Congratulations to the following faculty members for receiving these sponsored research awards:
Sponsored Research
Gerald Bloomfield of Cardiology has received an award from the American Heart Association for a project entitled "2025 International Visiting Professorship Award." Total funding will be $10,000.
Stephen Greene of Cardiology has received an award from the University of Texas-Southwestern for a project entitled "Post-Hoc Analysis of the TRANSFORM Trial." Total funding will be $38,000.
Katherine I. Zhou (Mentor: Christopher Holley) of Cardiology has received an award (1F32-CA306190-01) from the National Institutes of Health for a project entitled "Mechanisms of the small nucleolar RNA Snord67 in breast cancer lymphatic metastasis." Total funding will be $87,964.
William Jones of Cardiology has received a sub-award (RI-VUMC-01-PS10) through the Vanderbilt University for a project entitled "Phase 4 Coordinating Center Services PFA: Engagement and Public Awareness Services." Total funding will be $1,899,999.
Neha Pagidipati of Cardiology has received an award (1UG3-HL181434-01) from the National Institutes of Health for a project entitled "1/2 PREEMPT: Prospective RandomizEd Evaluation and Management of Premature aTherosclerosis." Total funding will be $3,886,403.
Sudarshan Rajagopal of Cardiology has received a sub-award () through the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus for a project entitled "Targeting the PAR1/IL-17 signaling axis in Chronic Thromboembolic Pulmonary Hypertension." Total funding will be $217,381.
Jennifer Rymer of Cardiology has received a sub-award (1-UG3HL171357-01A1) through the DCRI-Duke-Site for a project entitled "Low dose ColchicinE in pAtients with peripheral artery DiseasE to address residual vascular Risk: A randomized trial." Total funding will be $1.
Stefanie Sarantopoulos of Cell Therapy has received an award (1R21-CA302979-01) from the National Institutes of Health for a project entitled "Harnessing B Cells after Stem Cell Transplant to Produce Novel CAR-Ts." Total funding will be $415,257.
Deborah Muoio of Endocrinology has received an award (7R01-HL128349) from the National Institutes of Health for a project entitled "Probing the Role of Mitochondrial Short-chain Carbon Homeostasis in the Hypertrophied and Failing Heart." Total funding will be $150,160.
Anna Mae Diehl of Gastroenterology has received an award (2R01-AA010154-29A1) from the National Institutes of Health for a project entitled "TNF alpha and Recovery from Alcoholic Liver Injury." Total funding will be $2,880,153.
Juliessa Pavon of Geriatrics has received a sub-award (1R01-AG090487-01) through the Ohio State University for a project entitled "Leveraging the EHR to Promote Age-Friendly Care in Hospitals (LEAF)." Total funding will be $78,618.
Grace Lee of Hematology has received an award (1R21-AI182883-01A1) from the National Institutes of Health for a project entitled "Modulation of Neutrophil Function by Red Cell Exchange in SCD Patients." Total funding will be $444,125.
James White of Hematology has received an award (1R56-AG084610-01) from the National Institutes of Health for a project entitled "Glutamine-driven ""bidirectional"" metabolism regulates muscle stem cell function." Total funding will be $402,500.
Mehri McKellar of Infectious Diseases has received a sub-award (X07HA00051) through the NC Dept of Health and Human Services for a project entitled "NCDHHS RFA # A-379 -Region 7 Ryan White Part B Network of Care." Total funding will be $211,862.
Aparna Swaminathan of Pulmonary has received a sub-award (R1-VUMC-01-PS9) through the Vanderbilt University Medical Center for a project entitled "PCORNet STAR CRN Phase 4." Total funding will be $1,068,248.
Virginia Kraus of Rheumatology has received an award (HT9425-25-1-0751-AT240016) from the Department of Defense for a project entitled "Proteomic Biomarkers Predicting Osteoarthritis Onset and Progression." Total funding will be $1,496,852.
David Leverenz of Rheumatology has received an award from the Arthritis Foundation for a project entitled "Arthritis Foundation Clinical Rheumatology Fellowship - Duke Adult Rheumatology." Total funding will be $150,000.
Rebecca Sadun of Rheumatology has received an award from the Lupus Foundation of America for a project entitled "Validation of a Pediatric DOSE Survey to Assess Medication Adherence." Total funding will be $45,000.
Industry Sponsored Clinical Trials
Richa Agarwal of Cardiology has received an award from Abbott Laboratories for a project entitled "FY26 - Advanced Heart Failure and Transplant Cardiology fellowship grant." Total funding will be $40,000.
Richa Agarwal of Cardiology has received an award from Abiomed, Inc. for a project entitled "Advanced Heart Failure and Transplant Cardology fellowship grant." Total funding will be $40,000.
Anna Lisa Chamis of Cardiology has received an award from Abbott Laboratories for a project entitled "FY26 - Advanced Training in Cardiology Fellowship Grant." Total funding will be $75,000.
Anna Lisa Chamis of Cardiology has received an award from Medtronic, Inc. for a project entitled "FY26 - Advanced Training in Cardiology Fellowship Grant." Total funding will be $28,392.
Karen Flores Rosario of Cardiology has received an award from AskBio for a project entitled "A Phase 2, adaptive, double-blinded, placebo-controlled, randomized, multi-center trial to evaluate the efficacy, safety and tolerability of intracoronary infusion of AB-1002 in adult subjects with New York Heart Association (NYHA) Class III." Total funding will be $462,509.
Marat Fudim of Cardiology has received an award from Reprieve Cardiovascular, Inc. for a project entitled "Fluid management of Acute decompensated heart failure Subjects Treated with Reprieve System II." Total funding will be $317,244.
Marat Fudim of Cardiology has received an award from Novo Nordisk, Inc. for a project entitled "RESPIRE HFpEF." Total funding will be $9,750.
Christopher Granger of Cardiology has received an award from Amgen, Inc. for a project entitled "MarTide DMC." Total funding will be $75,400.
Donald Hegland of Cardiology has received an award from Abbott Laboratories for a project entitled "FY26 - Clinical Cardiac Electrophysiology Fellowship Grant." Total funding will be $25,000.
Kevin Jackson of Cardiology has received an award from Medtronic, Inc. for a project entitled "PULSED AF Post-Approval Study, an Addendum to the PulseSelect� PFA Global Registry." Total funding will be $216,377.
William Jones of Cardiology has received an award from Medtronic, Inc. for a project entitled "FY26 - Interventional Cardiology Fellowship Grant." Total funding will be $7,000.
Harry Erba of Cell Therapy has received an award from Daiichi Sankyo Inc for a project entitled "A PHASE 3, DOUBLE-BLIND, RANDOMIZED, PLACEBO-CONTROLLED TRIAL OF QUIZARTINIB ADMINISTERED IN COMBINATION WITH INDUCTION AND CONSOLIDATION CHEMOTHERAPY AND ADMINISTERED AS MAINTENANCE THERAPY IN ADULT PATIENTS WITH NEWLY DIAGNOSED FLT3-ITD NEGATIVE AC." Total funding will be $1,451,916.
Yubin Kang of Cell Therapy has received an award from Janssen Research & Development, LLC for a project entitled "A Phase 3 Randomized Study Comparing Talquetamab in Combination with Pomalidomide (Tal-P), Talquetamab in Combination with Teclistamab (Tal-Tec), and Investigator?s Choice of Either Elotuzumab, Pomalidomide, and Dexamethasone (EPd) or Pomalidomide, B." Total funding will be $551,239.
Thomas Leblanc of Cell Therapy has received an award from Incyte Corporation for a project entitled "realMIND: A multicenter, observational study to characterize the safety and effectiveness of tafasitamab in combination with lenalidomide in US patients with relapsed or refractory diffuse large B-cell lymphoma with a focus on racial and ethnic minor." Total funding will be $84,815.
Lindsay Rein of Cell Therapy has received an award from Disc Medicine Inc. for a project entitled "A Phase 2a, Open-Label Study of the Safety, Tolerability, Pharmacokinetics, Pharmacodynamics, and Efficacy of DISC-3405 in Participants with Polycythemia Vera (PV." Total funding will be $760,684.
Cameron Wolfe of Infectious Diseases has received an award from Pfizer, Inc. for a project entitled "An Interventional Efficacy and Safety, Phase 3, Randomized, Double-Blind, 3-Arm Study to Investigate Ibuzatrelvir in Adults with Symptomatic COVID-19 who are Severely Immunocompromised." Total funding will be $254,728.
John Middleton of Nephrology has received a sub-award () through DCRI-Duke-Site for a project entitled "IRIS-CKD Implementation pRogram to Improve Screening and management for CKD in diabetes." Total funding will be $16,407.
Carey Anders of Oncology has received an award from BicycleTx Limited for a project entitled "Phase 2 Study of Zelenectide Pevedotin in Participants with NECTIN4 Amplified Advanced Breast Cancer." Total funding will be $920,874.
Jeffrey Clarke of Oncology has received an award from Corbus Pharmaceuticals, Inc. for a project entitled "A Phase 1/2 Study to Investigate the Safety, Pharmacokinetics and Efficacy of CRB-601, a Monoclonal Antibody against Integrin ?v?8, in Patients with Advanced Solid Tumors." Total funding will be $304,647.
Michael Morse of Oncology has received an award from Servier Bio-Innovation, LLC for a project entitled "A Phase 1b/2, Safety Lead-in and Dose-Expansion, Open label, Multicenter Trial Investigating the Safety, Tolerability, and Preliminary Activity of Ivosidenib in Combination with Durvalumab and Gemcitabine/Cisplatin as First-line Therapy in Participan." Total funding will be $336,430.
Neal Ready of Oncology has received an award from Pfizer, Inc. for a project entitled "Master Protocol for Encorafenib/Binimetinib Continuation Sub-Studies (FLOTILLA Study, C4221026); Encorafenib and Binimetinib Continuation Sub-Study for Participants From the C4221008 (ARRAY-818-202; PHAROS) Study (C4221008C)." Total funding will be $78,854.
Ivan Spasojevic of Oncology has received an award from BioMimetix JV LLC for a project entitled "Sponsored Research Agreement (Core Laboratory)." Total funding will be $13,837.
Aparna Swaminathan of Pulmonary has received an award from GB002, Inc. for a project entitled """SERANATA"" Study." Total funding will be $1,224,390.
Megan Clowse of Rheumatology has received an award from UCB Biopharma for a project entitled "A multicenter, open-label, prospective study to assess the concentration of Bimekizumab in mature breast milk from mothers receiving treatment with Bimzelx." Total funding will be $70,413.