2019 Gary S. Gilkeson Career Development Award (CDA) Recipients

The Lupus Foundation of America awarded four individuals to receive the 2019 Gary S. Gilkeson Career Development Award (CDA).

The Career Development Award was designed for fellows and clinicians with the goal of supporting early career scientists and providing mentorship during a critical time in their lupus research career.

Thanks to the John & Marcia Goldman Foundation, who funded part of the award for 2019, LFA was able to fund double the amount of awardees and funding from any previous year!

2019 CDA Awardees

Emily Littlejohn, DO, MPH Cleveland Clinic Mentors: Emily Somers, Ph.D, ScM & Jinoos Yazdany, MD, MPH Study: Longitudinal Antinuclear Antibodies titers from pre-clinical to clinical SLE

Emily Smitherman, MD University of Alabama at Birmingham Mentor: Aimee Hersh, MD, MS Study: Evaluating Disease Activity Outcomes in Childhood-Onset Systemic Lupus Erythematosus

May Choi, MD, FRCPC University of Calgary Mentor: Karen Costenbader, MD, MPH Study: LEAAPPS: Longitudinal Examination of ANA Associations, Prevalence, and Performance in SLE

Erik Anderson, MD Feinstein Institute for Medical Research Mentor: Meggan Mackay, MD, MS Study: Tryptophan Pathway Activation by Interferon-alpha: Impact on Mood and Cognition in SLE