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 February and March of 2026 (the awards listed have a total award amount greater than $100,000):
| PI | Project Title | Sponsor | Award Amount | Project Begin Date |
| Franz, Jason | Wearable Sensing and Machine Learning to Optimize Knee Joint Health | NCInnovation | 400000 | 2/1/2026 |
| Heise, Mark | Development of Poultry Specific HPAI Antivirals for Feed-Based Delivery | USDA Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) | 765388 | 2/2/2026 |
| Falk, Ronald | Pathobiology of ANCA Glomerulonephritis: Targeting Adaptive and Innate Immune Processes for Precision Therapies | American Society of Nephrology (ASN) | 100000 | 2/11/2026 |
| Lin, Jessica | Applying novel tools to parse Plasmodium vivax relapses in clinical trials | NIH National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) | 190825 | 2/10/2026 |
| Moorman, Nathaniel | Translation Regulation during Human Cytomegalovirus Infection | NIH National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) | 553779 | 2/4/2026 |
| Moorman, Nathaniel | First-in-Class Alphavirus Protease Inhibitor RA-2034 | North Carolina Biotechnology Center (NCBC) | 143849 | 2/1/2026 |
| Lynch, David | Promoting Exercise to Mitigate Hospital-Associated Disability for People with Dementia – A Feasibility Pilot | NIH National Institute on Aging (NIA) | 209690 | 3/1/2026 |
| Judson, Matthew | Circuit-Guided Restoration of Sensorimotor Integration in Autism Mouse Models | Eagles Autism Foundation | 400000 | 3/6/2026 |
| Rutstein, Sarah | Leveraging Inpatient records to characterize the HIV Care continuum in North Carolina (LINC-NC) | NIH National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) | 1177156 | 3/17/2026 |