Spring '21 Surgery Research Grant Activity and Awarded Clinical Trials
Abdominal Transplant Surgery
Andrew S. Barbas, MD
"Proposal for Preliminary Proof-of-Concept Studies with Plasmin in Transplantation"
Grifols USA, LLC
Allan D. Kirk, MD, PhD
"Mechanisms of Belatacept-resistant Renal Allograft Rejection"
Bristol-Myers Squibb Company
Stuart J. Knechtle, MD
"Alexion Sponsored Research Agreement"
Alexion Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
Lisa M. McElroy, MD
"Living Donor Kidney Transplant: Establishing the Phenotype of an Equitable Program"
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
Debra L. Sudan, MD
"Kidney Transplant Data Jan 2019 - July 2020"
Proterris, Inc.
Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgery
Donald D. Glower Jr., MD
"Outcome After Mitral Valve Repair With Simulus Semi-Rigid Ring at Duke University"
Medtronic, Inc.
David H. Harpole Jr., MD
"NSCLC Recurrence Risk Assessment Using Circulating Proteome"
Biodesix
Matthew Hartwig, MD
"ECLS Registry"
Baylor College of Medicine
Emergency Medicine
Julian T. Hertz, MD
"Developing an Intervention to Improve Quality of Myocardial Infarction Care in Northern Tanzania"
National Institutes of Health
Metabolic and Weight Loss Surgery
A. Daniel Guerron, MD
"A Retrospective Multicenter Comparison of Laparoscopic and Robotic-Assisted Roux-en-Y Gastric Bypass and Sleeve Gastrectomy"
Intuitive Surgical, Inc.
Surgical Oncology
Georgia M. Beasley, MD, MHS
"Tumor-Draining Lymph Node B Cells as Regulators of Melanoma Progression"
National Institutes of Health
Surgical Sciences
Aravind Asokan, PhD
"AAV rh.74" and "AAV MAAP-Mediated CRISPR Exosome Packaging"
Sarepta Therapeutics, Inc.
"Next Generation AAV Insertional Mutant Vectors for Gene Therapy Applications"
AstraZeneca Pharmaceuticals, LP
Gayathri R. Devi, PhD
"Overcome Stress Signaling to Prevent Inflammatory Breast Cancer Metastasis"
American Cancer Society, Inc.
Zachary C. Hartman, PhD
"Investigation of LAMP Anti-Tumor Vaccines"
Immunomic Therapeutics, Inc.
"Efficacy of Replicon-Encapsulated Lipid Nanoparticles for Vaccination Against Breast Cancer In Vivo"
Replicate Bioscience, Inc.
Jeffrey R. Marks, PhD
"Ovarian Cancer Survival in African-American Women"
Emory University
David C. Montefiori, PhD
"WARP Speed Assay Development"
Battelle Memorial Institute
Joshua C. Snyder, PhD
"Visualizing Tumor Heterogeneity in an Immune Intact and Autochthonous Mouse Model of Breast Cancer"
National Institutes of Health
Georgia D. Tomaras, PhD
"Immune Correlates Analysis for the M72 TB Efficacy Study"
National Institutes of Health
Urology
Brant A. Inman, MD
"Genomic Subtyping and Profiling T1/T2 UC of Bladder"
Decipher Biosciences, Inc.
Michael E. Lipkin, MD
"Applying Real-Time Data Streams to Predict Operating Room Resource Allocation With Neural Networks"
Mente, Inc./NSF
Vascular and Endovascular Surgery
Ellen D. Dillavou, MD
"Retrospective Evaluate Primary Patency of Arteriovenous Fistulae"
Laminate Medical Technologies Inc.