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Shout Outs! Congratulations to Our Scholars Recently Receiving Awards & Grants
Released: Wednesday, June 13, 2018Amanda Staiano, PhD, Pennington Biomedical Research Center
- 2015-2017 Roadmap Scholar, 2013-2014 Meritorious Scholar
- Received a funding award from PCORI (Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute)
- Title: "A Pragmatic Family Centered Approach to Childhood Obesity Treatment"
Sarah Jolley, MD, MSc, LSU Health Sciences Center- New Orleans
- 2015-2017 Roadmap Scholar
- Received a K23 award from NIH/NIAAA (National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism)
- Title: "Prevalence of ICU-Acquired Myopathy in Patients with Alcohol Use Disorders"
Derrick Samuleson, PhD, LSU Health Sciences Center-New Orleans
- 2016-2017 Meritorious Scholar
- Received a K99 award from NIH/NIAAA
- Title: "Mechanisms by Which Alcohol-Induced Dysbiosis Impairs Host Defense Against Klebsiella Pneumoniae"
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About the Louisiana Clinical and Translational Science (LA CaTS) CenterThe LA CaTS Center is comprised of three primary collaborating institutions in the state, including LSU's Pennington Biomedical Research Center in Baton Rouge, LSU Health Sciences Center in New Orleans, and Tulane University School of Medicine in New Orleans – and also includes six research partners: LSU Health Sciences Center in Shreveport, Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge, and in New Orleans, Xavier University of Louisiana, Children’s Hospital, Ochsner Health System, Southeast Louisiana Veterans Health Care System, and University Medical Center. The LA CaTS Center’s vision for Louisiana encompasses the strengths and capacities unique to each member institution and represents a unified, comprehensive approach for targeting prevention, care and research of chronic diseases in the underserved population. The scholar program is supported in part by U54 GM104940 from the National Institute of General Medical Sciences of the National Institutes of Health which funds the Louisiana Clinical and Translational Science Center. For more information, please visit www.lacats.org.
