The following is a list of new grants awarded to SOM faculty with project start dates in October of 2024 (the awards listed have a total award amount greater than $100,000):
PI | Project Title | Sponsor | Award Amount | Project Begin Date |
Miller, Brian | Dissecting metabolic vulnerabilities of tumor-associated macrophages to improve the efficacy of immunotherapy | V Foundation for Cancer Research | 600000 | 01-Oct-24 |
Carey, Lisa | Clinical implications of metastatic subtype, microenvironment, and organ of involvement | Breast Cancer Research Foundation (BCRF) | 225000 | 01-Oct-24 |
Muss, Hy | p16INK4a Expression, Chemotherapy Toxicity, and Aging in Women with Breast Cancer | Breast Cancer Research Foundation (BCRF) | 225000 | 01-Oct-24 |
Perou, Charles | Molecular Therapeutics for Luminal Tumor Subtypes | Breast Cancer Research Foundation (BCRF) | 225000 | 01-Oct-24 |
Earp, Shelton | Receptor Tyrosine Kinases and Breast Cancer Progression | Breast Cancer Research Foundation (BCRF) | 225000 | 01-Oct-24 |
Erickson, Karen | Minimizing Text Complexity with AI (MTC-AI) | US Department of Education (DOED) | 374334 | 01-Oct-24 |
Gupta, Gaorav | Immune sensing of DNA damage in breast cancer | Breast Cancer Research Foundation (BCRF) | 225000 | 01-Oct-24 |
Abdou, Yara | Molecular Residual Disease in Triple Negative Breast Cancer: Detection and Therapeutic Interception | Conquer Cancer Foundation | 200000 | 01-Oct-24 |
Frohlich, Flavio | The Carolina Recovery from Depression Protocol (CARED): A Novel Rapid Treatment Paradigm for Depression | Foundation of Hope for Research and Treatment of Mental Illness | 146110 | 07-Oct-24 |
Sena-Soberano, Arlene | Treponema pallidum genomic epidemiology in low-middle income countries to inform syphilis vaccine development | Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation | 1661119 | 24-Oct-24 |
Hood-Pishchany, Indriati | VMRC Bacterial Community Co-culture Preclinical Studies | Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation | 499886 | 28-Oct-24 |