CTS Pilots Awarded to 6 Faculty at BCM and UH

The Consortium for Translational and Precision Health (CTPH) is pleased to announce the 2025 award recipients, who have been selected to receive on year of funding through the Clinical and Translational Science Pilots Awards Program. These awards support the advancement of innovative clinical and translational science.

Now in its second year, the Pilots Award Program received more than 60 applications from outstanding investigators across CTPH partner institutions, Baylor College of Medicine and the University of Houston.

Foundational Graph Transformers for Spatial Multi-Omics of the Tumor Immune Microenvironment

Tania Banerjee, Ph.D.
University of Houston

A Novel Mitochondrial Permeability Transition Pore Biosensor for High-Throughput Genetic and Small Molecular Screening Applications

Michael Bround, Ph.D.
Baylor College of Medicine

Smaller, Safer, Faster: Developing A Novel Translational Science Team to Bring Microfluidic Technology Rapidly to Patient Care

Lam Fong, M.D.
Baylor College of Medicine

Bridging the Gap Between Genetic Testing and Clinical Care Through Comprehensive Functional Mapping of STAT Gene Variants

Sebastian Ochoa, M.D.
Baylor College of Medicine

Leveraging RNA Mis-Splicing to Translate Therapeutic Vulnerabilities from Cell Lines to Patient

Lukas Simon, Ph.D.
Baylor College of Medicine

Enabling Precision Medicine: Developing Blood-based Biomarkers of Response to FDA-Approved Therapies for Routine Clinical Implementation

Meghana Trivedi, Ph.D.
University of Houston