Pilot Research Grants
Each year, GRAPPA invites trainees and junior faculty—assistant professor level, medical/non-medical PhD students, junior post-docs, residents, and fellows—to submit proposals to GRAPPA to fund pilot projects related to psoriasis or psoriatic arthritis. Projects can be in any branch of science: laboratory based, clinical, or epidemiological.
Congratulations to the Pilot Research Grant Recipients for 2023
COLLABORATIVE GRANTS - $35,000
Study Principal Investigators:
caroline gross
University Hospital Frankfurt/Main, Germany & Fraunhofer Institute for Translational Medicine and Pharmacology ITMP
michaela koehm
Mentor
frank behrens
Mentor
andreas pinter
Mentor
Caroline Gross, University Hospital Frankfurt/Main, Germany & Fraunhofer Institute for Translational Medicine and Pharmacology ITMP
Immunological maps to guide phenotyping of psoriasis patients at different risk levels to
develop psoriatic arthritis by integration of clinical, molecular (multi-OMICs) and innovative
imaging assessment using NIR-fluorescence optical imaging technique as indicator for
changes in vascularization as preliminary marker for inflammatory processes in psoriatic
arthritis.
Mentors: Michaela Koehm, Frank Behrens, and Andreas Pinter
STANDARD GRANTS - $25,000
Study Principal Investigators:
Axel Svedbom
Karolinska University Hospital and Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm
Mona Ståhle
Mentor
Axel Svedbom, Karolinska University Hospital and Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm
Prediction of Psoriatic Arthritis in New Onset Psoriasis
Mentor: Mona Ståhle
Study Principal Investigators:
steven dang
University of Toronto, Canada
lihi eder
Mentor
Steven Dang, University of Toronto
Sex differences in serum proteomic biomarkers in psoriatic arthritis.
Mentor: Lihi Eder
Study Principal Investigators:
omar alzayat
UC Davis School of Medicine, USA
samuel hwang
Mentor
Omar Alzayat, UC Davis School of Medicine, USA
TRPM4 Function in Western Diet Induced Psoriasis via IL-23 Mediated Inflammation
Mentor: Samuel Hwang