Division of Geriatric Medicine
- Laura Hanson, MD, MPH, will lead NIA’s new IMPACT Collaboratory’s Patient and Caregiver Reported Outcomes (PCRO) Core, funded by a five-year, $1.4 million grant. Learn more.
Division of Hematology/Oncology
- , will receive $400,000 from Susan G. Komen to study how HER2+ tumors respond to HER2-targeted therapies. She is one of three researchers to receive funding which include Charles Perou, PhD, and Hector Franco, PhD. Learn more.
Division of Infectious Diseases
- ’s Institute for Global Health & Infectious Diseases (IGHID) has been awarded a 5-year contract to house the North Carolina HIV Training & Education Center (NCHTEC) through 2024. The team includes Christopher Hurt, MD, Cassandra Durham, MA/MS, and Ben Clack. Learn more.
- The IGHID has been awarded a three-year, $3M grant to launch a large epidemiological study led by David Margolis, MD of Lassa fever in Liberia by the Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations (CEPI).
Division of Pulmonary Diseases & Critical Care Medicine
- Jennifer Goralski, MD received a Clinical Research Scholars Program grant through the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation Therapeutics Development Network. Learn more.
- Carla Maria Pedrosa Ribeiro, PhD, was awarded a $250,000 grant from the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation to study “IRE1beta Domains: Novel Targets for CF Airway Mucus Production.”
Division of Rheumatology, Allergy & Immunology
- Leigh Callahan, PhD (PI) received a $3.4 million NIH grant to study rheumatic diseases. Learn more.