining the Prevalence and Role of Small Intestinal Bacterial Overgrowth in Children with Chronic Abdominal Pain”