New Funding Awards

Includes new, competitive renewal and supplemental awards.

See additional awards here: https://medicine.uiowa.edu/research/scientific-impact/deans-list-new-funding-awards

June 2024

PI Sponsor Title

Elissa Faro

NIH R01 - 5 years Can an Evidence-Based Mental Health Intervention be Implemented into Preexisting Home Visiting Programs using Implementation Facilitation?

Margaret Byrne

Merck & Company, Inc. Adjuvant V940 (mRNA-4157) Plus Pembrolizumab Versus Adjuvant Placebo Plus Pembrolizumab in Participants With Resected Stage II, IIIA, IIIB (N2) Non-small Cell Lung Cancer

Linda Cadaret

GB002, Inc. PROSERA

Alejandro Comellas Freymond

Duke University RECOVER-AUTONOMIC: A Platform Protocol for Evaluation of Interventions for Autonomic Dysfunction in Post-Acute Sequelae of SARS-CoV-2 Infection (PASC)

Douglas Laux

GlaxoSmithKline LLC Novel Immunotherapy Combinations as First-Line Treatment in Participants with Recurrent/Metastatic PD-L1 Positive Squamous Cell Carcinoma of the Head and Neck

Lama Noureddine

Amgen, Inc. Avacopan in Subjects With Antineutrophil Cytoplasmic Antibody (ANCA)-associated Vasculitis

Tahaunty Peña

Sanofi US Services Inc. Oral belumosudil in adult participants with chronic lung allograft dysfunction (CLAD) following bilateral lung tr

Ian Thornell

Cystic Fibrosis Foundation Cellular contributions to HEMT

Praveen Vikas

Pfizer, Inc. PF-07220060 PLUS FULVESTRANT COMPARED TO INVESTIGATOR'S CHOICE OF THERAPY IN PARTICIPANTS OVER 18 YEARS OF AGE WITH HORMONE RECEPTOR-POSITIVE, HER2-NEGATIVE  ADVANCED/METASTATIC BREAST CANCER WHOSE DISEASE PROGRESSED AFTER PRIOR CDK 4/6 INHIBITOR BASED THERAPY

Michael Wendt

Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corporation Impact of Hypoxia on Lipid Metabolism in Obesity-Driven Breast Cancer Progression

Hanna Zembrzuska

Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corporation Intravenous secukinumab infusion in adults with giant cell arteritis (GCA) or polymyalgia rheumatica (PMR).

May 2024

PI Sponsor Title

Barry London, Contact PI
Bryan Allen, MPI

NIH U01 - 3 years Sex-dependent Impairment of Nitric Oxide Signaling and Mitochondrial Metabolism in Radiation-Induced Cardio-Pulmonary Dysfunction

Rebecca Dodd

Dod, CDMRP - 3 years Targeted Therapy for MPNST Metastasis

Grerk Sutamtewagul

Kura Oncology - 3 years Venetoclax/azacitidine or venetoclax in combination with ziftomenib (KO-539) or standard induction cytarabine/daunorubicin (7+3) chemotherapy in combination with ziftomenib for the treatment of patients with acute myeloid leukemia

Grerk Sutamtewagul

Kura Oncology - 3 years Ziftomenib Combinations for the Treatment of KMT2A-rearranged or NPM1-mutant Relapsed/Refractory Acute Myeloid Leukemia

Douglas Laux

Regeneron Pharmaceuticals, Inc. - 3 years REGN7075 (EGFRxCD28 costimulatory bispecific antibody) in combination with Cemiplimab in patients with advanced solid tumors.

Sam Stephens

Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation International - 3 years 201311107-FY24 SRA: Role of -cell Golgi dysfunction in Type 1 diabetes pathogenesis

Christopher Strouse

Janssen Research and Development, LLC - 2.5 years Ciltacabtagene Autoleucel and Talquetamab for the Treatment of Participants with High-Risk Multiple Myeloma

April 2024

PI Sponsor Title

Alejandro Comellas Freymond

KUMC - 5 years All of Us Research Program - Heartland Consortium

Yousef Zakharia

Astellas Pharma Global Development, Inc - 3 years Batoclimab for the Treatment of Participants with Active Thyroid Eye Disease (TED)

Hanna Zembrzuska

ImmPACT Bio USA, Inc. - 3 years IMPT-514 in participants with active, refractory lupus nephritis and systemic lupus erythematosus

Christopher Strouse

Janssen Research & Development, Inc - 5 years JNJ-68284528, a Chimeric Antigen Receptor T cell (CAR-T) Therapy Directed Against BCMA in Subjects with Multiple Myeloma

March 2024

PI Sponsor Title

Sandra Blom

NIH F31 - 3 years GRASP55 Regulates Pancreatic Beta-cell Golgi Structure and Function During Cytokine Stress

Ajit Vikram

NIH R01 - 5 years Glycopeptide vancomycin reshapes gut microbiota to mediate cardioprotective effects via microRNA-204

Mohammed Milhem

Polaris Pharmaceuticals, Inc. - 5 years Placebo Plus Gemcitabine and Docetaxel in Previously Treated Subjects with Leiomyosarcoma (ARGSARC): A Randomized, Double-Blind, Multi-Center Phase 3 Trial

Antonio Sanchez

GlaxoSmithKline, Inc. - 3 years GSK4532990   in   Adults   with pre-cirrhotic Non-Alcoholic Steatohepatitis (NASH)

Christopher Strouse

Juno Therapeutics, Inc. - 4 years BMS-986393, a GPRC5D-directed CAR T Cell Therapy in Adult Participants with Relapsed or Refractory Multiple Myeloma

Grerk Sutatewagul

Merk Sharp & Dohme, LLC - 5 years Nemtabrutinib Versus Comparator (Investigator's Choice of Ibrutinib or Acalabrutinib) in Participants With Untreated Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia/Small Lymphocytic Lymphoma (BELLWAVE-011)

Tomohiro Tanaka

Takeda Development Center Americas, Inc. - 5 years Fazirsiran in the Treatment of Alpha-1 Antitrypsin Deficiency-Associated Liver Disease With METAVIR Stage F1 Fibrosis

Yousef Zakharia

Arsenal Biosciences - 3 years AB-2100 in patients with recurrent advanced or metastatic clear-cell renal cell carcinoma.

February 2024

PI Sponsor Title

Denice Hodgson-Zingman, Contact PI
Leonid Zingman, MPI

NIH R01 - 5 years A New Pacing Approach for Cardiac Conditioning and Enhanced Cardioprotection

Sarah Short

NIH K01 - 5 years Antioxidant regulation of intestinal homeostasis and disease

Prajwal Dhakal

Nerviano Medical Sciences, S.r.l. - 3 years A Phase I/II Study of NMS-03592088, a FLT3, KIT and CSF1R Inhibitor, in Patients with Relapsed or Refractory AML or CMML

Douglas Laux

Hoosier Cancer Research Network, Inc. - 3 years A Single Arm Phase II Study with Safety Run-in of Peptide Receptor Radionuclide Therapy (PRRT) in Combination with Immunotherapy for Patients with Merkel Cell Cancer (HCRN MCC20-443; iPRRT Study)

Saima Sharif

PDD Investigator Services, LLC - 3 years A Phase 2, Single-Arm, Open-Label Study with Dostarlimab Monotherapy in Participants with Untreated Stage II/III dMMR/MSI-H Locally Advanced Rectal Cancer

January 2024

PI Sponsor Title
Michael Tomasson US National Science Foundation - 1 year I-Corps: A Home-based Solution for Remote Lung Function Monitoring for Patients with Chronic Lung Disease

Rami El Abiad


 
Sanofi US Services Inc. - 3 years Dupilumab Efficacy on Esophageal Function and Remodeling in Adult Participants with Eosinophilic Esophagitis (EoE)
Umar Farooq Janssen Research & Development, Inc.  - 3 years Global Patient Registry of Inherited Retinal Diseases

Asad Javed

IDEAYA Biosciences Inc. - 5 years IDE196 (Darovasertib) in combination with Crizotinib versus investigator's choice of treatment as a first-line therapy in HLA-A2 negative metastatic uveal melanoma (DAR-UM-2)

Douglas Laux

Regeneron Pharmaceuticals, Inc. - 5 years A multicenter, open-label phase 2 study of intratumoral vidutolimod (CMP-001) in combination with inravenous cemiplimabin subjects with selected types of advanced or metastatic cancer.

Mohammed Milhem

Merck Sharp & Dohme LLC - 8 years Adjuvant V940 (mRNA-4157) Plus Pembrolizumab Versus Adjuvant Placebo Plus Pembrolizumab in Participants With High-Risk Stage II-IV Melanoma

Yousef Zakharia

Bristol-Myers Squibb Company - 5 years A Phase 1/2 Study of BMS-986340 as Monotherapy and in Combination with Nivolumab or Docetaxel in Participants with Advanced Solid Tumors

 


See additional awards here: https://medicine.uiowa.edu/research/scientific-impact/deans-list-new-funding-awards