TraC$ 2K Pilot Award Program 38th Round Awardees

The North Carolina Translational and Clinical Sciences (NC TraCS) Institute is pleased to announce awardees of the thirty-eighth cycle of TraCS $2K grants for clinical and translational research projects. 11 applications were received and 4 (listed below) were chosen for funding, from the UNC School of Medicine and University of California at Irvine.

$2K Awards

Caterina Gallippi
Biomedical Engineering, School of Medicine
Project Title: The feasibility of ARFI bleeding rate and time to hemostasis measures in hemostatically normal dogs with antithrombotic therapy

Adam Gracz
Cell & Molecular Physiology, School of Medicine
Project Title: Establishing a cell line-based model for studying human intestinal stem cells

Sarah Short
Psychiatry, School of Medicine
Claudia Buss
Pediatrics, University of California at Irvine
Project Title: Validating Hair Samples as a Cumulative Index of Circulating Cortisol

Nancy Thomas
Dermatology, School of Medicine
Virginia Alldredge
Doris Duke Clinical Research Fellow, School of Medicine
Project Title: Evaluating expression of KLK-10 in BRAF mutant versus wild type melanoma