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"]Eric L. Eisenstein of Cardiology has received a sub-award (1UH2-AT007784-01) through the University of Iowa for a project entitled "Nighttime PCT Online Consent Study Informed Consent Usability Focus Groups." Total funding will be $28,075.
Christopher Granger of Cardiology has received an award from the Medtronic Foundation for a project entitled "Heart Rescue Flagship Premier Partner Program RACE CARs." Total funding will be $500,000.
William S. Jones of Cardiology has received an award from the American Heart Association for a project entitled "Variability, Medical Therapy, and Outcomes in Patients with Peripheral Artery Disease Who Undergo Lower Extremity Endovascular Revascularization Procedures." Total funding will be $304,266.
Daniel B. Mark of Cardiology has received an award (2T32-HL069749-11A1) from the National Institutes of Health for a project entitled "Postdoctoral Training in Cardiovascular Clinical Research." Total funding will be $2,148,045.
Jonathan P. Piccini of Cardiology has received an award from the ResMed Foundation for a project entitled "CAT-HF: Arrhythmias Costs." Total funding will be $156,000.
Diego Bohorquez (Mentor: Rodger A. Liddle) of Gastroenterology has received an award from the Grass Foundation for a project entitled "Grass Fellowship at MBL." Total funding will be $2,200.
Soko Setoguchi-Iwata of General Internal Medicine has received an award (1R21-AG044294-01A) from the National Institutes of Health for a project entitled "Heat Waves, Medication Use, and Adverse Health Outcomes Among Older Adults." Total funding will be $431,750.
Virginia Wang of General Internal Medicine has received an award (1R01-DK097165-01A1) from the National Institutes of Health for a project entitled "Cascading Impacts of Bundled Payment on Peritoneal Dialysis Provision & Outcomes." Total funding will be $1,811,162.
Vance G. Fowler Jr. of Infectious Diseases has received an award (HHSN272200900023C) from the National Institutes of Health for a project entitled "Modification No. 7 - Staphylococcal Bacteremia Study." Total funding will be $458,627.
Susanna Naggie of Infectious Diseases has received an award from the Infectious Diseases Society of America for a project entitled "IDSA HCV Knowledge Network Webinar Series." Total funding will be $10,000.
Jason E. Stout of Infectious Diseases has received a sub-award (5U52PS416676) through the NC Department of Health and Human Services for a project entitled "Epidemiology/General Communicable Disease Control." Total funding will be $98,064.
Andrew Armstrong of Medical Oncology has received an award from the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center for a project entitled "TAX 3503, A prospective registry -A Randomized, Open label, Muiticenter, Phase III, 2 Arm Study of Androgen Deprivation with Leuprilode +/- Docetaxel for Clinically Asymptomatic Prostate Cancer Subjects with a Rising PSA Following D. local therapy." Total funding will be $17,200.
Kimberly L. Blackwell of Medical Oncology has received an award through Washington University for a project entitled "A Phase II Study of Neratinib in Metastatic HER2 Non-amplified by HER2 Mutant Breast Cancer." Total funding will be $34,000.
Victoria L. Seewaldt of Medical Oncology has received an award from the Avon Foundation for a project entitled "Connected care: Navigating underserved women to resourced screening." Total funding will be $100,000.
Monica Kraft of Pulmonary, Allergy, and Critical Care Medicine has received a sub-award (7P01-HL108793-02) through the Cedars Sinai Medical Center for a project entitled "Human Sample Core." Total funding will be $336,294.
Monica Kraft of Pulmonary, Allergy, and Critical Care Medicine has received a sub-award (7P01-HL108793-02) through the Cedars Sinai Medical Center for a project entitled "Project 3." Total funding will be $373,660.
Lisa G. Criscione-Schreiber of Rheumatology and Immunology has received an award from the Rheumatology Research Foundation for a project entitled "RRF Amgen Fellowship Training Award FY 2015." Total funding will be $25,000.[/tab][tab title="Industry-sponsored clinical trials"]Raymond J. Kim of Cardiology has received an award from Bayer Healthcare Pharmaceuticals Inc for a project entitled "Parsifal Pilot Trial - CMR Core Lab." Total funding will be $89,216.
Jason Koontz of Cardiology has received an award from Medtronic, Inc. for a project entitled "Miracle-EF." Total funding will be $177,678.
William E. Kraus of Cardiology has received an award from GlaxoSmithKline for a project entitled "A Pilot Study in Healthy Male Volunteers to Evaluate a Skeletal-muscle Microbiopsy Technique." Total funding will be $423,802.
Robert J. Noveck of Cardiology has received an award from Cardioxyl Pharmaceuticals for a project entitled "Safety of Continuous Infusion of CXL-XXX." Total funding will be $1,231,911.
Kevin Thomas of Cardiology has received an award from Boston Scientific Corporation for a project entitled "Race and gender variation in the QRS duration among heart failure patients." Total funding will be $29,987.
Andrew J. Muir of Gastroenterology has received an award from Gen-Probe, Inc. for a project entitled "APTIMA Hepatitis C Quant Assay." Total funding will be $2,688,989.
Keyur Patel of Gastroenterology has received an award from Tacere Therapeutics for a project entitled "First-in-human (FIH) Safety and Dose Ranging Study of TT-034 in Patients with Chronic Hepatitis C (CHC) Infection." Total funding will be $492,531.
Connie Bales of Geriatrics has received an award from the National Pork Board for a project entitled "A High-Protein Weight Loss Treatment for Sarcopenic Obesity." Total funding will be $278,459.
Gwynn D. Long of Hematological Malignancies and Cellular Therapy has received an award from Chimerix, Inc. for a project entitled "A Randomized, Dbl-Blind, Placebo-Controlled, Parallel-Grp, Multictr, Ph 3 Study-Safety, Tolerability, and Efficacy of CMX001 for the Prevention of Cytomegalovirus (CMV) Infection in CMV-seropositive (R+) Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplant Recipients." Total funding will be $318,893.
Chris Woods of Infectious Diseases has received an award from Roche Molecular Systems for a project entitled "COB-MRSA-279." Total funding will be $197,669.
Jeffrey Crawford of Medical Oncology has received an award from AstraZeneca Pharmaceuticals, LP for a project entitled "A phase III, double-blind, randomized, placebo-controlled study to assess the efficacy and safety of selumetinib (AZD624; ARRY-142886) Hyd-Sulfate) in combination with Docetaxel, in patients receiving second line treatment for KRAS Mutation-Positive." Total funding will be $289,123.
Stephanie Gaillard of Medical Oncology has received an award from TetraLogic Pharmaceuticals for a project entitled "A Phase 1b, Open-label, Non-randomized Multicenter Study of Birinapant in Combination with Conatumumab in Subjects with Relapsed Epithelial Ovarian Cancer, Primary Peritoneal Cancer or Fallopian Tube Cancer." Total funding will be $660,448.
Herbert I. Hurwitz of Medical Oncology has received an award from Pfizer, Inc. for a project entitled "A phase Ib study of combination Regorafenib with PF-03446962 in patient with refactory metastatic colorectal cancer or GIST." Total funding will be $456,784.
Michael A. Morse of Medical Oncology has received an award from AlphaVax, Inc. for a project entitled "Immune Analysis of AVX901 study samples." Total funding will be $21,638.
Andrew B. Nixon of Medical Oncology has received an award from the Alliance for Clinical Trials in Oncology Foundation for a project entitled "Development of Predictive and Prognostic Blood-Based Biomarkers in Men with Castration-resistant Prostate Cancer from CALGB 90401." Total funding will be $454,003.
Fatima A. Rangwala of Medical Oncology has received an award from Onyx Pharmaceuticals, Inc for a project entitled "An Open label single arm phase I study of the pahramcokinetics and safety of Carfilzomib in subjects with advanced malignancies and varing degrees of hepatic impairment." Total funding will be $364,781.
Neal E. Ready of Medical Oncology has received an award from Stem CentRx, Inc. for a project entitled "Phase I/II open label dose escalation study of the safety, pharmacokinetics, and preliminary efficacy of SCI6D6.5 as a single agent in patients with recurrent small cell lung cancer." Total funding will be $112,220.
Gordana Vlahovic of Medical Oncology has received an award from The Bristol-Myers/Sanofi Pharmaceuticals, Inc. Partnership for a project entitled "A Randomized Phase IIB Open Label Study of Nivolumab in combination with Ipilimumab versus Bevacizumab in Adult Subjects with Recurrent Glioblastoma (GBM)." Total funding will be $147,919.
Shelby Reed of Other Medicine has received an award from ResMed Corp for a project entitled "CAT HF." Total funding will be $289,727.
Njira L. Lugogo of Pulmonary, Allergy, and Critical Care Medicine has received an award from AstraZeneca LP for a project entitled "A Multicentre, Randomized, Double-blind, Parallel Group, Placebo-controlled, Phase III Efficacy and Safety Study of Benralizumab (MEDI-563)." Total funding will be $233,572.[/tab]
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