RESEARCH AWARDS/GRANTS

NEW AWARDS (awarded in 2022):

Career K awards
AHRQ, K12, Dr. Andrea Pappalardo, MD
School-Based Asthma Management in Chicago Public Schools: An Implementation Science-Based Approach to Coordinated Asthma Care, 2022-2024

CCTS KL2 CATS Scholar Notice of Award, PI: Christian Ascoli, MD
Mechanisms and Clinical Relevance of Lymphopenia in Sarcoidosis.\, 2022-2023

AHA Career Development Award PI: Eleftheria Letsiou, PhD
Role of extracellular vesicles in alveolar-capillary crosstalk in acute lung injury, 2022-2025

Clinical-Outcomes Research
Insmed Incorporated, PI: Dustin Fraidenburg, MD
A Randomized Double Blind Placebo Controlled Study of Treprostinil Palmitil Inhalation Powder in Participants with Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension, 2021-2023

Lung Biotechnology PBC, PI: Dustin Fraidenburg, MD
An Open-Label Extension Study of Inhaled Treprostinil in Patients with Pulmonary Hypertension due to Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (PH-COPD), 2019-2024

Basic-Translational Research Grants
R01 NHLBI PI: Asrar Malik, MD and Steven Dudek, MD Core Lead
Macrophage Plasticity In Inflammatory Lung Injury – Patient Sampling and Genomics Core Project, 2021-2026

UI Health Equity Pilot Project (HEPP), PI: Christopher Kapp, MD
Improving Access to Appropriate Diagnostics and Treatment in a High-Risk Population, 2022-2023

ADDITIONAL ACTIVE AWARDS
Training Grants:
T32 NHLBI MPI: Steve Dudek, MD and Patricia Finn, MD
Post-Doctoral Training Program in Pulmonary and Critical Care Translational Research, 2019-2024

R38 NHLBI MPI: Jeffrey Jacobson, MD, Patricia Finn, MD and Jalees Rehman, MD, PhD
Fostering Academic Physician-Investigators Treating High Risk Populations, 2021-2025

Career K awards
NHLBI K08, PI: Sunit Singla, MD
Role of lung WWOX deficiency in vascular leak during lung injury, 2018-2023

NHLBI K08, PI: Patrick Belvitch, MD
Protein Regulation and Cytoskeletal Dynamics of Pulmonary Endothelial Barrier Function, 2017-2023

Fellowship awards
F30 NICHD PI: Yishin Chang, MD/PhD candidate
Influence of the perinatal microbiome on asthmatic phenotypes: associations with early life immune profiles, 2020-2025

F30 NHLBI PI: Kai Huang, MD/PhD candidate
Immune Dysregulation in Sarcoidosis, 2020-2025

Clinical-Outcomes Research
American Lung Association, Public Policy Award, Dr. Andrea Pappalardo,
Stock Albuterol: Preventing Asthma Emergencies in Schools, 2021-2023

Food Allergy Research and Education (FARE), Ciaccio (PI), Pappalardo (Site PI):
Midwest Allergy Research Initiative (MARI), 2020-2023

PCS-1504-30430, PI: Jerry Krishnan, MD
Patient Centered Outcomes Research Institute, Roflumilast or Azithromycin to Prevent COPD
Exacerbations (RELIANCE), 2017-2024

CER-2018C2-13262, MPI, Director, Recruitment and Retention Core: Jerry Krishnan, MD
Comparative Effectiveness of Zolpidem and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Insomnia (CBT-I) in Rural Adults (COZi-R), 2019-2025

OT2HL NHLBI, Research Communications Center Principal Investigator: Jerry Krishnan, MD
A Multi-site Observational Study of Post-Acute Sequelae of SARS-CoV-2 Infection in Adults, Role: Illinois-based Network (ILLInet), 2021-2025

OT2HL NHLBI, Site Principal Investigator: Jerry Krishnan, MD
ACTIV‐4 Post-Hospital (ACT-POSTH, 4C). Study treatments to help prevent blood clots after a patient is discharged from the hospital among COVID-19 patients who have been hospitalized, 2020-2022

U01HL, NHLBI, Site Principal Investigator: Jerry Krishnan, MD
Biological Underpinnings of COPD Heterogeneity and Progression, 2017-2022

UG1HL, NHLBI, MPI: Denlinger, Jarjour, Krishnan, Chair of Communications Committee
The Great Lakes PrecISE Partnership to develop and evaluate a personalized medicine approach for the treatment of severe asthma using sequential adaptive clinical efficacy trials, 2017-2023

Lung Biotechnology PBC, PI: Dustin Fraidenburg, MD
A Phase 3 Randomized Placebo controlled Double blind Adaptive Study to Evaluate the Safety and Efficacy of Inhaled Treprostinil in Patients with Pulmonary Hypertension due to Chronic Obstructive, 2020-2023

Lungpacer Medical Ince, PI: Dustin Fraidenburg, MD
A Protocol Comparing Temporary Transvenous Diaphragm Pacing to Standard of Care for Weaning from Mechanical Ventilation in ICU Patients RESCUE 3, 2019-2024

Cornell University (Prime Sponsor NIH), PI: Min Joo, MD
The Capture Study Validating a unique COPD screening tool in primary care, 2019-2023

University of Maryland (Prime Sponsor DOD), PI: Sunit Singla, MD
Cooling to Help Injured Lungs (CHILL) Phase 2b Randomized Control Trial of Therapeutic
Hypothermia in Patients with ARDS PO# 1000003527, 2020-2023

Basic-Translational Research Grants
NHLBI R01, PI: Jeffrey Jacobson, MD
Sphingolipids as Novel Therapeutic Targets in Radiation Lung Injury, 2020-2024

NHLBI R01, PI: Irena Levitan, PhD
Cholesterol Regulation of Endothelial K+ Channels, 2004-2025

NHLBI R01, MPI: Irena Levitan, PhD and Richard Minshall, PhD
Impact of dyslipidemia on endothelial biomechanics, 2008-2022

NHLBI R01, MPI: Irena Levitan, PhD and Shane Phillips, PhD
Microvascular endothelial Kir channels in flow-induced dilation and hypertension, 2019-2023

NHLBI R01, MPI, Viswanathan Natarajan, PhD and Roberto Machado, MD
Role of Sphingolipid pathways in the pathobiology of PAH, 2016-24

NHLBI R01,PI: Gye Young Park, MD
Mechanism of CX3CR1+ macrophage-mediated resolution of eosinophilic allergic lung inflammation, 2021-2026

VA Merit, PI: Gye Young Park, MD
CSF1 Receptor-Mediated Tumor Microenvironment in Lung Cancer, 2020-2023

ALA, PI: Hyung-Geun Moon, PhD
CSF1-CSF1R pathway for allergen sensitization CA-672526, 2020-2022