Advance-CTR
          
        Awardee Archive
Meet the Awardees
  Pilot Project awardees work either as single PIs or in teams to investigate cutting edge research that addresses health priorities in our state. 
          The Mentored Research Awards provide two years of protected research time and mentoring to help scholars launch independent research careers. 
          Big Data awardees leverage large-scale data sets to identify trends and solutions to health care challenges in Rhode Island.
          The Grant Resubmission Awards provide critical, stop-gap support to improve highly scored grant proposals for resubmission. The New Discovery Award supports researchers with innovative ideas in line with Advance RI-CTR's mission.
        Awardee Spotlights
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      Awardee Spotlight: Orestis Panagiotou, MD, PhD
  Dr. Panagiotou was recently published in JAMA Oncology on the statistical challenges of using administrative claims data for answering clinical and policy questions.
          
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      Awardee Spotlight: Amin Zand Vakili, MD, PhD
  Amin Zand Vakili, MD, PhD, received a VA Clinical Science Research & Development Career Development Award-2.
          
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      Awardee Spotlight: Sarah Thomas, PhD
  Sarah Thomas, PhD, is the recipient of a K23 from NIDA for her research on adolescent cannabis use. 
          
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      Awardee Spotlight: Yang Zhou, PhD
  Yang Zhou, PhD, received an R01 from the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute.
          
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      Awardee Spotlight: Nisanne Ghonem, PharmD, PhD
  Advance-CTR awardee Nisanne Ghonem, PharmD, PhD, recently received funding from United Therapeutics to move her research from the bench to the bedside.
          
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      Awardee Spotlight: Katie Sharkey, MD, PhD
  Katie Sharkey, MD, PhD, received an R01 from the National Institute for Mental Health.
          
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      Awardee Spotlight: Chathuraka Jayasuriya, PhD
  Chathuraka Jayasuriya, PhD, received an Applied Research Award from the DoD PRORP program.
          
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      URI Professor Receives Grant to Research Cause of Kidney Transplant Failures
  Dr. Ghonem's research will advance the study of organ transplantation.
          
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