
Thrasher Research Fund
@thrasherfund
Providing grants for pediatric research projects that offer promise for advances in the prevention, diagnosis and treatment of disease.
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https://www.thrasherresearch.org/?lang=eng 26-04-2021 16:49:22
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Congratulations Dr. Ivette Nuñez on your Early Career Award Grant “Monoclonal antibody discovery against influenza B virus for pediatric administration.” Best wishes as you and mentor Dr. James Crowe undertake this project! @Ariela_Lupi88 James Crowe Vanderbilt Health

Congratulations Dr. Luria Founou on your Early Career Award Grant “Molecular Epidemiology of ESBL-Producing Enterobacterales Isolated in Pregnant Women and Neonates.” Best wishes as you and mentor Dr. Stephen Bentley undertake this project! Luria Founou Stephen Bentley @cedbcam

Congratulations Dr. Mahendiran Dharmasivam on your Early Career Award Grant “Overcoming the "Triad-of-Death" by Developing Frontier Anti-Cancer Drugs for Childhood Neuroblastoma.” Best wishes as you and mentor Dr. Des Richardson undertake this project! Griffith University

Congratulations Dr. Ahmad Yatim on your Early Career Award Grant “Immunological and genetic basis of SARS-CoV-2-related chilblains in children.” Best wishes as you and mentor Dr. Jean-Laurent Casanova undertake this project! @AhmadYatim11 Casanova Lab Rockefeller University

Congratulations Dr. Elizabeth Thompson on your Early Career Award Grant “Optimizing caffeine exposure to reduce post-cardiopulmonary bypass acute kidney injury in neonates.” Best wishes as you and mentor Dr. Kanecia Zimmerman undertake this project! Duke University

Congratulations Dr. Sarah de Loizaga on your Early Career Award Grant “Case Managers and Peer Support Groups (CAMPS) for Prophylaxis Adherence in Rheumatic Heart Disease.” Best wishes as you and mentor Dr. Andrea Beaton undertake this project! Cincinnati Children's

Congratulations Dr. Amanda Gwee on your Early Career Award Grant “ITCHY study – Ivermectin Therapy in CHildren Younger than 5 years of age.” Best wishes as you and mentor Dr. Andrew Steer undertake this project! @GweeAmanda Murdoch Children's Research Institute (MCRI)


Congratulations Dr. Susannah Colt on your Early Career Award Grant “Impact of Vitamin A Status on Environmental Enteric Dysfunction in Children with Schistosomiasis.” Best wishes as you and mentor Dr. Jennifer Friedman undertake this project! Susannah Colt, PhD Rhode Island Hospital

Congratulations Dr. Stephen Tukwasibwe on your Early Career Award Grant “Malaria drug and diagnostic resistance in refugee children in Uganda.” Best wishes as you and mentor Dr. Philip Rosenthal undertake this project! Makerere University School of Medicine

Congratulations Dr. Caitlin Williams on your Early Career Award Grant “Maternal Interference of Infant SARS-CoV-2 mRNA Vaccination.” Best wishes as you and mentor Dr. Sallie Permar undertake this project! Sallie Permar MD PhD Weill Cornell Medicine

Congratulations Dr. Ashenafi Bahita on your Early Career Award Grant “Extending therapeutic efficacy studies to improve surveillance for drug- and diagnostic-resistant malaria in Ethiopia.” Best wishes as you and mentor Dr. Jonathan Parr undertake this project! Jonathan Parr UNC-Chapel Hill


Congratulations Dr. Cynthia Akagbosu on your Early Career Award Grant “The Role of Gut Microbiota in Children and Adolescents Undergoing Laparoscopic Sleeve Gastrectomy.” Best wishes as you and mentor Dr. Suchitra Hourigan undertake this project! Cynthia O. Akagbosu, MD, MA, DABOM Children's National Hospital 🏥





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