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CARRA Awards

With funding from the Arthritis Foundation, CARRA annually awards investigators focusing on improving treatments and quality of life for people living with childhood rheumatic diseases.

2022 Awards

Sampath Prahalad    
Emory University    
Advancing Biosample Collection Grant    
Genetic Ancestry Powered studies in JIA     
$49,862.00 

Peter Nigrovic        
Boston Children's Hospital    
Advancing Biosample Collection Grant    
CARRA samples for funded LRA Global Team Science Award    
$50,000.00 

Melissa Lerman        
The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia    
Large Grant    
Adalimumab Levels in Induction Control for Chronic Anterior Uveitis     
$100,000.00 

Daniel Horton        
Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey-RBHS-RWJMS, New Brunswick    
Large Grant    
Pilot of Adalimumab Withdrawal     
$100,000.00 

Jessica Turnier        
University of Michigan Medical Center (Michigan Medicine)    
Large Grant    
"An integrated omics approach to characterize biological heterogeneity in treatment response and target therapy in juvenile dermatomyositis"     
$100,000.00 

Marinka Twilt        
Alberta Children's Hospital    
Small Grant    
The Influence of the Condylar Disk on TMJ arthritis Status and treatment response     
$49,500.00 

Melissa Oliver        
Boston Children's Hospital    
Small Grant
Establishing a Core Domain Sets for Chronic Nonbacterial Osteomyelitis and Synovitis, Acne, Pustulosis, Hyperostosis, Osteitis Syndrome     
$48,399.00 

Joyce Chang    
Boston Children's Hospital    
Health Equity Research Grants    
The Roles of Race, Racism and Neighborhood Health in Outcomes of Pediatric Lupus     
$149,830.00 

Roberta Berard        
Western University (University of Western Ontario, UWO)    
Health Equity Research Grants    
Assessment of juvenile idiopathic arthritis outcomes and place of residence in Canada: identifying disparities in care.     
$81,970.00 

Monica Aswani        
University of Alabama at Birmingham    
Health Equity Research Grants    
Representativeness of Participants in the Childhood Arthritis and Rheumatology Research Alliance (CARRA) Registry     
$150,000.00 

Susan Canny
Seattle Children Hospital    
Career Development Grant    
Role of Cytokines in Monocytes During Macrophage Activation Syndrome    
$374,988.00 

Tamar Rubinstein    
Children's Hospital at Montefiore    
Career Development Grant    
Engagement and Depression in Adolescents and Young Adults with Childhood-onset Lupus    
$375,000.00 

Emily Smitherman    
University of Alabama at Birmingham    
Implementation Science Grant    
Testing an Intervention to Implement a Treat to Target Strategy for Lupus in the Pediatric Rheumatology Clinic    
$147,772.00 

Lauren Henderson    
Boston Children's Hospital    
Advancing Biosample Collection Grant    
Sequencing To Advance Research in Systemic Juvenile Idiopathic Arthritis    
$50,000.00 

Susan Kim
UCSF Benioff Children's Hospital    
Advancing Biosample Collection Grant    
ABC Collection Title: Juvenile Myositis Pilot: Treatment and Outcomes in Active Skin Disease (JuMP TO Act)    
$50,000.00 

Lydia Thomas
Cohen Children's Medical Center of New York    
Fellow Small Grant    
IRF5 and T cell subsets in the pathogenesis of pediatric lupus    
$25,000.00 

Alysha Taxter        
Nationwide Children's Hospital    
Small Grant    
Improving Identification of CARRA Subjects and Adverse Events through Novel Electronic Tools: A Multi-Center    
$49,995.00 

Kathryn Torok        
University of Pittsburgh    
Small Grant    
Anchoring Molecular Phenotype with Clinical Outcomes to Characterize Pediatric Myositis-Scleroderma Overlap Patients    
$50,000.00
 

2021 Awards

Jordan Roberts    
Boston Children's Hospital    
Fellow Small Grant    
Insurance Status and Delays in Care among Children with JIA (Roberts,Jordan)    
$24,996.00 

Andrea Doria    
The Hospital for Sick Children    
Small Grant    
Elastography Ultrasound in Localized Scleroderma (Morphea): A Prospective, Longitudinal, Multicentric Pilot Study (Doria,Andrea )    
$49,751.00

Stephen Balevic    
Duke Cancer Center, Duke University Medical Center    
Small Grant    
PRECISE (Precision Biologics in Rheumatology) (Balevic,Stephen )    
$49,140.00 

Farzana Nuruzzaman    
Stony Brook University Medical Center    
Small Grant    
Development and Validation Testing of Web-based Standardized Scoring System for MRI Images in Chronic Nonbacterial Osteomyelitis (Nuruzzaman,Farzana)    
$48,889.00 

Jessica Bloom    
Children's Hospital Colorado    
Small Grant    
Clinical Characterization of Eosinophilic Granulomatosis with Polyangiitis in Children (Bloom,Jessica )    
$10,695.00 

Mara Becker
Duke Cancer Center, Duke University Medical Center    
Implementation Science Grant    
Identifying Pharmacogenomic Predictors of Methotrexate Response and Metabolite Biotransformation in JIA, or PROMOTE (Predicting Response of Methotrexate Treatment)     
$25,000.00 

Sheila Angeles-Han
Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center    
EC Biosample Stimulus Fund    
Predicting uveitis onset in children with juvenile idiopathic arthritis (Angeles-Han,Sheila )    
$25,000.00 

Stephen Balevic
Duke Cancer Center, Duke University Medical Center    
EC Biosample Stimulus Fund    
PRECISE (Pharmacokinetics and Pharmacodynamics of Biologic Drugs in Obese Patients with Arthritis) (Balevic,Stephen )    
$24,960.00 

Tzielan Lee
Stanford University School of Medicine    
Publication Support Grant    
Telemedicine Use by Pediatric Rheumatologists during the COVID-19 Pandemic (Lee,Tzielan )
$2,000.00

Emily Smitherman
University of Alabama at Birmingham    
Implementation Science Grant    
Optimizing Care Delivery in Pediatric Lupus (Smitherman,Emily)    
$25,000.00 

Sheetal Vora
The Charlotte-Mecklenburg Hospital Authority d/b/a Atrium Health    
Implementation Science Grant    
Designing an Equitable and Efficient Process for Depression Screening for Children with Rheumatic Disease in the Southeastern United States (Vora,Sheetal )    
$25,000.00 

Linda Hiraki
The Hospital for Sick Children    
Large Grant    
Understanding the genetics of childhood-onset systemic lupus erythematosus (Hiraki,Linda )    
$100,000.00 

Nadine Saad
The Regents of the University of Michigan    
Large Grant    
Validation of the Auto-Inflammatory Diseases Activity Index (AIDAI) in Periodic Fever, Aphthous Stomatitis, Pharyngitis, and Cervical Adenitis (PFAPA) Syndrome (Saad,Nadine)    
$98,329.00 

Christy Zigler
Duke University    
Large Grant
Facilitating collaborations in pediatric localized scleroderma research: International validation of outcome measures (Zigler,Christy )    
$99,939.00 

Erin Treemarcki
The University of Utah    
Large Grant    
Emotional Distress and Acceptance of Mental Health Interventions in Pediatric Rheumatology (Treemarcki,Erin )    
$99,895.00 

Colleen Correll    
Regents of the University of Minnesota - Twin Cities    
Small Grant    
Mortality and Cancer Incidence in Pediatric Rheumatic Disease: Linking the CARRA Registry with the National Death Index and Virtual Pooled Registry-Cancer Linkage System (Correll,Colleen 
$40,872.00 

Yuki Kimura
Hackensack University Medical Center    
Small Grant    
Biologic Switching and Treatment Effectiveness in JIA    
$50,000.00 

Natalia Vasquez-Canizares
Children's Hospital at Montefiore    
Small Grant
Identifying Current Assessment and Treatment Strategies in Juvenile Systemic Sclerosis: An International Effort to Improve Patient Outcomes     
$50,000.00 

Susan Kim
The Regents of the University of California, San Francisco    
Publication Support Grant
Access to Care and Diagnostic Delays in Juvenile Dermatomyositis: Results from the Childhood Arthritis & Rheumatology Research Alliance Legacy Registry (Kim,Susan )    
$2,000.00 

2020 Awards

Andrea Knight    
The Hospital for Sick Children    
Publication Support Grant    
Engaging patients and parents to improve mental health intervention for youth with rheumatological disease (Knight,Andrea )    
$2,865.00 

Vivian Saper        
The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University    
Data Analysis Support Grant    
sJIA with Lung Disease     
$10,000.00 

Colleen Correll        
Regents of the University of Minnesota - Twin Cities    
Publication Support Grant    
Identifying Research Priorities among Patients and Families of Children with Rheumatic Diseases Living in the United States (Correll,Colleen )    
$525.00 

Tamar Rubenstein        
Children's Hospital at Montefiore    
Publication Support Grant    
Prioritized Agenda for Mental Health Research in Pediatric Rheumatology from the Childhood Arthritis and Rheumatology Research Alliance Mental Health Workgroup (Rubinstein,Tamar)    
$750.00 

Katie Schultz        
Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center    
Fellow Small Grant    
GROW (Generating Rheumatologists through Outreach and Workforce Expansion): A Multistep Project Towards Evaluating and Addressing the Pediatric Rheumatology Workforce Shortage (Schultz,Katie)
$25,000.00 

Suzanne Li        
Hackensack University Medical Center    
Publication Support Grant    
Initial Results from a Pilot Comparative Effectiveness Study of 3 Methotrexate-based Consensus Treatment Plans for Juvenile Localized Scleroderma (Li,Suzanne)    
$1,575.00 

Scott Canna        
University of Pittsburgh    
Small Grant    
Development of the Macrophage Activation Syndrome Collaborative (Canna,Scott)    
$25,000.00 

Hemalatha Srinivasalu        
The University of Iowa    
Small Grant    
Defining salivary gland inflammation in childhood Sjogren's syndrome (Srinivasalu,Hemalatha)    
$24,005.00 

Tova Ronis        
The University of Iowa    
Small Grant    
Evaluation of a Tool to Enhance Training of the Physical Examination of the Temporomandibular Joint (Ronis,Tova)    
$25,000.00 

Cuoghi Edens        
The University of Chicago    
Small Grant    
Reproductive Health Concerns in Pediatric Onset Rheumatic Diseases: Filling the Needs of Patients and Parents Through Provider Education     
$24,999.00 

Alysha Taxter        
Wake Forest University    
Small Grant    
Implementation of Electronic Health Record Optimization Tools to Capture and Extract CARRA Data     
$24,028.00 

Yongdong (Dan)Zhao        
Seattle Children's Hospital    
Data Analysis Support Grant    
Prevalence of Paradoxical Psoriasis Secondary to TNF Inhibitor within CARRA Registry     
$9,979.00 

AnneMarie Brescia        
Alfred I. duPont Hospital for Children / Nemours Children's Clinic    
Large Grant    
Predicting and Preventing Extension in Juvenile Idiopathic Arthritis (Brescia,AnneMarie )    
$100,000.00 

Grant Schulert        
Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center    
Large Grant    
Establishing the CARRA Registry Research Network for SJIA-LD (CARE-NETS)     
$50,000.00 

Joyce Hui-Yuen        
Cohen Childrens Medical Center of NY    
Small Grant    
Feasibility of conducting transcriptomic analyses in B cell subsets of pediatric lupus patients     
$24,910.20 

Mindy Lo        
Boston Children's Hospital    
Small Grant    
Pilot Study for the Implementation of the CARRA Uveitis CTPs    
$22,034.00 

Hemalatha Srinivasalu        
Children's National Medical Center (WDC)    
Data Analysis Support Grant    
Validation of modified Juvenile Spondyloarthritis Disease Activity Index in Retrospective Cohorts     
$4,968.00 

Heather Tory        
Connecticut Children's Medical Center    
Publication Support Grant    
Patient and Physician Discordance of Global Disease Assessment in Juvenile Dermatomyositis: Findings from the Childhood Arthritis & Rheumatology Research Alliance Legacy Registry     
$2,755.00 

2019 Awards

Natoshia Cunningham        
Children's Hospital Medical Center    
Transdisciplinary Research Grants    
A remotely delivered CBT intervention for youth with cSLE: A multi-site patient-engaged investigation     
$150,000.00 

Pamela Weiss        
The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia    
Transdisciplinary Research Grants    
Measuring Post-Transfer Outcomes and Building a Framework to Implement Structured Transition Processes Across Rheumatic Diseases    
$150,000.00 

Jessica Neely        
The Regents of the University of California, San Francisco    
Publication Support Grant    
The Association of Short-term Ultraviolet Radiation Exposure and Disease Severity in Juvenile Dermatomyositis    
$240.00 

Mark Connelly        
The Children's Mercy Hospital    
Publication Support Grant    
Pain, Functional Disability, and their Association in Juvenile Fibromyalgia Compared to Other Pediatric Rheumatic Diseases     
$2,680.00 

Jennifer Weiss        
HMH Hospitals Corporation    
Publication Support Grant    
Demographic, Clinical, and Treatment Characteristics of the Juvenile Primary Fibromyalgia Syndrome Cohort Enrolled in the Childhood Arthritis and Rheumatology Research Alliance Legacy Registry    
$2,000.00 

Amer Khojah        
Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago    
Publication Support Grant    
Rituximab-associated Hypogammaglobulinemia in Pediatric Patients with Autoimmune Diseases 
$1,823.25 

David Candelmo        
HMH Hospitals Corporation    
Publication Support Grant    
Demographic, Clinical, and Treatment Characteristics of the Juvenile Primary Fibromyalgia Syndrome Cohort Enrolled in the Childhood Arthritis and Rheumatology Research Alliance Legacy Registry    
$2,000.00 

Mona Riskalla        
Regents of the University of Minnesota - Twin Cities    
Data Analysis Support Grant    
Uveitis treatment in CARRA II: TNF inhibitor and beyond     
$10,000.00 

Emily Smitherman        
University of Alabama at Birmingham    
Small Grant    
Evaluating Care and Outcomes in Childhood-Onset Systemic Lupus Erythematosus     
$25,000.00 

Tamara Tanner        
Children's Hospital at Montefiore    
Fellow Small Grant    
Association between UV index and disease flare in pediatric SLE patients (Tanner,Tamara)    
$12,053.00 

Kaveh Ardalan        
Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago    
Small Grant    
Mental Health Screening in Juvenile Myositis: Pilot and Feasibility Study     
$25,000.00 

Kristine Carandang        
The Regents of the University of California, San Diego    
Small Grant    
Eliciting Perspectives of adolescents and young adults with Pediatric Rheumatic Conditions around the Implementation of Healthcare Transition     
$25,000.00 

Polly Ferguson    
The University of Iowa    
Small Grant    
Patient Stratification through Muscular Immune Phenotyping in Psoriasis and Psoriatic JIA     
$23,000.00 

Kaila Schollaert-Fitch
University of Pittsburgh    
Small Grant    
Feasibility and Reliability of Handheld 3D Photogrammetry for Imaging Linear Scleroderma of the Head     
$25,000.00 

Susan Thompson        
Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center    
Small Grant    
Comprehensive Assessment of Viral Exposures in JIA patients    
$25,000.00 

Stephen Balevic        
Duke University Medical Center    
Small Grant    
Hydroxychloroquine Dosing and Pharmacokinetics in Pediatric Lupus     
$25,000.00 

Mei-Sing Ong    
Harvard Pilgrim Health Care, Inc.    
Small Grant    
Serious Infectious Complications Associated with Rituximab use in Children with Rheumatic Diseases     
$24,918.00 

Lauren Henderson - Boston Children's Hospital
Peter Nigrovic - Brigham and Women's Hospital 
Sarah Ringold    - Seattle Children's Hospital
Large Grant    
Using Biomarkers to Predict Response to Abatacept in Oligo JIA    
$49,788.00 

Wen-Yuan Elena Hsieh        
University of Colorado Denver, AMC and DC    
Large Grant    
Exosomes and Immune Modulation in Pediatric SLE     
$50,000.00 

Sampath Prahalad - The Research Foundation for The SUNY on behalf of University at Buffalo
James Jarvis - Emory University    
Large Grant
Clinical and Functional Significance of JIA-Specific Risk Alleles    
$48,663.00 

Danielle Bullock - University of Minnesota
Tamar Rubinstein - Children's Hospital at Montefiore    
Large Grant    
Adverse Childhood Experiences in Youth with Juvenile Idiopathic Arthritis    
$50,000.00 

Rebecca Trachtman        
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai    
Large Grant    
Procalcitonin and Calprotectin for Differentiation of Infection and Disease Flare in Systemic Juvenile Idiopathic Arthritis     
$50,000.00 

Dawn Wahezi        
Montefiore Medical Center    
Small Grant    
A Prospective Observational Study Comparing the Non-inferiority of Mycophenolate Mofetil to Methotrexate for the Treatment of Juvenile Localized Scleroderma     
$25,000.00 

2018 Awards

Susan Kim        
The Regents of the University of California, San Francisco    
Data Analysis Support Grant    
The Association of Short-term UV Radiation Exposure and Disease Severity in Juvenile Dermatomyositis     
$9,989.00 

Kevin Baszis        
Washington University in St.Louis    
Research Coordinator Pilot Program    
CARRA-AF Research Coordinator Pilot Support Program     
$27,000.00 

Polly Ferguson        
The University of Iowa    
Research Coordinator Pilot Program    
CARRA-AF Research Coordinator Pilot Support Program    
$27,000.00 

Albert Chow        
Seattle Children's Hospital    
Fellow Small Grant    
Oral Health and Microbial Dysbiosis in Juvenile Dermatomyositis     
$24,950.00 

Meiqian Ma        
The Feinstein Institutes for Medical Research    
Fellow Small Grant    
Validation and Usefulness of the 2012 SLICC Lupus Classification Criteria for Pediatric Lupus     
$11,257.00 

Evan Mulvihill        
Nationwide Children's Hospital.    
Fellow Small Grant    
Analysis of C4B Gene Copy Number as a Predictor of Cardiovascular Disease in Systemic Lupus Erythematosus     
$25,000.00 

Cory Stingl        
Duke University    
Fellow Small Grant    
Precision Decision in the Treatment of Juvenile Dermatomyositis    
$19,278.00 

Jessica Neely        
The Regents of the University of California, San Francisco    
Small Grant
Longitudinal Immune Profiling for Biomarker Discovery in Patients with Juvenile Dermatomyositis     
$24,343.00 

Anna Patrick        
Vanderbilt University Medical Center (VUMC)    
Small Grant    
Effector T Cells: An Assessment of Activity in Polyarticular Juvenile Idiopathic Arthritis     
$24,998.00 

Natalie Rosenwasser        
Hospital for Special Surgery    
Small Grant    
Development of Novel Urinary Biomarkers for Lupus Nephritis     
$25,000.00 

Erica Lawson    
The Regents of the University of California, San Francisco    
Small Grant    
The Impact of Pediatric-to-adult Care Transition on Health Care Utilization and Medication among Youth     
$25,000.00 

Kimberly Lewis        
The University of Texas at Austin    
Small Grant    
A Pilot of Metabolomics in Symptom Science: The Intersection between Pain, Fatigue, and Cardiovascular Risk in Teens with Juvenile Idiopathic Arthritis     
$25,000.00 

Sheila Angeles-Han        
Children's Hospital Medical Center - 4    
Small Grant    
Measuring Vision-related Function and Quality of Life in Children with Uveitis     
$25,000.00 

Kathleen O'Neil        
Indiana University    
Research Coordinator Pilot Program    
CARRA-AF Research Coordinator Pilot Support Program    
$27,000.00 

Thomas Griffin        
Carolinas HealthCare System    Research Coordinator Pilot Program    
CARRA-AF Research Coordinator Pilot Support Program     
$27,000.00 

Lawrence Jung
Tova Ronis

Childrens Research Institute    
Research Coordinator Pilot Program    
CARRA-AF Research Coordinator Pilot Support Program
$27,000.00 

Eyal Muscal    
Baylor College of Medicine    
Research Coordinator Pilot Program    
CARRA-AF Research Coordinator Pilot Support Program     
$27,000.00 

Akaluck (Ben) Thatayatikom    
University of Florida    
Research Coordinator Pilot Program    
CARRA-AF Research Coordinator Pilot Support Program     
$27,000.00 

Fatima Barbar-Smiley    
Nationwide Children's Hospital.    
Small Grant    
Immunogenicity of pneumococcal vaccination and impact on nasopharyngeal pneumococcus colonization in patients with childhood onset systemic lupus erythematosus     
$24,978.00 

Daniel Kingsbury        
Randall Children's Hospital at Legacy Emanuel    
Research Coordinator Pilot Program    
CARRA-AF Research Coordinator Pilot Support Program    
$27,000.00 

Andrea Knight        
The Hospital for Sick Children    
Data Analysis Support Grant    
The Impact of Mental Health Disorders on Medication Adherence & Health Care Utilization in Youth with Lupus    
$8,640.00 

Kathleen O'Neil        
Riley Hospital for Children/ Indiana University    
Large Grant    
The Relationship Between Changes in Adipokine Levels and Disease Activity in Pubertal Children with SLE     
$50,000.00 

Kiana Johnson        
East Tennessee State University    
Large Grant    
Healthcare Transition Readiness and Health Self-management among youth with Juvenile Systemic Lupus    
$50,000.00 

Leandra Woolnough        
University of Florida    
Small Grant    
Longitudinal Musculoskeletal Ultrasound Assessment in Juvenile Idiopathic Arthritis    
$3,007.80 

Joyce Hui-Yuen        
Cohen Childrens Medical Center of NY    
Small Grant    
Feasibility of Conducting Epigenetic Analysis in Pediatric Lupus B Cells    
$19,133.28 

Melissa Oliver        
Riley Hospital for Children/ Indiana University    
Small Grant    
Clinical disease manifestations associated with anti-TNF non-response in Juvenile Spondyloarthropathy     
$20,736.00 

Victoria Werth        
The Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania    
Small Grant    
Evaluation of the reliability and validity of the Cutaneous Lupus Erythematosus Disease Area and Severity Index (CLASI) in pediatrics     
$22,032.00 

Suzanne Li        
HMH Hospitals Corporation    
Small Grant    
Tracking Disease Activity in Juvenile Localized Scleroderma with a Mobile App     
$25,000.00
 

2017 Awards

Andrea Knight        
The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia    
Large Grant    
The Impact of Mental Health Disorders on Medication Adherence & Health Care Utilization in Youth with Lupus    
$50,000.00 

Melissa Mannion        
University of Alabama at Birmingham    
Data Analysis Support Grant    
Analysis of Outcomes after Medication Change     
$8,369.00 

Betsy Mellins
Vivian Saper    

The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University    
Large Grant    
Clinical and translational investigation of parenchymal lung disease in sJIA: A planning grant     
$50,000.00 

Yongdong (Dan) Zhao        
Seattle Children's Hospital    
Small Grant    
Standardized assessment of the inflammation in bone and soft tissue in chronic nonbacterial osteomyelitis from MRI images    
$25,000.00 

Lily Lim        
University of Manitoba    
CARRA Small Grant    
Identifying trajectories of disease activity states in JIA early after treatment: Sortening time to decision to change treatment     
$19,608.00 

Susan Kim        
The Regents of the University of California, San Francisco    
Small Grant    
Crowdsourcing and improving assessment of skin disease in pediatric rheumatology     
$24,736.00 

Eyal Muscal        
Baylor College of Medicine    
Small Grant    
Developing CTPs and Family-Centered Functional Outcome Measures in Pediatric Autoimmune Encephalitis     
$20,694.00 

Melissa Tesher        
The University of Chicago    
Small Grant    
Utility of the PSAQ in assessing for fibromyalgia in JIA patients    
$23,455.00 

Marinka Twilt        
Alberta Children's Hospital    
Small Grant    
Improving care for children with autoinflammatory diseases    
$20,668.00 

Patricia Vega-Fernandez        
Emory University    
Small Grant    
Limited vs comprehensive standardized musculoskeletal ultrasound examination in JIA     
$24,995.00 

Amer Khoja        
Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago    
Small Grant    
Can we predict the effectiveness of B cell depletion after rituzimab therapy in children with JDM     
$16,236.00 

Jonathan Hausmann        
Boston Children's Hospital    
Small Grant    
Continuous temperature monitoring to improve diagnosis and treatment of PFAPA     
$25,000.00 

Sherene Mason        
Connecticut Children's Medical Center    
Small Grant    
Maintenance therapy withdrawal of mycophenolate mofetil in pediatric proliferative lupus nephritis: A multi-centered retrospective cohort study     
$15,351.00 

Linda Hiraki        
The Hospital for Sick Children    
Small Grant    
Discovering genetic variants for early onset and familial lupus in the thousand faces of SLE    
$25,000.00 

Alysha Taxter        
Wake Forest Brenner Children's Medical Center    
Small Grant    
Optimizing the electronic health record to capture CARRA data    
$21,460.00

2016 Awards

Suzanne Li
HMH Hospitals Corporation    
Publication Support Grant    
3 publications from the juvenile localized scleroderma (jLS) Consensus Treatment Plan (CTP) pilot study data     
$8,320.00 

Mark Connelly        
The Children's Mercy Hospital    
Small Grant    
Registry-Assissted Dissemination of Mobile Pain Mgmt for Youth with Arthritis     
$8,500.00 

Andrea Knight        
The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia    
Small Grant    
Behavioral Health Provider Perspectives on Mental Health Intervention for Youth with SLE     
$25,000.00 

Eyal Muscal        
Baylor College of Medicine    
Small Grant    
Pediatric Autoimmune Encephalitis Network Planning     
$3,600.00 

Kathryn Torok        
University of Pittsburgh    
Small Grant    
Identifying Juvenile Scleroderma Immunophenotype     
$25,000.00 

Heather Tory        
Connecticut Children's Medical Center    
Small Grant    
PROs and Functional Status Measures in JDM: Part 1     
$8,000.00 

Kim Morishita        
British Columbia Children’s Hospital part of PHSA    
Small Grant    
Early Renal Outcomes in Pediatric ANCA Associated Vasculitis    
$22,500.00 

Kaveh Ardalan
Lisa Arkin 
   
American Family Children's Hospital    
Small Grant    
Investigation of Pediatric-Onset Cutaneous Lupus    
$10,500.00 

Tamar Rubinstein        
Children's Hospital at Montefiore    
Small Grant    
Screening for Mood Disorder in Youth with Lupus (Rubinstein,Tamar)    
$5,000.00 

Mara Becker        
The Children's Mercy Hospital    
Small Grant    
Pharmacogenomic Predictors of MTX Polyglutamation     
$22,117.00 

Emily von Scheven        
The Regents of the University of California, San Francisco    
Publication Support Grant    
A Pilot Study of Consensus Treatment Plans (CTPs) for Induction Therapy in Childhood Proliferative Lupus Nephritis (cLN) (von Scheven,Emily )    
$10,000.00 

Sarah Ringold
Tim Beukelman 
   
University of Alabama at Birmingham    
Publication Support Grant    
Sequence of Medication Use in JIA (Sarah Ringold AND Tim Beukelman,Sarah Ringold AND Tim Beukelman)    
$5,440.00 

Kristen Hayward        
Seattle Children's Hospital    
Small Grant    
Early Investigator Writing Group Pilot Project     
$10,000.00 

Dan Horton        
Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey    
Small Grant    
Medication Discontinuation in JIA: Perspective of Patients and Families     
$23,195.00 

Yongdong (Dan)Zhao        
Seattle Children's Hospital    
Small Grant    
Pilot Study to Develop Urinary Biomarker of Disease Activity in Chronic Nonbacterial Osteomyelitis     
$9,600.00 

Anne Stevens        
Seattle Children's Hospital    
Small Grant    
Simultaneous Nutritional Assessment and Microbiotic Phenotyping in Kawasaki Disease     
$20,440.00 

Susan Kim        
The Regents of the University of California, San Francisco    
Small Grant    
PeDRA-CARRA Collaboration JDM Committee     
$7,500.00 

Alexis Boneparth        
The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York    
Small Grant    
Small Fiber Neuropathy in Juvenile Fibromyalgia     
$20,000.00 

Jennifer Cooper        
The Regents of the University of California, San Francisco    
Small Grant    
Predicting Early Atherosclerosis in Childhood-Onset SLE (PEACE), and APPLE Sub-study     
$10,000.00
 

CARRA & Arthritis Foundation Partnership

In partnership with The Arthritis Foundation CARRA offers members various funding opportunities to further research that leverages the CARRA network and positively impacts the pediatric rheumatology scientific community and advances the CARRA mission.