The following is a list of new grants awarded to SOM faculty with project start dates in June of 2024 (the awards listed have a total award amount greater than $100,000).
| PI | Project Title | Sponsor | Award Amount | Project Begin Date |
| Steinbach, Erin | Revealing the mechanisms of increased intestinal epithelial cell barrier permeability in peanut allergy | American Academy of Allergy Asthma and Immunology (AAAAI) | 300000 | 01-Jul-24 |
| Grover, Natalie | CD30 Directed CAR-T Cells Co-Expressing CCR4 in Relapsed/Refractory Hodgkin Lymphoma | American Society of Hematology (ASH) | 150000 | 01-Jul-24 |
| Busby-Whitehead, Jan | Carolina Geriatric Workforce Enhancement Program | HRSA Bureau of Health Workforce | 1000000 | 01-Jul-24 |
| Spanheimer, Philip | Predicting Endocrine Therapy Response in Male Breast Tumors | NIH National Cancer Institute (NCI) | 604746 | 01-Jul-24 |
| Keku, Tope | Cancer Undergraduate Research Education Program | NIH National Cancer Institute (NCI) | 268401 | 01-Jul-24 |
| Painschab, Matthew | Innovations in diagnosis for lymphadenopathy across HIV Centers of Excellence in Malawi | NIH National Cancer Institute (NCI) | 544250 | 01-Jul-24 |
| Dichter, Gabriel | Immune Functioning and Reward Processing in Autism | NIH National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) | 242669 | 15-Jul-24 |
| Henderson, Louise | Lung Cancer Screening: Cumulative Risk and Multilevel Impact of False Positive Findings | NIH National Cancer Institute (NCI) | 657536 | 18-Jul-24 |
| Serody, Jonathan | Targeting a Novel Cyclic Dinucleotide Signaling Pathway in CAR T cells to Drive Antitumor Immunity | American Society of Hematology (ASH) | 100000 | 01-Jul-24 |
| Burclaff, Joseph | Defining transcriptional network control of mitochondrial metabolism in human intestinal stem cells | American Gastroenterological Association (AGA) | 300000 | 01-Jul-24 |
| Ting, Jenny | Investigating a Novel Beneficial Gut Microbe for Potential MS Therapy | National Multiple Sclerosis Society (NMSS) | 210938 | 01-Jul-24 |
| Jensen, Christopher | Combating Cancer-Related Fatigue for Patients with Indolent Lymphoma: An Integrated Supportive Care Program | American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) | 200000 | 01-Jul-24 |
| Caron, Kathleen | Role of ACKR3 in postpartum cardiomyopathy | American Heart Association (AHA) | 144580 | 01-Jul-24 |
| Tan, Ray | Virtual Testis Cancer Lay Support and Survivorship (VITALSS Study) | Department of Defense (DOD) | 1511536 | 01-Jul-24 |
| Liu, Jiandong | Establishing an in vivo single-nucleus perturb-seq platform for cardiac biology | American Heart Association (AHA) | 199999.8 | 01-Jul-24 |
| Liu, Jiandong | Genetic regulation of cardiac maturation | American Heart Association (AHA) | 300000 | 01-Jul-24 |
| Kamoun, Camilia | Development of a Race-Ethnicity Conscious Ethical Care Model of Early Female Puberty: Moving Away from Race-Ethnicity Based Care | Greenwall Foundation | 240272 | 01-Jul-24 |
| Deshmukh, Mohanish | UNC Medical Scientist Training Program | NIH National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS) | 1258654 | 01-Jul-24 |
| Kuhlman, Brian | Molecular and Cellular Biophysics Training Grant | NIH National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS) | 479849 | 01-Jul-24 |
| Bhatt, Aadra | Pharmacomicrobiomics: The Frontier of Interindividual Variability in Drug Response | NIH National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS) | 381864 | 15-Jul-24 |
| Zhang, Wanqing | Disparities in Children’s Coverage Stability and Access to Care Following Autism Insurance Reform | HRSA Maternal and Child Health Bureau (MCHB) | 119035 | 01-Jul-24 |
| Kim, Wonho | Deciphering the Stepwise Regulatory Mechanisms of Genome Folding | NIH National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS) | 388750 | 01-Jul-24 |
| Tamayo, Rita | Determinants of Clostridioides difficile colony dimorphism | NIH National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) | 209925 | 01-Jul-24 |
| Rosenstein, Donald | Statewide Expansion and Spanish Cultural Adaptation of Get REAL and HEEL: A Tailored Exercise Program for People Affected By Cancer | Duke Endowment | 746000 | 01-Jul-24 |
| Hood-Pishchany, Indriati | Exploiting metal dependencies to support a low-risk vaginal microbiome | Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation | 150000 | 08-Jul-24 |
| Goralski, Jennifer | A Pilot Study of Intimate Partner Violence in Cystic Fibrosis | Cystic Fibrosis Foundation | 168000 | 01-Jul-24 |
| Belger, Aysenil | Multisystem Stress Response Biotypes: Deriving Novel Physiological and Neural Risk Factors for Anhedonia in Adolescence | NIH National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) | 770483 | 12-Jul-24 |
| Giudice, Jimena | When alternative splicing meets cytoskeleton organization, local translation, and transcription regulation | NIH National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS) | 383755 | 09-Jul-24 |
| Yap, Pew-Thian | Multifaceted Characterization of Early Human Brain Development | NIH National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) | 660323 | 15-Jul-24 |
| Liu, Pengda | Targeting the E3 ligase SPOP in treating Renal Cell Carcinoma | Department of Defense (DOD) | 1244000 | 01-Jul-24 |
| Holder, Marni | Carolina HealthNet (CHN) | Duke Endowment | 372750 | 01-Jul-24 |
| Pawlinski, Rafal | Role of Factor XII in thrombo-inflammatory complications of sickle cell disease | NIH National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI) | 724727 | 15-Jul-24 |
| Sperlazza, Justin | Utilizing chromatin directed inhibitors to regulate gene expression in Ewing sarcoma for therapeutic benefit | Alex’s Lemonade Stand Foundation | 181500 | 22-Jul-24 |
| Frazer, Lauren | Regulation of signaling pathways mediating epithelial cell injury in the neonatal intestine | NIH National Institute of Diabetes, Digestive, and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK) | 174114 | 15-Jul-24 |
| Donaldson, Scott | Therapeutics Development Center Award | Cystic Fibrosis Foundation | 243718 | 01-Jul-24 |
| Conlon, Brian | Calprotectin and Antibiotic Activities at the Infection Interface | NIH National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) | 784059 | 23-Jul-24 |
| Zarzar, Ted | Supporting People with Serious Mental Illness Upon Release from Incarceration – The Formerly Incarcerated (FIT) Wellness Clinic | Duke Endowment | 720000 | 01-Jul-24 |
| Boyce, Ross | Reducing malaria in pregnancy through focal drug administration in household members: A pilot feasibility trial | NIH National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) | 158949 | 19-Jul-24 |
| Hantman, Adam | Network switching to rescue broken behavior | WM Keck Foundation | 1300000 | 01-Jul-24 |