{"id":21635,"date":"2023-05-09T09:45:29","date_gmt":"2023-05-09T09:45:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ahs.uic.edu\/inside-ahs\/news-stories\/mohan-zalake-and-robert-motl-receive-ahs-interdisciplinary-pilot-grant-program-awards\/"},"modified":"2023-05-09T09:45:29","modified_gmt":"2023-05-09T09:45:29","slug":"mohan-zalake-and-robert-motl-receive-ahs-interdisciplinary-pilot-grant-program-awards","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/ahs.uic.edu\/inside-ahs\/news-stories\/mohan-zalake-and-robert-motl-receive-ahs-interdisciplinary-pilot-grant-program-awards\/","title":{"rendered":"Mohan Zalake and Robert Motl receive AHS Interdisciplinary Pilot Grant Program awards"},"template":"","news_categories":[17],"news_tags":[],"class_list":["post-21635","news","type-news","status-publish","hentry","news_categories-grants"],"acf":{"intro_text_subtitle":"","intro_text_body":"<p>Congratulations to <a href=\"https:\/\/ahs.uic.edu\/biomedical-health-information-sciences\/directory\/zalake-mohan\/\"><strong>Mohan Zalake<\/strong><\/a> and <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/ahs.uic.edu\/kinesiology-nutrition\/directory\/motl-robert\/\">Robert Motl<\/a><\/strong> who have been selected from the Spring 2023 round of applications to receive an AHS Interdisciplinary Pilot Grant Program award.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Zalake\u2019s proposal entitled \u201cEQUITY (Enhancing QUality of Instruction using TechnologY) will develop virtual patients and use deliberate self-reflection to reduce racial bias in clinical encounters.\u00a0\u00a0He will collaborate with Monique Jindal, a practicing clinician and health equity researcher, and <a href=\"https:\/\/ahs.uic.edu\/biomedical-health-information-sciences\/directory\/swirsky-eric-scott\/\"><strong>Eric Swirsky<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Motl\u2019s proposal entitled \u201cPhysical Activity and Serum Neurofilament Light Chain as an Objective, Quantifiable Biomarker of Neuroaxonal Injury in Multiple Sclerosis\u201d will examine physical activity along with serum neurofilament light chain as a biomarker in individuals with multiple sclerosis.\u00a0\u00a0He will collaborate with Michael Carrithers, UIC Neurology and Rehabilitation; Anthony Reder, U Chicago Neurology; and Jens Kuhle University of Basel.<\/p>\n<p>Special thanks to the review committee (<strong>Alex Aruin<\/strong>, <strong>Kristin Berg<\/strong>, <strong>Andrew Boyd<\/strong> and <strong>Mary Khetani<\/strong>) for their thoughtful evaluation of the proposals.<\/p>\n","intro_text_excerpt":"The researchers will collaborate with partners from AHS, UIC and beyond","content_author":"Philip Clifford","content_sticky":false,"intro_text_include_image":false,"intro_text_image":false,"intro_text_image_alt_text":"","intro_text_image_caption":"","intro_text_image_attribution":"","news_include_thumbnail":false,"news_thumbnail_image":false,"news_thumbnail_image_alt_text":""},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ahs.uic.edu\/inside-ahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/21635","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ahs.uic.edu\/inside-ahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ahs.uic.edu\/inside-ahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ahs.uic.edu\/inside-ahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/21635\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ahs.uic.edu\/inside-ahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21635"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news_categories","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ahs.uic.edu\/inside-ahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_categories?post=21635"},{"taxonomy":"news_tags","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ahs.uic.edu\/inside-ahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_tags?post=21635"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}