Liver Center Pilot Project Award

Program Overview

The Liver Center and the Department of Internal Medicine at the University of Kansas Medical Center plan to fund pilot projects for one year beginning in January 2011.  The goals of this funding are to promote clinical and translational research in liver disease, collaboration between researchers and clinicians, and to promote optimal use of the KU Liver Center Tissue Bank.

Eligibility

Faculty level researchers are eligible to apply.  All clinical and translational research projects in liver disease are welcome; however, special consideration will be given to projects involving direct patient related research.

Funding

In 2010, Pilot Grants were one-year awards of up to $35,000 starting in January 2011.

Application Process

For questions, please contact Erin Dunn, edunn@kumc.edu or 913-945-6945.

Past Recipients of the Liver Center Pilot Project Award

2010

• Winston Dunn, M.D. Department of Internal Medicine
  The Interaction between PNPLA3, Obesity and Alcoholism: a Population-Based Autopsy Study

2009

• Hartmut Jaeschke, PhD, Department of Pharmacology, Toxicology & Therapeutics
  Mechanisms of Liver Injury in Patients with Acetaminophen Overdose
• Benyi Li, MD, PhD, Department of Urology
  The Role of Autophagy in HCV-associated hepatocellular carcinogenesis
• Gregory Reed, PhD, Department of Pharmacology, Toxicology & Therapeutics
  Pruritis in Cholestatic Patients: Role of Specific Bile Acids