Grantee | Giving Area | Program | Grant Year | Project Title | Amount | |
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Boston Children’s Hospital/Harvard Medical School | Health | Innovator Awards | 2022 | Defining immune organization in intestine inflammation. | $150,000 | |
Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center | Health | Innovator Awards | 2022 | Microbiota-Sensitive Epigenetic Regulation of IBD. | $50,000 | |
Dalhousie University | Health | Innovator Awards | 2022 | Targeting thioesterases to correct loss-of-function NOD2 variants. | $150,000 | |
Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center | Health | Innovator Awards | 2022 | Dietary regulation of intestinal immune-metabolic trade-offs through activation of neuroimmune circuits. | $150,000 | |
Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center | Health | Innovator Awards | 2022 | Mechanisms by which maternal antibodies regulate immune responses to the microbiota in early life. | $150,000 | |
Harvard Medical School | Health | Innovator Awards | 2022 | The enteric nervous system primes peripheral immunity and drives systemic inflammation during IBD. | $150,000 | |
Harvard Medical School | Health | Innovator Awards | 2022 | Pain and neuro-immune crosstalk in gut barrier function and colitis. | $100,000 | |
Harvard Medical School | Health | Innovator Awards | 2022 | Role of regulatory fibroblasts in eliciting immune tolerance to colitis. | $150,000 | |
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai | Health | Innovator Awards | 2022 | PREDICTS-Net: Multi-omics network analysis to identify key drivers of disease initiation and progression in the preclinical phase of inflammatory bowel disease (IBD). | $100,000 | |
Icahn School of Medicine At Mount Sinai | Health | Innovator Awards | 2022 | Safety and Efficacy of Healthy to Inflamed Pouch Fecal Microbiota Transplantation. | $150,000 | |
Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Health | Innovator Awards | 2022 | Cortical Modulation of Gut Motility | $150,000 | |
Mayo Clinic | Health | Innovator Awards | 2022 | Metabolism controls CD4 T helper cell-induced pathogenicity during inflammatory bowel disease. | $150,000 | |
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center | Health | Innovator Awards | 2022 | Using intestinal microbes to induce anti-inflammatory pathways in IBD. | $100,000 | |
Northwestern University | Health | Innovator Awards | 2022 | Exploring the Impact of Gut Neutrophil Heterogeneity on Clinical Response of IBD Patients to anti-TNF _ Biologic | $150,000 | |
NYU Grossman School of Medicine | Health | Innovator Awards | 2022 | A novel platform to map intestinal stem cell interactomes in IBD. | $100,000 | |
Oregon Health & Science University | Health | Innovator Awards | 2022 | Regulation of the Epithelial Response to Interferons in Inflammatory Bowel Disease. | $150,000 | |
Rush University Medical Center | Health | Innovator Awards | 2022 | A Randomized Crossover Trial of Bright Light Therapy in Crohn’s Disease on Intestinal Barrier Homeostasis. | $150,000 | |
Stony Brook University | Health | Innovator Awards | 2022 | Inhibiting Serine Synthesis as a Novel Treatment for Intestinal Fibrosis. | $150,000 | |
University of California, Berkeley | Health | Innovator Awards | 2022 | A system to track host responses to the microbiota during homeostasis and inflammation. | $100,000 | |
University of Michigan | Health | Innovator Awards | 2022 | Optimizing dietary protein derived isobutyrate to suppress inflammation. | $150,000 |

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