The NC TraCS Institute is pleased to announce awardees for 2 programs, September—December 2021:

• TraCS $2K pilot grants
• TraCS $2K Stakeholder Engagement vouchers

Awardees include investigators from UNC School of Medicine, Gillings School of Global Public Health, Eshelman School of Pharmacy, Psychiatry, Medicine/Geriatrics, Department of Nutrition, Internal Medicine, Cardiology, Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation, and Pediatric Gastroenterology.

TraCS $2K Pilot Grant Program

• Alana Campbell, Psychiatry
  Project Title: Development of a Voice-based Self-administered Dietary Assessment
• John Batsis, Medicine/Geriatrics
  Project Title: Going Virtual: Biomarkers of emotion in virtual reality
• Jill Hagey, Obstetrics & Gynecology
  Project Title: Ulpristal acetate for use in early pregnancy loss: a phase 2 pilot feasibility study
• Megan Roberts, Eshelman School of Pharmacy
  Lauren Passero, Eshelman School of Pharmacy
  Project Title: Assessing the Short and Long-Term Costs of Familial Hypercholesterolemia Management in Healthy Adults in North Carolina
• Emily Duffy, Department of Nutrition
  Lindsey Smith Taillie, Gillings School of Global Public Health
  Project Title: Examining facilitators and barriers to utilization of a COVID-19 emergency food program among North Carolina Special Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) participants: A feasibility study
• Harish Eswaran, MD, Resident, Internal Medicine
  Project Title: Role of Complement activation in the pathogenesis of livedoid vasculopathy
• Patricia Maness, School of Medicine
  Project Title: A Novel Mouse Model to Investigate CCK Basket Interneuron Connectivity and Regulation by Cannabinoids in Prefrontal Cortex
• Megan Roberts, Eshelman School of Pharmacy
  Project Title: Population genetic screening: Understanding strategies for equitable uptake of screening
• Anna Wheless, School of Medicine
  Project Title: Probing side effects of a gene therapy candidate for severe chronic hypertriglyceridemia
• Nadja Vielot, Family Medicine
  Project Title: Determining eligibility and readiness for rural North Carolina clinics to participate in an HPV vaccination trial: a feasibility study
• Faisal Syed, Medicine-Cardiology
  Project Title: Artificial Intelligence in Cardiovascular Health and Disease

TraCS $2K Stakeholder Engagement Voucher Program

• Karen Bluth, Psychiatry
  Christine Lathren, Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation
  Project Title: Engaging Stakeholders to Tailor Mindful Self-Compassion Programming for Transgender Adolescents
• JD DeFreese, Exercise & Sports Science
  Avinash Chandran, Datalys Center for Sports Injury Research & Prevention, Inc.
  Project Title: Former Female Athlete Health and Well-Being: Epidemiology to Intervention
• Erica Brenner, Department of Pediatrics/Division of Pediatric Gastroenterology
  Project Title: Engaging patient stakeholders to improve sexual and reproductive health for adolescent and young women with inflammatory bowel disease

View a complete list of Pilot awardees at tracs.unc.edu/pilot.