Overview of Past Grant Winners

The following is a listing of our “Raring to Go For CHI” Million Dollar Bike Ride Grant Winners along with information about the research.

MDBR Grant Winner Michael Kalwat

2023 Grant Winner Michael Kalwat

Home Institution: Indiana Biosciences Research Institute

Award Amount: $70,200

Research Topic: Congenital hyperinsulinism models for novel drug discovery

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MDBR Award Winner Sarah Flanagan PhD

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

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2021 MDBR award recipient

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

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MDBR Grant 2020 Award Recipient

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)

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2019 Grant Winner Thomas Smith PhD

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)

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2018 Grant Winner

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

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2017 award recipient Diva De Leon

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

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Million Dollar Bike Race Grant Winner

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

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2015 Grant Winner

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

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Million Dollar Bike Ride

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

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