Nine research grants have been announced as the 2016 awardees for the inaugural University of Tennessee Health Science Center (UTHSC) Collaborative Research Network (CORNET) Awards.
Based on the ideals of cross-disciplinary team science, the CORNET Awards were created to stimulate innovative, interdisciplinary, team research that crosses not only UTHSC’s Memphis colleges, but also encourages collaboration across all UT campuses and beyond.
Thia year’s winners are:
- Isaac Donkor, PhD; Michio Kurosu, PhD; Ying Kong, PhD
- Bob Moore, PhD; Byron Jones, PhD; Megan Mulligan, PhD
- Detlef Heck, PhD; Francesca-Fang Liao, PhD; Anton Reiner, PhD; Bob Moore, PhD
- Kui Li, PhD; Tao Lowe, PhD
- Catherine Kaczorowski, PhD; Wei Li, PhD; Kristen O’Connell, PhD
- Ansley Stanfill, PhD; RN; Lucas Elijovich, MD; Brandon Baughman, PhD; Claire Simpson, PhD
- Liang Hong, DDS, PhD; Franklin Garcia-Godoy, DDS, PhD, PhD; Wei Li, PhD; David Tipton, DDS, PhD; Yanhui Zhang, PhD
- Charisse Madlock-Brown, PhD, MLS; Robert Davis, MD, MPH; Panduka Nagahawatte, MS
- Francesco Giorgianni, PhD; Marko Radic, PhD
To be eligible for a UTHSC CORNET Award, each proposal must include, at minimum, one faculty member from at least two of the UTHSC colleges and promote new lines of research. Resources are available for up to $50,000 per award for one year, and became accessible to each winning research team on May 1. A symposium will be hosted at the end of the year in which the awardees will present their findings.