Selected Grants
Tolerance to Allogeneic Hearts via Implantation of Cultured Donor Thymus
ResearchCo Investigator · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 2025 - 2028Stimulating Access to Research in Residency (StARR) - NHLBI
Inst. Training Prgm or CMEPreceptor · Awarded by National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute · 2018 - 2028Persistent Injury Activated EC in Fibrosis
FellowshipCollaborator · Awarded by American Heart Association · 2026 - 2027Leveraging Drosophila to identify novel and conserved regulators of cardiomyocyte polyploidy
ResearchAdvisor · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 2025 - 2027Genetic engineering of kidney allografts by ex vivo perfusion delivery of adeno-associated viral vectors
ResearchCo Investigator · Awarded by National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases · 2022 - 2027Promoting Cardiac Allograft Tolerance with PD-L1 Gene Therapy in a Preclinical Porcine Model
ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by American Heart Association · 2026 - 2026A Multi-omics and Multi-Species Examination of Combined Environmental Stressors of Space Exploration
ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by National Aeronautics and Space Administration · 2021 - 2026Inducing Xenotolerance via Chimeric Thymus
ResearchInvestigator · Awarded by National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases · 2024 - 2026Characterization of end-stage heart failure
ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by Bayer Aktiengesellschaft (same as Bayer AG) · 2024 - 2026Transplantation of Cryopreserved Thymus
ResearchCo Investigator · Awarded by National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases · 2023 - 2026Gene Therapy for Cardiac Transplantation
ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by Solid Biosciences · 2023 - 2025Improving Cardiac Transplant Outcomes Through PD-L1 Overexpression Gene Therapy
FellowshipCo-Principal Investigator · Awarded by Thoracic Surgery Foundation for Research and Education · 2023 - 2025Fortilin, CTNNA3, and the Heart
ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by University of Washington · 2021 - 2025Improving Cardiac Transplant Outcomes Through PD-L1 Overexpression Gene Therapy
FellowshipPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by American Heart Association · 2023 - 2024Turek - Step 2 Project
ResearchCo Investigator · Awarded by Enzyvant · 2022 - 2023Right Ventricular Metabolic Dysregulation after Surgery for Heart Failure
ResearchAdvisor · Awarded by International Anesthesia Research Society · 2021 - 2023Development of a lightweight, portable, pneumatic drive unit for long-term counterpulsation support
ResearchCo Investigator · Awarded by NuPulseCV, Inc. · 2019 - 2022Awakening Endogenous Retroviruses with the Space Environment
ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by National Aeronautics and Space Administration · 2019 - 2022Proteomic Signatures of Space Radiation Induced Cardiovascular Degeneration
ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by National Aeronautics and Space Administration · 2016 - 2022Radiation Resistance Conferred by Small Proline Rich Proteins (SPRRs)
ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by National Aeronautics and Space Administration · 2021 - 2022Enzyvant Monkey Study
ResearchCo Investigator · Awarded by Enzyvant · 2019 - 2022Gene Therapy Countermeasure for Detrimental Effects of Space Radiation
ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by Baylor College of Medicine · 2019 - 2021Stratification of heart failure patients for cardiac recovery upon cardiac unloading by left Ventricular assist device therapy
ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by Humanitas Mirasole S.p.a · 2020 - 2021Evolving Inside the Box
FellowshipPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by North Carolina Biotechnology Center · 2018 - 2020Heart Cap Implants
ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by North Carolina State University · 2019 - 2020Utilization of Two Heartmate III Pumps as a Total Artificial Heart Replacement
ResearchCo-Principal Investigator · Awarded by St. Jude Medical Inc. · 2017 - 2019Expanding the capabilities and the utilization of the Duke Human Heart Repository
EquipmentPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by North Carolina Biotechnology Center · 2017 - 2019Cadaver Implant Studies of PABP
ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by 3R Life Sciences Taiwan Ltd. · 2018 - 2019Protection from cardiac ischemic injury through use of KP544
ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by Krenitsky Pharmaceuticals Inc. · 2017 - 2018A Prospective Pilot Study to Examine the Involvement of apoE Gene Variants in Intracranial Hemorrhage in LVAD Patients
ResearchInvestigator · Awarded by HeartWare, Inc · 2015 - 2016E3 Ligases and Deubiquitinases in GPCR Down Regulation
ResearchResearcher · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 2005 - 2016Heart Risk Model
ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by National Aeronautics and Space Administration · 2013 - 2016Expanding the Donor Pool for Heart Transplantation
ResearchCo-Principal Investigator · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 2012 - 2014Proteomic Profiling of Human Heart Tissue Exposed to Microgravity
ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by National Aeronautics and Space Administration · 2012 - 2013Peripheral endothelial and muscle cell pathology in cardiovascular disease
ResearchCollaborator · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 2010 - 2013Autologous EPC lining to improve biocompatibility of circulatory assist devices
ResearchInvestigator · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 2009 - 2012PTEN Gene Therapy for Vein Graft Disease
ResearchInvestigator · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 2009 - 2012Myocardial Gene Transfer during Cardiac Surgery in Swine
ResearchCo Investigator · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 2003 - 2008External Relationships
- AskBio (owned by Bayer)
- Bayer
- Caripae Bio LLC
- Regeneron Pharmaceuticals
- Solid Biosciences
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