Funded Projects

Project teams funded by PITCH are listed below.

Choukri Ben Mamoun, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Medicine (Infectious Diseases) and of Microbial Pathogenesis at the Yale School of Medicine 


Choukri Ben Mamoun, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Medicine (Infectious Diseases) and of Microbial Pathogenesis at the Yale School of Medicine and Dennis Voelker, Ph.D., Professor, Department of Medicine, Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine, National Jewish Health

Anton Bennett, Ph.D., Professor, Departments of Pharmacology and of Comparative Medicine, Co-Director Program in Integrated Cell Signaling and Neurobiology of Metabolism, Yale School of Medicine; Elias Lolis, Ph.D., Professor, Department of Pharmacology, Yale School of Medicine;  Karen Anderson, Ph.D., Professor, Departments of Pharmacology and of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry, Co-Director Therapeutics/Chemotherapy Program, Yale School of Medicine; Naftali Kaminski, M.D., Ph.D., Chief of Pulmonary, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine, Yale School of Medicine and Jonathan Ellman, Ph.D., Professor, Department of Chemistry, Yale University

Ranjit Bindra presentingRanjit S. Bindra, M.D., Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Departments of Therapeutic Radiology and Experimental Pathology, Yale School of Medicine

Marcus Bosenberg, M.D., Ph.D., Associate Professor, Department of Dermatology and Pathology, Yale School of Medicine, William Jorgensen, Ph.D., Professor of Chemistry, Yale University, and Karen Anderson, Ph.D., Professor of Pharmacology, Yale School of Medicine

James Cole, Ph.D., Professor, Molecular & Cell Biology, UConn Storrs and Stephen Hesler, Graduate Student, Molecular & Cell Biology, UConn Storrs

John C. Deacon, Ph.D., Associate Research Scientist, Department of Molecular Biophysics & Biochemistry, Yale University, and Joseph Paul Eder, M.D., Professor, Department of Medical Oncology, Yale School of Medicine

Caroline Dealy, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Departments of Reconstructive Sciences and of Orthopedic Surgery, UConn Health 

Richard A. Flavell, Ph.D., F.R.S, Professor, Department of Immunobiology, Yale School of Medicine, Roni Nowarski, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Microbiology and Immunobiology, Harvard University and Ruaidhri Jackson, Ph.D., Postdoctoral Associate, Department of Immunobiology, Yale School of Medicine

Ya Ha, PhD, Associate Professor of Pharmacology at Yale School of Medicine and Jonathan Ellman, PhD, Professor of Chemistry at Yale and of Pharmacology at Yale School of Medicine

Kyle Hadden, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Medicinal Chemistry, Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, School of Pharmacy, UConn Storrs and Dmitry Korzhnev, PhD, Assistant Professor, Department of Molecular Biology and Biophysics, UConn Health

Seth B. Herzon, Ph.D., Professor, Departments of Chemistry and Pharmacology, Yale University and Yale School of Medicine and Alan Healy, PhD, Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Chemistry, Yale University

Mustafa Khokha, M.D., Associate Professor of Pediatrics and of Genetics, Yale School of Medicine

Gary Kupfer, M.D., Ph.D, Professor in Pediatric Oncology, Patrick Sung, PhD, Professor in Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry, Yong Xiong, Ph.D., Associate Professor in Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry

Elias Lolis, Ph.D., Professor, Department of Pharmacology, Yale School of Medicine, Francine Foss, M.D., Professor, Department of Medical Oncology, Yale School of Medicine, and Demetrios Braddock, M.D., Ph.D., Associate Professor, Department of Pathology, Yale School of Medicine

Michael Lynes, Ph.D., Professor and Head, Molecular & Cell Biology, UConn Storrs, Martine DeVos, M.D., Ph.D., Head, Department of Internal Medicine, University of Gent, Debby Laukens, Ph.D., Department of Internal Medicine, University of Gent, and Lindsey Devisscher, DVM, Ph.D., Department of Internal Medicine, University of Gent.

Jun Lu, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Department of Genetics, Yale School of Medicine, Jijun Cheng, Ph.D., Associate Research Scientist, Department of Genetics, Yale School of Medicine, Dequan Xiao, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Department of Chemistry, University of New Haven, and Stephanie Halene, M.D., Ph.D., Department of Medicine, Yale School of Medicine

Xiuling Lu, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Pharmaceutics, Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, School of Pharmacy, University of Connecticut

Mark Plummer, Ph.D., Medicinal Chemist, Yale Center for Molecular Discovery, Robert Bonomo, M.D., Physician, Cleveland VA, Denton Hoyer, Ph.D., Medicinal Chemist, Yale Center for Molecular Discover, Dennis Wright, Ph.D., Professor, Medicinal Chemistry, UConn Storrs, Amy Anderson, Professor, Medicinal Chemistry, UConn Storrs, and Brad Spellberg, M.D., Chief Medical Officer, USC Medical Center

Co-Lead Investigators: Jesse Rinehart, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Department of Cellular and Molecular Physiology, and Farren Isaacs, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Department of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology, Yale University, Andre Levchenko, Ph.D., Director, Yale Systems Biology Institute, Yale University, and Alfredo Quiñones-Hinojosa, M.D., Director, Brain Tumor Surgery Program, Johns Hopkins Medicine

Victoria Robinson, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Department of Molecular & Cell Biology, UConn Storrs

Young Tang, Ph.D., Assistant Professor in Animal Science, UConn Storrs

Ephraim Trakthenberg, Ph.D., Assistant Professor in Neuroscience, UConn Health and Jessica Rouge, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Chemistry, UConn Storrs

Benjamin Turk, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Department of Pharmacology, Yale School of Medicine

Li Wang, Ph.D., Professor, Physiology and Neurobiology, UConn Storrs, Dennis Wright, Ph.D., Professor, Medicinal Chemistry, UConn Storrs, and Diane Burgess, Ph.D., Professor, Pharmaceutics, UConn Storrs

Sandra Weller, Ph.D., Professor and Chair, Department of Molecular Biology and Biophysics, UConn Health, Lorry Grady, Ph.D., Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Molecular Biology and Biophysics, UConn Health, Lisa Chirch, M.D., Associate Professor, Division of Infectious Disease, UConn Health, and David Banach, M.D., Head of Infection Prevention, UConn Health

Qin Yan, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Department of Pathology, Yale School of Medicine, and Jian Cao, Ph.D., Associate Research Scientist, Department of Pathology, Yale School of Medicine

Adam Zweifach, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Department of Molecular & Cell Biology, UConn Storrs