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2025 OFD/BTREC/CTREC Faculty Career Development Fellowships

The Office of Faculty Development, with the joint sponsorship of the Basic/Translational Research Executive Committee (BTREC) and the Clinical and Translational Research Executive Committee (CTREC), announces the Boston Children’s 2025 Career Development Fellowships.

Deadline for application/letters of endorsement: 5 p.m. Thursday, February 27

Purpose of awards

The purpose is to provide transitional funding for Instructors and Assistant Professors to enhance research productivity during the early critical years of an academic research career. We welcome applications from early-career faculty who belong to a population underrepresented in medicine or science (UiM). 

Awards

There are 13 awards: 8 Basic Science/Translational and 5 Clinical/Translational. 

  • 4 awards are restricted and designated for early-career faculty who: 
    • are considered part of a group which is underrepresented in medicine or science, as defined by the NIH *AND/OR 
    • who have family responsibilities such as being the primary caregiver for children and/or other dependents
  • 9 Awards are unrestricted and open to all early-career faculty

Each of the Fellowship awards provides $75,000/year in direct costs plus 20% overhead for two years ($90,000 total/year). The awards are funded 75% by the hospital and 25% by the Division /Department/ Program. The awards will support resources for research including supplies, salary (PI and/or research assistant), or other requests, upon review, that will contribute to the individual’s academic career development. Tuition for courses should not be included in the budget.

Eligibility

  • Hold an academic appointment as Instructor or Assistant Professor by July 1, 2025
  • Hold MD, PhD, or equivalent advanced degree
  • Receive salary/benefits from BCH or a BCH foundation or be a member of the joint BCH/DFCI Pediatric Hematology-Oncology Program or a BCH faculty member employed by the Boston Children’s Network Specialty Physicians Foundation (BCNSP)
  • Have demonstrated excellence in research training, productivity, and a well-defined focus in clinical, translational, or basic research, but without substantial independent support
  • Have a named Project Mentor
  • Provide information on IRB/IACUC status
  • May not currently have an R01 or fundable score on their R01 submission (or similar mid-career grant) 
  • May not have previously received an OFD/BTREC/CTREC Faculty Development Award 
  • May not apply for a 2025 Shore Fellowship through HMS
  • May not have received a BTREC/CTREC recruitment package within the past 4 years

Application submission

Applications (in a single PDF document with the applicant’s last name in the file title) should be uploaded to the Application Submission Form link (note, you must be on the BCH network using your BCH email address to access). Endorsers’ letters from Chairs and Mentors should be given a title with the applicant’s last name and the endorser’s last name and emailed to OFDFellowships@childrens.harvard.edu. Letters of support should also agreement to support 25% of the funds. Please note that the endorsers’ letters are to be emailed separately from either the endorser or their AA, not the applicant.

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2024 Fellowship Recipients

Congratulations to the recipients of 2024 Faculty Career Development Fellowships, sponsored by the OFD and the Basic- and Clinical- Translational Research Executive Committees (BTREC and CTREC). The purpose of these awards is to provide transitional funding for early career faculty to enhance research productivity during the early critical years of an academic research career.

  • Alissa D'Gama, MD- Instructor in Pediatrics; Clinical Fellow; Newborn Medicine; Comprehensive Genomic Sequencing to Delineate the Molecular Genetic Landscape of Pediatric Epilepsy
  • Pietro Fontana, PhD- Instructor in Pediatrics; PCMM; Exploring the potential of Gasdermin D as a novel target for cancer immunotherapy
  • Lindsey Gaston, MD- Instructor in Pediatrics; Endocrinology; Mechanisms of hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis suppression and recovery after long-term glucocorticoids
  • Suzanne Gouda, MD- Instructor in Pediatrics; Critical Care; Mixed-Methods Study on Clinician and Parent Perspectives Regarding the Role of Palliative Care in the Pediatric Intensive Care Unit After Out-of-Hospital Cardiac Arrest
  • Suzanna Hirsch, MD- Assistant Professor of Pediatrics; GI-Nutrition; Non-invasive characterization of gastric function and response to percutaneous electrical nerve field stimulation in children with prandial symptoms
  • Youngsook Jung, PhD- Instructor in Pediatrics; Genetics; Multi-omic Characterization of Kabuki Syndrome
  • Liana Lipton, MD- Instructor in Pediatrics; Developmental Medicine; A Secondary Analysis Investigating Language in the Boston Outcomes of Autism in Toddlers
  • Chang Lu, MD- Instructor in Pediatrics; Endocrinology; Associations of growth hormone receptor and plasma peptides with type 2 diabetes pathogenesis and complications in youth.
  • Stuti Mehta, PhD- Instructor in Pediatrics; Hematology-Oncology; Investigating mechanisms of co-translational degradation of the transcription factor BCL11A
  • Melissa Musser, MD, PhD- Instructor in Pediatrics; GI-Nutrition; The Role of IPANS in Gut Inflammation and CGRP Regulations
  • Stuart Rollins, MD- Instructor in Pediatrics; Pulmonary; Interrogating function of pulmonary ionocytes using induced pluripotent stem cell (iPSC)-derived airway
  • Jianli Tao, PhD- Instructor in Pathology; Elucidating mechanisms of LINE1-induced chromosomal translocations in human cancers
  • Elsa Treffeisen, MD- Instructor in Pediatrics; Immunology; Evaluation of an intervention to reduce food insecurity among children with food allergy

BCH Caregiver Travel Award

Please note that we are not accepting additional Travel Grant Applications until the new fiscal year; check back for updates.

The Office of Faculty Development, with the joint sponsorship of the Office of Health Affairs and the Medical Staff Organization, announces the 2024-2025 Caregiver Travel Award, a pilot program for BCH faculty. These awards are designed to ease the financial burden associated with additional dependent care expenses while traveling to an academic/society meeting. Fifteen awards are available, Awards are capped at a maximum of $500, but more may become available. Please see the flyer download below for more details.

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2024-2025 BCH Caregiver Travel Award Flyer

Questions should be addressed to Maxine Milstein, MBA, OFD Program Director at maxine.milstein@childrens.harvard.edu.

Previous Career Development Faculty Fellowship Recipients

2023
  • Esra Abaci Turk, PhD; Instructor in Pediatrics; Newborn Medicine; Assessment of Placental Function before and after laser treatment in twin to twin transfusion
  • Milena Andzelm, MD, PhD; Instructor in Neurology; Neurology; Human Genetic Variation in the Central Nervous System Response to Interferon-Gamma
  • Philip Boone, MD, PhD; Instructor in Pediatrics, Genetics; Genome misfolding in neurodevelopmental disorders
  • Margaret Chang, MD, PhD; Instructor in Pediatrics, Immunology; Tissue resident memory T cell and stromal cell interactions in the inflamed joint
  • Ai Wern Chung, PhD; Instructor in Pediatrics, Newborn Medicine; In congenital heart disease, does altered brain connectivity correlate with neurodevelopmental outcomes in infants and executive function in adults?
  • Jaclyn Davis, MD; Instructor in Pediatrics; Pulmonary; Innovative Care Delivery in Cystic Fibrosis: assessing patient perspectives on the role of telehealth and the impact of remote patient monitoring
  • Matthias Lambert, PhD; Instructor in Pediatrics, Genetics; Understanding muscle fiber size disproportion in TPM3-related myopathy
  • Kelsey Miller, MD, EdM; Instructor in Pediatrics; Emergency Medicine; Examining Physician Development Through Emergent, Informal Collaborations with Other Health Professionals
  • Kévin Moulin, PhD; Instructor in Pediatrics, Cardiology; Myocardial Microstructure in Repaired Tetralogy of Fallot Patients Using Diffusion Tensor MRI
  • Prathima Nandivada, MD; Assistant Professor of Surgery; General Surgery; Tight junction mediated epithelial barrier dysfunction in Hirschsprung disease
  • Isdin Oke, MD, MPH; Instructor in Ophthalmology, Ophthalmology; Newborn Genetic Screening to Improve Equity in the Visual Outcomes of Retinoblastoma Survivors
  • Lara Wahlster, MD, PhD; Instructor in Pediatrics, Hematology-Oncology; Mapping Genetic Predisposition to Pediatric B-Cell Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia
  • Allison Wu, MD, MPH; Instructor in Pediatrics, GI-Nutrition; Intervening in Food Insecurity to Reduce and Mitigate (InFoRM) Childhood Obesity
  • Daniel Zeve, MD, PhD; Instructor in Pediatrics, Endocrinology; The role of aging on human intestinal stem cell function
  • Yanjia (Jason) Zhang, MD, PhD; Instructor in Pediatrics, GI-Nutrition; Microbially derived lipids in a mouse model of obesity
2022
  • Mehdi Benamar, PhD; Instructor in Pediatrics, Immunology; Role of Notch3+ Regulatory T Cells in Multiple Sclerosis
  • Taek-Chin Cheong, PhD; Instructor in Pathology, Pathology; Genome-wide identification of oncogenic fusions in human cancer
  • Kathleen Cullion, MD, PhD; Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, Medical Critical Care; Developing nanoparticle drug delivery systems for venous malformations
  • ​​​Darius Ebrahimi-Fakhari, MD, PhD; Instructor in Neurology, Neurology; Functional Genomic Screen To Identify Novel Therapeutic Targets For Childhood-Onset Hereditary Spastic Paraplegia
  • Jessica Kremen, MD; Instructor in Pediatrics, Endocrinology; Understanding experiences with “detransition” and cessation of gender-affirming treatment (CGAT) in a large pediatric gender clinic
  • Jing Li, PhD; Instructor in Biological Chemistry and Molecular Pharmacology, PCMM; Activation mechanisms of latent TGF-β1 by integrins αVβ6 and αVβ8
  • Nina Mann, MD; Instructor in Pediatrics, Nephrology; Discovery of Novel Monogenic Causes of Voiding Dysfunction
  • Stefanie Schmieder, PhD; Instructor in Pediatrics, GI-Nutrition; Structure and Function of Glycosphingolipid-enriched Apical Membrane Nanodomains in Innate Host Defense
  • Steven Siegel, MD, PhD; Instructor in Pediatrics (7/1/2022), Infectious Diseases; Personalizing COVID-19 Protection in Stem Cell Transplant Patients
  • Tregony Simoneau, MD; Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, Pulmonary; Improving Asthma Morbidity by Virtual Home Visits for Children with Severe Asthma
  • Hatim Thaker, MD; Instructor in Surgery, Urology; Functional assessment of novel Botox strategies to improve neurogenic bladder treatment
  • Puja J. Umaretiya, MD; Clinical Fellow (Instructor, 7/1/22), Hematology-Oncology; Reducing Inequities Through Systematic Social Needs Screening in Pediatric Palliative Care
  • Richard Voit, MD, PhD; Instructor in Pediatrics, Hematology-Oncology; Mechanisms of MECOM network co-regulation in the transcriptional control of AML
  • Franziska Wachter, MD; Instructor in Pediatrics (7/1/2022), Hematology-Oncology; A Pilot Study to evaluate the Feasibility and Tolerability of post-hematopoietic stem cell transplant prophylaxis with Decitabine combined with Filgrastim for children and young adults with AML, MDS and related myeloid malignancies.
  • Jia Zhu, MD; Instructor in Pediatrics, Endocrinology; Genetic Dissection of the Pathophysiology of Polycystic Ovary Syndrome
2021
  • Elena Crestani, MD; Instructor in Pediatrics, Immunology; Novel predictive biomarkers of food allergy in children (ICCTR/Harvard Catalyst Supplement)
  • Neil Dani, PhD; Instructor in Pathology; Mechanisms of Choroid Plexus Secretion in the Developing Brain
  • Jessica Garbern, MD, PhD; Instructor in Pediatrics, Cardiology; Quiescence and maturation of pluripotent stem cell-derived cardiomyocytes
  • Maria Gutierrez-Arcelus, PhD; Instructor in Pediatrics, Immunology; B cell activation via the B-cell receptor and Toll-like receptor pathways to reveal genetic heterogeneity in Systemic Lupus Erythematosus
  • Rebecca Harris, MD, PhD; Instructor in Pediatrics, Endocrinology; Sex-Biased Gene Expression in Humans: Defining the Roles of Sex Hormones and Sex Chromosomes (ICCTR/Harvard Catalyst Supplement)
  • Camilo Jaimes-Cobos, MD; Assistant Professor of Radiology; White Matter Microstructure in Fetuses with Congenital Heart Disease *
  • Venkat Magupalli, PhD; Instructor in Pediatrics, Program in Cellular and Molecular Medicine; Mechanisms Underlying Sustained Cytokine Release in the Hyperactive Macrophage State
  • Amar Majmundar, MD, PhD; Instructor in Pediatrics, Nephrology; Molecular pathogenesis, disease modeling and treatment of NOS1AP variant-associated nephrotic syndrome
  • Kate Millington, MD; Instructor in Pediatrics, Endocrinology; Defining the role of sex steroids in cardiovascular disease risk (ICCTR/Harvard Catalyst Supplement)
  • Karen Ocwieja, MD, PhD; Instructor in Pediatrics, Infectious Diseases; Single cell sequencing in human tissue culture models of congenital Zika syndrome
  • John Prensner, MD, PhD; Instructor in Pediatrics, Hematology-Oncology; Non-canonical proteins as driver genes in MYC-driven medulloblastoma
  • Ronen Schneider, MD; Instructor in Pediatrics, Nephrology; Mechanistic characterization of newly discovered DAAM2-related nephrotic syndrome
  • Eleonora Tamilia, PhD; Instructor in Pediatrics, Newborn Medicine; New Method to Deconstruct the Epileptogenic Brain Network and Assist Epilepsy Surgery Planning (ICCTR/Harvard Catalyst Supplement)
2020
  • Banu Ahtam, DPhil; Instructor in Pediatrics, Newborn Medicine, Fetal Neonatal Neuroimaging and Developmental Science Center (FNNDSC) — How seizure activity affects brain connectivity in the immature brain
  • Andrea Bauer, MD; Assistant Professor of Orthopedic Surgery — Growing Up with a Plexus Injury
  • Alex Cuenca, MD, PhD; Assistant Professor of Surgery — The role of group 2 innate lymphoid cells (ILC2) in allograft tolerance
  • Ryann Fame, PhD; Instructor in Pathology — Interaction between metabolism and ion transport in the CSF niche
  • Dongwon Lee, PhD; Instructor in Pediatrics, Nephrology —Cell-type-specific cis-regulatory element maps for kidney genomic discovery
  • Hojun Li, MD, PhD; Instructor in Pediatrics, Hematology-Oncology — Mechanistic underpinnings of progenitor cell proliferative potential
  • Sarah Morton, MD; Instructor in Pediatrics, Newborn Medicine — Computational Prioritization of Coding and Non-Coding Variants in Congenital Heart Disease
  • Amy O’Connell, MD, PhD; Instructor in Pediatrics, Newborn Medicine — The Role of WNT2B in Intestinal Hypoxic Injury
  • Yifeng Peng, PhD; Instructor in Pediatrics, Cardiology — Real-time Non-Invasive Monitoring of Intravascular and Intracardiac Pressure using Caged Microbubbles as Novel Ultrasound Acoustic Reporters
  • David Shulman, MD; Instructor in Pediatrics, DFCI Pediatric Oncology — Evaluation of targeted therapy and precision biomarkers in patients with Ewing sarcoma
  • Margaret Stefater, MD, PhD; Instructor in Pediatrics, Endocrinology — Role of Intestinal Luminal and Epigenetic Factors to Mediate Intestinal Metabolic Remodeling After Gastric Bypass Surgery
  • Mary Whitman, MD, PhD; Assistant Professor of Ophthalmology — Early synaptic signaling in development of eye movement circuitry
  • Kee Kiat Yeo, MD; Instructor in Pediatrics, DFCI Pediatric Oncology — Genomic Landscape, Clinicopathological Feature and Outcome of Adolescent and Young Adult (AYA) Central Nervous System (CNS) Tumors

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