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Pilot/Feasibility Award Recipients

Year 2009

Bruno P. Chumpitazi, MD, MPH
Assistant Professor, Pediatrics
Baylor College of Medicine
Low Fermentable Diet Decreases GI Inflammation and Improves Childhood Irritable Bowel Syndrome Symptoms

Anne M. Hutson, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Pediatrics
GI, Hepatology & Nutrition
Baylor College of Medicine
mRNA targets of miRNAs dysregulated in Apc(min/+) adenomas

Yuying Liu, Ph. D.
Research Scientist, Pediatric GI
UT Medical School at Houston
Effect of probiotic L. reuteri on TLR signaling and inflammation in neonatal necrotizing enterocolitis in rats

Stacey Moore-Olufemi, MD
Pediatric Surgery Fellow
UT Medical School at Houston
Intestinal Stem Cell Regeneration in Necrotizing Enterocolitis

Yuko Mori-Akiyama, M.D
Assistant Professor, Pathology
Baylor College of Medicine
Target Genes of Sox9 in the Intestinal Crypts Cells

Junlan Zhang, MD, PhD
Assistant Professor, Internal Medicine, GI, Hepatology and Nutrition
UT Medical School at Houston
Chronic liver injury induced CX3CL1/CX3CR1 production regulates lung intravascular macrophage recruit-ment and angiogenesis in experimental hepatopulmonary syndrome