{"id":34620,"date":"2019-12-18T08:30:40","date_gmt":"2019-12-18T13:30:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/college.unc.edu\/?p=34620"},"modified":"2024-07-02T17:13:56","modified_gmt":"2024-07-02T17:13:56","slug":"creativity-hubs-2020-finalists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/collegearchive.unc.edu\/?p=34620","title":{"rendered":"Creativity Hubs\u2019 2020 finalists"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>The Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research announces pre-proposal finalists for Creativity Hubs&#8217; third round of funding to support interdisciplinary teams.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-34621\" src=\"https:\/\/collegearchive.unc.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/21\/2024\/07\/creativity.hubs_.toxins.jpg\" alt=\"Image shows a city in the background with a superimposed image of a pregnant mother and child on top of the city image.\" width=\"602\" height=\"339\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"content\">\n<p>Creativity Hubs\u2019 2020 finalist teams span the UNC College of Arts &amp; Sciences, four professional schools, 18 departments, five research centers and institutes, and four external institutions, highlighting the effectiveness of distinctive problem-solvers uniting to tackle large societal challenges. Projects supported by the program are expected to lead to sustainable, large-scale extramural funding and commercial opportunities.<\/p>\n<p>The projects advancing to the next round of Creativity Hubs funding opportunities are:<\/p>\n<h4><strong>Accelerated Discovery of Solar Energy Materials<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p><strong>Team:<\/strong> James Cahoon, the College, PI; Alexander Tropsha, UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy, the College; Olexandr Isayev, School of Pharmacy; Jillian Dempsey, Frank Leibfarth, Alexander Miller, Rene Lopez, Ron Alterovitz, Collin McKinney, the College<\/p>\n<p>Utilizing artificial intelligence methods originally developed for pharmaceutical innovations to discover applications for solar energy and solar fuel production.<\/p>\n<h4><strong>First Mile to Health: Using Data Analytics to Identify and Overcome Transport Barriers to Care<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p><strong>Team:<\/strong> Noreen McDonald, the College, PI; Mark Holmes, UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health, Cecil G. Sheps Center for Health Services Research; Ashok Krishnamurthy, the College, RENCI; Alison Stuebe, School of Medicine; Crystal Cene, UNC School of Medicine, Sheps Center; Eleanor Wertman, UNC Health Care<\/p>\n<p>Minimizing transportation barriers and improving access to health care with the development of a platform that will allow researchers, transportation agencies, health departments, and hospital managers to identify barriers and develop cross-sector solutions.<\/p>\n<h4><strong>Protecting Pregnant Women from Enviromental Toxins<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p><strong>Team:<\/strong> Rebecca Fry, Gillings, PI; Jaye Cable, the College; Hudson Santos, UNC School of Nursing; Cathi Propper, Frank Porter Graham Child Development Institute; Andrew George, Kathleen Gray, Institute for the Environment; Michael Piehler, the College, Institute for the Environment; Radhika Dhingra, Alex Keil, Kun Lu, Hazel Nichols, Andy Olshan, Julia Rager, Lisa Smeester, Mirek Styblo, William Vizuete, Gillings; Ilona Jaspers, Tracy Manuck, Michael O\u2019Shea, Mark Zylka, School of Medicine<\/p>\n<p>Improving health outcomes for pregnant woman in North Carolina by identifying toxins, air-based contaminants, exposure risks and the compounding health factors that environmental issues can cause.<\/p>\n<h4><strong>Vector-Borne Disease: Epidemiology, Ecology &amp; Response (VEER)<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p><strong>Team:<\/strong> Ross Boyce, School of Medicine, PI; Natalie Bowman, Kara Moser, School of Medicine; Michael Emch, Paul Delamater, the College, Sachiko Ozawa, School of Pharmacy; Todd BenDor, the College, Odum Institute; Michael Reiskind, Alun Lloyd, North Carolina State University; Carl Williams, Alexis Barbarian, N.C. Department of Health and Human Services; Sammy Choi, CPT Phil George, Womack Army Medical Center; Kim Brownley, Tick-Borne Infections Council of North Carolina, Inc.<\/p>\n<p>Developing and implementing evidence-based, cost-effective surveillance and response systems to address vector-born disease, an epidemic affecting the entire state, but particularly those living in rural and underserved communities in North Carolina.<\/p>\n<p>To date, the Creativity Hubs program has yielded amazing results and millions in extramural funding. The pre-proposal finalists for this round will present their projects in the spring. Winning team(s) will then be eligible for up to $500,000 in continued funding from the Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research to execute their proposals over the next two years.<\/p>\n<p>Creativity Hubs awardees are guaranteed proposal development assistance from the Office of Research Development to pursue large-scale, follow-on awards that build from the program\u2019s funding. The office will also work with the teams not selected to further develop their projects and connect them to other funding opportunities.<\/p>\n<p><em>By UNC Research<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research announces pre-proposal finalists for Creativity Hubs&#8217; third round of funding to support interdisciplinary 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