The following are new and competing renewal awards made to faculty in the Department of Pediatrics for the months of October 2020 through January 2021. Congratulations to these faculty on their awards and best wishes to them in their investigative work.
October 2020
Mara Becker, MD, MSCE (Rheumatology) and Danny Benjamin, MD, PhD, MPH (Infectious Diseases) received an award from National Institutes of Health/NICHD in the amount of $5,297,874 (additional $2,298,706 awarded on 9/29/20) entitled PTN2 TO#6 Clinical Pharmacokinetics and Safety Trials In Down Syndrome. The project period is 09/12/2019-06/30/2025.
Danny Benjamin, MD, PhD, MPH (Infectious Diseases) and Rachel Greenberg, MD, MHS (Neonatology) received an award from National Institutes of Health/NCATS in the amount of $81,680 for a project entitled HEAL Pain Supplement MFMU Network. The project period is 09/15/2020-06/30/2021.
Danny Benjamin, MD, PhD, MPH (Infectious Diseases) received an award from National Institutes of Health/NCATS in the amount of $75,118 for a project entitled HEAL Pain Supplement IMPACTS Network. The project period is 09/15/2020-06/30/2021.
Danny Benjamin, MD, PhD, MPH (Infectious Diseases) and Samia Aleem, MD, MHS (Neonatology) received an award from National Institutes of Health/NCATS in the amount of $488,561 for a project entitled HEAL Pain Supplement NYU Ketamine Network. The project period is 09/15/2020-06/30/2021.
Danny Benjamin, MD, PhD, MPH (Infectious Diseases) and Jason Lang, MD, MPH (Pulmonary and Sleep Medicine) received an award from National Institutes of Health/NCATS in the amount of $272,630 for a project entitled HEAL Pain Supplement Surgery PAL (Rabbits, Seattle). The project period is 09/15/2020-06/30/2021.
Danny Benjamin, MD, PhD, MPH (Infectious Diseases) and Brian Smith, MD, MPH, MHS (Neonatolgy) received an award from National Institutes of Health/NCATS in the amount of $924,758 for a project entitled HEAL Pain Supplement SKOAP (Cohen). The project period is 09/15/2020-06/30/2021.
Danny Benjamin, MD, PhD, MPH (Infectious Diseases) and Brian Smith, MD, MPH, MHS (Neonatology) received an award from National Institutes of Health/NCATS in the amount of $689,022 for a project entitled HEAL Pain Supplement RESOLVE (Debar). The project period is 09/15/2020-06/30/2021.
Danny Benjamin, MD, PhD, MPH (Infectious Diseases) and Karan Kumar, MD, MS (Critical Care Medicine) received an award from National Institutes of Health/NCATS in the amount of $377,492 for a project entitled HEAL Pain Supplement POSITIVE (Vowles, New Mexico). The project period is 09/15/2020-06/30/2021.
Danny Benjamin, MD, PhD, MPH (Infectious Diseases) received an award from National Institutes of Health/NCATS in the amount of $968,389 for a project entitled HEAL Pain Supplement Administrative Core. The project period is 09/15/2020-06/30/2021.
Danny Benjamin, MD, PhD, MPH (Infectious Diseases) and Brian Smith, MD, MPH, MHS (Neonatology) received an award from Technical Resources International in the amount of $44,948,186 for a project entitled ACTIV-1. The project period is 08/17/2020-08/16/2021.
Coleen Cunningham, MD (Infectious Diseases) received an award from Merck Sharp & Dohme Corp. in the amount of $108,361 for a project entitled A Phase 2 Clinical Study to Evaluate the Pharmacokinetics, Safety, and Efficacy of Doravirine/Islatravir in Adolescents with HIV-1 Infection who are Virologically Suppressed, are ≥12 to <18 Years of Age, and Weigh ≥35 kg. The project period is 11/16/2020-11/15/2022.
Michael Deel, MD (Hematology-Oncology) received an award Hyundai Hope on Wheels 2020 Scholar grant in the amount of $300,000 for a project entitled Novel Vulnerabilities within PAX3-FOX01 Transcriptional Programming for Fusion-Positive Rhabdomyosarcoma. The project period is 12/29/2020-12/31/2022.
Mohamad Mikati, MD (Neurology) received an award from Stridebio grant in the amount of $706,765 for a project entitled Optimization of Gene Therapy in Mouse Model of ATP1A3 Mutation. The project period is 10/13/2020-11/30/2022.
David Ming, MD (Hospital Medicine) received an award from Camden Coalition of Healthcare Providers in the amount of $10,000 for a project entitled Regional Complex Care Conference. The project period is 06/15/2020-04/30/2021.
Sallie Permar, MD, PhD (Infectious Diseases) and Jennifer Jenks (Molecular Genetics and Microbiology) received an award from the National Institutes of Health Fellowship award in the amount of $126,149 for a project entitled Immune Correlates of Protection Against Nonprimary Congenital Cytomegalovirus Transmission in an HIV-Infected Mother-Infant Cohort. The project period is 11/1/2020-10/31/2023.
Eliana Perrin, MD, MPH (Primary Care) received a supplement from Vanderbilt University Medical Center in the amount of $64,109 for a project entitled Greenlight Plus Study a Randomized Study of Approaches to Early Childhood Obesity Prevention –COVID-19 Supplement. The project period is 07/01/2020/06/30/2021.
Kristin Schroeder, MD, MPH (Hematology-Oncology), Nelson Chao, MD, MBA (Cell Therapy and Hematologic Malignancies) and Michael Kastan, MD, PhD (Pharmacology and Cancer Biology) received a supplement award from National Institutes of Health/NCI in the amount $199,940 for a project entitled Development of Culturally Adapted Pediatric Cancer Awareness Campaign in Tanzania. The project period is 09/08/2020-08/31/2021.
Jennifer Sherwin, MD (Critical Care Medicine) received an award from Allergan Sales, LLC in the amount of $102,574 for a project entitled A Phase 3, Multicenter, Open-Label, Randomized, Comparator Controlled Trial of the Safety and Efficacy of Dalbavancin versus Active Comparator in Pediatric Subjects with Acute Bacterial Skin and Skin Structure Infections. The project period is from 10/01/2020-03/31/2022.
Edward Smith, MD (Neurology) received an award from Cure SMA in the amount of $52,099 for a project entitled SMA Care Center Registry. The project period is from 10/01/2020-09/30/2021.
Edward Smith, MD (Neurology) received an award from Research Triangle Institute/Sarepta Therapeutics in the amount of $217,348 for a project entitled Duchenne Early Check Newborn Screening. The project period is 01/01/2020-12/31/2022.
Edward Smith, MD (Neurology) received an award from Sarepta Therapeutics in the amount $25,912 for a project entitled Open-label comparison study of wearable devices BioStamp, AIM patch, and Actigraph as compared to ActiMyo in user preference and device performance for ambulatory DMD and LGMD patients. The project period is 09/25/2020-09/24/2021.
Emmanuel Walter, MD, MPH (Infectious Diseases) received an award from the Centers for Disease Control in the amount of $213,409 for a project entitled Clinical Vaccine Safety Evaluation-Contributing Site- Task COVID- Optional Task 3. The project period is 09/17/2020-03/31/2022.
Emmanuel Walter, MD, MPH (Infectious Diseases) received an award from Centers for Diseases Control in the amount of $8,804 for a project entitled CISA 2020-2021- Clinical Consult-0 Opt 2. The project period is 9/29/2020-09/28/2021.
November 2020
Kaveh Ardalan, MD (Rheumatology) received an award from Cure JM Foundation in the amount of $40,000 for a project entitled” Vamorolone in Juvenile Autoimmune Myositis”. The project period is 10/01/2020-05/31/2021.
Asheley Skinner, PhD (Population Health Sciences) and Sarah Armstrong, MD (Primary Care) received an award from Mitre Corporation/Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services in the amount of $187,436 for a project entitled” CODI 2.0. The project period is 12/01/2020-06/30/2021.
Dorothy Dow, MD, MSc (Infectious Diseases) received a competing renewal award from Johns Hopkins University in the amount of $66,388 for a project entitled” LOC-IMPAACT 2016 Protocell Co-Chair Support”. The project period is 12/01/2020-11/30/2025.
Matthew Kelly, MD, MPH (Infectious Diseases) received a competing renewal award from Johns Hopkins University in the amount of $74,342 for a project entitled” LOC-IMPAACT Leadership Group”. The project period is 12/01/2020-11/30/2025.
Matthew Kelly, MD, MPH (Infectious Diseases) received an award from Merck in the amount of $297,771 for a project entitled “The Role of the Upper Respiratory Microbiome in Mediating Synergism Between Respiratory Viruses and Pneumococcus“. The project period is 11/18/2020-09/30/2022.
Krzysztof Kiryluk, MD (Columbia University/Nephrology) and Rasheed Gbadegesin, MD, MBBS (Nephrology) received an award from Columbia University/NIH in the amount of$26,722 for a project entitled” Genomics of Glomerular Disease”. The project period is 06/01/2020-05/31/2023.
William Malcolm, MD (Neonatology) received an award from MedBlue in amount $54,066 for a project entitled “Utilizing an Automatic Data Pipeline to Generate Patient Outcomes Prediction Models for Respiratory Syncytial Virus (RSV) Surveillance”. The project period is 09/23/2020-08/15/2021.
M. Anthony Moody, MD (Infectious Diseases) received an award for RTI/NIH in the amount of $199,999 for a project entitled “Emerging Infectious Diseases-Coordination Center”. The project period is 06/01/2020-04/30/2021.
Edward Smith, MD (Neurology) received an award from Research Triangle Institute/MDATherapeutics in the amount of $54,337 for a project entitled”Duchenne Early Check Newborn Screening”. The project period is 03/01/2020-12/31/2022.
John Sleasman, MD (Allergy and Immunology) received an award from ADMA Biologics in the amount of $111,365 for a project entitled “A Phase IV, Multicenter, Open-label Study to Evaluate the Safety and Pharmacokinetics of BIVIGAM® in Primary Immune Deficiency Disorders in Subjects Aged 2 to 16”. The project period is 10/26/2020-12/30/2021.
Lars Wagner, MD (Hematology-Oncology) received an award from the National Pediatric Cancer Foundation in the amount of $40,963 for a project entitled “NPFC Sunshine Project”. The project period is 01/01/2020-12/31/2020.
December 2020
Matthew Kelly, MD, MPH (Infectious Diseases) received an award from Merck in the amount of $251,603 for a project entitled Gene Expression Profiling of Children with SARS-VoV-2 Infection or Exposure. The project period is 10/01/2020-09/30/2021.
Andrew Landstrom, MD, PhD (Cardiology) received an award from the University of Utah/NIH in the amount of $1,185,305 for a project entitled The Role of PRDM16 in Cardiac Development and Cardiomyopathy. The project period is 07/01/2020-06/30/2025.
Monica Lemmon, MD (Neurology) received an award from the Band Foundation in the amount $52,000 for a project entitled Having the Conversation: A Communication Guide for Sudden Unexpected Death in Epilepsy. The project period is 04/01/2021-0331/2023.
Corinne Linardic, MD, PhD (Hematology-Oncology) received an award from Alex’s Lemonade Stand Foundation in the amount of $7,913 for a project entitled Faces of Research 2020. The project period is 01/04/2021-01/03/2022.
William Malcolm, MD (Neonatology) received an award from MedBlue Incubator in the amount of $103,387 for a project entitled Active Surveillance of Respiratory Syncytial Virus (RSV) in Healthy US infants: A Pilot Study to Determine Feasibilty of Establishing a Network. The project period is 12/28/2020-01/27/2022.
Eliana Perrin, MD (Primary Care Pediatrics) and Dean Miner, MD (Primary Care Pediatrics) received an award from Yale University in the amount of $431,270 for a project entitled Implementation of Decision Support for the Management of Obesity in a National Pediatric Primary Care Research Network. The project period is 08/22/2020-03/31/2025.
Egla Rabinovich, MD (Rheumatology) received an award from Carra-Arthritis Foundation in the amount of $12,050 for a project entitled Implementation of Electronic Health Record Optimization Tools to Capture and Extract CARRA Data. The project period is 07/01/2020-01/31/2022.
William Steinbach, MD (Infectious Diseases) received an award from the Foundation for Research Infectious Disease in the amount of $33,000 for a project entitled Molecular Pathogenesis of Aspergillus Fumigatus. The project period is 01/01/2021-12/31/2021.
Neeraj Surana, MD, PhD (Infectious Diseases) received an award from University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill in the amount of $29,999 for a project entitled Exploring the Protective Effect of Clostridium Immunis in Colitis. The project period is 07/01/2020-04/30/2020.
Heather Van Mater, MD (Rheumatology) received an award from Alexion Pharmaceuticals in the amount of $354,543 for a project entitled A phase 2/3 Open Label, Single Arm Trial to Ealuate the Safety and Activity of Eculizumab in Pediatric Patients with Relapsing Neuromyelitis Optica Spectrum Disorder. The project period is 12/01/2020-11/30/22.
Kyle Walsh, PhD (Neurosurgery) received an award from Infectious Diseases Society of America in the amount of $200,000 for a project entitled Serologic and Genomic Modifiers of Beta-Amyloid Levels in Immuno-Compromised Cohort of Adults Down Syndrome Patients. The project period is 01/04/2021-01/04/2022.
Kristin Weimer, MD, PhD (Neonatology) received an award from University of California – San Diego in the amount of $342,160 for a project entitled NeoChip for Specific and Rapid Identification of Congenital CMV and Neonatal HSV Infections on Minimal Sample Volume. The project period 09/10/2020-06/30/2025.
January 2021
C. Michael Cotton, MD (Cardiology) received an award from Research Triangle Institute in the amount of $60,375 for a grant entitled Collaborative Innovation Award, CTSA Program. The project period is 07/01/2020-06/30/2021.
Kristy Pahl, MD (Hematology-Oncology) received an award from Venthera Incorporated in the amount of $165,951 for a grant entitled Trial of Topical VT30 in Subjects with Venous, Lymphatic or Mixed Malformations Associated with PIK3CA or Tek Genetic Mutations. The project period is 07/07/2021-08/31/2022.
Vinod Prasad, MBBS (Transplant and Cellular Therapy) received an award from Akari Therapeutics in the amount of $385,637 for a grant entitled Multicenter Study of Nomacopan in Pediatric Hematopoietic Stem-Cell Transplant Associated Thrombotic. The project period is 03/06/2020-05/14/2024.
Edward Smith, MD (Neurology) received an award from University of California Berkeley in the amount of $74,262 for an grant entitled Changes in Muscle Mass Using the D3- Creatine Dilution Method and Function in DMD. The project period is 12/01/2020-11/30/2023.
Edward Smith, MD (Neurology) received an award from University of California Berkeley in the amount of $70,726 for an grant entitled Changes in Muscle Mass Using the D3- Creatine Dilution Method and Function in DMD. The project period is 12/01/2020-11/30/2023.
Rachel Randall, MD (Rheumatology) received an award from Thrasher Research Fund in the amount of$26,750 for a project entitled Optimizing Hydroxychloroquine to Reduce Disease Activity in Pediatric Lupus. The project period is 01/01/2021-12/31/2022.
Xiaoping Zhong, MD, PhD (Allergy and Immunology) received an award from the National Institutes of Health/NIAID in the amount of $2,800,110 for a project entitled Strawberry Notch Homologues in T Cell Homeostasis and Function. The project period is 01/21/20214-12/31/2025.