Congratulations to the CAIRIBU Collaboration Award Recipients. Recipients were awarded funding to support short-term, novel, high-risk non-malignant urologic research. CAIRIBU Collaboration Awards support proposals that engage early-stage investigators or those new to urology research, establish new collaborations, and consist of highly interdisciplinary research teams.
Jim Hokanson, PhD
Jim Hokanson, PhD is the 2024 CAIRIBU Collaboration award recipient for his project "Neuroanatomical basis for tibial neuromodulation".
Kim Keil Stietz, PhD
Kim Keil Stietz, PhD is the 2024 CAIRIBU Collaboration award recipient for her project "Genetic origin of incontinence linked to Shh signaling.".
Rose Khavari, MD
Rose Khavari, MD, PhD is the August 2023 award recipient for the "Optimization of onabotulinumtoxinA (BTX-A) injection for the treatment of neurogenic lower urinary tract dysfunction".
Henry Schreiber, PhD
Henry Schreiber, PhD is the December 2023 Recipient of the CAIRIBU Collaboration award for his proposal, "Modeling multiple sclerosis-induced susceptibilities to urinary tract infection in mice".
Ramy Goueli, MD, MHS
Ramy Goueli, MD, MHS is the August 2023 Recipient of the CAIRIBU Collaboration award for his proposal, "Neuroendocrine cells function in the aging human female urethra".
Alejandro Roldán-Alzate, PhD, MS
Alejandro Roldán-Alzate, PhD, MS, is the February 2023 Recipient of the CAIRIBU Collaboration award for his proposal, "A multidisciplinary, non-invasive assessment of the bladder response to filling".
Catherine Brownstein, PhD, MPH, MEM
Catherine Brownstein, PhD, MPH, MEM is the February 2023 award recipient for her proposal, "Inclusion of minorities in studies of Interstitial Cystitis/Bladder Pain Syndrome".
LaTasha Crawford, VMD, PhD, DACVP
LaTasha Crawford, VMD, PhD, DACVP is the February 2023 award recipient for, "An ex vivo platform for the study of sensory neuroplasticity as a link between bladder disease and referred pain".
2021 CAIRIBU Collaboration Award Recipients
Maryellen Kelly, DPNP, CPNP, MHSc, Tatyana Sysoeva, PhD, Lisa Karstens, PhD, MBI, and Teresa Liu, PhD are the 2021 Recipient of the CAIRIBU Collaboration award.
Betsy Salazar, PhD
Betsy Salazar, PhD, is the 2022 Recipient of the CAIRIBU Collaboration award for her proposal, "Characterization of spinal neural networks involved in the control of the lower urinary tract: a novel spinal fMRI feasibility trial".
Nazema Siddiqui, MD, MHSc
Nazema Siddiqui, MD, MHSc, is the 2022 Recipient of the CAIRIBU Collaboration award for her proposal, "Development of humanized mouse models for studies of the urogenital microbiome".