The following are new and competing renewal awards made to faculty in the Department of Pediatrics for the months of February through September 2020. Congratulations to these faculty on their awards and best wishes to them in their investigative work.
February 2020
Debra Best, MD (Primary Care) received an award from Center for Child and Family Health in the amount $470,550 for a project entitled, Responsive Early Access for Durham’s Young Children. The project period is 09/01/2019-0/31/2024.
C. Michael Cotten, MD, MHS (Neonatology) received an award from Baebies, Inc. in the amount of $80,500 for a project entitled, Multiplex Platform for Point-of-Care Newborn Screening of Hyperbilirubinemia. The project period is 08/13/2019-07/31/2020.
Rachel Greenberg, MD (Neonatology) received an award from Rice University in the amount of $52,324 for a project entitled CEHI Data Management. The project period is 01/01/2020-06/30/2020.
Baodong Sun, PhD (Medical Genetics) received an award from University of Pennsylvania in the amount of $52,509 for a project entitled, Gene Therapy for Adult Polygucosan Body Disease (APBD). The project period is 02/01/2020-01/31/2021.
Amelia Thompson, MD, MPH (Infectious Diseases) received an award from Moderna Therapeutics, Inc., in the amount of $91,190 for a project entitled, A Phase 1b, Randomized, Observer-Blind, Placebo-Controlled, Dose Ranging Study to Evaluate the Safety and Immunogenicity of mRNA-1653 a Combined Human Metapneumovirus (hMPV) and Parainfluenza Virus T. The project period is 03/01/2020-03/31/2021.
Emmanuel Walter, MD, MPH (Primary Care Pediatrics) received an award from Johns Hopkins University in the amount of $19,847 for a project entitled IMPAACT PTCL. The project period is 12/01/2019-11/30/2020.
Charlene Wong, MD, MSPH (Primary Care Pediatrics) received an award from Kate B. Reynolds in the amount of $439,524 for a project entitled Characterizing Health Disparities in the Shift of North Carolina Medicaid Managed Care. The award period is 02/01/2020-01/31/2021.
March 2020
Pinar Gumus Balikcioglu, MD, MHS (Endocrinology) received an award from Diabetes Research Connection in the amount of $75,000 for a project entitled Branched Chain Amino Acids: Metabolomic Predictors of Skeletal Muscle Mass Accrual and Glycemic Control Among Children with Type 1 diabetes. The project period is 01/01/2020-12/31/2020.
Timothy Driscoll, MD (Blood and Marrow Transplantation) received an award from Astellas in the amount of $554,896 for a project entitled A Phase 2 Open-Label Non-Comparative, Multicenter Study to Evaluate the Safety and Tolerability Efficacy and Pharmacokinetics of Isavuconazonium Sulfate for the Treatment of Invasive Aspergillosis(IA) or Invasive Mucormycosis (IM) in Pediatric Subjects. The project period is 02/1/2020-12/31/2021.
Areeg El-Gharbawy, MBBCh, MD (Medical Genetics) received an award from Ultragenyx in the amount of $71,145 for a project entitled Anaplerotic Therapy Using Triheptanoin for Patients with Glycogen Storage Disease Type I. The project period 02/28/2020-02/23/2021.
Mai Elmallah, MBBCh (Pulmonary and Sleep Medicine) received an award from the National Institutes of Health/NINDS in the amount of $442,750 for a project entitled Respiratory Dysfunction in Optinearin Knock out L=ALS Mouse Model. The project period is 04/01/2020-09/30/02021.
Rachel Greenberg, MD (Neonatology) received an award from Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia in the amount of $54,570 for a project entitled Maternal and Neonatal Group B Streptococcus Seroepidemiol. The project period is 09/30/2019-09/29/2020/2020.
Christoph Hornik, MD, MPH (Critical Care Medicine) and Kanecia Zimmerman, MD, MPH (Critical Care Medicine) received an award from the National Institutes of Health/NICHD in the amount of $60,285 for a project entitled Pediatric Critical Care Research Landscape-a National Expert Conference. The project period is 04/01/2020-03/31/2021.
John Sleasman, MD (Allergy and Immunology; Pulmonary and Sleep Medicine) received an award from X4 Pharmaceuticals in the amount of $268,793 for a project entitled A Phase 3, Randomized Double Blind Placebo-Controlled Multicenter Study of Mavorixafor in Patients with WIHIM Syndrome with Open-Label Extension. The project period is 02/21/2020-11/30/2021.
Edward Smith, MD (Neurology) received an award from Avexis Inc., in the amount of $73,800 for a project entitled A Long-term Follow-up Study of Patients in the Clinical Trials for Spinal Muscular Atrophy Receiving AVXS-101. The project period is 02/27/2020-02/28/2035.
April 2020
Coleen Cunningham, MD (Infectious Diseases) received an award from U.S. Department of Health and Human Services/HRSA in the amount of $37,714.00 for a project entitled “Ryan White HIV/Aids Program Part D WICY COVID-19 Response”. The project period is 04/01/2020-03/31/2021.
Genevieve Fouda, PhD (Infectious Diseases) received an award from National Institutes of Health/NICHD in the amount of $442,750 for a project entitled “Molecular Signatures of Broad Neutralization in HIV Infected Children”. The project period is 05/06/2020-04/30/2022.
Priya Kishnani, MD, MBBS (Medical Genetics) received an award from Amicus Therapeutics in the amount of $451,734 for a project entitled “A Phase 3 Double-Blind Randomized Study To Assess The Efficacy And Safety of Intravenous ATB200 Co-Administered With Oral AT2221 In Adult Subjects With Late-Onset Pompe Disease Compared With Alglucosidase Alfa/Placebo”. The project period is 04/13/2020-11/30/2024.
Paul Martin, MD, PhD (Blood and Marrow Transplantation) received an award from BlueBird Bio in the amount of $782,872 for a project entitled “A Phase 3 study evaluating Gene Therapy by Transplantation of Autologous cd34+ Stem Cells Transduced ex vivo with the Lentiglobin bb305 Lentiviral Vector in Subjects with Severe Sickle Cell Disease”. The project period is 04/17/2020-03/29/2022.
Neeraj Surana, MD, PhD (Infectious Diseases) received an award from The Hartwell Foundation in the amount of $300,000 for a project entitled” Developing Bacterian-Deriived Therapies to Cure Inlammator”. The project period is 04/01/2020-03/31/2023.
Dimitry Tchapyjnikov, MD (Neurology) received an award from Will Medical College of Cornell in the amount of $ 7,000 for a project entitled” A Learning Healthcare System for Pediatric Epilepsy. The project period is 10/01/2019-09/30/2020.
Kristin Weimer, MD, PhD, MHS (Neonatology) received an award from Merck in the amount of $204,986 for a project entitled” Improved CMV Dried Bloods Sot PCR for Universal CMV Screening”. The project period is 03/20/2020-10/31/2020.
Muhammad Zafar, MBBS (Neurology) received an award from Bio-Pharm Solutions in the amount of $133,678 for a project entitled “A Phase 2 Study to Assess the Safety, Tolerability, Exploratory Efficacy, and Pharmacokinetics of Orally Administered JBPOS0101 for Refractory Infantile Spasms Patients”. The project period is 03/26/2020-01/31/2021.
Xiaoping Zhong, MD, PhD (Allergy and Immunology) received an award from the National Institutes of Health/NIAID in the amount of $442,750 for project entitled” TSC1 in Alveolar Macrophages Development and Function”. The project period is 04/01/2020-03/31/2022.
May 2020
Danny Benjamin, MD, PhD (Infectious Diseases) and Kanecia Zimmerman, MD (Critical Care Medicine) received an award from the National Institutes of Health/NICHD in the amount $1,745,388 for a project entitled” PTN 2.0: Task order #2 COVID-19 POP02”. The project period is 03/31/2020-09/13/2022.
Rasheed Gbadegesin, MD, MBBS (Nephrology) and Annette Maria Jackson, PhD (Surgery) received an award from National Institutes of Health/NIAID in the amount of $3,723,205 for a project entitled “Defining the Landscape of HLA Risk Alleles in Primary Nephrotic Syndrome and Post Kidney Transplant Recurrence”. The project period is 06/01/2020-05/31/2025.
Mikelle Key Solle, MD (Hospital Medicine) and Austin Wesevich, MD, MPH (Medicine-Pediatrics) received an award from the National Medicine-Pediatrics Research Association in the amount of $2,498 for a project entitled “Patient-Centered Daily Plan”. The project period is 04/01/2020-03/31/2021.
Sallie Permar, MD, PhD (Infectious Diseases) and Ria Goswami, PhD (Infectious Diseases) received an award from the Good Ventures Foundation in the amount of $130,983 for a project entitled “An Orally Bioavailable Broad-Spectrum HSP90 Inhibitor (Hsp90i) Therapy to Suppress Emerging Coronavirus (CoV) infections”. The project period is 05/01/2020-04/30/2021.
Xiaoping Zhong, MD, PhD (Allergy and Immunology) received an award from National Institutes of Health/NIAID in the amount of $309,442 for a project entitled “Regulating peripheral T cell Tolerance”. The project period is 05/11/2020-04/30/2021.
June 2020
Danny Benjamin, MD, PhD (Infectious Diseases) and Kanecia Zimmerman, MD (Critical Care Medicine) received an award from the National Institutes of Health/NICHD in the amount $1,745,388 for a project entitled, PTN 2.0: Task order #2 COVID-19 POP02. The project period is 03/31/2020-09/13/2022.
Kaveh Ardalan, MD (Rheumatology) received an award from Childhood Arthritis Rheumatology Research Alliance, Inc. in the amount of $71,765 for a project entitled, CARRA Early Investigator Chari Support. The project period is 07/01/2020-06/30/2023.
Daniel Benjamin, MD, PhD, MPH (Infectious Diseases) received a supplemental award from National Institutes of Health in the amount $631,842 for a project entitled, Center for Innovative Trials in ChilDrEN and AdulTs (TRIDENT). +The project period is 07/01/2020-06/30/2021.
Karl-Dimiter Bissig, MD, PhD (Medical Genetics) received an award from the National Institutes of Health/NIDDK in the amount of $681,626 for a project entitled Therapeutic Pathway Reprogramming for Metabolic Liver Diseases. The project period is 05/01/2020-08/31/2021.
Rasheed Gbadegesin, MD, MBBS (Nephrology) received an award from Retrophin in the amount of $125,352 for a project entitled, A Randomized, Multicenter, Double-Blind, Parallel, Active-Control Study of the Effects of Sparsentan, A Dual Endothelin Receptor and Angiotensin Receptor Blocker, On Renal Outcomes in Patients with Primary ‘Focal Segmental Glomerulosclerosis (FSGS)'. The project period 06/16/2020-06/14/2022.
Christoph Hornik (Critical Care Medicine) received an award from Before Brands, Inc., in the amount of $3,425,095 for a project entitled” SpoonfulOne”. The project period is 07/01/2020-08/30/2023.
Christoph Hornik, MD, MPH (Critical Care Medicine) received an award from Purdue Pharma in the amount of $49,942 for a project entitled, Hydrocodone for Moderate to Severe Pain in Children. The project period is 07/01/2020-10/31/2020.
Monica Lemmon, MD (Neurology) received an award from University of California San Francisco in the amount of $44,576 for a project entitled, Neonatal Seizure Registry Developmental Functional Evaluation (NSR-DEV). The project period is 03/15/2020-02/28/2021.
Corinne Linardic, MD, PhD (Hemaology-Oncology) and Kristianne Oristian (Pharmacology PhD candidate) received an award from the National Institutes of Health/NCI in the amount of $109,350 for a project entitled, Role of MST/Hippo Kinase Inactivation in Driving Fusion-Positive Rhabdomyosarcoma. The project period is 07/01/2020-06/30/2023.
Ann Reed, MD (Rheumatology) and Richard Noel, MD, PhD (Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition) received an award from The Mario Family Foundation in the amount of $150,000 for a project entitled, Improve Care Now-Supporting Collaboration Education Pediatric GI. The project period 01/01/2020-12/31/2022.
Emmanuel Walter, MD (Infectious Diseases) received an award from Pfizer Inc., in the amount of $4,074,183 for a project entitled, A Phase ½ Placebo-Controlled Randomized, Observer Blind, Dose-Finding Study to Describe the Safety, Tolerability, Immunogenicity, and Potential Efficacy of SARS-COV-2 RNA Vaccine Candidates Against Covid-19 in Healthy Adults. The project period is 07/01/2020-12/31/2022.
July 2020
Kyle Rehder, MD (Critical Care Medicine) received an award from Boston Children’s Hospital in the amount of $1,825 for a project entitled “Understanding COVID-19 Among Critically ill Children in the Pediatric Acute Lung Injury and Sepsis Investigator’s (PALIS) Network”. The project period 04/09/2020-10/08/2021.
Kristin Schroeder, MD, MPH (Hematology-Oncology) received an award from The Regents of the University of California UCLA in the amount of $16,345 for a project entitled “AIDS Malignancy Consortium”. The project period is 09/01/2019- 08/31/2020.
Danny Benjamin, MD, PhD, MPH (Infectious Diseases) received an award from National Institutes of Health/NCATS in the amount of $869,057 for a project entitled” COVID-19 Supplement- Center for Innovative TRIals in ChilDrEN and AduLTs (TRIDENT”. The project period is 07/15/2020-06/30/2021.
Sallie Permar, MD, PhD (Infectious Diseases) and Jennifer Jenks (MSTP/MGM Graduate Student) received an award from National CMV Foundation in the amount of $10,000 for a project entitled” Strategies to Target CMV Glycoprotein B Antigenic Domain-2 B Cell Lineage Maps”. The project period is 04/01/2020-03/31/2021.
Emmanuel Walter, MD, MPH (Infectious Diseases) received an award from National Institutes of Health in the amount of $317,734 for a project entitled” VETU Task Area A- FY2020.A1B1C1D1.0123 – Option 1”. The project period is 07/12/2020-07/11/2021.
Deeksha Bali, PhD (Medical Genetics) received an award from JCR Pharmaceuticals in the amount of $ 74,933 for a project entitled” Method Development and Data Validations for MPSII”. The project period is 07/01/2020 -06/30/2021.
Deeksha Bali, PhD (Medical Genetics) received an award from JCR Pharmaceuticals in the amount of $74,933 for a project entitled” Method Development and Data Validation for MPS 1”. The project period is 07/01/2020-06/30/2021.
Dwight Koeberl, MD, PhD (Medical Genetics) received an award from National Institutes of Health/NIAMSD in the amount of $379,393 for a project entitled” Genome Editing for the Correction of Pompe Disease”. The project period is 07/20/2020-06/30/2022.
Dwight Koeberl, MD, PhD (Medical Genetics) received an award from Moderna Therapeutics in amount of $384,019 for a project entitled “A Global, Phase 1/2, Open-label, and Dose Escalation Study to Evaluate the Safety, Pharmacodynamics, and Pharmacokinetics of mRNA-3927 in Participants with Propionic Acidemia”. The project period is 07/13/2020-4/30/2022.
Vandana Shashi, MD, MBBS (Medical Genetics) and David Goldstein, PhD (Columbia University) received a supplemental award from National Institute of Health/NHGRI in the amount of $146,047 for a project entitled “An Integrated and Diverse Genomic Medicine Program for Undiagnosed Diseases”. The project period is 07/29/2020-06/30/2021.
William Malcolm, MD (Neonatology) received an award from Cheisi in amount of $425,700 for a project entitled “A Phase II, multicenter, double blind, double dummy, randomized, 2 arms parallel study to evaluate the efficacy, safety and pharmacokinetics of CHF6563 in babies with Neonatal Opioid Withdrawal Syndrome”. The project period is 07/01/2020-06/30/2021.
Eric Benner, MD, PhD (Neoatology) and Agnes Chao, MD (Neonatology Fellow) and received an award from American Academy Pediatrics Fellowship in the amount of $5,000 for a project entitled” Therapeutic Potential of Oxysterols in Neonatal White Matter Injury”. The project period is 07/01/2020-06/30/2021.
Muhammad Zafar, MD (Neurology) received an award from SK Life Sciences in amount of $76,847 for a project entitled “Phase I, Open-Label Study of Carisbamate in Adult and Pediatric Subjects with Lennox-Gastaut Syndrome”. The project period is 07/07/2020-07/06/2021.
Carolyn Avery, MD, MHS (Primary Care) received an award from American Academy of Pediatrics in the amount of $75,000 for project entitled “Carolinas Collaborative 2.0 Strengthening Support for Vulnerable Families”. The project period is 03/01/2020-11/30/2022.
August 2020
Sarah Armstrong, MD (Primary Care) and Ashley Skinner, PhD (Population Health Sciences), received an award from the National Institutes of Health/NICHD in the amount of $3,157,618 for a project entitled Parks and Pediatrics Fit Together: Translating Knowledge into Action for Child Obesity Treatment in Partnership with Parks and Recreation. The project period is 08/19/2020-06/30/2025.
Karl Dimiter-Bissig, MD, PhD (Medical Genetics), received an award from Baylor College of Medicine in the amount of $108,914 for a project entitled Physiological Dissection of the Mevalonate Pathway. The project period is 04/072020-02/28/2021.
Areeg El-Gharbawy, MBBCh, MD (Medical Genetics), received an award from Idorisa Pharmaceuticals in the amount of $65,560 for a project entitled A Multicenter, Double-blind, Randomized, Placebo-controlled, Parallel-group Study to Determine the Efficacy and Safety of Lucerastat Oral Monotherapy in Adult Subjects with Fabry Disease. The project period is 08/06/2020-09/09/2021.
Michael Freemark, MD (Endocrinology), received an award from Rhythm Pharmaceuticals in the amount of $99,702 for a project entitled Long Term Extension Trial of Setmelanotide (RM-493) for Patients Who Have Completed a Trial of Setmelanotide for the Treatment of Obesity Associated with Genetic Defects Upstream of the MC4 Recepto. The project period is 7/28/2020-07/31/2025.
Rasheed Gbadegesin, MD, MBBS (Nephrology), received an award from Reata Pharmaceuticals in the amount of $100,496 for a project entitled An Extended Access Program to Assess Long Term Safety of Bardoxolone Methyl in patients with Chronic Kidney Disease. The project period is 08/05/2020-08/04/2022.
Andrew Landstrom, MD, PhD, (Cardiology), received an award from The Doris Duke Charitable Foundation, Inc. in the amount of $495,000 for a project entitled Targeting Wnt- Signaling to Prevent Sudden Death in Pediatric Arrhythmic Cardiomyopathy TBD. The project period is 09/01/2020-08/31/2023.
Corinne Linardic, MD, PhD, (Hematology-Oncology), received a supplemental award from the National Institutes of Health/NCI in the amount of $38,133 for a project entitled Creating a TurboID-PAX3-FOXO1 Knock-in Mouse to Identify the Vivo Interactome of the Fusion Oncoprotein PAX-FOXO1. The project period is 08/11/2020-08/31/2024.
M. Anthony Moody, MD, (Infectious Diseases), received an award from Research Triangle Institute/NIH in the amount of $216,754 for a project entitled Emerging Infectious Diseases-Coordination Center. The project period is 03/01/2020-02/28/20205.
Sallie Permar, MD, PhD (Infectious Diseases), received a supplemental award from the National Institutes of Health in the amount of $1,527,165 for a project entitled Immunogenicity and Efficacy of SARS-CoV-2 Stabilized Perfusion Spike Protein Vaccines in infant Rhesus Macaques. The project period is 06/01/2020-03/31/2021.
Emmanuel Walter, MD, MPH (Infectious Diseases), received an award from Fred Hutchinson/NIH in the amount of $378,710 for a project entitled COVID-19 Prevention Network (CoVPN) Site Preparation. The project period is 06/01/2020-11/30/2020.
Muhammad Zafar, MBBS (Neurology), received an award from Marinus Pharmaceuticals in the amount of $79,166 for a project entitled A Phase 2 Open-label 12-Week Trial of Adjunctive Ganaxolone Treatment (Part A) in Tuberous Sclerosis Complex-related Epilepsy followed by Long-term Treatment (Part B). The project period is 07/20/2020-07/19/2023.
September 2020
Samia Aleem, MBBS (Neonatology) received an award from UCB in the amount of $481,075 for a project entitled A Multicenter, Open-Label, Randomized, active Comparator Study to Evaluate the Efficacy, Safety and Pharmacokinetics of Lacosamide in Neonates with Repeated Electroencephalograpghic Neonatal Seizures. The project period is 09/21/2020-10/03/2022.
Danny Benjamin, MD, PhD, MPH (Infectious Diseases) and Mickey Cohen-Wolkowiez, MD, PhD (Infectious Diseases) received an award from the Food Drug Administration in the amount of $500,000 for a project entitled Global Pediatric Clinical Trials Network Supplement. The project period is 09/01/2020-08/31/2021.
Robert Benjamin, MD (Endocrinology), Angelo Milazzo, MD (Cardiology), Richard Chung, MD (Primary Care), David Ming, MD (Medicine-Pediatrics) and William Malcolm, MD (Neonatology) received an award from Innovation Health Center in the amount of $282,860 for a project entitled Advanced Care Integration for Pediatric Population s in North Carolina Medicaid. The project period is from 07/01/2020- 06/30/202101/01/2020.
Mickey Cohen-Wolkowiez, MD, PhD (Infectious Diseases), Giselle Corbie Smith, MD, MSc (Social Medicine-UNC), and Warren Kibbe, PhD (Biostatistics and Bioinformatics) received an award from the National Institutes of Health in the amount of $80,000,000 for a project entitled RADx-UP CDCC. The project period is 09/01/2020-08/31/2021.
Joseph Heitman, MD, PhD (Molecular Genetics & Microbiology), William Steinbach, MD (Infectious Diseases), Jiyong Hong, PhD (Chemistry) and Ronald Venters, PhD (Biochemistry) received an award from the National Institutes of Health in the amount of $669,233 for a project entitled Structural Biological Development of Fungal-Specific Calcineurin Inhibitors. The project period is 09/14/2020-08/31/2021.
Matthew Kelly, MD, MPH (Infectious Diseases) received an award from KK Women and Children’s Hospital in the amount of $ 114,535 for a project entitled Clinical and Gut Microbial Risk Factors for Gram-Negative Bacterial Late-Onset Sepsis Among Premature Babies in Singapore. The project period is 07/01/2020-06/30/2023.
Dwight Koeberl, MD, PhD (Medical Genetics) received an award from the National Institutes of Health/NIDDK in the amount of $159,202 for a project entitled Investigating Autophagy in GSD-la. The project period is from 9/15/2020-08/31/2021.
Marie McDonald, MD (Medical Genetics) received an award from Pfizer in the amount of $489,018 for a project entitled Genetics and Metabolism Training Program. The project period is from 09/29/2020-07/31/2023.
Sallie Permar, MD, PhD (Infectious Diseases) received a supplement award from the National Institutes of Health in the amount of $157,639 for a project entitled Immunologic and Virologic Determinants of Congenital Cytomegalovirus Transmission and Disease in Rhesus Monkeys. The project period is 09/01/2020-06/30/2022.
Timothy Reddy, PhD (Biostatistics & Bioinformatics), Gregory Crawford, PhD (Medical Genetics), Vandana Shashi, MD, MBBS (Medical Genetics), Priya Kishnani, MBBS (Medical Genetics), Andrew Allen, PhD (Biostatistics & Bioinformatics), Charles Gersbach, PhD (Biomedical Engineering), Warren Kibbe, PhD (Biostatistics & Bioinformatics) and Gregory Wray, PhD (Biology) received an award from the National Institutes of Health/NHGRI in the amount of $8,000,000 for a project entitled The Duke FUNCTION Center: Pioneering the comprehensive identification of combinatorial noncoding causes of disease. The project period is 09/24/2020-06/30/2023.
Edward Smith, MD (Neurology) received an award from Muscular Dystrophy in the amount of $5,000 for a project entitled 2020-2025 PPMD Grant.The project period is 01/01/2020-12/31/2020.
Brian Smith, MD, MPH, MHS (Neonatology), Rachel Greenberg, MD (Neonatology) and Danny Benjamin, MD, PhD, MPH (Infectious Diseases) received an award from National Institutes of Health in the amount of $7,000,000 for a project entitled ECHO Administrative Supplement-Neonatal Opioid Trials. The project period is 09/11/2020-08/31/2021.
Rebecca Sudan, MD, PhD (Rheumatology) received an award from The Arthritis Foundation in the amount of $150,000 for a project entitled Arthritis Foundation Fellowship Training Grant 2019. The project period is 08/01/2020-07/31/2023.
Emmanuel Walter, MD (Infectious Diseases) received an award from Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in the amount $8,091,860 for a project entitled HVTN 3002 Protocol Funding (PF) - Durham Protocol –Specific Site. The project period 08/01/2020-11/30/2020.
Kanecia Zimmerman, MD, MPH (Critical Care Medicine) Ibukun Akinboyo, MD (Infectious Diseases) and Danny Benjamin, MD, PhD, MPH (Infectious Diseases) received an award from the National Institutes of Health/NICHD in the amount of $6,448,271 for a project entitled NICHD-TO #7-COVID-19 Studies (POP01 and School Board). The project period is 09/21/2020-09/20/2021.
Kanecia Zimmerman, MD, MPH (Critical Care Medicine) and Matthew Kelly, MD, MPH (Infectious Diseases) received an award from National Institutes of Health/NICHD in the amount of $385,623 for a project entitled TO#8- Botswana Lactation Network. The project period is 09/28/2020-09/27/2022.