New Funding Awards November 2022

Sponsored Research

Larry Jackson of Cardiology has received an award from the American Heart Association for a project entitled "Shared Decision-Making to Reduce Racial Disparities in Oral Anticoagulation Use in Patients with Non-Valvular Atrial Fibrillation (CDA)." Total funding will be $77,000.

Deepak Voora of Cardiology has received a sub-award (1R56-HL155528-01A1) through the NYU Langone Medical Center for a project entitled "Molecular predictors of resistance and vulnerability to cardiovascular events in stable ischemic heart disease." Total funding will be $31,281.

Matthew Hirschey of Endocrinology has received an award (1R21-AG080334-01) from the National Institutes of Health for a project entitled "Studies on the impact of acetyl-cysteine on metabolism." Total funding will be $429,435.

Rowena Dolor of General Internal Medicine has received a sub-award () through the University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill for a project entitled "UNC/BCBS Healthy Food First pilot study." Total funding will be $18,427.

James Wharam of General Internal Medicine has received a sub-award (1R01-DA055131-) through the Harvard Pilgrim Health Care, Inc. for a project entitled "Impact of Medicare Part D opioid safety policies on disabled beneficiaries before and during the COVID-19 pandemic." Total funding will be $106,669.

Stacey Maskarinec of Infectious Diseases has received an award from the American Heart Association for a project entitled "Cardiac Device Infection in Microphysiological Vascular Models." Total funding will be $247,072.

Mehri McKellar of Infectious Diseases has received a sub-award () through the Wake County Human Services for a project entitled "Ryan White HIV Adult ID Services-Care Act Title II." Total funding will be $246,720.

Wendy Prudhomme - O'Meara of Infectious Diseases has received an award (1R03-AI173999-01) from the National Institutes of Health for a project entitled "Plasmodium vivax in a mobile population in northwestern Kenya." Total funding will be $125,000.

Jason Somarelli of Oncology has received an award (N00014-22-1-2829-S-B001) from the Office of Naval Research for a project entitled "Defining the molecular physiologic impacts of stress on beaked whale hypoxia tolerance: implications for behavioral response." Total funding will be $164,888.

Carrie Johnson of Pulmonary has received a sub-award (5UM1-AI104681-09) through the Duke University for a project entitled "Safety and Microbiiological Activity of a Single Dose of Bacteriophage Therapy in Cystic Fibrosis Subjects Colonized with Pseduomonas aeruginosa (PHAGE) ""Study"" Total funding to be determined.

Laurie Snyder of Pulmonary has received an award from the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation for a project entitled "Cystic Fibrosis Lung Transplant Consortium - Supplement." Total funding will be $81,166.

Industry Sponsored Clinical Trials

Renato Lopes of Cardiology has received an award from Roche Diagnostics for a project entitled "PERFORM- TSIX." Total funding will be $5,270,059.

Manesh Patel of Cardiology has received an award from Bayer AG for a project entitled "OCEANIC." Total funding will be $16,052,811.

Harry Erba of Cell Therapy has received an award from Agios Pharmaceuticals, Inc. for a project entitled "AG946-C-002." Total funding will be $701,260.

Cristina Gasparetto of Cell Therapy has received an award from Gilead Sciences, Inc. for a project entitled "A Phase 2 Multi-Arm Study of Magrolimab Combinations in Patients with Relapsed/Refractory Multiple Myeloma." Total funding will be $280,284.

Yubin Kang of Cell Therapy has received an award from Xilis, Inc. for a project entitled "A Precision Oncology Micro-Organosphere-Based Platform to Guide Multiple Myeloma Therapy." Total funding will be $200,000.

Jonathan Campbell of Endocrinology has received an award from Merck Sharp & Dohme for a project entitled "Leveraging glucagon activity to target hepatic steatosis, fibrosis, and inflammation." Total funding will be $732,644.

John Middleton of Nephrology has received an award from NephroNET, Inc for a project entitled "A Prospective, RanDomized, Multi-Center, Open-Label, Cross-Over Study of Sodium Zirconium Cyclosilicate to Control Interdialytic HyperkalemiA Following Augmentation of DialysatePotassium: Efficacy to Reduce the Incidence of Post-Dialysis Atrial Fib." Total funding will be $56,301.

Jeremy Force of Oncology has received a sub-award (1R44-CA261579-01A1) through Xilis, Inc. for a project entitled "Micro-Organospheres Drug Screen to Lead Care (MODEL) Platform to Guide Cancer Care." Total funding will be $83,287.

Daniel George of Oncology has received an award from Exelixis, Inc for a project entitled "Stellar-002: XL-092 +/- immunotherapy for genitourinary cancers." Total funding will be $4,211,167.

Niharika Mettu of Oncology has received an award from Leap Therapeutics, Inc. for a project entitled "Circulating DKK1 Levels: Biomarker Assay Development." Total funding will be $214,999.

Kevin Oeffinger of Oncology has received an award from GRAIL for a project entitled "PATHFINDER 2." Total funding will be $892,632.

John Strickler of Oncology has received an award from Leap Therapeutics, Inc. for a project entitled "[DEK-DKK1-P207] Randomized Phase 2 Study of DKN-01 Plus FOLFIRI/FOLFOX and Bevacizumab Versus FOLFIRI/FOLFOX and Bevacizumab as Second-line Treatment of Advanced Colorectal Cancer (DeFianCe)." Total funding will be $198,926.

Hope Uronis of Oncology has received an award from Arcus Biosciences for a project entitled "A Phase 2 Trial to Evaluate the Safety and Efficacy of Domvanalimab (AB154) and Zimberelimab (AB122) -Based Treatment Combinations in Patients with Advanced Upper Gastrointestinal Tract Malignancies." Total funding will be $576,994.

Hakim Ali of Pulmonary has received an award from aTyr Pharma, Inc. for a project entitled "ATYR1923-C-004." Total funding will be $310,542.

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