The UNMC College of Medicine received new grant awards representing $4,131,159 in new funding in the months of June and July.
- Zaid Al-Kadhimi, MD, internal medicine-oncology/hematology, received a grant of $41,960 from the National Marrow Donor Program for a work order on “Clinical Transplant-Related Long-term Outcomes of Alternative Donor Allogeneic Transplantation.”
- Vijaya Bhatt, MD, internal medicine-oncology/hematology, received a grant of $20,832 from the Nation Marrow Donor Program for a work order on “Composite Health Assessment Model for Older Adults: Applying Pre-transplant Comorbidity, Geriatric Assessment, and Biomarkers to Predict Non-Relapse Mortality after Allogeneic Transplantation.”
- Don Coulter, MD, pediatrics, received a grant of $155,857 from Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia for a work order on “A single arm phase II trial to assess the efficacy and safety of CTL019 in first line high-risk (HR) pediatric and young adult patients with B-cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia (B- ALL) who are minimal residual disease (MRD) positive.”
- Rebekah Dawson, PhD, cellular and integrative physiology, received a $100,000 grant from the American Heart Association for her proposal, “Harnessing Glycomics to Understand COVID-19 and Cardiovascular Disease.”
- Yunlong Huang, PhD, pharmacology/experimental neuroscience, received a grant of $228,750 from DHHS/NIH/NIMH for the proposal “Eradication of CNS HIV reservoirs through a first-in-class anti-tumor agent ONC201.”
- Soonjo Hwang, MD, psychiatry, received a grant of $248,000 from Duke University for a “Long-term Antipsychotic Pediatric Safety Trial.”
- Brian Lowes, MD, PhD, internal medicine-cardiovascular, received a $129,630 grant from Massachusetts General Hospital for the proposal “Targeting Inflammation and Alloimmunity in Heart Transplant Recipients with Tocilizumab.”
- Roslyn Mannon, MD, internal medicine-nephrology, received a grant of $1,284 from the University of Alabama-Birmingham for the “Long-term Kidney Transplantation Outcomes Network (APOLLO) Clinical Center.”
- Palsamy Periyasamy, PhD, pharmacology/experimental neuroscience, received a grant of $382,500 from DHHS/NIH/NIDA for the proposal “HIV Tat and morphine-mediated pyroptosis activates astrocytes: Role of NLRP6 inflammasome in HAND.”
- Shyamal Roy, PhD, obstetrics/gynecology, received a grant of $324,063 from the DHHS/NIH/NICHD for the proposal “A novel regulation of early follicle formation.”
- Susan Swindells, MBBS, internal medicine-infectious diseases, received a grant of $468,599 from the University of Liverpool for the proposal “LONG acting pipeline to establish medicines for malaria, tuberculosis and Hepatitis C virus with Infrastructure for sustainable translational capacity.
- Heather Thomas, MD, pediatrics, received a grant of $152,076 from the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation for the proposal “Cystic Fibrosis Care, Teaching and Research Center.”
- Rana Zabad, MD, neurological sciences, received a grant of $14,560 from Johns Hopkins University for the proposal “Traditional Versus Early Aggressive Therapy For Multiple Sclerosis.” Dr. Zabad also received a grant of $7,340 from the State University of New York at Buffalo for a data use agreement “Creation of a multi-center database registry to study real world thalamus volume changes by use of artificial intelligence in patients with multiple sclerosis (MS).”
Industry-sponsored grants and contracts:
The following industry-sponsored contracts and foundation grants were received. Information on clinical trials enrolling patients at UNMC can be found here.