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 August of 2025 (the awards listed have a total award amount greater than $100,000):
| PI | Project Title | Sponsor | Award Amount | Project Begin Date |
| Rizvi, Imran | Photodynamic Alteration of Cell Membrane Lipids to Enhance Chemotherapy Efficacy in Metastatic Ovarian Cancer | NIH National Cancer Institute (NCI) | 117018 | 01-Aug-25 |
| Browne, Edward | Transcriptional inactivation of the CNS HIV reservoir with Tat-targeting lipid nanoparticles. | NIH National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) | 703675 | 15-Aug-25 |
| Perou, Charles | Elucidating the molecular mechanisms of metastasis organ tropism | NIH National Cancer Institute (NCI) | 639882 | 01-Aug-25 |
| Zhang, Qi | Epigenetic Regulation of Nuclear cGAS Activity in Aging-Related Inflammation | NIH National Institute on Aging (NIA) | 647866 | 15-Aug-25 |
| Rittenhouse, Katelyn | A Career Development Award in AI-Assisted Ultrasound for Early Pregnancy Localization | NIH National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) | 184880 | 06-Aug-25 |
| Won, Hyejung | In vivo single-cell analysis of Alzheimer’s disease-associated regulatory elements | NIH National Institute on Aging (NIA) | 1221276 | 05-Aug-25 |
| Conlon, Sarah | Antibiotic treatment failure of Klebsiella pneumoniae liver abscesses | NIH National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) | 427625 | 01-Aug-25 |
| Loeser, Richard | Targeting Signaling Pathways with Small Molecules in Osteoarthritis | NIH National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases (NIAMS) | 361300 | 01-Aug-25 |
| Wu, Guorong | Understanding Neurodevelopmental Origin of Alzheimer’sDisease Using Lifespan Approach | Foundation of Hope for Research and Treatment of Mental Illness | 198959 | 01-Aug-25 |
| Strauss, Joshua | Acquisition of a JEOL JEM-CRYOARM300 | NIH Office of the Director (OD) | 2000000 | 01-Aug-25 |
| Tisch, Roland | Regulation of T cell-mediated T1D: The role of T follicular helper cells | NIH National Institute of Diabetes, Digestive, and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK) | 455491 | 01-Aug-25 |
| Conlon, Brian | Determining how neutrophil activities contribute to antibiotic treatment failure | NIH National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) | 421067 | 08-Aug-25 |
| Werder, Emily | The early life exposome, emerging chemical exposures, and structural and functional brain development in childhood | NIH National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) | 249000 | 13-Aug-25 |
| McGinigle, Katharine (Kate) | Tailored Treatment Strategies for Patients with Chronic Limb Threatening Ischemia | NIH National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI) | 699296 | 15-Aug-25 |
| Rosenthal, Adam | Evaluating antibiotic tolerance in single cells with tandem single cell measurements of translation rate and transcriptomes | NIH National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) | 420553 | 08-Aug-25 |
| Higgins, Dominique | Ferroptosis sensitization in glioblastoma | NIH National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS) | 229078 | 11-Aug-25 |
| Scherrer, Greg | Disentangling the specific contributions of different dorsal root ganglia neuron types to pain representation in the brain | NIH National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS) | 222758 | 07-Aug-25 |
| Conlon, Brian | Inside out: Revealing strategies for intracellular S. aureus persister eradication | NIH National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) | 115123 | 20-Aug-25 |
| Diaz, Monica | Brain structure and function and the CNS HIV reservoir in older people living with HIV | NIH National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS) | 194375 | 01-Aug-25 |
| Rahangdale, Lisa | UNC BIRCWH | NIH National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases (NIAMS) | 859729 | 15-Aug-25 |
| Zylka, Mark | Targeted high-fidelity integration of DNA elements into the genome | NIH National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS) | 603457 | 01-Aug-25 |