New Funding Awards February 2024

Sponsored Research

Richa Agarwal of Cardiology has received an award from the Mayo Clinic - Rochester for a project entitled "Detection of PULMHTN." Total funding will be $76,700.

Adrian Hernandez of Cardiology has received an award from the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute for a project entitled "PCORnet CC - SCOPE 5: Strategic Communications to Support the PCORnet Research Community." Total funding will be $129,818.

Yongmei Liu of Cardiology has received a sub-award (1R01-AG078359-01A1) through the Wake Forest University Health Sciences for a project entitled "T helper cells in development of chronic inflammation and multi-morbidity." Total funding will be $347,617.

Manesh Patel of Cardiology has received an award from the Roche Molecular Systems for a project entitled "Development and validation of digital biomarker, and ML/AI algorithm screening system." Total funding will be $88,692.

Jun Chen of Cell Therapy has received an award (75N93024C00005) from the National Institutes of Health for a project entitled "Promoting T cell recovery after radiation injury with long-acting interleukin 7." Total funding will be $1,999,087.

Anna Mae Diehl of Gastroenterology has received a sub-award (1U01-CA288375-01) through the University of Texas - Southwestern for a project entitled "Therapeutic modulation of a proteomic HCC risk signature with statins in patients with liver cirrhosis." Total funding will be $101,270.

Kuo Du of Gastroenterology has received an award (1K01-DK135793-01A1) from the National Institutes of Health for a project entitled "Targeting Hepatocyte Senescence to Improve NAFLD." Total funding will be $720,235.

Katherine Garman of Gastroenterology has received an award (1R01-DK135169-01A1) from the National Institutes of Health for a project entitled "IMAGINE: Intestinal Metaplasia And Gastritis INtErception Study." Total funding will be $2,720,829.

Cynthia Moylan of Gastroenterology has received a sub-award (4UH3-CA265842-03) through the North Carolina State University for a project entitled "The Southeastern Liver Health Cohort Study." Total funding will be $592,000.

Ayako Suzuki of Gastroenterology has received a sub-award (1R01-DK134633-01A1) through the University of California - San Francisco for a project entitled "Nonalcoholic Fatty Liver Disease (NAFLD) in Polycystic Ovary Syndrome: The Role of Androgens on Visceral Fat, Lipid Metabolites, and Liver Injury in Young Women." Total funding will be $182,093.

Michael Pignone of General Internal Medicine has received a sub-award (173658 42919 SBIRT-0) through the University of Texas at Austin for a project entitled "Be Well Texas." Total funding will be $20,954.

James Wharam of General Internal Medicine has received a sub-award (PH1018A-Duke) through the Harvard Pilgrim Health Care, Inc. for a project entitled "Comparative effectiveness of anti-obesity medications for cardiometabolic health outcomes and health services use." Total funding will be $51,840.

Heather Whitson of Geriatrics has received a sub-award (1P01-CA269019-01A1) through the Cornell University for a project entitled "The Living Memory Home: Reducing Grief and Improving Relationships between Home-based Patients with ADRD and Their Family Caregivers." Total funding will be $80,695.

Thomas Ortel of Hematology has received a sub-award (1U2C-DK133491-01A1) through the University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill for a project entitled "U2C/TL1 NC KUH TRIO Administrative Core." Total funding will be $88,404.

Thomas Ortel of Hematology has received a sub-award (1U2C-DK133491-01A1) through the University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill for a project entitled "U2C/TL1 NC KUH TRIO Networking Development Core." Total funding will be $26,750.

Thomas Ortel of Hematology has received a sub-award (1U2C-DK133491-01A1) through the University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill for a project entitled "U2C/TL1 NC KUH TRIO Professional Development Core." Total funding will be $25,726.

Melissa Johnson of Infectious Diseases has received a sub-award (1U19-AI172713-01) through the The Lundquist Institute for a project entitled "Systems Biology for Infectious Diseases." Total funding will be $114,674.

Nathan Thielman of Infectious Diseases has received a sub-award (3D43TW009340-12S1) through the University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill for a project entitled "A Mixed Methods Analysis of a Novel mHealth Tympanometer Training Program." Total funding will be $22,596.

Christopher Cox of Pulmonary has received an award (1UG3-HL168487-01A1) from the National Institutes of Health for a project entitled "1/2 Self-directed mobile adaptive coping skills intervention to improve psychological distress symptoms among cardiorespiratory failure survivors: the Blueprint RCT." Total funding will be $3,928,699.

Alexander Graham of Pulmonary has received an award from the International Society for Heart & Lung Transplantation for a project entitled "Evaluating PFT trends for the development of Baseline Lung Allograft Dysfunction after lung transplantation." Total funding will be $20,000.

David Murdoch of Pulmonary has received a sub-award (1R61-DA059918-01) through the University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill for a project entitled "Defining the impact of cannabinoids on the HIV reservoir in humanized mice." Total funding will be $137,544.

Industry Sponsored Clinical Trials

Daniel Friedman of Cardiology has received an award from Medtronic, Inc. for a project entitled "Fire-HFpEF." Total funding will be $562,851.

Marat Fudim of Cardiology has received an award from Novo Nordisk, Inc. for a project entitled "Hermes - HF." Total funding will be $812,041.

Christopher Granger of Cardiology has received an award from Alnylam Pharmaceuticals for a project entitled "KARDIA-3." Total funding will be $10,755,962.

John Harrison of Cardiology has received an award from Occlutech US LLC for a project entitled "Occluflex." Total funding will be $673,600.

Mitchell Krucoff of Cardiology has received an award from W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc. for a project entitled "MDEpiNet." Total funding will be $35,000.

Jonathan Piccini of Cardiology has received an award from American Heart Association for a project entitled "GWTG SOW 35." Total funding will be $1,558,658.

Jonathan Piccini of Cardiology has received an award from American Heart Association for a project entitled "GWTG SOW 36." Total funding will be $430,633.

Amreen Dinani of Gastroenterology has received an award from The Kinetix Group (TKG) for a project entitled "Generating Evidence to Assess the Optimal Application of NIS2+TM within Real-World Workflows Pro00112444." Total funding will be $140,000.

David Leiman of Gastroenterology has received an award from Regeneron Pharmaceuticals, Inc. for a project entitled "Pro00113649_R668-EGE-2213: A PHASE 2/3, RANDOMIZED, 3-PART STUDY TO INVESTIGATE THE EFFICACY AND SAFETY OF DUPILUMAB IN ADULT AND ADOLESCENT PATIENTS WITH EOSINOPHILIC GASTRITIS WITH OR WITHOUT EOSINOPHILIC DUODENITIS." Total funding will be $154,814.

Jeffrey Clarke of Oncology has received an award from AbelZeta Inc. for a project entitled "C-TIL051 in Anti-PD1 Resistant Metastatic Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer." Total funding will be $1,649,044.

Nicholas DeVito of Oncology has received an award from Astellas Pharma Global Development, Inc for a project entitled "A Phase 1/1b Study of ASP2138 in Participants with Metastatic or Locally Advanced Unresectable Gastric or Gastroesophageal Junction (GEJ) Adenocarcinoma or Metastatic Pancreatic Adenocarcinoma Whose Tumors Have Claudin (CLDN) 18.2 Expression." Total funding will be $397,153.

Niharika Mettu of Oncology has received an award from Seagen, Inc for a project entitled "A Study of Disitamab Vedotin in Previously Treated Solid Tumors That Express HER2." Total funding will be $422,439.

Elias Pratt of Pulmonary has received an award from Sedana Medical AB for a project entitled "SEDANA INSPiRE-ICU2 A Phase 3, Multicenter, Randomized, Controlled, Open-Label, Assessor-Blinded Study to Evaluate the Efficacy and Safety of Inhaled Isoflurane Delivered via the Sedaconda ACD-S Compared to Intravenous Propofol for Sedation.." Total funding will be $153,805.

Aparna Swaminathan of Pulmonary has received an award from Clinetic, Inc for a project entitled "Clinetic Retrospective Registry Study (PI Initiated)." Total funding will be $20,850.

 

 

 

 

 

 

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