Honors and Grants

Daisy Bassen, Psychiatry and Human Behavior, medical director of Thrive Behavioral Health Inc, was named Health Care Services Woman to Watch in the Providence Business News Business Women Awards 2024.

Kimberle Chapin, Medicine and Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, was named chief medical officer of deepull, a medical diagnostics company developing culture-free diagnostic solutions for rapid pathogen identification for sepsis and other acute infections.

Diane Lipscombe, Neuroscience/Carney Institute for Brain Science, received the President’s Award for Excellence in Faculty Governance.

Jill Maron, Pediatrics (Neonatology), was corresponding author on a paper that was recognized as one of the top-10 clinical research papers at the Translational Science conference. The article was Rapid Whole-Genomic Sequencing and a Targeted Neonatal Gene Panel in Infants With a Suspected Genetic Disorder; Jill L. Maron, MD, MPH; Stephen Kingsmore, MD; Bruce D. Gelb, MD; et al; JAMA. 2023;330(2):161-169. doi:10.1001/jama.2023.9350. 

Noah Philip, Psychiatry and Human Behavior, received the Brain & Behavior Research Foundation Distinguished Investigator Grant. He will study low-intensity focused ultrasound to the amygdala in depressed patients. 
 
Pablo Rodriguez, Obstetrics and Gynecology, saw his podcast, "Nuestra Salud," the first and only health podcast in Spanish in Rhode Island, recognized as one of the Top 100 Spanish Language Podcasts by a panel of experts at Feedspot.

Laura Stroud, Psychiatry and Human Behavior, completed the Executive Leadership in Academic Medicine (ELAM) program at Drexel University.

Vivian Sung, Obstetrics and Gynecology, won the President’s Prize Paper award at the the Society of Gynecologic Surgeons scientific meeting for “Patient perspectives in adverse event reporting after apical prolapse surgery.”

Methodius Tuuli, Obstetrics and Gynecology and his co-investigators received the 2023 Roy M. Pitkin Award from Obstetrics & Gynecology (Green Journal) for excellence in obstetrics and gynecology research. The winning article is: Tuuli MG, Gregory WT, Arya LA, Lowder JL, Woolfolk C, Caughey AB, Srinivas SK, Tita ATN, Macones GA, Cahill AG, Richter HE. Effect of Second-Stage Pushing Timing on Postpartum Pelvic Floor Morbidity: A Randomized Controlled Trial. Obstet Gynecol 2023;141:245-252.

Corey Ventetuolo, Pulmonary, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine, completed the Executive Leadership in Academic Medicine (ELAM) program at Drexel University.

Micaela Weaver, Surgery and Obstetrics and Gynecology, received the Young Alumna Award, from her alma mater, Bridgewater College.

 

Federica Accornero, Molecular, Cellular Biology and Biochemistry (MCB), received $400,000 for “RNA modification mechanisms of heart pathophysiology” from the American Heart Association.

Peter A Belenky, Molecular Microbiology and Immunology, received $201,278 for Axbio Sequencing Collaborative part II from Axbio Inc.         

Lalit Beura, Molecular Microbiology and Immunology, received $2,693,451 for “T lymphocyte-mediated protection of the reproductive mucosa” from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases.

Karthikeyani Chellappa, Molecular Microbiology and Immunology, received $25,000 for “The impact of small intestinal microbiome in sepsis during aging” from the Rhode Island Foundation.

Hamish S. Fraser, Biomedical Informatics, received $67,265 for the Rhode Island Hospital Injury Control Center of Biomedical Research Excellence (COBRE) from the National Institute of General Medical Sciences.           

Kathryn Grive, Obstetrics and Gynecology, received $2,187,500 for “ Requirement for Ubiquitin C- Terminal Hydrolase function in mammalian ovarian health and fertility” from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development.

Sheila A. Haley and Walter J. Atwood, MCB, co-principal investigators, received $202,664 for “Determining the effectiveness and mechanism of action of DEM BioPharma's proprietary anti-APMAP pharmaceuticals” from DEM Bio Pharma, Inc.

Lawrence Huang, medical student, received $4,000 for “Epidemiology of environmental exposures and public syndromic surveillance from NYC emergency departments” from the New York Academy of Medicine. 

Michelle Kossack, postdoc, Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, received $237,322 for “Identifying critical mediators of ovarian and cardiovascular health” from the National Institute of Environmental Health Science.      

Sanghyun Lee, MMI, received $2,781,863 for “Viral immune evasion during intestinal norovirus infection” from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases.    

Brian Theyel, Psychiatry and Human Behavior, received $250,000 for “Abnormal ectopic action potentials in PV-INs: A novel pathophysiological mechanism in Dravet syndrome” from the Dravet Syndrome Foundation.