Research Accelerator Program Awardees
We are pleased to announce the awardees of the Research Accelerator Program. The program is designed to support faculty within their first 3 years of appointment in developing their research careers. It is meant to bridge the gap between fellowship training and a first career development award such as a K-award. Each awardee will receive 150K annually for 1 -2 years.
Please join us in congratulating:
Miriam Harris, MD, MSc – General Internal Medicine
Dr. Harris’s research aims to enhance HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) access within hospital-based addiction services for women who use drugs and engage in sex work. Integrated HIV and addiction services offer an opportunity to increase HIV prevention to this high risk but underprioritized population. This work aims to create a framework for HIV prevention and addiction treatment integration that can serve as a model for other sites around the US.
Insa Schmidt, MD, MPH – Nephrology
Dr. Schmidt’s research focuses on improving outcomes in patients with kidney disease through the development of new diagnostic tools and prediction of adverse clinical events. Building on her previous work, the research funded through the Research Accelerator Program Award will use machine learning techniques to combine rich data from multiple sources, including digital kidney pathology, biomarkers, and clinical information, to improve clinical disease phenotyping and outcome prediction for patients with kidney disease.
Erin Crossey, MD – Pulmonary, Allergy, Sleep and Critical Care Medicine
The lymphatic network is responsible for fluid homeostasis and immune cell trafficking throughout the body, but it is unknown whether specialized subsets of lymphatic cells exist in the lung given the unique physiology of this organ. Dr. Crossey’s research focuses on addressing knowledge gaps in lymphatic biology using strategies to isolate and sequence lung lymphatic cells as well as by developing techniques that can illuminate their function during health and disease