New Funding Awards September 2023

Sponsored Research

Christopher Granger of Cardiology has received an award from the National Institutes of Health for a project entitled "A Controlled trial to improve use of High IntEnsity statins for Vascular protEction: ACHIEVE." Total funding will be $677,573.

William Kraus of Cardiology has received an award from the National Institutes of Health for a project entitled "Molecular Transducers of Physical Activity and Health: NC Consortium Clinical Site." Total funding will be $3,635,367.

Nelson Chao of Cell Therapy has received an award from the National Institutes of Health for a project entitled "Characterizing gastrointestinal acute radiation syndrome in pediatric mice." Total funding will be $99,999.

Dorothy Sipkins of Cell Therapy has received an award from the National Institutes of Health for a project entitled "Identifying and exploiting therapeutic vulnerabilities of tumor-host interactions that drive bone-to-meninges breast cancer metastasis." Total funding will be $2,606,835.

Anna Mae Diehl of Gastroenterology has received an award from the National Institutes of Health for a project entitled "Hepatic Lipotoxicity, Metabolic Homeostasis and NAFLD Pathogenesis." Total funding will be $493,050.

Julius Wilder of Gastroenterology has received an award from the American Board of Internal Medicine Foundation for a project entitled "Health Equity in Colon Cancer Screening." Total funding will be $20,000.

Lana Wahid of General Internal Medicine has received a sub-award through the Research Triangle Institute International for a project entitled "RECOVER-VITAL: A Platform Protocol for Evaluation of Interventions for Viral Persistence, Viral Reactivation, and Immune Dysregulation in Post-Acute Sequelae of SARS-CoV-2 Infection (PASC)." Total funding TBD.

Oluwatoyosi Onwuemene of Hematology has received an award from the Research Triangle Institute International for a project entitled "Developing an idiographic clinical trial in Immune Thrombotic Thrombocytopenic Purpura." Total funding will be $175,870.

Crystal Tyson of Nephrology has received an award from the National Institutes of Health for a project entitled "Diet Counseling Intervention for Black Americans with CKD." Total funding will be $54,518.

Shahla Bari of Oncology has received an award from the Bristol-Myers Squibb Foundation for a project entitled "Winn Diversity In Clinical Trials Career Development Award." Total funding will be $227,873.

Gerard Blobe of Oncology has received an award from the National Institutes of Health for a project entitled "The Duke Preparing Research scholars In bioMEdical sciences (PRIME): Cancer Research Program." Total funding will be $1,067,755.

Gerard Blobe of Oncology has received an award from the National Institutes of Health for a project entitled "Role of ALK4 in Regulating Receptor Trafficking and Pancreatic Cancer Biology." Total funding will be $189,169.

Neil MacIntyre of Pulmonary has received a sub-award through the National Jewish Health for a project entitled "COPD Fnd_COPD Gene (GeneticEpidemiology of COPD)." Total funding TBD.

Christopher Mosher of Pulmonary has received an award from the National Institutes of Health for a project entitled "COPD Pulmonary Rehab GEMSSTAR Award." Total funding will be $322,000.

Neelima Navuluri of Pulmonary has received a sub-award through the University of Arizona for a project entitled "Clinical Phenotypes of Chronic Lung Disease and Associated Clinical Implications in Kenya." Total funding will be $24,992.

Elias Pratt of Pulmonary has received an award from the American College of Chest Physicians for a project entitled "Preventing Failed Extubations Cohort Study (PreFix Cohort Study)." Total funding will be $30,000.

Kai Sun of Rheumatology has received an award from the National Institutes of Health for a project entitled "Improving patient-provider communication and medication adherence in systemic lupus erythematosus." Total funding will be $3,444,028.

Industry Sponsored Clinical Trials

Melissa Daubert of Cardiology has received an award from Boehringer Ingelheim International GmbH for a project entitled "IMAGING FOR 1478-0002." Total funding will be $1,157,407.

Adam Devore of Cardiology has received an award from Natera, Inc for a project entitled "Define-HT." Total funding will be $111,244.

Neha Pagidipati of Cardiology has received an award from Amgen, Inc. for a project entitled "Cardio Health Alliance: Test to Treat." Total funding will be $2,891,526.

Jonathan Piccini of Cardiology has received an award from American Heart Association for a project entitled "GWTG." Total funding will be $128,456.

Sean Pokorney of Cardiology has received an award from Heart Rhythm Society for a project entitled "COMPASS." Total funding will be $75,000.

Nishant Shah of Cardiology has received an award from Mineralys Therapeutics, LLC for a project entitled "Lorundrostat in Uncontrolled HTN." Total funding will be $208,896.

Danielle Brander of Cell Therapy has received an award from BeiGene USA, Inc. for a project entitled "An Open-label, Multi-center, Long-term Extension Study of Zanubrutinib (BGB-3111) Regimens in Patients with B-cell Malignancies." Total funding will be $229,315.

Matthew McKinney of Cell Therapy has received an award from Viracta Therapeutics, Inc. for a project entitled "Viracta: An Open-Label, Phase 2 Trial of Nanatinostat in Combination with Valganciclovir in Patients with Epstein-Barr Virus-Positive (EBV+) Relapsed/Refractory Lymphomas (NAVAL-1)." Total funding will be $383,117.

Matthew McKinney of Cell Therapy has received an award from Incyte Corporation for a project entitled "INCB50465-801 Rollover (7008420." Total funding will be $96,211.

David Leiman of Gastroenterology has received an award from Celgene International II Sarl for a project entitled "A PHASE 1, OPEN-LABEL, SINGLE-SEQUENCE STUDY TO EVALUATE POTENTIAL DISEASE-MEDIATED DRUG-DRUG INTERACTION WITH SELECTED CYTOCHROME P450 SUBSTRATES IN ADULT SUBJECTS WITH ACTIVE OSINOPHILIC ESOPHAGITIS RECEIVING CENDAKIMAB." Total funding will be $77,674.

Maria Segovia of Gastroenterology has received an award from NorthSea Therapeutics B.V. for a project entitled "Northsea_Pro00113188 A Phase 2a, Randomized, Double-Blind, Placebo-Controlled Study Evaluating the Safety, Tolerability, Pharmacokinetics, and Pharmacodynamics of NST-6179 in Adult Subjects with Intestinal Failure-Associated Liver Disease (IFALD)." Total funding will be $167,601.

Ranee Chatterjee Montgomery of General Internal Medicine has received an award from Anumana, Inc. for a project entitled "A Multicenter Implementation Study of AI-ECG-Based Clinical Decision Support Software to Identify Low LVEF Risk." Total funding will be $202,089.

Ranee Chatterjee Montgomery of General Internal Medicine has received an award from Anumana, Inc. for a project entitled "A Pragmatic Trial Evaluating the Impact of the Anumana Clinical Decision Support Tool for Guideline-Directed Management of Heart Failure (ACT-HF)." Total funding will be $157,169.

Lana Wahid of General Internal Medicine has received an award from Measure Labs, Inc. for a project entitled "DReAMS-2 Discharge Readmission Analysis & Management." Total funding will be $233,905.

Thomas Ortel of Hematology has received an award from Instrumentation Laboratory Company for a project entitled "Validation of the clinical performance of HemosIL CL HIT-IgG (PF4-H) on the ACL TOP 970 CL: A Method Comparison Study." Total funding will be $85,715.

Cameron Wolfe of Infectious Diseases has received an award from AstraZeneca Pharmaceuticals, LP for a project entitled "SUPERNOVA A Phase 1/3 randomized double blind study to evaluate the safety and neutralizing activity of AZD5156 for pre-exposure prophylaxis of COVID-19 in participants with conditions causing immune impairment." Total funding will be $259,430.

Rani Bansal of Oncology has received an award from Sermonix Pharmaceuticals for a project entitled "An Open Label, Randomized, Multicenter Study Comparing the Efficacy and Safety of the Combination of Lasofoxifene and Abemaciclib to the Combination of Fulvestrant and Abemaciclib for the Treatment of Pre-and Postmenopausal Women and Men with Locally." Total funding will be $173,570.

Thomas Stinchcombe of Oncology has received an award from Blueprint Medicines Corporation for a project entitled "Phase 1/2 Study of BLU-451 in Advanced Cancers with EGFR EXON20 Insertion Mutations." Total funding will be $497,989.

Thomas Stinchcombe of Oncology has received an award from Boehringer Ingelheim Pharmaceuticals, Inc. for a project entitled "BI1479-0001." Total funding will be $331,703.

Aparna Swaminathan of Pulmonary has received an award from United Therapeutics Corporation for a project entitled "PHINDER GMS-PH-001." Total funding will be $53,364.

 

 

 

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