# BLRD Research Career Scientist Award Application

> **NIH VA IK6** · NORTHPORT VA MEDICAL CENTER · 2022 · —

## Abstract

ABSTRACT
I am an Infectious Diseases physician-scientist with over 28 years of experience in medical mycology.
During my career, I have been working in the clinic and at the bench, teaching and training many
students, post-docs and junior faculty at Duke University, the Medical University of South Carolina,
and now at Stony Brook University and at the Northport VA Medical Center. My overall career goal is
to bring a new antifungal in the clinic, and I am closer than ever with MicroRid Technologies Inc., a
start-up company I co-founded for the research and development of new antifungal drugs.
My laboratory pioneered the studies on lipid-mediated infectious diseases. My lab and my co-workers
reached such a high visibility in this field that we are continuously contacted for consultant work by
investigators from all over the world for lipid analysis in their favorite organisms. My studies have
mostly focused on fungal infections, particularly invasive fungal infections, because they are on the
rise in our Veterans and in our non-Veterans populations. As we live longer thanks to many benefits of
chemo- and immunosuppressive-therapies and organ transplantations, we are also facing a rise of
invasive fungal infectious diseases. Current antifungals are either fungistatic, toxic, with narrow
spectrum of activity or they become resistant. New treatment strategies are needed. In addition to
develop a new class of antifungal agents, the studies in my laboratory are also crucial to the
understanding of the host mechanisms required for fungal containment versus fungal dissemination
and disease. For these studies, I partnered with many collaborators at the VA medical centers, at
various Universities, and at the industry setting, establishing fruitful and successful collaborations. The
VA RCS award will allow our group to continue this great work and will provide stability to fulfill the
current goals and to start new research directions. The RCS Award will also allow me to broaden my
collaborative research even further, particularly with the VA physicians involved in the MVP,
enhancing my research clinical enterprise, and to continue my service to the scientific community at
the VA and beyond.

## Key facts

- **NIH application ID:** 10337032
- **Project number:** 5IK6BX005386-02
- **Recipient organization:** NORTHPORT VA MEDICAL CENTER
- **Principal Investigator:** Maurizio Del Poeta
- **Activity code:** IK6 (R01, R21, SBIR, etc.)
- **Funding institute:** VA
- **Fiscal year:** 2022
- **Award amount:** —
- **Award type:** 5
- **Project period:** 2020-10-01 → 2025-09-30

## Primary source

NIH RePORTER: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10337032

## Citation

> US National Institutes of Health, RePORTER application 10337032, BLRD Research Career Scientist Award Application (5IK6BX005386-02). Retrieved via AI Analytics 2026-05-24 from https://api.ai-analytics.org/grant/nih/10337032. Licensed CC0.

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