Selected Grants
US National OCS Lung Thoracic Organ Perfusion (TOP) Registry
Clinical TrialPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by TransMedics · 2024 - 2034The Post-Lung Transplant Impact of Alveolar Macrophage Senescence in Aged Donor Lungs
ResearchAdvisor · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 2025 - 20302/3 CTSA K12 Program at Duke University
ResearchMentor · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 2025 - 2030Optimizing Donor Management in Lung Transplantation
ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by Washington University in St. Louis · 2025 - 2030The Role of Tacrolimus, TGF-ss, and the inflammatory/regulatory balance in CLAD development
FellowshipPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by Thoracic Surgery Foundation for Research and Education · 2026 - 2028Lung Transplant Clinical Trial Network (LT-CTN)
ResearchCo Investigator · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 2021 - 2028Clinical and Mechanistic Factors Impacting Transplant Outcomes (U01)
ResearchCo-Principal Investigator · Awarded by National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute · 2022 - 2027Cystic Fibrosis Lung Transplant Consortium
ResearchCo Investigator · Awarded by Cystic Fibrosis Foundation · 2020 - 2026BMI Service Agreement
ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by BioMedInnovations, LLC · 2021 - 2026PROTOCOL PGX-004 OBSERVATIONAL STUDY OF LUNG PRESERVATION
Clinical TrialPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by Paragonix · 2021 - 2026A Prospective, Multi-Center Investigation of the da Vinci SP® Surgical System in Pulmonary Lobectomy and Thymectomy for Benign and Malignant Disease
Clinical TrialPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by Intuitive Surgical, Inc. · 2022 - 2026Targeting Inflammation and Alloimmunity in Lung Transplant Recipients With Clazakizumab
Clinical TrialPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by Massachusetts General Hospital · 2021 - 2026Creation of a Data Asset to Identify Barriers in Access to Lung Transplant
ResearchCo-Principal Investigator · Awarded by Cystic Fibrosis Foundation · 2025 - 2026CRA+ Planning Grant for Allo-islet Cell Transplantation in Lung Transplant Recipients with Insulin Resistance
ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by Cystic Fibrosis Foundation · 2024 - 2026Cystic Fibrosis Foundation Lung Transplant Initiative: Surgeons Committee
Institutional SupportPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by Cystic Fibrosis Foundation · 2022 - 2025Perpetual Organ Preservation and Rehabilitation (POPR)
ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 2022 - 2025The Organ Care System (OCS) Lung Thoracic Organ Perfusion (TOP) Post Approval Study (PAS) Registry - OCS Lung TOP PAS Registry
Clinical TrialPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by TransMedics · 2018 - 2025Analysis of Volatile Organic Compounds in the Breath of Lung Transplant Rejection Patients Using Infrared Spectroscopy
Clinical TrialPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by Paragonix · 2023 - 2025Objective Lung Assessment Tools For Improved Organ Use In Lung Transplantation
ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by University of Pennsylvania · 2021 - 2025Adeno-Associated Vector based PD-L1 Transgene Expression to Attenuate Acute Cellular Rejection in a Murine Lung Transplant Model
FellowshipPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by Cystic Fibrosis Foundation · 2024 - 2025Student Traineeship Award
FellowshipPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by Cystic Fibrosis Foundation · 2023 - 2024Duke CTSA (TL1) Year 5
Inst. Training Prgm or CMEMentor · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 2018 - 2024Study Title: Technology Enabled And Molecular Monitoring of the Allograft and Transplant rEcipient Internal Reference Number / Short title: TEAMMATE
Clinical TrialPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by CareDx, Inc. · 2021 - 2024Increasing Lung Transplant Availability Using Normothermic Ex Vivo Lung Perfusion (EVLP) at a Dedicated EVLP Facility
Clinical TrialPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by Lung Bioengineering, Inc. · 2019 - 2024PFC's in ARDS
ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by Boundless Science · 2022 - 2024Defining optimal tacrolimus dosing and concentrations in the early post-lung transplant period based on short- and long-term clinical impacts
ResearchCo Investigator · Awarded by University of Pennsylvania · 2022 - 2023TSF Resident Research Fellowship
ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by Thoracic Surgery Foundation for Research and Education · 2022 - 2023TransMedics Lungs for Transplantation EXPAND II Trial
Clinical TrialPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by TransMedics · 2018 - 2023FSF Fellowship
FellowshipPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by Foundation for Surgical Fellowships · 2021 - 2022Expand Trial
Clinical TrialPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by TransMedics · 2016 - 2022Retrospective Lobectomy
Clinical TrialPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by Intuitive Surgical, Inc. · 2017 - 2021Polarean - POL-Xe-002 Study
Clinical TrialPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by Polarean Imaging plc · 2018 - 2021LINX After Lung Transplantation
ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by Torax Medical Inc. · 2017 - 2021Polarean - POL-XE-001 Study
Clinical TrialPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by Polarean Imaging plc · 2018 - 2021A Phase 2, Multicenter, Open Label Study To Measure Safety Donor Lungs (EVLP)
Clinical TrialPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by Lung Bioengineering, Inc. · 2017 - 2021Cystic Fibrosis Lung Transplant Consortium
ResearchCo Investigator · Awarded by Cystic Fibrosis Foundation Therapeutics, Inc. · 2017 - 2019ExVivo Lung Study ¿ Biocompatibility Assessment of ExVivo Disposable Perfusion Kit with Nitric Oxide and/or MP3964
ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by Mallinckrodt Pharmaceuticals · 2019 - 2019Clinical Risk Factors for Primary Graft Dysfunction
ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by University of Pennsylvania · 2015 - 2018FSF Fellowship
FellowshipPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by Foundation for Surgical Fellowships · 2016 - 2017Obesity, Inflammation, and Lung Injury after Lung Transplantation
ResearchCo Investigator · Awarded by Columbia University · 2013 - 2017Prospective Registry of Outcomes in Patients Electing Lung Transplantation (PROPEL)
Clinical TrialPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by University of Pennsylvania · 2014 - 2016More and Better Lungs: Ex-Vivo Perfusion of Non-Heart-Beating Donors?
ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill · 2014 - 2016External Relationships
- Biomedinnovations
- CSL Behring AG
- Intuitive Surgical, Inc.
- Paragonix
- Transmedics
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