Selected Grants
Sickle Cell Disease Functional Assessment Validation and Exercise Pilot Intervention
ResearchMentor · Awarded by National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute · 2023 - 2028Achieving Understanding of the Natural history of sickle cell Trait (AUNT)
ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by National Alliance for Sickle Cell Centers · 2024 - 2026Hematology & Transfusion Medicine (T32)
Inst. Training Prgm or CMEPreceptor · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 1975 - 2026AGIOS AG348-C-018 A Phase 3, Double-blind, Randomized, Placebo-Controlled, Multicenter Study Evaluating the Efficacy and Safety of Mitapivat in Subjects With Transfusion-Dependent Alpha- or Beta-Thalassemia (ENERGIZE-T)
Clinical TrialPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by Agios Pharmaceuticals, Inc. · 2021 - 2025AGIOS AG348-C-017 A Phase 3, Double-blind, Randomized, Placebo-Controlled, Multicenter Study Evaluating the Efficacy and Safety of Mitapivat in Subjects With Non-Transfusion-Dependent Alpha- or Beta-Thalassemia (ENERGIZE)
Clinical TrialPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by Agios Pharmaceuticals, Inc. · 2021 - 2025Cure Sickle Cell
Clinical TrialPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by Medical College of Wisconsin · 2022 - 2025Education and Mentoring to Bring Access to Comprehensive Care (EMBRACE) Network
Public ServicePrincipal Investigator · Awarded by University of Alabama at Birmingham · 2017 - 2025Environmental Modifiers of Severity in Children with Sickle Cell Anemia (EMS-SCA)
ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by ASH Registry Inc d/b/a ASH Research Collaborative · 2024 - 2025Central Carolinas Clinical Trials Collaboration (C3TC)
ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by American Society of Hematology · 2021 - 2025NC DHHS Sickle Cell Contract
Public ServicePrincipal Investigator · Awarded by NC DHHS · 1999 - 2025Hydroxyurea Pharmacokinetics and Pharmacodynamics in Adults with Sickle Cell Anemia
ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by Rhode Island Hospital · 2022 - 2024North Carolina Sickle Cell Data Collection
Public ServiceCo Investigator · Awarded by NC Department of Health and Human Services · 2024 - 20241/2 A comparison of individualized vs. weight based protocols to treat vaso-occlusive episodes in Sickle Cell Disease (COMPARE VOE)
Clinical TrialCo Investigator · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 2018 - 2024COVID-19 Vaccine Response in People Living with Sickle Cell Disease
Clinical TrialPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by American Society of Hematology · 2022 - 2024Characterizing frailty in older adults with sickle cell disease using a sickle cell frailty index (FI-SCD)
ResearchCo Investigator · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 2021 - 2023NCDHHS Sickle Cell Data Collection Program in North Carolina Year 3
Public ServiceCo Investigator · Awarded by NC Department of Health and Human Services · 2022 - 2023PRIDE-Functional and Translational Genomics of Blood Disorders
ResearchMentor · Awarded by Augusta University · 2021 - 2023Shire SC Study (A Phase 1/2 randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled, multicenter, ascending dose, safety and PK/PD study of SHP655 (rADAMTS13) in sickle cell disease at baseline health and during acute vaso-occlusive crisis.)
Clinical TrialPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by Takeda Development Center Americas, Inc · 2020 - 2023Sickle Cell Data Collection Program in North Carolina - Optional
Public ServiceCo Investigator · Awarded by NC Department of Health and Human Services · 2021 - 2022Sickle Cell Data Collection Program in North Carolina
Public ServiceCo Investigator · Awarded by NC Department of Health and Human Services · 2021 - 2022Using electronic health records to identify and assess adverse events for biologics therapies: developing and validating methodological approaches
ResearchCo Investigator · Awarded by Food and Drug Administration · 2020 - 20222020 ASH RTAF
ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by American Society of Hematology · 2020 - 2021Capacity Building for Sickle Cell Disease Surveillance in North Carolina (Component A)
ResearchCo Investigator · Awarded by Centers for Disease Control and Prevention · 2019 - 20202019 ASH RTAF
ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by American Society of Hematology · 2019 - 2020Understanding the Intersection of Stigma and Self-Management in Sickle Cell Disease
FellowshipSponsor · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 2017 - 2019Sickle Cell Treatment Demonstration
ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by Johns Hopkins University · 2016 - 2017External Relationships
- American Society of Hematology
- Bendin Sumrall & Ladner, llc
- Coleman Research
- Disc Medicine
- EBSCO Health / DynaMed Plus
- Editas Medicine
- ExpertConnect
- Frontiers
- GLG
- Guidepoint Global
- National Vaccine Injury Compensation Program
- UpToDate, Inc
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