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:
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