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Gregory M. Palmer

Professor of Radiation Oncology
Radiation Oncology
Box 3455 Med Ctr, Durham, NC 27710
203 Research Drive, MSRB1 Rm 281, Durham, NC 27710

Selected Grants


Development of CapCell Scope for Metabolic Imaging of Tissue Heterogeneity and Therapy Response

ResearchCo Investigator · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 2019 - 2028

Red blood cell ATP export and transfusion in sepsis (R01)

ResearchCo Investigator · Awarded by National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute · 2023 - 2026

Overcome Stress Signaling to Prevent Inflammatory Breast Cancer Metastasis

ResearchCo Investigator · Awarded by American Cancer Society, Inc. · 2021 - 2024

A turnkey research platform to accelerate clinical translation of targeted immunomodulation-enhanced therapies

ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by SonoVol, Inc. · 2021 - 2024

Plasmonic nanoparticle-mediated immunotherapy to treat metastatic cancer

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

Cabinet Radiation Therapy System for Small Animals

EquipmentPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by North Carolina Biotechnology Center · 2022 - 2023

Muscle-macrophage constructs for skeletal muscle repair

ResearchCo Investigator · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 2016 - 2023

Combination of panobinostat (MTX110) with radiation therapy

ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by Midatech Pharma Plc · 2019 - 2022

Image-Guided Radiation Therapy System for Small Animals

EquipmentPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 2021 - 2022

Treating Hypoxia via Tumorally Directed Oxygen for Improving Radiation Therapy

ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill · 2018 - 2022

Preclinical Oxygen Imager to Model Efficient Cancer Treatment

ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by O2M Technologies, LLC · 2019 - 2021

Sepsis-induced Red Cell Dysfunction (SiRD)

ResearchInvestigator · Awarded by University of Maryland, Baltimore · 2019 - 2021

Development of a Longitudinal Molecular Imaging Platform to Support Immuno-Oncology Research

ResearchCo Investigator · Awarded by SonoVol, Inc. · 2019 - 2020

Synergistic Immuno-Photo-Nanotherapy for Bladder Cancer

ResearchCo Investigator · Awarded by Department of Defense · 2017 - 2020

Sepsis-induced Red Cell Dysfunction (SiRD)

ResearchInvestigator · Awarded by Washington University · 2015 - 2019

Hand-held advanced functional imager for assessing local tissue oxygenation

ResearchCo-Principal Investigator · Awarded by Wasatch Photonics, Inc. · 2017 - 2018

Luminescent Oxygen Nanosensors for Tumor Hypoxia Imaging

ResearchCo-Principal Investigator · Awarded by University of Virginia - Charlottesville · 2012 - 2017

MAA drug PK and Efficiacy Study Phases I- II-III

ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by Preclinical Pathfinder Systems · 2016 - 2017

Innate immune adaptations of hibernation as a new approach to protection against acute organ injury

ResearchSignificant Contributor · Awarded by Society of Cardiovascular Anesthesiologists · 2015 - 2017

Circumventing Therapeutic Resistance and the Emergence of Disseminated Breast Cancer Cells through Non-Invasive Optical Imaging

ResearchAssistant Research Professor · Awarded by United States Army Medical Research Acquisition Activity · 2013 - 2017

A Novel Optical Spectral Imaging System for Rapid Imaging of Breast Tumor Margins

ResearchInvestigator · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 2011 - 2017

Janssen Research AGreement

ResearchCo Investigator · Awarded by Janssen Research & Development, LLC · 2014 - 2016

HIF-1 driven therapeutic resistance mechanisms in chest wall recurrences of inflammatory breast cancer (IBC)

ResearchCollaborator · Awarded by Inflammatory Breast Cancer Research Foundation · 2013 - 2016

Wound-Vac

ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by Preclinical Pathfinder Systems · 2015 - 2016

Neocortical hemodynamics during epileptic activity in primates and humans

ResearchCo Investigator · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 2009 - 2015

27-hydroxycholesterol as a link between obesity and breast cancer pathogenesis

ResearchCo-Mentor · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 2013 - 2014

Investigation of Anti-Angiogenic Mechanisms Using Novel Imaging Techniques

FellowshipResearch Associate · Awarded by US Army Medical Research and Materiel Command · 2009 - 2012

External Relationships


  • Hanna Palmer, LLC
  • Lamassu Bio Inc
  • Lamassu Pharma

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