2020 Research Annual Report
Research Annual Report | By the Numbers

Education and Training

Arnold W. Strauss Fellow Award

The Arnold W. Strauss Fellow Award is a one-year $10,000 funding opportunity instituted in 2014 in honor of Dr. Strauss' tireless advocacy of higher education at Cincinnati Children's.

Name Division Mentor Project
Nicholas Szugye, MD Cardiology Ryan A. Moore, MD, MSc Impact of Deep Learning Enhanced Virtual Donor Pool on Pediatric Heart
Allison Ta, MD Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition Lee Denson, MD Microbial shifts associated with MRE and disease progression in Crohn's Disease
Timothy Wang, MD Neonatology and Pulmonary Biology Kristin Melton, MD IL-22 Role in Alveolar Repair and Regeneration in the Setting of Neonatal Bacterial Pneumonia
Daniel Peck, MD Cardiology Andrea Beaton, MD Development of a Rapid Competency Assessment to Certify Non-Expert Users in Point of Care Rheumatic Heart Disease Diagnosis
Kristina Prus, MD Hematology / Oncology Russell Ware, MD Erythrocyte Alloimmunization in Malawi
Liang Hu, PhD Experimental Hematology and Cancer Biology / Cancer and Blood Diseases Institute Nancy Ratner, PhD Deciphering the Role of RAS Paralogs in NF1 Tumors
Yuting Tang, PhD Cancer Pathology Gang Huang, PhD Identifying R-Spondin3 as a Novel Natural Killer Cell-Based Cancer Immunotherapeutic Target
Nicole Edwards, PhD Developmental Biology Aaron Zorn, PhD Discovering the developmental mechanisms of trachea-esophageal birth defects
Sandra Schrenk, PhD Experimental Hematology and Cancer Biology / Cancer and Blood Diseases Institute Elisa Boscolo, PhD TIE2-hyperactive endothelial cells generate dilated vascular channels by a novel mechanism of competitive advantage

Research Graduate Programs

Program Number of Students
Biomedical Informatics - PhD students 21
Biomedical Informatics - Graduate Certificate 24
Immunology - PhD students 33
Immunology - MS students 12
Medical Scientist Training Program (MSTP) 70
Biomedical Research Technologies - MS students 14
Molecular and Developmental Biology - PhD students 57
Total 141

Graduate Medical Education

Program Number of Residents
Residents 267
Visiting Residents 346