The Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine at the Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University is pleased to announce the 2025 Brown Pathology Pilot Project Research Grant Awardees. The program’s objective is to foster translational research collaborations and provide funding support for clinical faculty in the Brown affiliated hospital systems. 

Awardees:            Michael Punsoni, MD & Sean Lawler, PhD

Project Title:        Developing a Personalized mRNA Vaccine Platform for the Treatment of Glioblastoma: A Multidisciplinary Feasibility Study

Awardees:            Ali Amin, MD & Alper Uzun, PhD 

Project Title:        Spatial Transcriptomics and Network Biology for Biomarker Discovery and Drug Repurposing in Urothelial Carcinoma

Awardees:            Xiaoxu Zhou, MD, PhD & Lanlan Zhou, PhD 

Project Title:        Duodenal Microbiome-based Early Diagnosis of Pancreatic Cancer

Congratulations!!

Brown Pathology Pilot Grant Award Selection Committee Chairs

Liang Cheng, MD, Vice Chair for Translational Research

Geralyn M. Lambert-Messerlian, PhD, Vice Chair for Clinical Faculty Development