Awarded Proposals
- CRI Faculty Research Grant Award
- Johanna Smeekens, PhD: “Fecal Microbiota Transplantation to Determine the Role of the Gut Microbiome in Peanut Allergy”
- CRI Fellowship Research Grant Award
- Drew Gardner, MD: “Artificial intelligence to diagnose and characterize infants with childhood interstitial lung disease”
- Brittney Raffa, MD: “Health care utilization and developmental delays among NC infants exposed to marijuana in utero”
- UNC Children’s Development Early Career Investigator Award
- Camilia Kamoun, MD: “Understanding the Values and Preferences of Emerging Adult Females and Mothers of Peripubertal Females Surrounding Menstruation”
- Carolina for the Kids Faculty Research Grant Award
- Bianca Allison, MD: “Developing and Piloting a Novel Intervention to Address Food Insecurity Among Infants”
- Adam Gower, MD: “Spatial Transcriptomics to Identify Cellular Alterations in Neuroendocrine Cell Hyperplasia of Infancy”
- Carolina for the Kids Fellowship Research Grant Award
- Richard De Vuyst, MD: “Extracellular vesicle formation of Methicillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus isolated from subjects with cystic fibrosis”
- Justin Sperlazza, MD, PhD: “Detecting the tumor antigen GD2 on circulating tumor cells as a biomarker for CAR-T therapy”
- UNC Children’s Development Early Career Investigator Award
- Lauren Frazer, MD, PhD: “Mechanisms of IL-22-Mediated Protection from Intestinal Injury during Necrotizing Enterocolitis”
- Avinash Kollipara, PhD: “Evaluation of Th1 and Th17 cell subsets during human Chlamydia trachomatis genital tract infection”
- CRI Grant Initiative Fellowship Research Award
- Nicole Stephenson, MD: “Lung Ultrasound Score to Assess Lung Abnormalities in Early Childhood for Children with History of BPD”
- Carolina for the Kids Faculty Research Grant Award
- Gang Chen, PhD: “Epithelial STAT3 mutations lead to impaired innate host defense in the lung of autosomal-dominant hyper IgE syndrome (AD-HIES)”
- Xiaojing Zheng, PhD: “Identification of cell type specific immune responses in women with Chlamydia trachomatis using single cell RNA sequencing for future biomarker and vaccine development”
- Carolina for the Kids Fellowship Research Grant Award
- Andrew Barber, MD: “Relationship Between Genotype and Laterality Defects in Primary Ciliary Dyskinesia”
- Michael Adams, MD, and Elizabeth Jalazo, MD: “‘EHR Fingerprinting’ of Angelman Syndrome for earlier diagnosis”
- Sean Shannon, MD, and Mary Terrell, MD: “Point-of-Care Ultrasound for Improving the Safety of Umbilical Venous Catheter Tip Positioning: A Practical Tool for Integrating a Novel Technology in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit”
- UNC Children’s Development Early Career Investigator Award
- Meghan Rebuli, PhD: “Role of ESR1 in TH17-mediated pediatric asthma”
- Carolina for the Kids Faculty Research Grant Award
- Thomas Alexander, MD, MPH: “Novel RNA Sequencing Based Diagnostic Testing for Leukemia”
- Arti Pandya, MD, MBA: “Identifying the Genetic Basis of Auditory Neuropathy Spectrum Disorders”
- Carolina for the Kids Fellowship Research Grant Award
- Bianca Allison, MD, MPH: “Trends in the initiation & continuation of long-acting reversible contraception among adolescent females in North Carolina”
- IQVIA Pediatric Clinical Scholars Award
- Matthew Egberg, MD, MPH: “Using Precision Medicine To Optimize Postoperative Outcomes For Children with Crohn’s Disease”
- UNC Children’s Development Early Career Investigator Award
- Neal deJong, MD, MPH: “Protocolized action planning and care transition support for rural children with medical complexity”
- Christina Cruz, MD: “Minimum Human Resources Needed to Implement Task-shifted children’s Mental Health Care by Teachers”
- Carolina for the Kids Faculty Research Grant Award
- James Hagood, MD: “Optimizing Single Cell Approaches for Rare Lung Disease Clinical Specimens”
- Carolyn Quinsey, MD: “Technological approach to improvement of care access, throughput, and patient satisfaction in our Spanish-Speaking Pediatric Neurosurgical Population”
- Emily Vander Schaaf, MD: “Promoting Parent Support of LGBTQ Youth”
- Carolina for the Kids Fellowship Research Grant Award
- Joshua Bies, MD: “Pre-Clinical Investigation of CAR-T Cell Therapy in Osteosarcoma”
- Carolina for the Kids Faculty Research Grant Award
- Zachary Willis, MD, MPH: “Improving Antibiotic Prescribing for Children in North Carolina”
- Carolina for the Kids Fellowship Research Grant Award
- Jacob Johnson, MD: “Procedural Competency in Neonatal Chest Tube Placement”