Pilot Funding Awardees

The Indiana CTSI provides pilot funding to support research projects from individuals and teams in all areas of translational research related to the prevention, diagnosis, and management of human disease.

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View the current list of awardees to see examples of the kinds of projects that the Indiana CTSI has invested in to help improve human health, as well as to showcase innovative and impactful translational research being done across Indiana.

Use the filter on this list to find out what types of projects are funded by a specific mechanism and to learn about potential collaborators working in your field.

2024 – Clinical & Translational Science (CTS)

Bondesson Bolin, Maria Indiana University Bloomington Development of a toxicoproteomic tool for improved risk assessment of environmental pollutants
Das, Arupratan Indiana University School of Medicine Mechanisms for enhancing success of stem cell-based regenerative medicine
Green, Leopold Purdue Drug Delivery across the Blood-Brain Barrier
Henderson, Gregory Purdue University Development of a method to enable pre-clinical studies of acute hypoalbuminemia
Piganelli, Jon Indiana University School of Medicine Soluble Lymphocyte Activationn Gene -3 (s-LAG-3): A Potential Surrogate Marker for Disease Progression and Immunotherapy Success
Prosperi, Jeni Indiana University School of Medicine Biochemical and biological investigations with potential therapeutic connections
Sereno, Anne Purdue Overcoming Process Barriers in Neuroimaging Studies on Age-Related Attentional Deficits
Stephens, Bryan Indiana University Bloomington Translational Support Factors and Barriers in Multidisciplinary Science Teams: Developing Evidence-Based Interventions and Experiment Protocol

2023 – Clinical & Translational Science (CTS)

Greenfield, Edward Indiana University School of Medicine Validation of a 3D Spheroid Platform to Personalize Oncology Drugs
Kolbinger, Fiona Purdue University Prediction and Early Detection of Pancreatic Cancer Using Multimodal Artificial Intelligence
Leung, Yuk Purdue University Improving Drug Discovery Efficiency for Retinal Degeneration by Functional Drug Screening
Lim, Kenneth Indiana University School of Medicine Creating a novel digital platform for capturing Cardiopulmonary Exercise Testing (CPET) data in Indiana
Collaboration in Translational Research (CTR)
Community, Healthcare Delivery & Implementation Science PDT
Concepts to Clinic PDT
Core Pilot
Drug Development to Commercialization PDT
Grant Linking Universitywide Expertise (GLUE)
Human Health & Biomedical Technology PDT
Human Health & Biomedical Technology PDT / Women’s Global Health Institute
Large Collaborative Grant
MedTech Commercialization PDT
Pediatrics PDT
Postdoc Challenge
Structural and Social Determinants of Health PDT
Translational Population Health (TPH)