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Dr. Sarah Booth, PI & Dr. Richard Loeser, Co-PI, Receive NIH/NIAMS Grant: “Effects of Vitamin K on Lower-Extremity Function in Adults with Osteoarthritis (OA).”
This novel, randomized clinical trial will evaluate if vitamin K supplementation impacts pain and function in patients with knee OA who are vitamin K insufficient.
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Dr. Doug Phanstiel, PI & Dr. Richard Loeser, Co-PI, Receive $2.5 Million NIH NIAMS Grant: “Identifying novel osteoarthritis risk genes using GWAS, chondrocyte genomics, & genome editing.”
The innovative research seeks to identify putative causal knee OA risk variants, map them to their target genes, and quantify their phenotypic impact in chondrocytes.
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Dr. Lara Longobardi Publishes Research Demonstrating that Deletion of Ccr2 in Cartilaginous Tissues Reduces Impact of Post Traumatic Osteoarthritis & Pain
The research showed early deletion of Ccr2 in aggrecan-expressing cells reduces the initiation, but not the progression, of post traumatic osteoarthritis and its associated pain.
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Catch Up On the Latest Developments – View the Current Issue of the TARConnections Newsletter
Read about TARC’s Strategic Planning Retreat, get an update from our Director, and learn about TARC grants, our upcoming Research Day and seminars, the key offerings of our CCCR, as well as spotlights/kudos for our team members.
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The UNC “TARC Heels” Rank as #1 Fundraising Team, Generating Over $3,000 for Arthritis Foundation (AF) Walk
Members of the Thurston Arthritis Research Center (TARC) and their families recently braved the heat to “walk the walk” at the 2020 AF event, held in Raleigh, N.C.
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Michael (Zhe) Miao, a PhD Student in the Loeser Lab, Receives a Rheumatology Research Foundation “Medical & Graduate Student Achievement Award”
This award includes support for him to attend the 2022 ACR Convergence Meeting in Philadelphia, where he will present his abstract, “Redoxosomes Mediate a Feed-forward Loop of Cartilage Matrix Destruction Through α5β1 Integrin Signaling in Response to a Fibronectin Matrikine”.
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Dr. Amanda Nelson Receives $950K NIH/NIAMS “Midcareer Investigator Award in Patient Oriented Research (POR)”
The 5-year, K24 award from NIH/NIAMS will leverage Dr. Nelson’s ongoing POR program, enhance her professional development and that of her trainees, and support her mentoring early stage investigators.
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Dr. Saira Sheikh and Team Receive $500K NIH U01 Innovation Award from FDA’s Office of Minority Health & Health Equity to Advance Diversity and Representation in Lupus Clinical Trials
The aim of this 1-year award is to advance equity in lupus clinical trials by identifying, synthesizing, and disseminating innovative approaches and best practices to advance participant diversity in lupus clinical trials.
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