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2021 ICTS KL-2 Award Recipients
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This mentored career development award is intended to allow scholars to develop a solid portfolio of pilot and preliminary data suitable for competitive extramural grant applications; a robust record of publications and presentations at national scientific meetings; and a program of courses and experiential learning in areas that will advance the scholar’s proficiency in independent translational research.
This year’s awardees are:
Lilangi Ediriwickrema, MD, MS Department of Ophthalmology
Proposed Research "Spatial Frequency Domain Imaging to Investigate Mechanistic Constituents in Thyroid Eye Disease"
Michael Hicks, PhD Department of Physiology and Biophysics
Proposed Research "Controlling Skeletal Muscle Progenitor Cell Fate to Differentiate or Transition to Stem Cells"
Atena Zahedi, PhD Stem Cell Research Center
Proposed Research “Mitochondrial Innovations for the Enhancement and Tracking of Stem Cell Transplantation in Spinal Cord Injury"
For more information about the ICTS program and other funded scholars visit the ICTS Website.
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