CFRI Physician Grants
The Children’s Foundation Research Institute’s (CFRI) Early Career Physician Scientist Development Program supports clinical and basic research at Le Bonheur Children’s Hospital. This award provides as much as 20% salary support to allow protected time for research. The program prioritizes research proposals from junior faculty members, those less than five years out of training and interested in pursuing pediatric research.
The award recipients for 2025 are the following:
Nicolas Chiriboga-Salazar, MD
Critical Care, Le Bonheur Children’s Hospital
Assistant Professor, The University of Tennessee Health Science Center
Project: “Standardizing Therapies and Improving Outcomes with Expanded Neuromonitoring for Patients on ECMO”
Mentor: Hitesh Sandhu, MBBS
Negar Noorizadeh, PhD
Neuroscience Institute, Le Bonheur Children’s Hospital
Assistant Professor, The University of Tennessee Health Science Center
Project: “Optimizing Pediatric Epilepsy Surgery: A Comparison of sEEG and MEG in Predicting Post-Surgical Seizures”
Mentor: James Wheless, MD
Ashmitha Raja, MD
Neuroscience Institute, Le Bonheur Children’s Hospital
Assistant Professor, The University of Tennessee Health Science Center
Project: “Feasibility of Measuring Neuroplasticity Using Novel TMS Paradigms in Hyperkinetic Movement Disorders”
Mentor: Shalini Narayana, MBBS, PhD
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