New Funding Awards March 2024

Sponsored Research

Pamela Douglas of Cardiology has received a sub-award (1R01-HL170877-01) through the Massachusetts General Hospital for a project entitled "Pericoronary adipose tissue density a novel CT-derived marker of local inflammation and coronary artery disease in patients living with HIV." Total funding will be $20,317.

Lauren E. Parker (Mentor: Ravi Karra) of Cardiology has received an award from the American Heart Association for a project entitled "Cardiac organoids to model myovascular interactions (Parker, Lauren)." Total funding will be $67,388.

Robert Mentz of Cardiology has received a sub-award (R01-HL144529-05) through the Mayo Clinic - Rochester for a project entitled "Development and Validation of Advanced Heart Failure Computable Phenotypes." Total funding will be $97,117.

Naama Reicher (Mentor: Diego Bohorquez) of Gastroenterology has received an award (1F32-DK139628-01) from the National Institutes of Health for a project entitled "Bitter chemosensation from gut to brain." Total funding will be $225,648.

Matthew Kappus of Gastroenterology has received a sub-award (2R01-AG059183-06) through the University of California - San Francisco for a project entitled "The spectrum of cognitive impairment including Alzheimer's Disease and Related Dementias after liver transplantation: from the Multi-Center Functional Assessment in Liver Transplantation (FrAILT) Study." Total funding will be $120,555.

Matthew Kappus of Gastroenterology has received a sub-award (1R01-DK133527-01A1) through the University of California - San Francisco for a project entitled "Investigating the role of frailty on outcomes in acutely ill patients with cirrhosis undergoing liver transplantation in the acute care setting." Total funding will be $51,006.

Laura Rupprecht of Gastroenterology has received an award (1K01-DK138286-01) from the National Institutes of Health for a project entitled "Gut epithelial control of nutrient reward." Total funding will be $659,370.

Kara Wegermann of Gastroenterology has received an award from the American College of Gastroenterology for a project entitled "Lipid Metabolite Profiles and Cardiovascular Events in Persons with HIV (PWH) who have Metabolic Dysfunction-Associated Steatotic Liver Disease (MASLD)." Total funding will be $435,888.

Christopher Bowling of Geriatrics has received a sub-award (R35-HL155466-03) through the University of Alabama at Birmingham for a project entitled "Cardiorenal Genomics for Risk Prediction in African American Descent Populations." Total funding will be $69,005.

Deng Madut of Infectious Diseases has received an award (1K08-AI182480-01) from the National Institutes of Health for a project entitled "Transmission dynamics and epidemiology of Rift Valley fever virus in northern Tanzania." Total funding will be $803,509.

Sarah Nystrom of Nephrology has received an award (1K08-DK136924-01A1) from the National Institutes of Health for a project entitled "Identification of Host-Specific Determinants of APOL1-associated COVAN." Total funding will be $766,530.

Opeyemi Olabisi of Nephrology has received a sub-award () through the Regents of the University of Michigan for a project entitled "Alport Syndrome Natural History Ancillary Study." Total funding will be $15,753.

Susan Dent of Oncology has received an award from the Massachusetts General Hospital for a project entitled "AbatacepT foR ImmUne checkpoint inhibitor associated Myocarditis (ATRIUM)." Total funding will be $89,559.

Jameel Muzaffar of Oncology has received an award from the Bristol-Myers Squibb Foundation for a project entitled "Time restricted eating to improve immunotherapy outcomes in African American patients with Head and Neck cancer.." Total funding will be $240,000.

Christopher Cox of Pulmonary has received a sub-award (5-UM1AI104681-11) through the DCRI-Duke-Site for a project entitled "Pneumonia Direct Pilot (PDP)." Total funding will be $1.

Neil MacIntyre of Pulmonary has received a sub-award (75N92023D00011) through the National Jewish Health for a project entitled "Genetic Epidemiology of COPD (COPDGene) - Fixed Price." Total funding will be $3,282.

Industry Sponsored Clinical Trials

Adrian Hernandez of Cardiology has received an award from Verve Therapeutics, Inc. for a project entitled "Precision Health Alliance Membership." Total funding will be $50,000.

William Jones of Cardiology has received an award from Bayer HealthCare Pharmaceuticals, Inc for a project entitled "Bayer OCEANIC CEC Stroke SOW." Total funding will be $830,838.

Sudarshan Rajagopal of Cardiology has received an award from Acceleron Pharma for a project entitled "CADANCE - A Phase 2 Study of Sotatercept for Cpc-PH Treatment." Total funding will be $463,244.

Nishant Shah of Cardiology has received an award from Merck Sharp & Dohme LLC. for a project entitled "MK-0616." Total funding will be $1,249,120.

Matthew McKinney of Cell Therapy has received an award from Schrodinger, Inc. for a project entitled "A PHASE 1, OPEN-LABEL, MULTICENTER, DOSE ESCALATION STUDY OF SGR-1505 AS MONOTHERAPY IN SUBJECTS WITH MATURE B-CELL MALIGNANCIES." Total funding will be $258,940.

Lindsay Rein of Cell Therapy has received an award from Silence Therapeutics PLC for a project entitled "Phase 1/2 study with an open-label dose escalation phase followed by a randomized, double-blind phase of SLN124 in patients with Polycythemia Vera." Total funding will be $342,753.

David Leiman of Gastroenterology has received an award from TARGET PharmaSolutions, Inc. for a project entitled "TARGET-GASTRO - GI-02 Pro00114153 Longitudinal, observational, non-interventional study of FDA-approved medications and other therapies used in usual clinical practice.." Total funding will be $2,071,014.

Nicholas Turner of Infectious Diseases has received an award from Professional Disposables International, Inc. (PDI) for a project entitled "Impact of Tru-D Smart UVC Products." Total funding will be $75,000.

Myles Wolf of Nephrology has received an award from CSL Behring LLC for a project entitled "POSIBIL6 - Phase III." Total funding will be $42,607,822.

John Strickler of Oncology has received an award from Revolution Medicines, Inc for a project entitled "Study drug RMC-9805 for patients with KRAS G12D solid tumors (RMC-9805-001)." Total funding will be $890,598.

John Strickler of Oncology has received a sub-award () through Mayo Clinic - Rochester for a project entitled "3T: A Phase II Single Arm Open Label Study of Tucatinib Combined with Trastuzumab and TAS-102 in Molecularly Selected Patients with HER2+ Metastatic Colorectal Cancer." Total funding will be $249,195.

Yuh Chin Huang of Pulmonary has received an award from Genentech, Inc. for a project entitled "ARNASA Study -A PHASE III, RANDOMIZED, DOUBLE-BLIND, PLACEBO-CONTROLLED, MULTICENTER STUDY TO EVALUATE THE EFFICACY AND SAFETY OF ASTEGOLIMAB IN PATIENTS WITH CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE PULMONARY DISEASE." Total funding will be $310,197.

Jamie Todd of Pulmonary has received an award from Sanofi US for a project entitled "EFC17801_9085-0205 SANOFI Pro00113681." Total funding will be $291,322.
 

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