Phil Bridges Executive Director of Integrated Communications | UNC Health
Phil Bridges Executive Director of Integrated Communications | UNC Health
The School of Medicine (SOM) faculty has been awarded several competitive grants for projects commencing in January 2025. These grants, each exceeding $100,000, support a range of research initiatives.
Erin Kent received funding from the Humana Foundation for the project "enCompass: expanding the support of family caregivers of diverse patients with cancer and diabetes," amounting to $299,998. Louise Henderson's project titled "OPTimizing surveillance in lung cancer survivors with novel IMAging biomarkers and deep-Learning (OPTIMAL)" was granted $968,999 by the NIH National Cancer Institute (NCI).
Imran Rizvi and Jesse Raab both secured $217,500 from the American Cancer Society (ACS). Rizvi's research focuses on "Exploiting the Potential of Photochemically-Induced Ferroptosis to De-escalate Platinum Dose in Metastatic Ovarian Cancer," while Raab's work involves "Identification of epigenetic therapies for liver cancer."
Matthew Brush received $375,606 from Wellcome Trust for his project "LinkML: an open data modeling framework." Victoria Bautch and Wolfgang Bergmeier were each awarded $156,640 by the American Heart Association (AHA) for their respective studies on endothelial cell function during vascular development and platelet integrins.
Jiandong Liu's research on cardiomyocyte maturation was supported by a $751,747 grant from the NIH National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI). Ronald Swanstrom received $881,439 from the NIH National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) for his study on HIV evolution and latency.
Brian Strahl obtained a grant of $300,000 from ACS for his work on "Unlocking the function and histone-interaction landscapes of oncohistones." Adam Rosenthal's research into Vibrio cholerae biofilm gene expression garnered $240,060 from the NIH National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID).
Lastly, Samir Kelada was awarded $671,165 by the NIH National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) to explore genetic mechanisms underlying respiratory responses to air pollution.
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