The NC TraCS Institute is pleased to announce awardees of TraCS $2K small grants for clinical and translational research projects. 10 applications were received and 4 (listed below) were chosen for funding. Awardees include investigators from UNC's Gillings School of Global Public Health, School of Dentistry, School of Medicine, and School of Social Work.

Michael Catalino, School of Medicine
Emily Buss, School of Medicine
Project Title: Intraoperative acoustic variation at glioma-brain interface

Emily Ciccone, School of Medicine
Project Title: Knowledge or Noise: The Impact of Gastrointestinal Pathogen Testing on Antibiotic Use and Clinical Management

Cynthia Fraga, School of Social Work
Luz Reyes, Gillings School of Global Public Health
Project Title: Feasibility Evaluation of a Parenting Intervention for Latinx Mothers who have Experienced Intimate Partner Violence

Sehrish Javaid, School of Dentistry
Project Title: Evaluating the efficacy of combination of ERK inhibition with FTI (tipifarnib) for treatment of HRAS mutant HNSCC

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