New Funding Awards May 2023

Sponsored Research

Fawaz Abdulaziz M Alenezi of Cardiology has received an award from the American Heart Association for a project entitled "Pulmonary Structure and Function with Hyperpolarized 129Xe Magnetic Resonance Imaging in Patients with Pulmonary Hypertension." Total funding will be $230,120.

John Alexander of Cardiology has received an award from the Food and Drug Administration for a project entitled "Increasing the Quality and Efficiency of Clinical Trials (U18)." Total funding will be $336,675.

William Jones of Cardiology has received a sub-award through the Yale University for a project entitled "A TriaL ComparIng the EffectiVEness and ToleraBility of MEdicaTions in Older Adults with STablE Angina and Multiple ChRonic Conditions: The LIVE BETTER Trial." Total funding will be $503,797.

Trisha Dalapati (Mentor: Christopher Kontos) of Cardiology has received an award from the Triangle Community Foundation for a project entitled "Gertrude B. Elion Mentored Medical Student Award." Total funding will be $10,000.

Robert Mentz of Cardiology has received a sub-award through the Wake Forest University Health Sciences for a project entitled "Physical Rehabilitation for Older Patients with Acute HFpEF-The REHAB-HFpEF Trial - Trial Administration." Total funding will be $131,756.

Kristin Newby of Cardiology has received a sub-award through the Duke Clinical Research Institute for a project entitled "Biorepository PREVENTABLE:Site budget." Total funding TBD.

Svati Shah of Cardiology has received a sub-award through the National Institutes of Health for a project entitled "HeartShare." Total funding will be $21,753.

Christopher Beyrer of Infectious Diseases has received a sub-award through the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center for a project entitled "HVTN Scientific Liaison." Total funding will be $31,914.

Thuy Le of Infectious Diseases has received an award from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases for a project entitled "Development, Clinical Validation, and Readiness for Implementation of a Novel Mp1p D4 Point of Care Test for Rapid Diagnosis of Talaromycosis." Total funding will be $3,190,508.

Mehri McKellar of Infectious Diseases has received a sub-award through the University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill for a project entitled "Phase I therapeutic testing of viral-vectored vaccines that shift CD8+ T cell immunodominance to conserved regions of HIV-1- The CM Study." Total funding will be $175,184.

Laurie Snyder of Pulmonary has received an award from the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation for a project entitled "Gliptin use and impact on chronic lung allograft rejection." Total funding will be $166,986.

Laurie Snyder of Pulmonary has received a sub-award through the University of Pennsylvania for a project entitled "Defining optimal tacrolimus dosing and concentrations in the early post-lung transplant period based on short- and long-term clinical impacts." Total funding will be $95,008.

Industry Sponsored Clinical Trials

John Alexander of Cardiology has received an award from Bayer Healthcare Pharmaceuticals Inc for a project entitled "OCEANIC Site Budget." Total funding will be $309,396.

Daniel Friedman of Cardiology has received an award from Boston Scientific Corporation for a project entitled "Left Bundle Branch Lead Device." Total funding will be $1,677,267.

Daniel Friedman of Cardiology has received an award from XSPLINE SPA for a project entitled "CRT-DRIVE." Total funding will be $261,668.

Kishan Parikh of Cardiology has received an award from Lung Biotechnology for a project entitled "ARTISAN (REM-PH-418) A Phase 4, Prospective, Multicenter, Single-Arm Study of a Mean Pulmonary Artery Pressure-Targeted Approach with Early and Rapid Treprostinil Therapy to Reverse Right Ventricular Remodeling." Total funding will be $155,988.

Sudarshan Rajagopal of Cardiology has received an award from Actelion Pharmaceutical US, Inc for a project entitled "EPIPHANY Effects of Combination Medical Therapy Followed by Balloon Pulmonary Angioplasty on Right Ventricular-PA Coupling and Hemodynamics in Chronic Thromboembolic Pulmonary Hypertension (The EPIPHANY Study)." Total funding will be $154,303.

Nishant Shah of Cardiology has received an award from Amgen, Inc. for a project entitled "A Double-blind, Randomized, Placebo-controlled, Multicenter Study Assessing the Impact of Olpasiran on Major Cardiovascular Events in Patients with Atherosclerotic Cardiovascular Disease and Elevated Lipoprotein(a) OCEAN(a)-Outcomes- Olpasiran trials." Total funding will be $600,261.

Lindsay Rein of Cell Therapy has received an award from Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corporation for a project entitled "A Phase II multicenter, open-label, single-arm dose escalation study of Asciminib monotherapy in 2nd Line Chronic Phase ? Chronic Myelogenous Leukemia (ASC2ESCALATE)." Total funding will be $511,880.

Hiba Abouassi of Endocrinology has received an award from Novo Nordisk, Inc. for a project entitled "REDEFINE NN9838-4942." Total funding will be $716,892.

Guofang Zhang of Endocrinology has received a sub-award through Gateway Biotechnology, Inc. for a project entitled "Developing a clinical diagnostic tool for age-related cochlear synaptopathy." Total funding will be $86,489.

Anna Mae Diehl of Gastroenterology has received an award from Tune Therapeutics for a project entitled "Tune Therapeutics Biobank." Total funding will be $138,388.

Cynthia Moylan of Gastroenterology has received an award from GlaxoSmithKline for a project entitled "A Double-Blind, Placebo-Controlled Phase 2b Study to Evaluate the Efficacy and Safety of GSK4532990 in Adults with pre-cirrhotic Non-Alcoholic Steatohepatitis (NASH)." Total funding will be $159,431.

Chris Woods of Infectious Diseases has received a sub-award through Owlstone Medical Ltd for a project entitled "EXHALE: Early Detection of Human Infection using VOCs on Breath." Total funding will be $503,548.

Jeffrey Clarke of Oncology has received an award from TCR2 Therapeutics Inc. for a project entitled "A Phase 1/2 Single Arm Open-Label Clinical Trial of Gavocabtagene Autoleucel (Gavo-cel) in Patients with Advanced Mesothelin-Expressing Cancer." Total funding will be $1,351,907.

Jeffrey Crawford of Oncology has received an award from Pfizer, Inc. for a project entitled "A PHASE 2, RANDOMIZED, DOUBLE-BLIND, PLACEBO-CONTROLLED STUDY THE THE EFFICACY, SAFETY AND TOLERABILITY OF PONSEGROMAB Pfizer C3651003." Total funding will be $260,000.

Niharika Mettu of Oncology has received an award from Actuate Therapeutics for a project entitled "9-ING-41 With or Without Chemotherapy in Pancreatic Cancer (Actuate 1801)." Total funding will be $538,782.

Jordan Whitson of Pulmonary has received an award from Aerovate Therapeutics, Inc for a project entitled "AEROVATE IMPAHCT FUL AV-101-003 IMPAHCT-FUL: A Long-Term Extension, Multi-Center Safety Study of AV-101 in Subjects With Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension (PAH) Who Have Completed Study AV-101-002." Total funding will be $145,172.

 

 

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