Meet our Early Stage Investigators

Sarayu Ratnam, PhD
• Assistant Professor
• Pediatric Endocrinology
• Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago

Project: Biological, Lifestyle, and Psychosocial Determinants of Fatigue in Youth Sex Chromosome Aneuploidies to Advance Clinical Care and Support Clinical Trial Readiness

Pilot Award Amount: $20,000

Adrianna San Roman, PhD
• Assistant Professor, Molecular Genetics & Microbiology
• Duke University School of Medicine

Project: Modeling Respiratory Infection Susceptibility To Advance Hearing Loss Prevention Strategies In Turner Syndrome

Pilot Award Amount: $20,000

Conor Gruber, MD, PhD
• Clinical Fellow, Division of Rheumatology
• Children's Hospital of Philadelphia

Project: Mapping Inflammatory immune profiles in Turner Syndrome for biomarker discovery

Fellow Award Amount: $10,000

Antoinette Farrell, MD
• Pediatric Endocrinology Fellow
• UC San Diego/Rady Children's

Project: A Study of Continuous Progesterone in Adolescents and Young Adults with Turner Syndrome Compared to Traditional Cyclical Hormone Replacement

Mentor: Karen Klein, MD

Karli Swenson, PhD, MPH
• Pediatric Endocrinology Postdoctoral Fellow
• University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus and Children's Hospital Colorado

Project: Understanding Fetal Development and Umbilical Cord Mesenchymal Stem Cells in Children with Sex Chromosome Aneuploidies