ATIP Grant Program News
From a total of 23 applications, 13 one-year, milestone-driven pilot grants were awarded (9 Innovative Collaboration Pilot projects, 4 Artificial Intelligence/Cybersecurity/Machine Learning Pilot projects).
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Lead and Co-Principal Investigators
Lead PI/Co-PI (if applicable) |
Project Title |
Project Type |
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Areck Ucuzian, Assistant Professor, SOM, Department of Surgery/Vascular Surgery |
The effects of exercise on quality of life and fluid dynamics in patients with aortic dissection. |
Innovative Collaboration Pilot Grant |
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Ritu Agarwal, Professor, UMCP, Department of Information Systems Shana Ntiri, Associate Professor, SOM, Department of Family & Community Medicine |
Ambiguity in Medical Decision Making: Effects on Health Disparities and Healthcare Costs |
Artificial Intelligence/Cybersecurity/ Machine Learning Pilot Grant |
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Mary Ann Jabra-Rizk, Professor, SOD, Department of Oncology and Diagnostic Sciences Peter Rock, Professor, SOM, Department of Anesthesiology |
Impact of SARS-CoV-2 mediated salivary gland dysfunction on secreted salivary antimicrobial peptides and risk of oral opportunistic infections |
Innovative Collaboration Pilot Grant |
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Amber Kleckner, Assistant Professor, SON, Department of Pain and Translational Symptom Science |
Time-restricted eating to address persistent cancer-related fatigue |
Innovative Collaboration Pilot Grant |
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Audra Stinchcomb, Professor, SOP, Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences |
Confirming Quality Performance of Extemporaneously Compounded Estrogen Hormone Products |
Innovative Collaboration Pilot Grant |
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Ze Wang, Associate Professor, SOM, Department of Diagnostic Radiology and Nuclear Medicine |
Improving Arterial Spin Labeling Perfusion MRI with Advanced Deep Learning |
Artificial Intelligence/Cybersecurity/ Machine Learning Pilot Grant |
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Jamie Podell, Assistant Professor, SOM, Department of Neurocritical Care |
Dysautonomia after brain injury |
Artificial Intelligence/Cybersecurity/ Machine Learning Pilot Grant |
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Jaylyn Waddell, Assistant Professor, SOM, Department of Pediatrics Aditi Banerjee, Assistant Professor, SOM, Department of Pediatrics |
Mechanisms and biomarkers of therapeutic hypothermia in neonatal hypoxia ischemia |
Innovative Collaboration Pilot Grant |
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Ranee Mehra, Professor, SOM, Department of Medicine |
DNA methylation signature of head and neck cancer patients of African ancestry |
Innovative Collaboration Pilot Grant |
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Poonam Mathur, Assistant Professor, SOM, Medicine/Infectious Diseases Guangming Li, Assistant Professor, SOM, Department of Pharmacology |
"The role of the plasmacytoid dendritic cell-CD38-NAD+ axis in cellular aging in people with HIV." |
Innovative Collaboration Pilot Grant |
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Brajesh Lal, Professor, SOM, Department of Surgery/Vascular |
Artificial Intelligence for Venous Thromboembolism Risk Assessment Modeling |
Artificial Intelligence/Cybersecurity/ Machine Learning Pilot Grant |
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Shimei Pan, Associate Professor, UMBC, Department of Information Systems Joan Carpenter, Assistant Professor, SON, Organizational Systems and Adult Health |
An AI-based Method to Assess and Monitor the Cognitive Functions in Persons with Dementia |
Innovative Collaboration Pilot Grant |
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Jonathan Bromberg, Professor, SOM, Surgery Bing Ma, Assistant Professor, SOM, Microbiology and Immunology |
Immunological and functional consequences triggered by the gut microbiota regulate alloimmunity and cardiac transplant outcome: Spatiotemporal analysis of intestinal responses to microbiota for elucidating alloimmune regulation at single-cell resolution |
Innovative Collaboration Pilot Grant |
Past ATIP Awardees Describe Projects
Past ATIP Awardees Listed Below!
2021 - Award Recipients
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From a total of 26 applications,13 one-year milestone-driven pilot grants were awarded (6 Innovative Collaboration Pilot projects, 4 Community-Engaged Research projects, and 3 Cybersecurity and Artificial Intelligence).
PI/Co-PI (Schools) |
Project |
| France Carrier (SOM) | Optimization of small molecules inhibitors of the heterogeneous Ribonuclear protein A18 (hnRNP A18); a regulator of cancer progression and an immune checkpoint |
| Lujie Chen (UMBC) Kelly Doran (SON) |
Towards predictive and proactive in-the-moment stress management among healthcare workers: A pilot study in long-term care |
| Steven Fletcher (SOP) Curt Civin (SOM) |
Novel Venetoclax-Based Chimeric Compounds to Deactivate the Anti-Apoptotic BCL-2 Protein in Acute Myeloid Leukemia |
| Mathangi Gopalakrishnan (SOP) Chein-I Chang (UMBC) |
Transfusion Risk Assessment using Vital Sign Dynamics based Machine Learning Algorithms |
| Yi Huang (UMBC) Michael Domanski (SOM) |
Evaluation of the Effect of Serum Lipid Levels on the Progression of Renal Dysfunction |
| Rena Malik (SOM) David Rasko (SOM) |
Exploration of Host & Microbiological Biomarkers in Catheterized Urine Samples |
| Oksana Mishler (SOD) Michael Woolley (SSW) |
Psychosocial Screening Methods for Dental Settings |
| Tinoosh Mohsenin (UMBC) Mohammad Sajadi (SOM) |
COVID-Matter: A Scalable Multimodal Sensory Machine Learning Framework forCOVID-19 Diagnosis and Pandemic Prevention |
| Elana Rosenthal (SOM) | Integrating HIV Treatment and Prevention Into Transgender Care Utilizing Hormone Therapy (HITCH) |
| Mohummad Siddiqui (SOM) Recai Aktay (SOM) |
Metabolic Imaging in the Diagnosis and Risk-Stratification of Prostate Cancer |
| Lydia Tang (SOM) | Augmentation of humoral immunity using TLR 9 adjuvanted HBV surface antigen to enhance anti-HBSAg response |
| Doris Titus-Glover (SON) George Unick (SSW) |
Exploring recovery-oriented capital support factors (personal, social, family functioning and community) to sustain opioid addiction recovery |
| Kelly Westlake (SOM) | Exploring the neural basis of fear of falling in relation to balance perturbations in older adults |
2020 - COVID-19 ATIP Award Recipients
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From a total of 40 applications, 10 one-year milestone-driven pilot grants were awarded (6 pre-clinical pilot projects, 3 public health research projects, and 1 clinical research project).
PI/Co-PI (Schools) |
Project |
| Adnan Bhutta (SOM) | Quantification of aerosolization of SARS-CoV-2 by High Flow Nasal Cannula devices in intensive care units |
| Charles Hong (SOM) Anna Birucova (SOM) |
Modulating GPR68 to Attenuate COVID-19-related Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome (ARDS) |
| Alfredo Garzino-Demo (SOM) Joseph Kao (SOM) |
Development of a non-infectious entry/fusion assay for SARS-CoV2, to be used for screening of neutralizing antibodies and small molecule therapeutics |
| Zhe Han (SOM) | COVID-19 Functional Genomics Study in Drosophila and Human Cells |
| Feng Jiang (SOM) | A Rapid and Sensitive Test for Detection of SARS-Cov-2 |
| Jace Jones (SOP) | Rapid and Comprehensive Detection of SARS-CoV-2 Envelope Lipids |
| Fei Han (UMBC - The Hilltop Institute) Zachary Dezman (SOM) |
Reducing Patient Risk through Actionable Artificial Intelligence |
| Erin Hager (SOM) Maureen Black (SOM) |
Policies to Prevent Spread of COVID-19: Implications for Health Equity among Maryland Families of Preschool and School-Age Children |
| Henry Silverman (SOM) Kheirbek Raya (SOM) |
Moral Distress in Health Care Providers Caring for Patients with COVID-19. A Qualitative Study |
| Ester Villalonga Olives (SOP) | Social capital and psychological burden during the COVID-19 outbreak: Why are Hispanics one of the most vulnerable groups? |
2020 - Award Recipients
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From a total of 35 applications, 17 one-year milestone-driven pilot grants were awarded (15 Innovative Collaboration Pilot projects, 1 Community-Engaged Research projects, and 1 Cybersecurity and Artificial Intelligence).
PI/Co-PI (Schools) |
Project |
| Charles Bieberich (UMBC) Xiang Li (UMBC) Maria Baer (SOM) |
Dual targeting of mRNA splicing in acute myeloid leukemia |
| David Kaczorowski (SOM) | Pre-clinical development of a novel left ventricular device inflow cannula to mitigate thrombotic complications |
| Ryan Pearson (SOP) Nevil Singh (SOM) |
Engineering B Cell Modulating Vaccines for T cell Cancer Immunotherapy |
| Sarah Dababnah (SSW) Charina Reyes (SOM) |
Addressing Racial Disparities in Autism Diagnosis and Treatment: Translating Peer-to-Peer Support into a Clinical Setting |
| Ze Wang (SOM) | Brain entropy mapping in Alzheimer's Disease |
| Scott Devine (SOM) | Clinical implications of retrotransposon activity in Acute Myeloid Leukemia |
| Achuth Padmanabhan (UMBC) | High-throughput screen to identify novel selective regulators of mutant p53 in ovarian cancer cells |
| Kamal Moudgil (SOM) | Defining the cellular receptor for a novel joint-homing peptide for arthritis therapy |
| Yvonne Rasko (SOM) | Evaluation of Efficacy of Breast Irrigant Solutions Against the Breast Microbiome |
| Osamah Saeedi (SOM) | Use of Machine Learning to Quantify Age-Related changes in Vasomotion |
| Nicholas Morris (SOM) Sarah Murthi (SOM) Micheal Armahizer (SOP) |
Adjunct Virtual Reality Pain Management in Acute Brain Injury |
| Soobum Lee (UMBC) Jose Bosio (SOD) |
Force sensing clear aligner for real-time orthodontic force monitoring |
| Hening Ren (SOD) | Anti-HDGF/VEGF Combination Therapy to Overcome Resistance to the Third-generation Tyrosine Kinase Inhibitor in Non-small Cell Lung Cancer |
| Fadia Shaya (SOP) James Oates (UMBC) |
Artificial Intelligence and Machine learning Methods to Manage the Risk of Opioids in Older Adults |
| Zachary Dezman (SOM) | Healthcare Utilization of Violence-Related Injury in the State of Maryland |
| Johana Diaz (SOM) Mary McKenna (SOM) |
Altered cord blood carnitine/acylcarnitine profile and placental OCTN2 level may be related to risk of neonatal brain injury |
| Kim Mooney-Doyle (SON) Daya Bagdure (SOM) |
Family Communication in Serious Pediatric Illness: Through the Sibling's Lens |
2019 - Award Recipients
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From a total of 36 applications, 19 one-year milestone-driven pilot grants were awarded (16 Innovative Collaboration Pilot projects and 3 Community-Engaged Research projects).
PI/Co-PI (Schools) |
Project |
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Paul Antony (SOM) |
Mining premalignant cancer for actionable neoantigen targets for development into a cancer vaccine |
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Shashwatee Bagchi (SOM) |
Systemic and Epicardial Fat Inflammation and Local Coronary Atherosclerosis in HCV and HIV Patients |
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Genome-guided diagnostic development and surveillance of Mucormycosis-causing fungi |
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Operation PROSPER: Peer Reintegration and Other Services Promoting Employment in Recovery |
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Michael Nestor (Hussman Institute) |
Evaluating L-type calcium channels as a therapeutic target in Autism Spectrum Disorder |
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Development of a fully automated artificial intelligence algorithm for detection and segmentation of active bleeding on trauma CT scans |
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Is the AVS usable for patients to prevent hospital readmission? |
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Evaluating relationships between interventions, social determinants of health and hospital readmissions in a community para-medicine program |
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Determination of therapeutic efficacy and actions of RARgamma agonists for chondrosarcomas |
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Application of long acting retinoid nano-particles for orthopaedic infection |
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Birth order and immunoglobulin E in the Old Order Amish (BOOM-IgE study) |
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Assessing pain and opioid treatment among caregivers of youth with serious mental illness |
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Turhan Coksaygan (SOM) |
The effects of a topical AT1R antagonist on wound healing and pain responses in aged diabetic pigs with skin wounds. |
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Understanding the potential human impact of drone organ transportation |
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Anthony Kim (SOM) |
Repurposing Metformin using DART Nanoparticle Technology for Treatment of Head and Neck Squamous Cell Carcinoma |
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Value of Prediction within the Learning Healthcare System |
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Fructose Metabolism as a Biomarker for Monitoring NAFLD Progression |
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A broad-spectrum vaccine and passive antibody therapy against multidrug resistant Salmonella |
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Development of a unified national decision-analytic model to quantify treatment effects and cost-effectiveness of different interventions of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease |