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Mai ElMallah

Professor of Pediatrics
Pediatrics, Pulmonary and Sleep Medicine
2301 Erwin Road, Durham, NC 27710

Selected Grants


Unified Program for Therapeutics in Children

Inst. Training Prgm or CMEPreceptor · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 2025 - 2030

Registry Study to Observe Long-term Safety of Vamorolone (AGAMREE®) in Patients with Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy

Clinical TrialPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by Catalyst Pharmaceuticals, Inc. · 2024 - 2029

Alveolar injury and repair in Pompe Disease

ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 2025 - 2028

Optimizing Gene Therapy for Respiratory Insufficiency in Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy

ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute · 2024 - 2028

Stimulating Access to Research in Residency (StARR) - NHLBI

Inst. Training Prgm or CMECo-Principal Investigator · Awarded by National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute · 2018 - 2028

Medical Scientist Training Program

Inst. Training Prgm or CMEPreceptor · Awarded by National Institute of General Medical Sciences · 2022 - 2027

Respiratory Characterization of DMD Mouse Models

ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by Sarepta Therapeutics, Inc. · 2019 - 2027

Duke Program of Training in Pulmonary ReSearch to Promote, Engage and Retain Academic Researchers (PROSPER)

Inst. Training Prgm or CMEPreceptor · Awarded by National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute · 2022 - 2026

Stable therapy in Pompe disease through genome editing

ResearchCo Investigator · Awarded by National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases · 2021 - 2026

Research Training in Allergy and Clinical Immunology

Inst. Training Prgm or CMEMentor · Awarded by University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill · 2000 - 2026

Duke Center for Advancement of Child Health (CAtCH).

Inst. Training Prgm or CMETraining Director · Awarded by Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development · 2021 - 2026

SMA Care Center Registry

ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by Cure SMA · 2019 - 2024

Targeted Therapy for Pompe Disease

ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 2019 - 2024

Novel Adjunctive Therapies for Pompe Disease

ResearchMentor · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 2022 - 2023

Epigenome Editing Technologies for Treating Diverse Disease

ResearchCo Investigator · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 2019 - 2023

Respiratory Dysfunction in an Optineurin knock out ALS mouse model

ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 2020 - 2022

A Novel Vector to treat smooth muscle pathology in Pompe Disease

FellowshipPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by North Carolina Biotechnology Center · 2020 - 2022

Award for a Pharmacist

ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by Cystic Fibrosis Foundation · 2019 - 2022

Mental Health Screening in Duke Pediatric CF Patients

ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by Cystic Fibrosis Foundation · 2018 - 2021

A Phase I Study of the Safety of AAV2/8 LSPhGAA in Late-onset Pompe Disease

Clinical TrialCo Investigator · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 2017 - 2020

Cystic Fibrosis Foundation

ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by Cystic Fibrosis Foundation · 2018 - 2019

Gene Therapy for Upper Airway and Respiratory Insufficiency in an ALS Mouse Model

ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 2016 - 2019

Parker B. Francis Jo Rae Wright Award for Scientific Excellence

ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by Parker B. Francis Foundation · 2018 - 2019

Novel Approaches for Correcting Respiratory Insufficiency in Pompe Disease

ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 2014 - 2019

External Relationships


  • National Institutes of Health (NIH)

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