Category: Hematology
Department of Medicine Grants & Funding: January 1-January 31, 2020
Division of Hematology and Oncology Erica Sparkenbaugh, PhD, and Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics fellow Robert Lee, PhD, have been selected to receive Scholar Awards from the American Society of Hematology’s (ASH). Sparkenbaugh received a $125,000 award to support her research into the mechanisms of thrombin generation and end-organ failure in sickle cell disease. Read … Read more
Department of Medicine Grants & Funding: December 1-December 31, 2019
Division of Hematology and Oncology Catherine Coombs, MD, received the Prostate Cancer Foundation’s Young Investigator Award, which awarded $225,000 across three years to study whether genetic mutations that accumulate in the blood over time are linked to worse outcomes for prostate cancer. Read more. Natalie Grover, MD, was awarded a three-year Lymphoma Research Foundation Caree … Read more
Department of Medicine Grants & Funding: September 1-September 30, 2019
Division of Geriatric Medicine Laura Hanson, MD, MPH, will lead NIA’s new IMPACT Collaboratory’s Patient and Caregiver Reported Outcomes (PCRO) Core, funded by a five-year, $1.4 million grant. Learn more. Division of Hematology/Oncology Lisa Carey, MD, will receive $400,000 from Susan G. Komen to study how HER2+ tumors respond to HER2-targeted therapies. She is one of three UNC S … Read more