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Category: Research Funding

  • Hwang to Lead UNC Center for Diabetes and Metabolic Health, Funding by NIDDK Renewed

    Diabetes and obesity are two of the most pressing health challenges in North Carolina. More than 1 million North Carolinians live with diabetes, and over 2 million struggle with obesity. Diabetes is a leading cause of blindness, kidney failure, amputations, and cardiovascular disease, significantly shortening lives and contributing billions of dollars in health care costs. Drs. J … Read more

  • Cardiologists Awarded Grant to Reduce Cardiovascular Health Disparities in North Carolina

    The North Carolina Chapter of the American College of Cardiology awarded UNC cardiologists Thelsa Weickert, MD, George (Rick) Stouffer, MD, and Alan Hinderliter, MD, with a grant for their project, “Expanding Echocardiography Access for Underserved Populations in Central North Carolina”. The award has the goal to fund a project focused on reducing cardiovascular health disparitie … Read more

  • Robert Sandler, MD, MPH/Photo courtesy of Brian Strickland

    Center for Gastrointestinal Biology and Disease Receives 40th Consecutive Year of NIH Funding

    Pictured are Dr. Robert Sandler and Julianne O’Daniel. Robert Sandler, MD, MPH, Professor of Medicine at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and Director of the Center for Gastrointestinal Biology and Disease (CGIBD), has announced the renewal of the Center’s P30 Center grant from the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK). This renew … Read more

  • Evan S. Dellon, MD, MPH

    PROMOTER Study Aims to Advance Translational Research in Esophageal Diseases

    Researchers from the University of North Carolina and North Carolina State University aim to use a pig-based model to study esophageal diseases, a field where scientific understanding remains limited. Researchers use large animal models to help with therapy development, testing and translation. However, fully defined models of digestive diseases are still scarce. Within this fiel … Read more

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    Richard Loeser Receives Department of Defense Grant for Investigating Post-Traumatic Oseteoarthritis

    Richard Loeser, Jr., MD, Director of the Thurston Arthritis Research Clinic and a Joseph P. Archie Eminent Professor of Medicine, was awarded a $500K grant from the Department of Defense (DoD) for his study entitled,” A novel drug discovery approach for preventing post-traumatic osteoarthritis.” The DoD’s Arthritis Research Program Focused Research Award supports high-risk high-r … Read more

  • Simon Gray

    Simon Gray Receives AGA Research Scholar Award

    The American Gastroenterological Association (AGA) announced the selection of 74 recipients to receive $2.4 million in research funding through the annual AGA Research Foundation Awards Program. Simon Gray, MD, PhD, Assistant Professor of Medicine at the University of North Carolina and Alumni of the Department of Medicine Physician Scientist Training Program is among is awardees … Read more

  • Schworer Receives $300k AAAAI Foundation Faculty Development Award

    Stephen Schworer, MD, PhD, assistant professor of medicine in the UNC Division of Rheumatology, Allergy, and Immunology, was recently awarded the American Academy of Allergy, Asthma & Immunology (AAAAI) Foundation Faculty Development Award for his project, “T2-skewed basal cells promote small airway mucus plugging in asthma.” The AAAAI Foundation is dedicated to supporting th … Read more

  • Janice Hwang Investigating Neurocognitive Effects of Type 1 Diabetes in Children

    Dr. Janice Hwang Janice Jin Hwang, MD, MHS, Division Chief of Endocrinology and Metabolism, has been awarded a $2.796 million, 5 year, NIH U01 grant to investigate the neurocognitive effects of Type 1 Diabetes (T1D) in children. The project, titled “Mapping Neurocognitive Complications of Pediatric Type 1 Diabetes” is a collaboration among researchers, including Aysenil Belger, P … Read more

  • September- Grants and Funding

    UNC Department of Medicine Grants & Funding: September 1 – September 30, 2024

    The following Department of Medicine faculty members received the following grants or funding Division of Hematology Steven Grover, PhD, has been awarded a $3.2 million R01 grant from the NIH NHLBI for his research into C1 inhibitors. Joshua Rivenbark, MD, PhD, won the 2024  Agios Hemolytic Anemias Clinical Fellowship Competitive Grant. Division of Geriatric Medicine The CGWEP (C … Read more

  • August- Grants and Funding

    UNC Department of Medicine Grants & Funding: August 1 – August 31, 2024

    The following Department of Medicine faculty members received the following grants or funding. Division of Oncology Yohei Hisada, PhD, was awarded $50K for his research in leukemia at the 2024 ISTH conference in Bangkok Brian Miller, MD, received the Melanoma Research Alliance Young Investigator Award for $250k.  Division of Gastrology and Hepatology Aadra Bhatt, PhD was awarded … Read more

  • Erin Steinbach, MD, PhD

    Dr. Erin Steinbach Receives K08 Award to Investigate the Relationship Between Intestinal Permeability and Peanut Allergy

    Erin Steinbach, MD, assistant professor of medicine in the UNC Division of Rheumatology, Allergy & Immunology, recently received a K08 award from the NIH’s National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases for her project, “Revealing the mechanism of increased intestinal epithelial cell barrier permeability in peanut allergy”. This project represents a five-year research … Read more

  • July- Grants and Funding

    UNC Department of Medicine Grants & Funding: July 1 – July 31, 2024

    The following Department of Medicine faculty members received the following grants or funding. Division of Rheumatology, Allergy & Immunology Lara Longobardi, PhD, received an R01 renewal from NIH to study the “Role of CCR2 in osteoarthritis”. Leigh Callahan, MD, has been named Principal Investigator for the UNC site of a $17M dollar osteoarthritis prevention study (TOPS) tri … Read more