New Funding Awards September 2022

Sponsored Research

Adrian Hernandez of Cardiology has received an award (2U24-AT009676-06) from the National Institutes of Health for a project entitled "NIH Health Care Systems Research Collaboratory-Coordinating Center (U24 Clinical Trial Not Allowed)." Total funding will be $1,524,999.

William Jones of Cardiology has received a sub-award (PLACER-2020C3-2l005) through the Brigham and Women's Hospital for a project entitled "PREvention of CardIovascular and DiabEtic kidNey disease in Type 2 Diabetes." Total funding will be $1.

William Kraus of Cardiology has received an award (3R21-AG075379-01S1) from the National Institutes of Health for a project entitled "Exercise-induced Legacy Health Benefits on Cardiometabolic Risk Factors in Aging Adults with Prediabetes." Total funding will be $160,253.

Yongmei Liu of Cardiology has received an award (1R56-AG076622-01A1) from the National Institutes of Health for a project entitled "Trajectories of blood-based biomarkers of AD, their determinants, and ability to predict cognitive impairment." Total funding will be $818,883.

Yubin Kang of Cell Therapy has received an award (1R56-HL155582-01A1) from the National Institutes of Health for a project entitled "Thioredoxin, a novel agent for mitigating radiation-induced hematopoietic injury." Total funding will be $443,371.

Thomas Leblanc of Cell Therapy has received a sub-award (1-R01NR019782-01A1) through the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus for a project entitled "A mixed-methods study of the nature, extent and consequences of atificial intelligence (AI) for individualized treatment planning in end-of-life and palliative care (EOLPC)." Total funding will be $33,638.

Rana Gupta of Endocrinology has received an award (7R01-DK104789-08) from the National Institutes of Health for a project entitled "Establishment and Maintenance of Healthy Adipose Tissue in Obesity." Total funding will be $1,280,621.

Rana Gupta of Endocrinology has received an award (7R01-DK119163-05) from the National Institutes of Health for a project entitled "Multifaceted Roles for Pdgfrb+ Perivascular Cells in White Adipose Tissue Remodeling." Total funding will be $409,005.

Anna Mae Diehl of Gastroenterology has received an award (3U01-DK130177-02S1) from the National Institutes of Health for a project entitled "Prediction and Prevention of Hepatic Decompensation in Patients with Cirrhosis - Administrative Supplement - Fibroscan." Total funding will be $189,022.

Lori Orlando of General Internal Medicine has received an award (3U01-HG010231-05S1) from the National Institutes of Health for a project entitled "Building and Deploying a Genomic-Medicine Risk Assessment Model for Diverse Primary Care Populations.." Total funding will be $812,705.

Deverick Anderson of Infectious Diseases has received an award (75D30121D12733-D5-E003) from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention for a project entitled "RFTOP 2022 Domain 5-E003 Strategic Use of Race, Ethnicity, and Social Determinants of Health Data in National Healthcare Safety Network (NHSN) Measures to Promote Health Equity." Total funding will be $1,639,736.

Deverick Anderson of Infectious Diseases has received an award (75D30122C14939) from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention for a project entitled "Optimization of detection and monitoring of environmental fungal contamination to establish baseline contamination rates (BAA-75D301-22-R-72097 )." Total funding will be $388,782.

Christopher Beyrer of Infectious Diseases has received a sub-award (UM1-AI068619-) through the FHI 360 for a project entitled "HPTN 096 Leadership Award for Protocol Co-Chair - Year 16." Total funding will be $14,155.

Susanna Naggie of Infectious Diseases has received a sub-award () through the The Trustees of Indiana University for a project entitled "Ancillary Studies of NAFLD and NASH in HIV infected Adults." Total funding will be $180,000.

Megan Reller of Infectious Diseases has received a sub-award (W911QY-20-9-0004) through the Henry M. Jackson Foundation for a project entitled "Preparing for prospective cohort study of acute febrile illness and sepsis in Madagascar (Madagascar Research Site Implementation)." Total funding will be $288,552.

Gayani Tillekeratne of Infectious Diseases has received an award (1R01-AI168420-01) from the National Institutes of Health for a project entitled "A randomized controlled trial of a novel, evidence-based algorithm for managing lower respiratory tract infection in a resource-limited setting." Total funding will be $3,227,864.

Ting Yang of Nephrology has received an award (1R01-DK132619-01A1) from the National Institutes of Health for a project entitled "The role of kidney epithelial cells specific EP4 receptors in blood pressure control." Total funding will be $1,461,231.

Christopher Cox of Pulmonary has received a sub-award (5R01-AG066731-02) through the University of Pittsburgh for a project entitled "A Randomized Trial of Scalable, Interactive Tool to Support Surrogate Decision Makers of Elderly Critically Ill pAtients." Total funding will be $1.

Zachary Healy of Pulmonary has received an award (4R00-AI143927-03) from the National Institutes of Health for a project entitled "Characterization of CMV-specific T cell responses in immunocompromised hosts." Total funding will be $494,821.

Robert Tighe of Pulmonary has received an award (1R01-ES034350-01) from the National Institutes of Health for a project entitled "R01_Monocyte-derived alveolar macrophage drives inflammatory response to lung ozone exposure." Total funding will be $3,002,300.

Megan Clowse of Rheumatology has received an award (1R01-AR082673-01A1) from the National Institutes of Health for a project entitled "The HOP-STEP Intervention: Improving Maternal Health in Women with Lupus through Improved Pregnancy Prevention and Planning - R01 Resubmission." Total funding will be $2,137,460.

Kim Huffman of Rheumatology has received an award (3R21-AR076663-02S1) from the National Institutes of Health for a project entitled "Weight loss and exercise to improve rheumatoid arthritis cardiovascular risk." Total funding will be $147,312.

Ankoor Shah of Rheumatology has received a sub-award (3U19-AI110483-08S4) through the Emory University for a project entitled "ACE Covid 19 Admin. Supplement: Molecular Regulation of B cells and T cells in Human SLE - Cost Reimbursable." Total funding will be $1.

Industry Sponsored Clinical Trials

Raymond Kim of Cardiology has received an award from Valo Health, Inc for a project entitled "RESTORE Study: Core Lab." Total funding will be $804,557.

Jennifer Rymer of Cardiology has received an award from Chiesi USA, Inc for a project entitled "Cameo Registry Manuscript only." Total funding will be $58,070.

Nishant Shah of Cardiology has received an award from Amgen, Inc. for a project entitled "A Cross-sectional Study of Lipoprotein(a) Levels in Patients With Documented History of ASCVD." Total funding will be $59,050.

Yu-Ping Wang of Cardiology has received an award from Pfizer, Inc. for a project entitled "Duke/NCCU Diversirty." Total funding will be $238,737.

Harry Erba of Cell Therapy has received an award from Astex Pharmaceuticals, Inc for a project entitled "ASTX030-01." Total funding will be $599,882.

Harry Erba of Cell Therapy has received an award from Celgene Corporation for a project entitled "A Phase 1/2, Open-label, Multicenter Dose Escalation and Dose Expansion Study to Evaluate the Safety, Tolerability, and Preliminary Efficacy of CC-90011 in Combination with Venetoclax and Azacitidine in R/R Acute Myeloid Leukemia (AML) and Treatment." Total funding will be $7,501.

Cristina Gasparetto of Cell Therapy has received an award from AbbVie Inc. for a project entitled "First-in-Human Two-Part Study of the BCL-2 Inhibitor ABBV-453 in Biomarker-Selected Subjects with Relapsed or Refractory Multiple Myeloma." Total funding will be $292,276.

Yubin Kang of Cell Therapy has received an award from Takeda Development Center Americas, Inc for a project entitled "TAK-573-1501." Total funding will be $360,555.

James Davis of General Internal Medicine has received an award from Delfi Diagnostics, Inc. for a project entitled "CASCADE - Lung." Total funding will be $44,277.

Kenneth Lyles of Geriatrics has received an award from Bendcare, LLC for a project entitled "Clinical characteristics, including history of MI and stroke among US Post-Menopausal women initiating treatment with Romosozumab and other anti-osteoporosis therapies." Total funding will be $169,454.

Thomas Ortel of Hematology has received an award from Anthos Therapeutics, Inc for a project entitled "Anthos ANT-008." Total funding will be $164,842.

Jason Stout of Infectious Diseases has received an award from AN2 Therapeutics for a project entitled "MACrO2." Total funding will be $159,554.

Loretta Que of Pulmonary has received an award from AstraZeneca Pharmaceuticals, LP for a project entitled "OBERON - A Phase III, Multicentre, Randomised, Double-blind, Chronic-dosing, Parallel-group, Placebo-controlled Study to Evaluate the Efficacy and Safety of Two Dose Regimens of MEDI3506 in Participants with Symptomatic Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary." Total funding will be $335,464.

Momen Wahidi of Pulmonary has received an award from Veracyte, Inc. for a project entitled "NIGHTINGALE - CliNIcal Utility of ManaGement of Patients witH CT and LDCT Identified Pulmonary Nodules UsinG the Percepta NasAL Swab ClassifiEr (NIGHTINGALE) - Familiarization and Qualification Protocol." Total funding will be $88,461.

Jennifer Rogers of Rheumatology has received an award from Immunovant for a project entitled "IIS-The Relationship between Levels of Antinuclear Antibodies and Other Biomarkers in the Evaluation of Disease Activity in SLE." Total funding will be $861,143.

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