Pilot Projects
The pilot projects are a major mechanism to stimulate new interdisciplinary collaborations and to attract new and established investigators from relevant disciplines to the study of health disparities.
The Pilot Research process is guided by the following principles:
- To be proactive in stimulating and generating ideas for proposals.
- To partner with other funding sources at UTMB to increase the pool of funds available for pilot research in health disparities.
- Priority is given to interdisciplinary projects.
- Not all pilot projects sponsored by the CPHHD will require pilot funds.
- To actively encourage and recruit participation of faculty from underrepresented minority groups.
Pilot project applications must be directly responsive to the research objectives described in the RFA for the CPHHD, but they do not have to be directly related to the theme of the UTMB CPHHD (Hispanic Health).
The UTMB CPHHD has funded several pilot studies to young investigators. These pilots have brought new basic and clinical scientists into the field of health disparities research.
09/01/03 - 08/31/04 (Year 1)
| Name | Department | Title of Research |
Amount Awarded |
|---|---|---|---|
|
Drew, Judith |
SON |
Cognitive
Screening in Elderly Mexican Americans |
$28,752 |
|
Amin A. Mohammad, PhD |
Pathology |
Estimating
the prevalence of monoclonal gammopathy among Hispanics in
Galveston County |
$50,000 |
09/01/04 - 08/31/05 (Year 2)
| Name | Department | Title of Research |
Amount Awarded |
|---|---|---|---|
|
Kyriakos Markides, Ph.D. |
PMCH |
The
Distribution of HbA1C test values in Mexican American elders
with diabetes |
$50,000 |
|
Raymond Stowe, PhD |
Pathology |
A pilot project to establish a CPHHD
Sample Reference Center |
$50,000 |
|
Amin A. Mohammad, PhD |
Pathology |
Estimating the prevalence of monoclonal
gammopathy among Hispanics in Galveston County |
$50,000 |
|
Jiaren Sun, MD, PhD |
Microbiology and Immunology |
Immunologic Determinants in HCV Infection among African-Americans |
$50,000 |
|
Ken Ottenbacher, Ph.D. |
SAHS |
A comparison of body mass index,
waist hip ratio and waist circumference as predictors of
physical performance and disability among older Mexican
Americans.
|
$36,762 |
09/01/05 – 08/31/06 (Year 3)
| Name | Department | Title of Research |
Amount Awarded |
|---|---|---|---|
|
Jiaren Sun, MD, PhD |
Microbiology and Immunology |
Immunologic
Determinants in HCV Infection among African-Americans |
$50,000 |
|
Raymond Stowe, PhD |
Pathology |
A pilot
project to establish a CPHHD Sample Reference
Center |
$50,000 |
|
Amin A. Mohammad, PhD |
Pathology |
Estimating
the prevalence of monoclonal gammopathy among Hispanics in
Galveston County |
$50,000 |
08/31/06 – 09/01/07 (Year 4)
| Name | Department | Title of Research |
Amount Awarded |
|---|---|---|---|
|
Jonathan B. Ward, PhD |
PMCH |
Development
of Biomarkers to Assess Community Level Exposure to Toxicants |
$41,066 |
|
William Maner |
Obstetrics and Gynecology |
Ethnicity
and Socio-economic Factors – Their Effects on Uterine Activity
and Birth Outcomes |
$49,960 |
|
Michael Malloy, MD |
Pediatrics |
The Impact
of Regional Perinatal Care at UTMB : A
Comparative Analysis |
$32,000 |
|
Yolanda Davila, Ph.D. |
SON |
Community based Participatory based research to enhance
Hepatitis C Screening in Hispanics |
$50,000
|
|
Miriam Alter, Ph.D. |
Internal Medicine – Infectious Disease |
Prevalence and risk factors in Hepatic C in Mexican Americans |
$50,000 |
