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2026 Mount Sinai CTSA Pilot Project Awardees and KL2 Scholar
Introducing the 2026 Pilot Projects Awardees and newest KL2 scholar from the Clinical & Translational Science Award (CTSA) research initiatives! The CTSA Program at Mount Sinai provides funding for clinical and translational research initiatives led by...
2026 TE Awardee – Bilal Naved, PhD
Dr. Bilal Naved, PhD, is a Faculty (Instructor) and Schmidt AI Fellow at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. He is an MD/PhD physician scientist trainee in the Northwestern Medical Scientist Training Program (MSTP) with a PhD in Biomedical Engineering and...
2026 TE Awardee – Kimberly Souffront, PhD, RN, FNP-BC, FAAN
Dr. Kimberly Souffront, PhD, RN, FNP-BC, FAAN, is an Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine and Health Equity Science at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai and Associate Director of the Center for Nursing Research and Innovation at the Mount Sinai Health...
2026 TE Awardee – Yun-Soung Kim, PhD
Dr. Yun-Soung Kim, PhD, is an Assistant Professor of Radiology at the BioMedical Engineering and Imaging Institute of the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. His research centers on bridging engineered materials with human physiology to enable clinically...
2026 MSIP Pitch Challenge Winner – Anuradha Lala-Trinadade, MD
Dr. Anuradha Lala-Trinadade, MD, and her team are developing SheAligned, a non-invasive, multimodal wearable platform designed for perimenopausal women. It integrates biosensing (e.g., skin temperature, heart rate variability, respiration, sleep, and sweat-based...
2026 MSIP Pitch Challenge Winner – Benjamin Kummer, MD
Dr. Benjamin Kummer, MD, and his team, SeizAI, are using artificial intelligence to analyze smartphone videos of seizure-like episodes and distinguish epileptic seizures from functional dissociative seizures. Built on a validated machine learning model, the platform...
2026 MSIP Pitch Challenge Winner – Jamie Hook, MD
Dr. Jamie Hook, MD, and her team, Aerosome Therapeutics, are using Aerosome-01 to target ARDS, a large, underserved market with over 200,000 U.S. cases annually, 30-45% mortality, and no FDA-approved disease-modifying therapies. Aerosome-01 is an inhaled mRNA lipid...
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Pilot Project Awardees
Mount Sinai CTSA Featured Awardees
2026 TE Awardee – Bilal Naved, PhD
Dr. Bilal Naved, PhD, is a Faculty (Instructor) and Schmidt AI Fellow at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. He is an MD/PhD physician scientist trainee in the Northwestern Medical Scientist Training Program (MSTP) with a PhD in Biomedical Engineering and...
2026 TE Awardee – Kimberly Souffront, PhD, RN, FNP-BC, FAAN
Dr. Kimberly Souffront, PhD, RN, FNP-BC, FAAN, is an Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine and Health Equity Science at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai and Associate Director of the Center for Nursing Research and Innovation at the Mount Sinai Health...
Trainee Corner
Mount Sinai CTSA Featured Trainees
2026 KL2 Awardee – Myvizhi Selvan, PhD
Dr. Myvizhi Selvan, PhD, is an Instructor at the Department of Genetics at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai and the Thoracic Oncology Center at the NCI-designated Tisch Cancer Center at the Mount Sinai Health System. She is a computational scientist focused...
Dr. Lee 2025 KL2 Scholar
Dr. Lee is an Assistant Professor in the Division of Surgical Oncology. Her proposal is titled ‘Generating a Multimodal Machine Learning Model for Prediction of Thyroid Cancer Recurrence’. Her mentors will be: Girish Nadkarni, MD, MPH, Michael Marin, MD, and Gerald...
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