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Please review a listing of recent competitive grants awarded to UNC School of Medicine faculty.


Please review a listing of recent competitive grants awarded to UNC School of Medicine faculty.

The following is a list of new grants awarded to SOM faculty with project start dates from 4/1/2020 -4/15/2020 (the awards listed have a total award amount greater than $100,000):

PI

Project Title

Sponsor

Award Amount

Project Begin Date

Yuan, Hong

Multimodal PerkinElmer IVIS-SpectrumCT imaging system for a preclinical imaging core facility

NIH Office of the Director

$589,999

4/1/2020

Rose, Tracy

Selective histone deacetylase inhibition with entinostat to enhance the anti-tumor immune response to immune checkpoint inhibition in urothelial cancer

NIH National Cancer Institute (NCI)

$262,296

4/1/2020

Schranz, Asher

Drug-use associated infective endocarditis: Post-hospitalization outcomes and patient treatment preferences

NIH National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA)

$176,065

4/1/2020

Tripathy, Ashutosh

UNC Acquisition of a Biacore 8K Biosensor

North Carolina Biotechnology Center (NCBC)

$200,000

4/1/2020

Flythe, Jenny

QT prolonging medications and sudden cardiac death among individuals on hemodialysis

NIH National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI)

$606,842

4/1/2020

Phanstiel, Douglas

Identifying Alzheimer’s Disease Causal Variants and Target Genes Using iPSC-derived Microglia

NIH National Institute on Aging (NIA)

$758,870

4/15/2020

Thomas, Nancy

Identification of Lethal Melanomas at the Time of Diagnosis

NIH National Cancer Institute (NCI)

$950,985

4/1/2020

Matera, Greg

Ribonucleoprotein Biogenesis and Epigenetic Gene Regulation

NIH National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS)

$652,834

4/1/2020

Schisler, Jonathan

Protein quality control in age-related diseases

NIH National Institute on Aging (NIA)

$486,909

4/15/2020

Schrider, Dan

Investigating the impact and patterns of homologous recombination and adaptive evolution on bacterial genomes

University of North Carolina at Greensboro (UNCG)

$101,991

4/1/2020