Research Grant Program for Fellows:
The purpose of this small grant is to support and encourage research efforts of fellows. The maximum amount of funding available for each of these grants is $2500 for one year. The PES plans to fund approximately 5 grants per year. One of these grants, the named RSG; The Raphael David, MD Rising Star Grant, will be given preferentially to an application related to the developmental biology of the testes or adrenal gland. There will only be one round of applications per year. The RSA program is in addition to the already established and larger Research Fellowship Grant (RFG) program.
Eligibility
Fellows/In-Training members who are PES members in good standing and who are in an approved training program in Pediatric Endocrinology are eligible for the Rising Star Grant. U.S. citizenship or green card status is NOT required. Those with career plans in North America are favored.
A candidate may apply for support if they:
- Has an MD, DO or equivalent degree.
- Has more than 6 months of fellowship training remaining at the time of the application deadline.
- Candidates on K grants (individual or institutional), those who have received a PES Research Fellowship Award, and prior recipients of the RSA are NOT eligible for the award.
- The competition is open to fellows on an institutional T32 grant.
- Multiple applications from one institution may be submitted.
Funding Start Date
November 1, 2024
Please note: Indirect costs are not allowed and the monies cannot be used for salary support of the fellow.
Victoria A. Elliott, MD, Pediatric Endocrinology Fellow in Pediatric Endocrinology, Children’s Hospital of Colorado
“The Rising Star Award was a tremendous honor to receive and has given me the opportunity to further my research during my pediatric endocrinology fellowship. I am studying how to improve conversations around fertility and reproductive health with individuals with Turner syndrome and their families. This grant has given me the ability to train in mixed methods research and has allowed me to recruit participants. Receiving this award was a tremendous help as a trainee and I am thankful for the support of the Pediatric Endocrine Society.”
Abby Cobb-Walch, MD, Pediatric Endocrine Fellow in Pediatric Endocrinology, University of California, San Francisco
“I am extremely grateful to have received the Pediatric Endocrine Society Rising Star Award. It has allowed me to continue my research on providers’ perceptions, challenges, and opportunities in the provision of gender-affirming medical care to nonbinary youth. This exploration will inform future mixed-methods research studies with the ultimate goal of developing optimal therapeutic approaches to the care for nonbinary youth.”
Award Winners
2024:
- Nozomi Yamashita, MD (Raphael David Rising Star) - Children's Hospital Los Angeles
- Kyle Baum, DO - University of Iowa Healthcare
- Netanya Pollock, MD - Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
- Zina McSweeney, DO - Boston's Children's Hospital, Harvard Medical School
- Khushboo Golani, MD - Baylor College of Medicine
2023:
- Sarah Schlegel. MD (Raphael David Rising Star) - Boston Children's Hospital
- Kathryn Nagel, MD - MGH
- Sujatha Seetharaman, MD, MPH - University of California, San Francisco
- Sonia Gera, MD - Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
- Natalie Segev, MD - Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center
2022 Round One:
- Michelle Meder, MD (Raphael David Rising Star) - University of Utah
- Melanie Bryan, MD - Washington University in St. Louis
- Timothy Foster, MD - University of Florida
- Raymond Kreienkamp, MD - Boston Children's Hospital
- Janaki Vakharia, MD - MGH
- Amjad Ali, MD - Rainbow Babies and Children/Case Western Reserve University
2021 Round Two:
- Abby Cobb-Walch, MD - University of California, San Francisco, CA
- Myrto Flokas, MD - Children's National Hospital, Washington, District of Columbia
- Olivia Ginnard, MD - Texas Children's Hospital - Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX
- Zubeyir Gun, MD - Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, Maryland, USA
- Chang Lu, MD - Boston Children's Hospital, Boston, MA
2021 Round One:
- Victoria A. Elliott, MD - Children’s Hospital of Colorado: Development and Evaluation of a Shared Decision-Making Tool to Optimize Fertility Related Communication in Patients with Turner Syndrome
- Martin Thelin, MD - UC San Francisco: Diagnosing type 1 diabetes using small non-coding RNA
2020 Round One:
- Svetlana Azova, MD - Boston Children's Hospital: Effects of Nutritional Ketosis on Inflammation and Brain Health in Type 1 Diabetes Mellitus
- Ryan Brady, MD - Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center: Prevalence, Characteristics and Complications of Celiac Disease/Autoimmunity in Type 1 Diabetes: the SEARCH for Diabetes in Youth Study
- Talia Hitt, MD - Children's Hospital of Philadelphia: Sleep Duration and Glycemic Control in Adolescents with Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus
- Kevin Scully, MD, Boston Children’s Hospital: Continuous Glucose Monitoring in Cystic Fibrosis Patients Starting Triple Combination Therapy
- Anna Valentine, MD - Children's Hospital Colorado and the Barbara Davis Center for Childhood Diabetes: Prevalence, Characteristics and Complications of Celiac Disease/Autoimmunity in Type 1 Diabetes: the SEARCH for Diabetes in Youth Study
2020 Round Two:
- Sarah M. Reynolds, MD - Walter Reed National Military Medical Center: Effects of inhibition of oxidative phosphorylation in Medullary Thyroid Cancer cells treated with chlorpromazine
- Apoorva Ravindranath Waikar, MBBS - Yale University: Trabecular Bone Score in Transgender Adolescents