Meet the 2024 Pilot Program Finalists

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UC researchers continue to blaze new trails in science, medicine, business, education, engineering and the arts — literally transforming the way we live, work and learn.

Findings is the Office of Research’s newsletter, which began in October 2017. It delivers monthly updates to faculty, staff, students, and community partners about impactful research, initiatives, partnerships, events, and opportunities at the University of Cincinnati. To view current and previous issues of the newsletter, go to the Findings page.

The UC Office of Research’s Pilot Program is designed to seed fund highly competitive and collaborative, interdisciplinary research teams who endeavor to seek major external funding to take it to the next level. Each year, following a two-stage application and evaluation process, up to eight $25,000 general pilot grants are awarded. Additionally, there are now two new tracks to this program, each of which will be funding up to two $25,000 grants specific to international research and space research. All awardees are expected to be announced the week of March 4, 2024.

Pilot Program (General Track) Finalists:

Jiahe Bian
School of Planning
Smart Mobility and Transportation Equity: Enhancing transportation systems for people with visual impairments

Andres David Flores Hidalgo
Surgery
A Molecular Approach To Unveil The Microenvironment Elicited By Oral Potentially Malignant Disorders.

Joan Garrett
Investigating mechanisms of non-muscle myosin IIa signaling in HER2+ breast cancer

Brian Grawe
Orthopaedic Surgery
Anterior Cruciate Ligament Injuries in Female Soccer Players

Sara Khoshnevisan
Civil & Architectural Engineering & Construction Management
Enhancing Subgrade Soil Compaction Assessment Through Roller-Integrated Image Processing

Yeongin Kim
Electrical and Computer Engineering
Hydrogen production

John Leverso
School of Criminal Justice
The Cincinnati Youth Survey

Eric Nauman
Biomedical Engineering
Methods for Preserving Macronutrient Content of Expressed Human Breastmilk

Yevgen Nazarenko
Department of Environmental & Public Health Sciences
Sustainable Aviation Fuel Emissions: Implications for Parkinson's Disease

Melissa Ann Summers
Orthopaedic Surgery
Advancing Healthcare Equity: Innovations in Shoulder Condition Management through Multimodal Imaging and Machine Learning for Diverse Populations

Daniel Sun
Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery
Restoring hearing to individuals with long term deafness: using magnetic resonance imaging to understand changes in central auditory pathways

Yingying Sun
Industrial Design
Utilizing Predictive Analytics for On-demand Autonomous Micro-Transit Service Systems

Meifeng Xu
Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine
Exosomes in neurofibroma