New Funding Awards November 2023

Sponsored Research

Robert Lefkowitz of Cardiology has received an award from the St. Jude Children's Research Hospital for a project entitled "The GPCR Collaborative: Revealing the molecular determinants and fidelity of GPCR signaling in health and disease." Total funding will be $1,765,000.

Manesh Patel of Cardiology has received an award from the National Institutes of Health for a project entitled "Bruce Burnett - IPA (NIH)." Total funding will be $132,413.

Jun Chen of Cell Therapy has received a sub-award (5U19-AI067773-19) through the Columbia University for a project entitled "Promoting functional immune recovery with long-acting interleukin-7 after radiation injury." Total funding will be $161,000.

Cynthia Moylan of Gastroenterology has received a sub-award (W81XWH2010514) through the Mayo Clinic - Rochester for a project entitled "A multidisciplinary study of biological disparities in NASH progression and response to statins to inform personalized liver cancer chemoprevention in NAFLD." Total funding will be $50,789.

Ayako Suzuki of Gastroenterology has received an award from the Burroughs Wellcome Fund for a project entitled "An innovative approach using Real World data for the assessment of risk disparities and clinical risk factors of drug-associated acute liver injury." Total funding will be $500,000.

Jessica Ma of General Internal Medicine has received a sub-award (1K12-NS130673-01) through the Regents of the University of Michigan for a project entitled "Pain Management Decision Making in Advanced Kidney Disease." Total funding will be $201,655.

Nia Mitchell of General Internal Medicine has received an award (3R01-AG058725-05S1) from the National Institutes of Health for a project entitled "Supplement for Changes in Weight and Physical Function for Older African American Women in National, Peer-Led, Community-Based Weight Loss Program." Total funding will be $112,673.

Mehri McKellar of Infectious Diseases has received a sub-award (5U01-HL146194-05) through the University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill for a project entitled "MACS/WIHS Combined Cohort Study (MWCCS Clinic Screener)." Total funding will be $12,408.

Daniel George of Oncology has received a sub-award () through the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health for a project entitled "IRONMAN: ENHANCING SURVIVORSHIP IN MEN WITH ADVANCED PROSTATE CANCER." Total funding will be $65,513.

Andrew Nixon of Oncology has received an award (3U54-AG075936-03S1) from the National Institutes of Health for a project entitled "Bridging SenNet and HuBMAP through spatial omics of the human intestine." Total funding will be $200,000.

Laurie Snyder of Pulmonary has received a sub-award () through the Washington University in St. Louis for a project entitled "UWash CFF - Isolation of Pseudomonas aeruginosa from respiratory specimens after lung transplantation and the development of chronic lung allograft dysfunction." Total funding will be $7,261.

Industry Sponsored Clinical Trials

Daniel Friedman of Cardiology has received an award from Medtronic, Inc. for a project entitled "PR Interval Study." Total funding will be $88,225.

Marat Fudim of Cardiology has received an award from Procyrion, Inc. for a project entitled "Diuretics Alone vs. Aortix Endovascular Device for Acute Heart Failure." Total funding will be $336,971.

Marat Fudim of Cardiology has received an award from Cardiosense, Inc. for a project entitled "Hemodynamics Core Study." Total funding will be $163,044.

Marat Fudim of Cardiology has received an award from Foundry Innovation & Research 1, Ltd. (FIRE1) for a project entitled "Fire1." Total funding will be $128,703.

Adrian Hernandez of Cardiology has received an award from Merck Sharp & Dohme LLC. for a project entitled "CardioHealth Alliance Membership." Total funding will be $200,000.

Sean Pokorney of Cardiology has received an award from Medtronic, Inc. for a project entitled "ICD-in-HFmrEF Virtual Trial analyses." Total funding will be $469,638.

Andrew Wang of Cardiology has received an award from Cytokinetics, Inc. for a project entitled "MAPLE-HCM(CY6032)." Total funding will be $330,078.

Harry Erba of Cell Therapy has received an award from Oryzon Genomics SA for a project entitled "CL04-ORY-1001." Total funding will be $275,077.

Jonathan Campbell of Endocrinology has received an award from Alticor Global Holdings Inc for a project entitled "Alticor Research Project: Testing compounds derived from botanicals for activity at the GLP-1R in mouse islets." Total funding will be $110,000.

Grace Lee of Hematology has received an award from Gilero, LLC for a project entitled "Gilero." Total funding will be $15,124.

Vance Fowler of Infectious Diseases has received an award from MedImmune Limited for a project entitled "Evaluate pathogen characteristics and host specific characteristics in hemodialysis patients with Staphylococcus aureus bloodstream infections." Total funding will be $355,960.

Cameron Wolfe of Infectious Diseases has received an award from Moderna Therapeutics, Inc. for a project entitled "A Phase 3 Study to Evaluate the Immunogenicity and Safety of mRNA-1345, an mRNA Vaccine Targeting Respiratory Syncytial Virus, in High-risk Adults." Total funding will be $865,991.

Susan Dent of Oncology has received an award from GlaxoSmithKline for a project entitled "A Phase II Study of NirAparib, Dostarlimab and Radiotherapy in Metastatic, PD-L1 Negative or Immunotherapy-Refractory Triple-Negative Breast Cancer (NADiR) TBCRC-055 20-649." Total funding will be $151,410.

Susan Dent of Oncology has received a sub-award () through Johns Hopkins University for a project entitled "A Phase 2 Study of Stopping Trastuzumab - Outcomes in Patients with HER2+ Metastatic Breast Cancer." Total funding will be $1.

Juneko Grilley Olson of Oncology has received an award from Abbisko Therapeutics Co. LTD. for a project entitled "ABSK021-301." Total funding will be $310,372.

Christopher Hoimes of Oncology has received an award from Merck Sharp & Dohme for a project entitled "Merck U04B." Total funding will be $1,729,360.

Christopher Hoimes of Oncology has received an award from Xencor, Inc for a project entitled "Xencor: ENPP3 BiTe study for ccRCC." Total funding will be $378,116.

April Salama of Oncology has received an award from IDEAYA Biosciences for a project entitled "IDE196-002." Total funding will be $844,786.

April Salama of Oncology has received an award from IDEAYA Biosciences for a project entitled "(Neo)adjuvant IDE196 in patients with localized ocular melanoma [DAR-UM- 09] IDE196." Total funding will be $451,284.

John Strickler of Oncology has received an award from Roche TCRC, Inc for a project entitled "[BP44474] A phase I, open-label study to evaluate the safety, tolerability, pharmacokinetics, pharmacodynamics, and anti-tumor activity of RO7589831 in participants with advanced solid tumors harboring microsatellite instability (MSI) and/or deficien." Total funding will be $878,731.

Aparna Swaminathan of Pulmonary has received an award from Bristol-Myers Squibb Company for a project entitled "IM027-1015 BMS A Multicenter, Randomized, Double-blind, Placebo-controlled, Phase 3 Study to Evaluate the Efficacy, Safety, and Tolerability of BMS-986278 in Participants with Progressive Pulmonary Fibrosis." Total funding will be $331,796.

Aparna Swaminathan of Pulmonary has received an award from Bristol-Myers Squibb Company for a project entitled "BMS IM027-068 IPF A Multicenter, Randomized, Double-blind, Placebo-controlled, Phase 3 Study to Evaluate the Efficacy, Safety, and Tolerability of BMS-986278 in Participants with Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis." Total funding will be $322,633.

 

 

 

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