NC TraCS Award Announcements

The NC TraCS Institute is pleased to announce awardees for 2 programs:

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

Awardees include investigators from Pharmaceutical Outcomes and Policy, UNC School of Medicine, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, and Frank Porter Graham Child Development Institute.

TraCS $2K Pilot Grant Program

• Akerman, Adam, School of Medicine
  January 2021
  Project Title: Development of a method for targeted gene delivery to the murine thoracic aorta
• Carpenter, Delesha, Pharmaceutical Outcomes and Policy
  Curran, Geoffrey, College of Pharmacy, U. of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS)
  January 2021
  Project Title: Assessing Rural Community Pharmacies’ Ability and Interest in Delivering COVID-19 Vaccinations
• Evans, Christopher, UNC Graduate Medical Education / UNC Health, School of Medicine
  December 2020
  Project Title: A Natural Language Processing (NLP) and Machine Learning (ML) Approach to Identification of Incidental Radiology Findings in Trauma Patients Discharged from the Emergency Department
• Narla, Venkata, School of Medicine
  January 2021
  Project Title: Outcomes of Implantable Cardioverter-Defibrillator implantation in HIV infected Patients: A Single Center Retrospective Cohort Study

TraCS $2K Stakeholder Engagement Voucher Program

• Austen, Julie, Frank Porter Graham Child Development Institute
  Harrop, Claire, School of Medicine
  January 2021
  Project Title: Building capacity to support gender-diverse, autistic youth in North Carolina
• Sheikh, Saira, School of Medicine
  Englund, Tessa, School of Medicine
  January 2021
  Project Title: Development of a Stakeholder Advisory Board for Patient Engagement in Lupus Research

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