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The Department of Medicine conducts impactful basic, translational, and clinical research across 11 affiliated research centers, and ranks 14 in NIH funding with investigators receiving $109 million annually for research in areas as varied as cancer immunogenetics, the microbiome, HIV, diabetes therapies, and clotting disorders. This is an archive of grant awards received by faculty in the UNC Department of Medicine.

Five NC Institutions Collaborating to Advance Kidney, Urology, Hematology (KUH) Research

Ronald Falk, MD, Nan and Hugh Cullman Eminent Professor of Medicine at UNC, Anthony Atala, MD, Professor of Medicine at Wake Forest University and Thomas Ortel, MD, PhD, Professor of Medicine at Duke University, will lead an effort to cultivate a highly skilled cohort of people and resources to advance research in kidney, urology, and hematology. Collaboration in medicine is common, a partnership across three subspecialities and six institutions, not so much. The NC KUH Training, Research, Innov…
| Hematology, Nephrology and Hypertension, News, Research Funding, Research News
Department of Medicine Grants & Funding: August 1 – August 31, 2023

Division of Hematology Brandi Reeves, MD, received a 5-year, NHLBI K08 Mentored Clinical Scientist Development Award for the research project, “Evaluating the Role of Hypoxia Inducible Factor in Myeloproliferative-Associated Thrombosis.” Daniel Richardson, MD, received a $150K grant for developing a patient-reported measure to identify treatment priorities of patients with advanced blood cancers. Division of Oncology Ashwin Somasundaram, MD, received a $750K, 5-year, NHLBI K08 Mentored Clinical…
| Cardiology, Hematology, Infectious Diseases, News, Oncology, Pulmonary Diseases and Critical Care Medicine, Research Funding
Department of Medicine Grants & Funding: July 1 – July 31, 2023

Division of General Medicine & Clinical Epidemiology HIV/Hep C Certificate Program, lead by Louis King, MD, received a Health Resources and Services Administration grant from the National HIV Pathway Consortium to support certification efforts. Division of Hematology Paul Armistead, MD, PhD, and his research group received two grants. A 2-year, $260K Eshelman Institute for Innovation Award for the project, ” T cell immunotherapies targeting HLA-E-antigens for the clearance of EBV-and HTLV-as…
| General Medicine and Clinical Epidemiology, Hematology, News, Research Funding
Department of Medicine Grants & Funding: June 1 – June 30, 2023

Division of Rheumatology, Allergy and Immunology Richard Loeser, MD, received the Rheumatology Research Foundation (RRF) Innovative Research Award to explore small molecule discovery for disease modification in osteoarthritis (OA). Division of Hospital Medicine Amy Dacillo-Curso, ACNP-BC, and Ashmita Chatterjee, MD, were awarded an Institute for Healthcare Quality Improvement grant for their project focused on improving and standardizing care for patients hospitalized with alcohol withdrawal.
| Hospital Medicine, News, Research Funding, Rheumatology, Allergy and Immunology
Department of Medicine Grants & Funding: April 1 – April 30, 2023

Division of Nephrology and Hypertension Keia Sanderson, MD, MSCR, has received an NIH K23 award, supported by the NIDDK, to identify maternal and neonatal risk factors to help predict childhood kidney disease earlier. Division of Geriatric Medicine John A. Batsis, MD, was awarded a five-year, $3.5-million R01 grant by the National Institute on Aging to investigate weight loss strategies in older adults. Division of Hematology The UNC Hereditary Hemorrhagic Telangiectasia (HHT) Center of Excellen…
2023 | Geriatric Medicine, Hematology, Infectious Diseases, Nephrology and Hypertension, Research Funding
Department of Medicine Grants & Funding: March 1 – March 31, 2023

Division of Rheumatology, Allergy and Immunology Richard F. Loeser, Jr., MD, received a $2 million NIH grant to study “Oxidative Stress and the Development of Osteoarthritis”
2023 | News, Research Funding, Rheumatology, Allergy and Immunology
Department of Medicine Grants & Funding: February 1 – February 28, 2023

Division of Hematology Shakira Grant, MBBS, received a one-year, $11.5K grant from the National Heart Lung and Blood Institute Programs to Increase Diversity Among Individuals Engaged in Health-Related Research (PRIDE). Callie Berkowitz, MD, was awarded a grant from Foundation for Women and Girls with Blood Disorders. Alice Ma, MD, FACP, and Nigel Key, MB, ChB, FRCP, will serve as project managers. Division of Cardiology The lab of Brian Jensen, MD, received its first NHLBI R01 funding renewal f…
2023 | Cardiology, Geriatric Medicine, Hematology, Research Funding
Department of Medicine Grants & Funding: January 1 – January 31, 2023

Division of Oncology Jacob Stein, MD, MPH, received a $50K award for UNC Adolescents and Young Adult Cancer Program: Reach and Influence on Cancer Care Delivery. Ashwin Somasundaram, MD, received the $150K Lineberger Developmental Award and the $50K Pancreatic SPORE Career Enhancement Award Grant. Division of Pulmonary Diseases and Critical Care Medicine Kenichi Okuda, MD, was awarded a $583K, five-year, NIH R01 grant for his project, “mucociliary innate defense mechanism in the human distal air…
2023 | Hematology, Oncology, Pulmonary Diseases and Critical Care Medicine, Research Funding
Department of Medicine Grants & Funding: December 1 – December 31, 2022

Division of Infectious Diseases Arlene Seña, MD, MPH, received $1.9 Million to advance diagnostic product development for syphilis.
2022 | Infectious Diseases, Research Funding
Department of Medicine Grants & Funding: November 1 – November 30, 2022

Division of Rheumatology, Allergy and Immunology Mildred Kwan, MD, PhD, and team received a Pfizer grant to address health disparities in antimicrobial stewardship. Division of Pulmonary Diseases and Critical Care Medicine Scott Randell, PhD, was awarded a $2 million grant titled, “Validation of the RD-X19 COVID Treatment Device toward Regulatory Approval and Commercialization.”
2022 | Pulmonary Diseases and Critical Care Medicine, Research Funding, Rheumatology, Allergy and Immunology
Department of Medicine Grants & Funding: October 1 – October 31, 2022

Division of Geriatric Medicine David Lynch, MD recently received a Clin-STAR Pilot Grant. Division of Infectious Diseases Lina Rosengren-Hovee, MD, MPH, MS received HRSA grant for building a text messaging patient check-in system for youth living with HIV at the Wake County Health Department. Arlene Sena-Soberano, MD, MPH, was awarded a new NIH contrast as PI for a syphilis specimen biorepository that will involve three US sites and two international sites (including UNC Project Malawi) over 4 y…
2022 | Geriatric Medicine, Infectious Diseases, News, Research Funding
Department of Medicine Grants & Funding: September 1 – September 30, 2022

Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology Andrew Moon, MD has received a $200,000 (AASLD) Clinical, Translational and Outcomes Research Award (CTORA) from the American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases for his grant on “Incorporating the Patient Voice into Hepatocellular Carcinoma Treatment Models”. Division of Rheumatology, Allergy and Immunology Doug Phanstiel, PhD and Richard F. Loeser, MD, were awarded a $2.5M NIH NIAMS Grant to ID Osteoarthritis Risk Genes. Sarah Booth, PhD, and…
2022 | Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Infectious Diseases, Research Funding, Rheumatology, Allergy and Immunology

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