Pilot Projects Fall 2018

Congratulations to our Fall 2018 CACHET Pilot Grant Awardees:


Dr.
Wenyang Hu (UIC) with Gail Prins (UIC): Dioxin reprogramming of human prostate stem cell self-renewal and differentiation. Idea Award

Dr. Robert Sargis (UIC) with Rhonda Kineman (UIC): Stat5b Signaling as Mediator of and Therapeutic Target for Dioxin-Like, PCB-Induced Nonalcoholic Fatty Liver Disease. Idea Award

Dr. Robert Hamanaka (UofC) with Gokhan Mutlu (UofC) and Jayant Pinto (UofC): The effect of sex on particulate matter-induced transcriptional and metabolomic responses in nasal epithelium.  Young Investigator Award

Dr. Donald Vander Griend (UIC) with Brandon Pierce (UofC), Gail Prins (UIC): Using genome editing to identify causal SNPs impacting arsenic metabolism efficiency.  Inter- Institutional Award