Early career research grants

Dr. Jared Mayers, assistant professor (Pulmonary, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine) has recently been awarded two early career research grants.

V Foundation V Scholar Grant

The V Foundation V Scholar Grant supports early-career, tenure-track faculty in cancer research, funding both fundamental laboratory and translational projects.

His project, “Developing tools to unlock the role of the pulmonary microbiome in lung cancer,” will develop novel sequencing methods to functionally characterize the lung tumor microbiome, aiming to define the specific microbial activities that promote malignancy.

Edward Mallinckrodt, Jr. Foundation Grant

The Edward Mallinckrodt, Jr. Foundation Grant provides start-up support to advance research toward independent funding.

To combat antibiotic resistance, his project, “A metabolomics pipeline to uncover new microbial targets in infection,” will expand the application of a reverse-translational metabolomics pipeline to Gram-positive infections, identifying microbial metabolic behaviors in patients that are essential for pathogenesis and represent new targets for intervention.