We are excited to announce this year's C-COMP Pilot Grant awardees! They were selected amongst 12 submissions by the study section; join us in congratulating the following six recipients:
- PI Dr. Joseph L Roberts, Assistant Professor, Arizona State University: "The role of the aged microbiota in fracture-induced pain."
- PI Dr. Abdelhak Belmadani, Associate Professor, Northwestern University: "Modeling joint pain in microfluidic coculture system: Investigating the crosstalk between knee synovium and knee afferents in regulating osteoarthritis pain."
- PI Dr. Chia-Lung Wu, Assistant Professor, University of Rochester: "Investigating hip degeneration and associated pain in male and female mice using a model of surgically induced hip osteoarthritis."
- PI Dr. Joseph Lesnak, Research Scientist, University of Texas at Dallas: "Elucidating the Human Dorsal Root Ganglia Response to Stressed Nucleus Pulposus Cells."
- PI Dr. Hang Lin, Associate Professor, University of Pittsburgh: "Integrating synovial tissue explants into microphysiological systems to study the peripheral mechanisms of knee joint pain: a pilot study"
- PI Dr. Karen Posey, Associate Professor, The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston: "Pain and joint degeneration in the MT-COMP mice, a model of Pseudoachondroplasia"