{"id":57913,"date":"2022-01-24T18:56:05","date_gmt":"2022-01-24T23:56:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/medicine\/?p=57913"},"modified":"2023-06-06T18:18:05","modified_gmt":"2023-06-06T22:18:05","slug":"burks-receives-lung-cancer-grant-award-dod","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/medicine\/news\/burks-receives-lung-cancer-grant-award-dod\/","title":{"rendered":"Burks Receives Lung Cancer Idea Development Award from the US Department of Defense"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_57914\" class=\"thumbnail wp-caption alignright\" style=\"width: 224px\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-57914\" src=\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/medicine\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/945\/2022\/01\/allen-cole-burks-214x300.jpeg\" alt=\"allen-cole-burks-lung-cancer-idea-award-DoD\" width=\"214\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/medicine\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/945\/2022\/01\/allen-cole-burks-214x300.jpeg 214w, https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/medicine\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/945\/2022\/01\/allen-cole-burks-731x1024.jpeg 731w, https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/medicine\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/945\/2022\/01\/allen-cole-burks-768x1075.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/medicine\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/945\/2022\/01\/allen-cole-burks-1097x1536.jpeg 1097w, https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/medicine\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/945\/2022\/01\/allen-cole-burks-1463x2048.jpeg 1463w, https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/medicine\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/945\/2022\/01\/allen-cole-burks-600x840.jpeg 600w, https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/medicine\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/945\/2022\/01\/allen-cole-burks-301x421.jpeg 301w, https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/medicine\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/945\/2022\/01\/allen-cole-burks.jpeg 1500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 214px) 100vw, 214px\" \/><figcaption class=\"caption wp-caption-text\">Allen Cole Burks, MD<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/medicine\/directory\/allen-cole-burks\/\">Allen Cole Burks<\/a>, MD, assistant professor of medicine in the division of pulmonary diseases and critical care medicine, has received a US Department of Defense Lung Cancer Research Program (LCRP) Idea Development Award (IDA)\u00a0for the development and optimization of a miniaturized high intensity focused ultrasound ablation catheter.<\/p>\n<p>The Idea Development Award promotes new ideas that are still in the early stages of development and have the potential to yield impactful data and new avenues of investigation. This award supports conceptually innovative, high-risk\/high-reward research that could lead to critical discoveries or major advancements that will accelerate progress toward eradicating deaths from lung cancer.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.federalgrants.com\/DoD-Lung-Cancer-Idea-Development-Award-41680.html\">Read more about the award.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Allen Cole Burks, MD, assistant professor of medicine in the division of pulmonary diseases and critical care medicine, has received a US Department of Defense Lung Cancer Research Program (LCRP) Idea Development Award (IDA)\u00a0for the development and optimization of a miniaturized high intensity focused ultrasound ablation catheter. The Idea Development Award promotes new ideas that &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/medicine\/news\/burks-receives-lung-cancer-grant-award-dod\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Burks Receives Lung Cancer Idea Development Award from the US Department of Defense\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":69419,"featured_media":57914,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"layout":"","cellInformation":"","apiCallInformation":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2,102],"tags":[631],"class_list":["post-57913","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-pulmonary","tag-631","odd"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Burks Receives Lung Cancer Idea Development Award from the US Department of Defense | Department of Medicine<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/medicine\/news\/burks-receives-lung-cancer-grant-award-dod\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Burks Receives Lung Cancer Idea Development Award from the US Department of Defense | Department of Medicine\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Allen Cole Burks, MD, assistant professor of medicine in the division of pulmonary diseases and critical care medicine, has received a US Department of Defense Lung Cancer Research Program (LCRP) Idea Development Award (IDA)\u00a0for the development and optimization of a miniaturized high intensity focused ultrasound ablation catheter. 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