Funding Innovative Medical Research
The Feldstein Medical Foundation has funded over $3 Million of research through the following projects:
| Year 2009 | Institution Shriners Hospitals for Children Northern California | Principal Investigator Dr. Wenbin Deng | Project Title Pathogenesis of Periventricular Leukomalacia | Research Category Basic Science |
| Year 2009 | Institution Stony Brook University | Principal Investigator Dr. Roman Kotov | Project Title New Classification of Bipolar, Depressive, and Anxiety Disorders | Research Category Translational |
| Year 2009 | Institution Henry Ford Health System | Principal Investigator Dr. Ganesa Wegienka | Project Title The role of hormones in asthma exacerbation in adult women | Research Category Translational |
| Year 2009 | Institution SUNY Downstate Medical Center | Principal Investigator Dr. Stacy Blain | Project Title Development of a Gene Therapy Vector that Kills Metastatic Breast Cancer | Research Category Basic Science |
| Year 2011 | Institution Hospital for Special Surgery | Principal Investigator Dr. Qiu Guo | Project Title MicroRNA Regulation of the Interferon Pathway in SLE | Research Category Basic Science |
| Year 2011 | Institution Stony Brook University | Principal Investigator Dr. Balaji Sitharaman | Project Title Multicolor Nanoprobes to Detect Infectious Agents in Neglected Diseases | Research Category Basic Science |
| Year 2011 | Institution NYU Langone Medical Center | Principal Investigator Dr. Lawrence Gardner | Project Title Nonsense mediated RNA decay regulation of cancer pathways | Research Category Basic Science |
| Year 2011 | Institution Columbia University Medical Center | Principal Investigator Dr. Hui Zhang | Project Title Regulation of Dopamine Transmission by GABAa Receptors | Research Category Basic Science |
| Year 2012 | Institution UMDNJ - Robert Wood Johnson Medical School | Principal Investigator Dr. Henry Hsia | Project Title Developing new and personalized approaches for healing challenging wounds | Research Category Basic Science |
| Year 2012 | Institution Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University | Principal Investigator Dr. Ulrich Steidl | Project Title Acute Myeloid Leukemia and Myelodysplstic Syndrome | Research Category Basic Science |
| Year 2012 | Institution Stony Brook University | Principal Investigator Dr. Shaoyu Ge | Project Title A role for primary cilia of adult-born neurons in hippocampal behavior | Research Category Basic Science |
| Year 2012 | Institution Weill Medical College of Cornell University | Principal Investigator Dr. Mirella Salvatore | Project Title Targeted vector delivery for rapid protection from infectious diseases | Research Category Basic Science |
| Year 2013 | Institution Rutgers - NJMS | Principal Investigator Dr. Amariliz Rivera | Project Title Distinct contributions of human monocyte subsets to antifungal defense | Research Category Basic Science |
| Year 2013 | Institution Columbia University Medical Center | Principal Investigator Dr. Filippo Mancia | Project Title A novel mRNA display platform to evolve stable mutants of human membrane proteins for structure determination by X-ray crystallography | Research Category Basic Science |
| Year 2013 | Institution Stony Brook University | Principal Investigator Dr. Markus Seeliger | Project Title New tools to hit moving targets in cancer therapy | Research Category Basic Science |
| Year 2013 | Institution lcahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai | Principal Investigator Dr. Jonathan Ripp | Project Title A Support Group Intervention to Decrease Job Burnout in First-Year Internal Medicine Residents | Research Category Education |
| Year 2014 | Institution Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University | Principal Investigator Dr. Adam Friedman | Project Title Curcumin Nanoparticles as an Innovative, Multi-mechanistic Antimicrobial and Wound Healing Accelerant | Research Category Translational |
| Year 2014 | Institution Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University | Principal Investigator Dr. Deepa Rastogi | Project Title The role of metabolic dysregulation in pediatric obesity-related asthma | Research Category Basic Science |
| Year 2014 | Institution Columbia University Medical Center | Principal Investigator Dr. Christine Hendon | Project Title Three-dimensional correlated electrical conduction and tissue microstructure | Research Category Basic Science |
| Year 2014 | Institution Weill Medical College of Cornell University | Principal Investigator Dr. Hector Peinado Selgas | Project Title Characterization of lymphatic fluid circulating vesicles as novel biomarkers of metastasi | Research Category Translational |
| Year 2015 | Institution Stony Brook University | Principal Investigator Dr. Chia-Hsin Chan | Project Title New strategies and agents to tackle tumor heterogeneity | Research Category Basic Science |
| Year 2015 | Institution Rutgers - New Jersey Medical School | Principal Investigator Dr. Mona Batish | Project Title Development of new diagnostic assays and identification of novel therapeutic targets for Ewing’s Sarcoma using single molecule RNA imaging | Research Category Basic Science |
| Year 2015 | Institution Albert Einstein College of Medicine / NYU School of Medicine | Principal Investigator Dr. Jeanette Beasley | Project Title The relationship between cardiometabolic risk factors and enterolignans (enterolactone and enterodiol) | Research Category Basic Science |
| Year 2015 | Institution New York University School of Medicine | Principal Investigator Dr. Michael Halassa | Project Title New circuit-based targets for sleep and attentional disorders | Research Category Translational |
| Year 2015 | Institution Hospital for Special Surgery | Principal Investigator Dr. George Kalliolias | Project Title TNFa confers pathogenic memory to RA FLS by inducing super-enhancers | Research Category Basic Science |
| Year 2016 | Institution Albert Einstein College of Medicine | Principal Investigator Dr. Qibin Qi | Project Title Gut microbiota, metabolites and diabetes in HIV infection | Research Category Translational |
| Year 2016 | Institution NYU School of Medicine | Principal Investigator Dr. Jori Fleisher | Project Title Vaccination Uptake in an Interdisciplinary Home Visit Program for Advanced Parkinson's Disease | Research Category Translational |
| Year 2016 | Institution Rutgers University - New Jersey Medical School | Principal Investigator Dr. Karen Edelblum | Project Title Microbial associated molecular pattern regulation of IEL/epithelial interactions | Research Category Basic Science |
| Year 2016 | Institution Weill Medical College of Cornell University | Principal Investigator Dr. Jihye Paik | Project Title Transdifferentiation is the molecular underpinning of targeted therapy resistance in gliomas | Research Category Basic Science |
| Year 2017 | Institution Stony Brook University | Principal Investigator Dr. Flaminia Maria Talos | Project Title Direct conversion of fibroblasts into bladder epithelia | Research Category Basic Science |
| Year 2017 | Institution Albert Einstein College of Medicine | Principal Investigator Dr. Britta Will | Project Title Chaperone-mediated autophagy in premalignant hematopoietic stem cells | Research Category Basic Science |
| Year 2017 | Institution Hospital for Special Surgery | Principal Investigator Dr. Miguel Otero | Project Title Functional Genomics and Clinical Outcomes to Assess the Efficacy of Platelet-Rich Plasma as a Treatment for Knee Osteoarthritis | Research Category Translational |
| Year 2017 | Institution NYU School of Medicine | Principal Investigator Dr. Anli Liu | Project Title Low frequency acoustic stimulation during sleep for seizure suppression | Research Category Translational |
| Year 2018 | Institution Hospital for Special Surgery | Principal Investigator Dr. Xu Yang | Project Title Enhancement of Osseointegration by Targeting Osteoblast-Mediated Angiogenesis | Research Category Basic Science |
| Year 2018 | Institution Rutgers - New Jersey Medical School | Principal Investigator Dr. Tessa Bergsbaken | Project Title Tissue IL-33 programs resident memory CD8+ T cells during infection | Research Category Basic Science |
| Year 2018 | Institution Columbia University Medical Center | Principal Investigator Dr. Daniel Freedberg | Project Title Dietary Fiber to Prevent Loss of Gastrointestinal Colonization Resistance and Pathogen Colonization in the Intensive Care Unit | Research Category Translational |
| Year 2018 | Institution NYU School of Medicine | Principal Investigator Dr. Stacy Loeb | Project Title Educational Intervention on Active Surveillance for Prostate Cancer | Research Category Translational |
| Year 2019 | Institution Rutgers - Robert Wood Johnson Medical School | Principal Investigator Dr. Pingyue Pan | Project Title Protective Signaling Mechanisms of Nicotine in Dopamine Neurons | Research Category Basic Science |
| Year 2019 | Institution Weill Cornell Medical College | Principal Investigator Dr. James Lo | Project Title Targeting a Transcriptional Pathway to Improve Fat Cell Health and Treat Diabetes | Research Category Basic Science |
| Year 2019 | Institution Hospital for Special Surgery | Principal Investigator Dr. Laura Donlin | Project Title Precise diagnosis of prosthetic joint infections using next-generation sequencing | Research Category Translational |
| Year 2019 | Institution Stony Brook University | Principal Investigator Dr. Jignesh Patel | Project Title The Role of Inflammatory Cytokines in Adults with Cardiac Arrest | Research Category Translational |
| Year 2020 | Institution NYU Grossman School of Medicine | Principal Investigator Dr. Kevin Chan | Project Title Role of insulin resistance in the eye and brain | Research Category Basic Science |
| Year 2020 | Institution Albert Einstein College of Medicine | Principal Investigator Dr. Meelad Dawlaty | Project Title Epigenetic regulation of mammalian embryonic hematopoiesis by Tet enzymes | Research Category Basic Science |
| Year 2020 | Institution Columbia University Medical Center | Principal Investigator Dr. Angela Gomez-Simmonds | Project Title Long-range sequencing to elucidate multispecies, plasmid-mediated transmission of extended-spectrum beta-lactamase resistance in an intensive care unit | Research Category Translational |
| Year 2020 | Institution Weill Cornell Medical College | Principal Investigator Dr. Elena Piskounova | Project Title The role of the selenocysteine proteome in melanoma metastasis | Research Category Basic Science |