GSI 2025 Pilot Grant Competition: Winners
The Genome Science Institute is pleased to announce the winners of the 2025 Pilot Grant Competition. We were able to support 4 one-year pilot projects; each to enhance genetics and genomics research at Boston University/Boston Medical Center, with the use of kits, reagents, and other services with new genomic technologies.
1. “Cytoskeletal control of oligodendrocyte biology in myelin assembly, maintenance and function”
Ume Beffert, Ph.D.– Department of Biology and Angela Ho, Ph.D. – Department of Biology
2. “Neurobiological mechanisms of horned beetle behavioral plasticity using single-cell RNA-seq”
Sofia Casasa, Ph.D, – Department of Biology
3. “The goal of this proposal is to develop a novel in vitro human organoid model system of telomerase dysfunction to study the epithelial intrinsic perturbations at the inception of pulmonary fibrosis”
Jonathan Chang, MD – Department of Pulmonary, Allergy, Sleep & Critical Care Medicine; Kostas Alysandratos, MD, PhD – Department of Medicine; Darrell Kotton, MD – Department of Pulmonary, Allergy, Sleep & Critical Care Medicine
4. “snRNA-seq of Environmental Chemical and High Fat Diet-exposed Liver Background and Rationale”
David Waxman, Ph.D. – Department of Biology