Collaborating for the Advancement of Interdisciplinary Research in Benign Urology
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".
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".
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".
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".
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".
Cassandra Kisby, MD, MS, K12 Scholar, Duke University, was selected for the Best Basic Science Paper Award for her research project “Exosomes for Prevention of Mesh Complications in a Porcine Sacrocolpopexy Model."
Jim Hokanson, PhD, prior K12 scholar in the Duke KURe program, and Kim Keil Stietz, PhD, Biomed Core Co-Director of the CAIRIBU Urology O'Brien Center, were both recently awarded CAIRIBU Interactions Core Collaboration Awards.
Thomas Chi, MD, MBA, PI of a prior CAIRIBU P20 Center and current collaborator with the UCSF- UroEpi K12 program, was recently appointed as the Chair of the Department of Urology at the University of Alabama at Birmingham.
Vinaya Bhatia, MD, pediatric urologist at UW Health Kids and CAIRIBU K12 Scholar in the University of Wisconsin - Madison K12 Urologic Research Career Development Program (KURe), has been appointed as a 2024-2026 LEAP Fellow.
Indira Mysorekar, PhD is the recipient of this year's Outstanding Women in Science award from the Association for Women in Science (AWIS). AWIS champions the interests of women in science.
