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Published in final edited form as: J Racial Ethn Health Disparities. 2016 Oct 28:10.1007/s40615-016-0302-4. doi: 10.1007/s40615-016-0302-4

Table 2.

RMATRIX Pilot Project Investigators with Associated Grants

Pilot
Project
Investigator
Pilot Project
Investigator’s
Discipline
Pilot Project Title Grants After RMATRIX Pilot Project Award
Agency/Grant# Role* Years

1 Native Hawaiian
Health
PILI ’Aina Project:
Partnerships to
Overcome Obesity
Disparities in Hawaii
NIMHD/R24MD001660
NIMHD/RL5MD009591
NIMHD/T37MD006909
NHLBI/R01HL126577
PI
Sub-PI
Sub-PI
PI
2013–16
2014–19
2014–18
2015–20
2 Neurology Neuroimaging
Correlates of
Monocyte/Macrophage
Infiltration in HIV-
infected
Individuals: A
Cross-sectional Pilot
Study Using IV
Furomoxytol
NINDS/R21NS087951 PI 2015–17
3 Cell &
Molecular
Biology
Protection from
Cardiac Hypertrophy
via Pharmacological
Inhibition of the Ion
Channel TRPV1
DOD AFRL Co-PI 2013–18
4 Anatomy,
Biochemistry &
Physiology
Correlation of Genetic
Risk Factors with
Gestational Diabetes
and Preeclampsia in
Women from Hawaii
NIGMS/P20GM103457
Project 4
PI 2014–19
5 Cancer Discrimination and
Substance Abuse
Among Adolescents in
Hawaii
NIDA/NINDS/NIAAA/U
01DA041117
Co-PI 2015–20
6 Tropical
Medicine, Med
Micro, Pharm
Identification and
Characterization of
Cryptic Fleming Bay
Marine Stingers
USSOCOM/H92222-14-
P-0058
USSOCOM/H92222-15-
P-0067
ONR/BAA 10-001
PACOM/0000
PI

PI

PI
PI
2014–15

2015–16

2015–17
2015–16
7 Engineering Effect of
Corticosteroids on
Pulmonary Surfactant
of Premature
Newborns
NSF/CBET-1236596
NSF/CBET-1254795
PI
PI
2012–16
2013–18
8 Medicine Cerebrovascular Risk
Factors and Altered
Brain Structure in
Healthy Individuals
NINDS/R21NS080656 PI 2013–17
9, 10 Engineering,
Medicine
Integration and
Assessment of
Physiologic Radar
Technology in Sleep
Monitoring Systems
NSF STTR Co-PI 2014–15
11 Pediatrics Project PONO -
Prevention of Negative
Outcomes
NHLBI/HL130780 PI 2015–16
12 Cardiology Metabolite Profile as a
Postpartum Predictor
of Endothelial
Dysfunction Following
Preeclampsia
NHLBI/OD/R21HL11539
8
PI 2013–17
13 Native Hawaiian
Health
Hula & Hypertension:
Ola Hou Pilot Study
NIDDK/R01DK102728
(U. of Washington)
PI 2015–20
14 Nursing Perceptions of Native
Hawaiian Community
Partners about
Community-Based
Participatory Research
HRSA/D09HP28681 Sub-PI 2015–18

AFRL: Air Force Research Laboratory; DOD: Department of Defense; HRSA: Health Resources and Services Administration; NCRR: National Center for Research Resources; NHLBI: National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute; NIAAA: National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism; NIDA: National Institute on Drug Abuse; NIDDK: National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases; NIGMS: National Institute of General Medical Sciences; NIMHD: National Institute of Minority Health and Health Disparities; NINDS: National Institute Neurological Diseases & Stroke; NSF: National Science Foundation; ONR: ONR: Office of Naval Research; OD: Office of the Director; USSOCOM: United States Special Operations Command; PACOM: Pacific Command

*

PI: Principal Investigator; Co-PI: Co-Principal Investigator; Sub-PI: Subcontract PI