NC TraCS Award Announcements
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.
