Sixteen researchers from IU, Purdue and Notre Dame will receive about $150,000 through the core pilot grants program. Core pilot grants provide investigators access to more than 60 Indiana CTSI-approved core facilities across the IU, Purdue and Notre Dames campuses.

HCRI faculty member Reginald Hill, Department of Biological Sciences, College of Science, University of Notre Dame, will receive $9,999 to access the Genomics and Bioinformatics Core at Notre Dame in support of his project titled, "Identifying Stromal MicroRNAs mediating chemoresistance in pancreatic cancer."