Scholars@Duke
Nelson Jen An Chao

Nelson Jen An Chao

Donald D. and Elizabeth G. Cooke Cancer Distinguished Research Professor
Medicine, Hematologic Malignancies and Cellular Therapy
nelson.chao@duke.edu
DUMC Box 3961, Durham, NC 27710
2400 Pratt St Suite 5000, DUMC Box 3961, Durham, NC 27710

Selected Grants

Stimulating Access to Research in Residency (StARR) - NIAID

Inst. Training Prgm or CMEPreceptor · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 2018 - 2029

Advanced Immunobiology Traning Program for Surgeons

Inst. Training Prgm or CMEMentor · Awarded by National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases · 2019 - 2029

Improving access to cancer care for children in Tanzania: Designing a health-systems intervention

ResearchCo-Mentor · Awarded by Fogarty International Center · 2022 - 2027

Promoting T cell recovery after radiation injury with long-acting interleukin 7

ResearchCo Investigator · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 2024 - 2027

Hematology & Transfusion Medicine (T32)

Inst. Training Prgm or CMEPreceptor · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 1975 - 2026

Centers for Medical Countermeasures against Radiation Consortium

ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases · 2005 - 2025

A Randomized Phase 2 Trial to Evaluate Prebiotic Intervention in Allogeneic Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation

ResearchCo Investigator · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 2020 - 2025

Viral Oncology Training Grant

Inst. Training Prgm or CMEMentor · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 1980 - 2025

RITN 2024 Participation

Public ServicePrincipal Investigator · Awarded by National Marrow Donor Program · 2020 - 2024

Characterization of CMV-specific T cell responses in immunocompromised hosts

ResearchCo-Mentor · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 2022 - 2024

Transplant Infectious Diseases Interdisciplinary Research Training Grant (TIDIRTG)

Inst. Training Prgm or CMEMentor · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 2018 - 2024

Duke CTSA (TL1) Year 5

Inst. Training Prgm or CMEMentor · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 2018 - 2024

Home-based Autologous Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation to Improve Outcomes and Decrease Costs

ResearchCo Investigator · Awarded by National Institute on Aging · 2020 - 2024

Mapping Epigenetic Memory of Exposure New To Observe (MEMENTO)

ResearchInvestigator · Awarded by Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency · 2019 - 2024

Mechanisms of myeloid cells dysregulation in radiation survivors

ResearchCo Investigator · Awarded by Columbia University · 2022 - 2023

Postdoctoral Training in Genomic Medicine Research

Inst. Training Prgm or CMEMentor · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 2017 - 2023

Smartphone Enabled Point-of-Care Detection of Serum Markers of Liver Cancer

ResearchCo-Principal Investigator · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 2017 - 2023

Cabinet Radiation Therapy System for Small Animals

EquipmentMajor User · Awarded by North Carolina Biotechnology Center · 2022 - 2023

Home Transplant to Preserve the Microbiota and Decrease GVHD

ResearchMentor · Awarded by American Society of Hematology · 2019 - 2022

U01 RPPR: Mitigators of Radiation-Induced Endovascular Injury: Targeting Tie2 and Thrombocytopenia

ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 2017 - 2022

T32 UNC - Duke Immunotherapy Training Program

Inst. Training Prgm or CMEPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill · 2021 - 2022

Translational Research in Surgical Oncology

Inst. Training Prgm or CMEMentor · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 2002 - 2022

Experimental pharmacology study in mice-Narsoplimab (OMS721)

ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by Omeros Corporation · 2021 - 2022

Image-Guided Radiation Therapy System for Small Animals

EquipmentMajor User · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 2021 - 2022

Evaluating Effects of Age-related Microbiota Modulations in Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplant Patients

ResearchCo-Principal Investigator · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 2019 - 2022

Patient-centered home-based hematopoietic stem cell transplantation

Clinical TrialPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 2016 - 2022

Personalized prebiotics to optimize microbiota metabolism and improve transplant outcomes(F)

ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by American Society of Hematology · 2020 - 2021

Interdisciplinary Training Program in Lung Disease

Inst. Training Prgm or CMEPreceptor · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 2009 - 2021

Targeting Beta-arrestins in myeloid malignancies

ResearchCo-Mentor · Awarded by American Society of Hematology · 2018 - 2020

RITN 2020

Public ServicePrincipal Investigator · Awarded by National Marrow Donor Program · 2019 - 2020

Development of CaMKK2 inhibitor drug for acute radiation syndrome

ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by Columbia University · 2018 - 2020

AZD9668 and Neutrophil Elastase Inhibition to Prevent Graft-versus-Host Disease

ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 2018 - 2019

Clinical Validation and Supply of SRI Radiation Biodosimeter

ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by SRI International · 2018 - 2019

Role of ErbB Receptor Signaling in Regulating Normal and Leukemic Stem Cell Fate

ResearchMentor · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 2014 - 2019

RITN Opportunity for Radiological Preparedness

Public ServicePrincipal Investigator · Awarded by National Marrow Donor Program · 2018 - 2019

Biodosimetry High-Throughput Test RFP-16-100-SOL-00010

ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by DxTerity Diagnostics · 2017 - 2019

Duke-UNC Clinical Hematology and Transfusion Research Career Development Program

ResearchMentor · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 2006 - 2019

3D Biology Signatures defined by Nanostring Max System

EquipmentMajor User · Awarded by North Carolina Biotechnology Center · 2018 - 2019

Dissecting mechanism(s) by which ionizing radiation promotes clonal expansion of premalignant cells in the thymus

ResearchCo-Mentor · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 2016 - 2018

A novel therap[eutic target for radiation-induced hematological malignancies: calcium calmodulin kinase kinase 2

ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by Department of Defense · 2015 - 2017

2-O, 3-O desulfated heparin for the prevention of GVHD

ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by Cantex Pharmaceuticals, Inc. · 2015 - 2017

Point of Care Biodosimeter

ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by Department of Health and Human Services · 2009 - 2016

Plerixafor for allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation

ResearchMentor · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 2014 - 2016

Validation of a microRNA signature for the prediction, diagnosis and prognosis of acute graft-versus-host disease

ResearchCo Investigator · Awarded by Blood and Marrow Transplant Clinical Trials Network · 2015 - 2015

Clinical Oncology Research Career Development Program

ResearchMentor · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 2009 - 2015

BAFF Pathology: Novel Therapeutic Targets in Chronic Graft versus Host Disease

ResearchMentor · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 2011 - 2015

Plasma microRNAs as non-invasive biomarker for acute graft-versus-host diseases

ResearchInvestigator · Awarded by The Biomarker Factory · 2014 - 2015

RITN Agreement

Public ServicePrincipal Investigator · Awarded by National Marrow Donor Program · 2006 - 2014

Novel Approaches to Stem Cell Transplantation

Clinical TrialPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 2009 - 2014

Endothelial Progenitor Cell Transplant to Accelerate Hematopoietic Recovery

ResearchConsultant · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 2008 - 2013

Skin Stem Cells in Combined Radiation Injury

ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 2008 - 2013

Graft Engineering and Immunotherapy After Unrelated Cord Blood Transplantation

ResearchSignificant Contributor · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 2007 - 2011

Innate Immune Response to Environmental Endotoxin

ResearchConsultant · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 2004 - 2009

Non-Myeloablative Cord Blood Transplantation

ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 1999 - 2008

Dendritic Cell Based Vaccination for Multiple Myeloma

ResearchSponsor · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 2002 - 2007

Cord Blood Transplantation

ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 2002 - 2007

Bone Marrow Transplantation for Breast Cancer

ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 1990 - 2003

Comprehensive Cancer Center Core Support Grant

ResearchCo-Principal Investigator · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 1976 - 1998

Cancer Center Core Support Grant

ResearchCo-Principal Investigator · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 1976 - 1998