The following is a listing of our “Raring to Go For CHI” Million Dollar Bike Ride Grant Winners along with information about the research.
2023 Grant Winner Michael Kalwat
Home Institution: Indiana Biosciences Research Institute
Award Amount: $70,200
Research Topic: Congenital hyperinsulinism models for novel drug discovery
2022 Grant Winner Sarah Flanagan, PhD
Home Institution: University of Exeter Medical School
Award Amount: $70,920
Research Topic: Implementing detection of low-level mosaic variants from blood samples in hyperinsulinism to improve diagnosis
2021 Grant Winner Elizabeth Rosenfeld, MD
Home Institution: Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia
Award Amount: $73,045
Research Topic: Natural History of the Hyperinsulinism Hyperammonemia Syndrome – A Multi-center Observational Study Incorporating Patient-centered Data through the HI Global Registry
2020 Grant Winner Dr. Indraneel Banerjee
Home Institution: University of Manchester, Royal Manchester Children’s Hospital
Award Amount: $73,190
Research Topic: Maximizing the utilization of the Hyperinsulinism Global Registry (HIGR)
2019 Grant Winner Thomas Smith, PhD
Home Institution: University of Texas, Medical Branch
Award Amount: $72,014
Research Topic: Towards new therapeutic treatments for the hyperinsulinism/hyperammonemia syndrome (HI/HA)
2018 Grant Winner Amanda Ackerman, MD, PhD
Home Institution: Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia
Award Amount: $84,080
Research Topic: Vitamin E Supplementation in Hyperinsulinism / Hyperammonemia Syndrome
2017 Grant Winner Dr. Diva De León, MD, MSC
Home Institution: Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia
Award Amount: $87,109
Research Topic: Bihormonal Bionic Pancreas for the treatment of Diabetes Post-Pancreatectomy in Children with Congenital Hyperinsulinism
2016 Grant Winner Changhong Li, MD, PhD
Home Institution: Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia
Award Amount: $82,000
Research Topic: Drug development for the Treatment of Glutamate Dehydrogenase Hyperinsulinism
2015 Grant Winner Mark Dunne, BSc, PhD
Home Institution: University of Manchester
Award Amount: $71,000
Research Topic: Towards Precision Medicine of the Treatment of Congenital Hyperinsulinism in Infancy
2014 Grant Winner Dr. Diva De León, MD, MSC
Home Institution: Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia
Award Amount: $60,000
Research Topic: Pilot Study of the Efficacy and Safety of Sirolimus in the Treatment of Congenital Hyperinsulinism
