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Scott Michael Palmer Jr.

Donald F. Fortin, M.D. Distinguished Professor of Medicine
Medicine, Pulmonary, Allergy, and Critical Care Medicine
Duke Box 103002, Durham, NC 27710
2085 MSRB2 2 Genome Ct, Durham, NC 27710

Selected Grants


Stimulating Access to Research in Residency (StARR) - NIAID

Inst. Training Prgm or CMECo-Principal Investigator · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 2018 - 2029

Advanced Immunobiology Traning Program for Surgeons

Inst. Training Prgm or CMEMentor · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 2019 - 2029

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

A place-based approach to geographic disparities in lung transplant (R01)

ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by Cleveland Clinic Foundation · 2023 - 2028

Lung Transplant Clinical Trial Network (LT-CTN)

ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 2021 - 2028

Complement Pathway Activation in Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis and other Progressive Fibrosing Interstitial Lung Diseases (K23)

ResearchMentor · Awarded by National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute · 2023 - 2028

Lung Transplant Consortium - Data Coordinating Center

ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 2022 - 2027

Integrated Biostatistical Training for CVD Research

Inst. Training Prgm or CMEMentor · Awarded by North Carolina State University · 2022 - 2027

Transcriptional profiling of allograft tissues to define endotypes associated with CLAD progression

ResearchCo Investigator · Awarded by Cystic Fibrosis Foundation · 2025 - 2026

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

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

B Cell-Fibroblast Crosstalk Promotes Chronic GVHD of the Lung

ResearchCo-Mentor · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 2024 - 2026

Long Term Follow up of the Lung Transplant Outcomes Group Cohort

ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by University of Pennsylvania · 2019 - 2026

Improving Lung Transplant Outcomes with Coping Skills and Physical Activity

ResearchCo-Principal Investigator · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 2019 - 2026

Targeting Inflammation and Alloimmunity in Lung Transplant Recipients With Clazakizumab

Clinical TrialCo Investigator · Awarded by Massachusetts General Hospital · 2021 - 2025

CTOT - CFF - Extension

ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by Cystic Fibrosis Foundation · 2021 - 2025

The IGNITE II CC: Engagement, Coordination, Demonstration, and Dissemination

ResearchCo-Principal Investigator · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 2018 - 2025

COPD Pulmonary Rehab GEMSSTAR Award

ResearchMentor · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 2023 - 2025

Club cell secretory protein to distinguish chronic allograft dysfunction risk in lung transplant recipients

ResearchCo Investigator · Awarded by Cystic Fibrosis Foundation · 2023 - 2024

Understanding Long-term Respiratory Morbidity in Former Styrene-Exposed Workers

ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by Centers for Disease Control and Prevention · 2020 - 2024

Duke CTSA (TL1) Year 5

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

Synthetic Control Arm for IPF

ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by Bristol-Myers Squibb Company · 2019 - 2024

Unified Program for Therapeutics in Children

Inst. Training Prgm or CMEPreceptor · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 2019 - 2024

Early Posttransplant Intragraft Hyaluronan as an Independent Biomarker of CLAD Risk

ResearchSignificant Contributor · Awarded by Cystic Fibrosis Foundation · 2022 - 2024

CTOT Long-Term Extension Study

ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by Cystic Fibrosis Foundation · 2019 - 2024

Incyte INCB39110-214

Clinical TrialPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by Incyte Corporation · 2019 - 2024

Postdoctoral Training in Genomic Medicine Research

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

Chronic Lung Allograft Dysfunction

ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by AstraZeneca AB · 2019 - 2023

Genetics of Acute Rejection and Chronic Lung Allograft Dysfunction

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

Proof of Concept Treatment Interventions in a Rodent Model of the Rare Disease Bronchiolitis Obliterans

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

Club Cells and CCSP in the pathogenesis of CLAD/spatial transcriptomics

ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai · 2020 - 2021

Hyaluronan in Acute Rejection and Chronic Allograft Dysfunction after Lung Transplantation - CTOT Ancillary

ResearchCo Investigator · Awarded by Mount Sinai School of Medicine · 2019 - 2021

UNC-Duke Collaborative Clinical Pharmacology Postdoctoral Training Program

Inst. Training Prgm or CMEMentor · Awarded by University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill · 2020 - 2021

The Lung Transplant Clinical Trials Network (LT-CTN)

ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 2014 - 2021

Interdisciplinary Training Program in Lung Disease

Inst. Training Prgm or CMECo-Principal Investigator · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 2009 - 2021

Impact of patient specific factors on CF lung transplant outcomes

FellowshipPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by Cystic Fibrosis Foundation Therapeutics, Inc. · 2018 - 2020

Molecular Atlas of Lung Development - Data Coordinating Center

ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 2014 - 2020

Premier IPF_2

ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by Boehringer Ingelheim Pharmaceuticals, Inc. · 2016 - 2019

Lung Tissue Gene Expression Profiling in Chronic Lung Allograft Dysfunction-CTOT

ResearchCo Investigator · Awarded by Mount Sinai School of Medicine · 2018 - 2019

Thermo Lumos Tribrid High-Resolution Accurate-Mass Tandem Mass Spectrometer

EquipmentMajor User · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 2018 - 2019

Evaluation of the host immune response and viral molecular phenotype in lung transplant recipients with PTLD

ResearchCo Investigator · Awarded by Mount Sinai School of Medicine · 2017 - 2018

Duke CTSA (UL1)

ResearchAssociate Director · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 2013 - 2018

Hyaluronan in Acute Rejection and Chronic Lung Allograft Dysfunction after Human Lung Transplantation

ResearchCo Investigator · Awarded by Mount Sinai School of Medicine · 2016 - 2017

CTOT - Cell Free DNA

ResearchCo Investigator · Awarded by Mount Sinai School of Medicine · 2016 - 2017

CTOT Ancillary Studies Fund Carry Forward BAL

ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by Mount Sinai School of Medicine · 2016 - 2017

Obesity, Inflammation, and Lung Injury after Lung Transplantation

ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by Columbia University · 2013 - 2017

Lung Repair and Regeneration Consortium Administrative Coordinating Center

ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 2012 - 2017

Proteomics of flavorings-induced airway disease

ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by Centers for Disease Control and Prevention · 2014 - 2016

CTOT Ancillary Studies Fund

ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by Mount Sinai School of Medicine · 2014 - 2016

The Duke Multidisciplinary Training Program in Pediatric Lung Disease

Inst. Training Prgm or CMEFaculty Member · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 2010 - 2016

AZLI in lung transplant recipients

Clinical TrialPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by Gilead Sciences, Inc. · 2013 - 2015

Telephone-based coping skills training for COPD

ResearchCo Investigator · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 2000 - 2014

RESULT Trial-REflux SUrgery in Lung Transplantation

Clinical TrialCo-Principal Investigator · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 2010 - 2013

Novel Cellular Immune Profiles to Predict Lung Disease Outcomes

ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 2011 - 2013

Genetic Regulation of Lung Transplant Outcomes

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

CTSA UL

ResearchCo Investigator · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 2006 - 2012

Stem Cells to Enhance Bronchiolar Reparative Capacity

ResearchCo Investigator · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 2007 - 2011

Interdisciplinary Training Program in Lung Disease

Inst. Training Prgm or CMEParticipating Faculty Member · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 1982 - 2009

Role of CXC chemokines at the innate-adaptive interface of alloimmune lung injury

FellowshipPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 2007 - 2008

Innate immune responses in obliterative bronchiolitis

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

Role Of Adhesion Molecules In Allograft Rejection

ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 1996 - 1999

External Relationships


  • AbbVie, Inc.
  • Boehringer Ingleheim
  • Bristol-Myers Squibb
  • Mallinckrodt Pharmaceuticals
  • Sanofi
  • Up To Date Inc/Wolters Kluwer Health

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