Listing of recent competitive grant awards to SOM faculty
The following is a list of new grants awarded to SOM faculty with project start dates in April and May of 2024 (the awards listed have a total award amount greater than $100,000):
PI | Project Title | Sponsor | Award Amount | Project Begin Date |
Pylayeva-Gupta, Yuliya | Function of IL35+ B cells in pancreatic cancer | NIH National Cancer Institute (NCI) | $396,171 | 01-Apr-24 |
Muir, Eric | Vascular dysfunction in glaucoma | NIH National Eye Institute (NEI) | $388,750 | 01-Apr-24 |
Allen, Kelli | STepped Exercise Program for Knee Osteoarthritis: The STEP-KOA Study | NIH National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases (NIAMSD) | $284,709 | 01-Apr-24 |
Ising, Amy | Improving Surveillance for Sexual Violence in North Carolina with Machine Learning | American Public Health Association (APHA) | $200,000 | 01-Apr-24 |
Ariel, Pablo | Zeiss LSM900 laser scanning confocal microscope for the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill | NIH Office of the Director (OD) | $261,741 | 01-Apr-24 |
Diekman, Brian | Functional interrogation of putative osteoarthritis causal variants | NIH National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases (NIAMS) | $205,260 | 01-Apr-24 |
Calabrese, Mauro | Mechanisms of gene regulation by long noncoding RNAs | NIH National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS) | $629,698 | 01-Apr-24 |
Caughey, Melissa | Chronic dehydration in sickle cell disease: An actionable biomarker to prevent vaso-occlusive episodes? | NIH National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI) | $131,938 | 15-Apr-24 |
Emanuele, Michael | Proteostasis signaling in cell cycle control | NIH National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS) | $581,533 | 01-Apr-24 |
Kash, Thomas | Probing Ethanol Dysregulation of Hypothalamic CRH neurons | NIH National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA) | $438,539 | 18-Apr-24 |
Robinson, Donita | Role of perineuronal nets in adolescent alcohol-induced deficits | NIH National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA) | $223,531 | 17-Apr-24 |
Rubinsteyn, Alexander | Preclinical development of a shared antigen therapeutic vaccine for NUT carcinoma | Victor Family Foundation | $360,000 | 01-Apr-24 |
Zannas, Anthony | Epigenetic mechanisms linking psychosocial stress with dementia risk in minoritized individuals | Foundation of Hope for Research and Treatment of Mental Illness | $147,167 | 30-Apr-24 |
McElligott, Zoe | Investigating Psychiatric Symptoms of Dementia | Foundation of Hope for Research and Treatment of Mental Illness | $110,000 | 30-Apr-24 |
Gilmore, John | Early Childhood Predictors of Psychopathology and Executive Function in Late Adolescence | Foundation of Hope for Research and Treatment of Mental Illness | $150,989 | 30-Apr-24 |
Wu, Guorong | Summer Research Education Program for Promoting Computational Neuroimaging Technology in Alzheimer’s Disease (AD) and AD-Related Dementias (ADRD) | NIH National Institute on Aging (NIA) | $205,000 | 15-May-24 |
Szatkiewicz, Jin | Integrating developmental and genomic approaches to identify early trajectories of eating and internalizing disorder symptoms | NIH National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) | $587,548 | 01-May-24 |
Callahan, Leigh | The Rheumatic and Musculoskeletal Disease Epidemiology and Outcomes Training Program at the University of North Carolina | NIH National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases (NIAMS) | $123,012 | 01-May-24 |
Milner, Justin | Determining the roles of Kras and p53 on the PDAC immune microenvironment and immune checkpoint efficacy | Hirshberg Foundation for Pancreatic Cancer Research | $100,000 | 01-May-24 |
Biese, Kevin | UNC Geriatric Emergency Department Collaborative Phase 4 (GEDC 4.0) | West Health Institute | $400,000 | 01-May-24 |
Bulik, Cynthia | 1/3 Eating Disorders Genetics Initiative 2 (EDGI2) | NIH National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) | $167,213 | 13-May-24 |
Nicholas, Rob | Modulation of immune responses mediated by PorB from Neisseria gonorrhoea | NIH National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) | $196,652 | 14-May-24 |
Jiang, Guochun | Defining the HIV reservoir and latency mechanism in human brain myeloid cells | NIH National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) | $747,569 | 06-May-24 |