University of Utah Study Center Research

Innovative Pediatric Research Grants

The purpose of the Innovative Pediatric Research Grant is to pilot research projects that will expand the research program built on the infrastructure of the NCS Web site. These research projects are intended to be pilot studies that could later be used as adjunct studies to the National Children's Study. Projects are intended to be one year in length. All Innovative projects are funded by gifts from the Primary Children's Foundation independent of National Children's Study funds or other government support.

Innovative Grants Funded by the Primary Children's Foundation

2009 Awards

1st Year Awards

PI Name	Project Title
David M. Huebner	Developmental Implications of Childhood Gender Nonconformity
Valenzuela Luciano	Monitoring Childhood Nutrition Using Stable Isotopes in Hair
Shannon O'Grady	Breath CO2 - A Biomarker for Sweetener Consumption
Catherine Staes	Optimizing family health history tools for the NCS
Christian Con Yost	Epigenetic Markers of B-Cell Function in Low Birth Weight Infants

2nd Year Awards

PI Name	Project Title
Christina Porucznik, PhD	PEAK DAY: Extension, Confirmation, and Outcomes
Joseph Stanford, MD, MSPH	Neonatal outcomes associated with infertility treatment
James VanDerslice, MSEE, PhD	Determining Exposures to Contaminants in Drinking Water
Judith Zimmerman, PhD	Autism and Mental Retardation in Relation to Hazardous Exposures

2008 Awards

• Impact of Intimate Partner Violence on Children's Health
  Kathleen M. Franchek-Roa, M.D.
  Assistant Professor
  Department of Pediatrics, Division of General Pediatrics
  
• Targeting Peri-Conceptional Exposure Assessment
  Christina Porucznik, Ph.D., M.S.P.H.
  Assistant Professor
  Department of Family and Preventive Medicine, Public Health Program
  
• Neonatal Outcomes Associated with Infertility
  Joseph B. Stanford, M.D., M.S.P.H.
  Associate Professor
  Department of Family and Preventive Medicine, Public Health Program
  
• Determining Exposures to Contaminants in Drinking Water
  James A. VanDerslice, M.S.E.E., Ph.D.
  Research Associate Professor
  Department of Family and Preventive Medicine, Public Health Program
  
• Autism and Mental Retardation in Relation to Hazardous Exposures
  Judith P. Zimmerman, Ph.D.
  Assistant Professor
  Department of Psychiatry

2007 Awards

• Community Based Food Item Collection Methodology
  Kristine Clarke, Ph.D.
  Post-Doctoral Research Fellow, Department of Pediatrics
  
• Autism: Screening and Early Identification
  Judith Miller, Ph.D.
  Assistant Professor, Department of Psychiatry
  
• Antecedents of Obesity: Fetal Measures of Adiposity (FEMA)
  Laurie Moyer-Mileur, Ph.D., R.D.
  Director, Center for Pediatric Nutrition Research
  
• Nutritional Data Mining: A Pilot Grocery Database Study
  Kristina Thomas, Ph.D. Candidate
  Biomedical Informatics
  
• Contingent Meaning of Perceived Neighborhood Social Capital for Adolescent Risk Behavior
  Ming Wen, Ph.D.
  Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology