The deadline to apply for the next round of Bear Cub Fund grants is Sept. 7.
The fund supports faculty in applied studies not normally supported by federal grants. The purpose is to refine ideas that will benefit society and may have commercial value.
Individual grants of $20,000-50,000 are awarded to support short-term projects.
Last spring, the fund awarded a grant to John E. Heuser, M.D., professor of cell biology and physiology, to build a prototype of a redesigned “freezing machine” for freezing biological samples under high pressure.
Also receiving an award was Arthur H. Neufeld, Ph.D., the Bernard Becker Professor of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences and professor of molecular biology and pharmacology, who is working on the development of therapeutics to block production of nitric oxide in glaucoma.
Thomas J. Baranski, M.D., Ph.D., assistant professor of medicine and of molecular biology and pharmacology, and Ross L. Cagan, Ph.D., professor of molecular biology and pharmacology, shared a grant to study screening method for gene products involved in cancer and diabetes.
David M. Zar, research associate in computer science, received a grant to build and test a clock generator circuit for use in high-speed computing systems.
For more information about the Bear Cub Fund, go online to otm.wustl.edu/wv/bearcubfund.html or call Tom Hagerty at 747-0926.