Department of Medicine faculty have received notice of the following research, clinical trials, CME or other training awards.
[tabs style="vertical"] [tab title="Sponsored research"]James P. Daubert of Cardiology has received an award from the University of Rochester for a project entitled "Randomized Trial of Atrial Fiabrillation Catheter Ablation Versus Anti-arrhythmic Agents in Paroxysmal AF Patients with Age >= 70 (RAFCA70+)." Total funding will be $95,220.
Geoffrey S. Ginsburg of Cardiology has received an award from the North Carolina Biotechnology Center for a project entitled "Personalized Medicine COI Planning Grant." Total funding will be $100,000.
Christopher Kontos of Cardiology has received an award (3T32-GM007171-38S1) from the National Institutes of Health for a project entitled "Medical Scientist Training Program." Total funding will be $99,310.
Christopher Kontos of Cardiology has received an award (2T32-GM007171-38) from the National Institutes of Health for a project entitled "Medical Scientist Training Program." Total funding will be $1,390,328.
Gillian D. Schmidler of Cardiology has received a sub-award (7R01-CA117840-06) through Kaiser Permanente for a project entitled "Evaluation of Computerized Decision Support for Managing Lung Nodules." Total funding will be $97,575.
Arati Rao of Hematological Malignancies and Cellular Therapy has received an award (1R03-AG042362-01) from the National Institutes of Health for a project entitled "Clinico-Genomic Assessment of Performance Status in Elderly AML Patients." Total funding will be $78,500.
Adam Perlman of General Internal Medicine has received an award (3R01-AT004623-05S2) from the National Institutes of Health for a project entitled "Multisite RCT Investigating the Efficacy of Massage in Osteoarthritis." Total funding will be $78,461.
J. Brice Weinberg of Hematology has received an award (1R34-AI100784-01) from the National Institutes of Health for a project entitled "Nitric Oxide and Malaria." Total funding will be $199,175.
Thomas M. Coffman of Nephrology has received an award (1P30-DK096493-01) from the National Institutes of Health for a project entitled "Administrative Core." Total funding will be $188,400.
Susan B. Gurley of Nephrology has received an award (1P30-DK096493-01) from the National Institutes of Health for a project entitled "Core A: Animal Models", a part of Thomas M. Coffman's project entitled "George M. O'Brien Kidney Research Core Centers." Total funding will be $324,676.
Uptal Patel of Nephrology has received an award (1P30-DK096493-01) from the National Institutes of Health for a project entitled "Core C: Clinical Translational", a part of Thomas M. Coffman's project entitled "George M. O'Brien Kidney Research Core Centers." Total funding will be $324,568.
Michelle Winn of Nephrology has received an award (1P30-DK096493-01) from the National Institutes of Health for a project entitled "Core B: Renal Genomics", a part of Thomas M. Coffman's project entitled "George M. O'Brien Kidney Research Core Centers." Total funding will be $319,546.
Andrew Armstrong of Medical Oncology has received an award (W81XWH-12-1-0253) from the Department of Defense for a project entitled "Development of a novel method to detect prostate cancer circulating tumor cells (CTCs) based on epithelial-mesenchymal transition biology." Total funding will be $353,250.
Gerard C. Blobe of Medical Oncology has received an award (3R01-CA136786-04S1) from the National Institutes of Health for a project entitled "Function of TbRIII as a BMP Co-receptor in Human Cancer." Total funding will be $36,347.
Victoria L. Seewaldt of Medical Oncology has received an award from the National Breast Cancer Foundation, Inc for a project entitled "NBCF National Mammography Program." Total funding will be $21,374.
Lesley H. Curtis of Medicine has received a sub-award (HHSF-22320091006I-) through the Harvard Pilgrim Health Care, Inc. for a project entitled "M-S Bloodscan Phase 1." Total funding will be $20,360.
Christopher Cox of Pulmonary, Allergy & Critical Care Medicine has received a sub-award (5R01-NR012413-03) through the Mount Sinai School of Medicine for a project entitled "Informing Decisions in Chronic Critical Illness: An RCT (Admin Supplmt)." Total funding will be $4,743.
Monica Kraft of Pulmonary, Allergy & Critical Care Medicine has received an award (1P01-HL108793-01A1) from the National Institutes of Health for a project entitled "Human Samples Core", a part of Paul W. Noble's project entitled "Host Factors in Regulation of Inflammatory and Fibroproliferative Lung Disease." Total funding will be $437,934.
Monica Kraft of Pulmonary, Allergy & Critical Care Medicine has received an award (1P01-HL108793-01A1) from the National Institutes of Health for a project entitled "Project 3", a part of Paul W. Noble's project entitled "Host Factors in Regulation of Inflammatory and Fibroproliferative Lung Disease." Total funding will be $343,948.
Julie Ledford of Pulmonary, Allergy & Critical Care Medicine has received an award (1K99-HL111151-01A1) from the National Institutes of Health for a project entitled "The role of SP-A in Mp-induced exacerbations during allergic airway disease." Total funding will be $100,704.
Paul W. Noble of Pulmonary, Allergy & Critical Care Medicine has received an award (1P01-HL108793-01A1) from the National Institutes of Health for a project entitled "Administrative Core." Total funding will be $113,178.
Paul W. Noble of Pulmonary, Allergy & Critical Care Medicine has received an award (1P01-HL108793-01A1) from the National Institutes of Health for a project entitled "Project 1." Total funding will be $469,172.
Claude A. Piantadosi of Pulmonary, Allergy & Critical Care Medicine has received an award (2R56-AI064789-06A1) from the National Institutes of Health for a project entitled "Nitric oxide and mitochondrial biogenesis in sepsis." Total funding will be $314,000.
Barry Stripp of Pulmonary, Allergy & Critical Care Medicine has received an award (1P01-HL108793-01A1) from the National Institutes of Health for a project entitled "Project 2", a part of Paul W. Noble's project entitled "Host Factors in Regulation of Inflammatory and Fibroproliferative Lung Disease." Total funding will be $386,091.
Julia KL Walker of Pulmonary, Allergy & Critical Care Medicine has received an award (1P01-HL108793-01A1) from the National Institutes of Health for a project entitled "Sample Analysis and Animal Core", a part of Paul W. Noble's project entitled "Host Factors in Regulation of Inflammatory and Fibroproliferative Lung Disease." Total funding will be $258,961.
Virginia B. Krausof Rheumatology & Immunology has received an award from the National University of Singapore for a project entitled "A Randomized Controlled Trial of Colchicine for Symptom and Inflammation Modification in Knee Osteoarthritis." Total funding will be $110,231.[/tab] [tab title="Industry-sponsored clinical trials"]John H. Alexander of Cardiology has received an award from Revalesio Corporation for a project entitled "RNS60 Cardiac LOI." Total funding will be $10,000.
Gary M. Felker of Cardiology has received an award from Otsuka Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd. for a project entitled "Targeting Acute Congestion with Tolvaptan In Congestive Heart Failure." Total funding will be $2,591,591.
Christopher Granger of Cardiology has received an award from Daiichi Sankyo Inc for a project entitled "Atrial Fibrillation." Total funding will be $50,000.
Christopher Granger of Cardiology has received an award from Astellas Pharma Global Development, Inc for a project entitled "Astellas Steering Committee." Total funding will be $45,000.
Kenneth W. Mahaffey of Cardiology has received an award from Sanofi-Aventis U.S. for a project entitled "Adjudication of Clinical Events for Sanofi-aventis' Studies." Total funding will be $3,056,925.
Christopher O'Connor of Cardiology has received an award from Gilead Sciences, Inc. for a project entitled "Clinical Characteristics and Outcomes of Patients with Heart Failure with Preserved Ejection Fraction (HFpEF) and Angina."
Christopher O'Connor of Cardiology has received an award from Gilead Sciences, Inc. for a project entitled "Clinical Characteristics and Outcomes of Patients with Ischemic Cardiomyopathy and Persistent Angina."
Andrew Wang of Cardiology has received an award from Evalve Inc. for a project entitled "Clinical Outcomes Assessment of the MitraClip Percutaneous Therapy for High Surgical Risk Patients."
David Rizzieri of Hematological Malignancies and Cellular Therapy has received an award from Amgen, Inc. for a project entitled "An open label, multicenter, phase II study to evaluate efficacy and safety of the BiTE antibody blinatumomab in adult patients with relapsed/refractory B-precursor acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) MicroMet MT103-211."
Manal F. Abdelmalek of Gastroenterology has received an award from Synegeva BioPharma Corporation for a project entitled "LIPA gene sequence in patients with microvesicular steatosis solely or mixed microvesicular and macrovesicular steatosis." Total funding will be $75,192.
Andrew J. Muir of Gastroenterology has received an award from Achillion Pharmaceuticals, Inc for a project entitled "Achillion ACH102-005 Phase IB Study." Total funding will be $1,100,563.
Connie Bales of Geriatrics has received an award from the National Cattlemen's Beef Association for a project entitled "Does Beef Protein Preserve Muscle Mass and Function during Weight Loss in Frail, Obese Older Adults?" Total funding will be $169,903.
Thomas L. Ortel of Hematology has received an award from Novametics, Inc. for a project entitled "Lupus Anticoagulant Assay Validation." Total funding will be $20,950.
Richard S. Bedlack of Neurology has received an award from Biogen, Inc. for a project entitled "Open Label Extension of Dexpramipexole in Subjects with ALS." Total funding will be $133,908.
Herbert I. Hurwitz of Medical Oncology has received an award from Genentech, Inc. for a project entitled "A Phase Ib study of the safety and phamacology of MPDL3280A administered with Bevacizumab or with Bevacizumab plus FOLFOX in patients with advanced solid tumors."
Fatima A. Rangwala of Medical Oncology has received an award from Sanofi-Aventis U.S. for a project entitled "Pilot Study of X-TRAP: Capecitabine plus Afibercept in Advanced Solid Tumors." Total funding will be $1,183,006.
John H. Strickler of Medical Oncology has received an award from ArQule, Inc. for a project entitled "An extension protocol for subjects who were previously enrolled in other ARQ 197 protocols." Patricia Lugar of Pulmonary has received an award from Coram, Inc. for a project entitled "Immunoglobulin, Diagnosis, Evaluation and Key Learnings Patient Registry (IDEAL)."
John S. Sundy of Pulmonary, Allergy & Critical Care Medicine has received an award from Ardea Biosciences, Inc. for a project entitled "RDEA594-302 - A Phase 3 Randomized, Double-Blind, Multicenter, Placebo-Controlled, Combination Study to Evaluate the Efficacy and Safety of Lesinurad and Allopurinol Compared to Allopurinol Alone in Subjects with Gout."
John S. Sundy of Pulmonary, Allergy & Critical Care Medicine has received an award from Bristol-Myers Squibb for a project entitled "IPF-Phase 0 Biomarker Study." Total funding will be $375,859.
John S. Sundy of Pulmonary, Allergy & Critical Care Medicine has received an award from Ardea Biosciences, Inc. for a project entitled "A Phase 3 Randomized, Double-Blind, Multicenter, Placebo-Controlled, Combination Study to Evaluate the Efficacy and Safety of Lesinurad and Febuxostat Compared to Febuxostat Alone at Lowering Serum Uric Acid and Resolving Tophi."
Megan E. Clowse of Rheumatology & Immunology has received an award from Human Genome Sciences, Inc. for a project entitled "HGS1006 - A Phase 3, Multi-Center, Randomized, Double-Blind, Placebo-Controlled, 52-week Study to Evaluate the Efficacy and Safety of Belimumab (HGS1006) Administered Subcutaneously (SC) to Subjects with Systemic Lupus Erythematosus (SLE)." Total funding will be $98,878.[/tab] [/tabs]