GHUCCTS Funds Six Pilot Projects for 2020-2021

GHUCCTS has selected 6 new pilot projects to be funded for 2020-2021. The Pilot Translational and Clinical Studies program (PTCS) is designed to bring about further advances that will improve the process of research throughout our CTSA hub and the national CTSA consortium.
Four of the six selected pilot projects will focus on COVID-19 and the current pandemic including one from our very own, Jason Umans, MD, PhD. Dr. Umans is a member of GHUCCTS, currently serving on our Executive Committee and as Co-PI for our KL2 Scholars Program, Translational Workforce Development team, and our TL1 Translational Biomedical Sciences Training Program.

Below are the selected principal investigators and their pilot projects.

Simina Boca, PhD - Assistant Professor, Departments of Oncology and Biostatistics, Bioinformatics, and Biomathematics at the Georgetown University Medical Center
Study: “The impact of COVID-19 on Latina and African-American breast cancer survivors in the Washington DC area”

Sonia de Assis, PhD - Assistant Professor of Oncology at Georgetown University 
Study: “Epigenetic Inheritance: The placenta as a mediator of paternal obesity effects on offspring’s health”

Jeseth Delgado Vela, PhD - Assistant Professor with the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, College of Engineering and Architecture at Howard University
Study: “Evaluating disparities in COVID-19 diagnoses using a wastewater-based epidemiology approach”

Mary Ann Dutton, PhD - Professor of Psychiatry at Georgetown University
Study: “The Role of Stress and Resilience in the Link Between Social Connectedness and Health-Related Quality of Life for Low-Income, Predominately Minority Men and Women with Chronic Health Conditions”

Victoria Lai, MD - Assistant Professor of Clinical Surgery at Georgetown University
Study: “Quality of life of endocrine surgery patients: a prospective study across time by ethnicity/race and social determinants of health”

Jason Umans, MD, PhD - Scientific Director of the Biomarker, Biochemistry, and Biorepository Core and of the Field Studies Division and Phoenix Field Office at MedStar Health Research Institute
Study: “Comparative impacts of COVID-19 on urban and reservation-dwelling American Indian communities”

Congratulations to our 2020-2021 GHUCCTS pilot award recipients!

For more information about GHUCCTS funding opportunities, please visit http://www.georgetownhowardctsa.org/funding or email ghuccts@georgetown.edu

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