Mark A. Franklin, Ph.D., the Hugo F. and Ina Champ Urbauer Professor of Engineering in computer science and engineering; James H. Buckley, Ph.D., professor of physics in Arts & Sciences; Jeremy D. Buhler, Ph.D., and Patrick Crowley, Ph.D., assistant professors of computer science and engineering; and Roger D. Chamberlain, Ph.D., associate professor of computer science and engineering, have received a four-year, $750,000 Information Technology Research grant from the National Science foundation for research titled “Storage-based Supercomputing for Scientific Applications.” …
John J. Lehman, M.D., instructor in medicine, has received a five-year, $840,000 grant from the National Institute on Aging for research titled “Mitochondrial Control by PGC-la in Young and Aging Heart.” …
David L. Brody, M.D., Ph.D., instructor in neurology, has received a five-year, $755,395 grant from the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke for research titled “Amyloid-B and Apolipoprotein E in Traumatic Brain Injury.” …
John F. Dipersio, M.D., the Lewis T. and Rosalind B. Apple Professor of Medicine, has received a two-year, $627,300 grant from the National Cancer Institute for research titled “DLI Using Genetically Modified T Cells: Phase 1 Trial.” …
John B. Sunwoo, M.D., assistant professor of otolaryngology, has received a five-year, $607,985 grant from the National Institute of Dental & Craniofacial Research for research titled “Mechanisms of Immune Evasion by Head and Neck Cancer.” …
Robert Culverhouse, Ph.D., instructor in medicine, has received a five-year, $607,117 grant from the National Institute of General Medical Sciences for research titled “Computational Methods to Detect Epistasis.” …
Dominic N. Reeds, M.D., instructor in medicine, has received a five-year, $565,162 grant from the National Center for Research Resources for research titled “Metabolic Abnormalities in HIV.” …
Edwin B. Fisher, Ph.D., professor of psychology in Arts & Sciences, has received a four-year, $454,099 grant from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation for the “Diabetes Collaborative Learning Network.” …
Philip D. Stahl, Ph.D., the Edward Mallinckrodt Jr. Professor of Cell Biology and Physiology, has received a two-year, $306,000 grant from the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases for research titled “Phosphatidylinositol Kinase, M-CSF, and Osteoclastogenesis.” …
Steven J. Weintraub, M.D., research assistant professor of surgery, has received a two-year, $306,000 grant from the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases for research titled “Regulation of Skp2 Expression in Urinary Bladder Wall.” …
Lee Ratner, M.D., professor of medicine, has received a two-year, $275,400 grant from the National Cancer Institute for research titled “HTLV Receptor Identification and Characterization.” …
Wandy Beatty, Ph.D., research instructor in molecular microbiology, has received a four-year, $260,000 grant from the American Heart Association for research titled “Lipid Trafficking in Chlamydia Pneumoniae-infected Cells.” …
Timothy Holy, Ph.D., assistant professor of neurobiology and anatomy, has received a one-year, $60,000 grant from the Edward Mallinckrodt Jr. Foundation for the study of the sensory map of the accessory olfactory system. …
Daniel Ory, M.D., associate professor of medicine, has received a three-year, $200,000 grant from the Ara Parseghian Medical Research Foundation for research titled “Treatment of Niemann-Pick C (NPC) Disease Through LXR Activation.” …
Thomas Ferkol Jr., M.D., associate professor of pediatrics, has received a one-year, $196,131 grant from the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation for the “Cystic Fibrosis Center.” …
Michael M. Mueckler, Ph.D., professor of cell biology and physiology, has received a four-year, $180,000 grant from the American Diabetes Association for the Mentor-based Postdoctoral Fellowship program. …
Daniel P. Schuster, M.D., professor of medicine, has received a one-year, $176,147 grant from the National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering for research titled “Neutrophil Specific Transgene Expression Imaging.” …
Russell Osguthorpe, M.D., clinical fellow in pediatrics, has received a $110,000 grant from the Pediatric Infectious Diseases Society for the PIDS-St. Jude Fellowship Award. …Matthew B. Dobbs, M.D., assistant professor of orthopaedic surgery, has received a one-year, $100,000 grant from the Aircast Foundation for research titled “A Genome-wide Linkage Analysis for Idiopathic Clubfoot.” …
Eiichi Hirano, Ph.D., postdoctoral research scholar of cell biology and physiology, has received a two-year, $81,000 grant from the American Heart Association for research titled “Elastin Mutations and Vascular Disease.” …
Jun Li, Ph.D., postdoctoral research scholar of cell biology and physiology, has received a two-year, $81,000 grant from the American Heart Association for research titled “The Role of Coronin in Action Assembly and Cell Motility.” …
Lingfei Xu, M.D., research instructor in medicine, has received a one-year, $70,000 grant from the National Hemophilia Foundation for the NHF Career Development Award. …
David Lanfear, M.D., clinical fellow in internal medicine, has received a one-year, $62,523 HFSA Research Fellowship Award from the Heart Failure Society of America. …
Nica M. Borradaile, Ph.D., postdoctoral research scholar in cardiology, has received a two-year, $57,670 research fellowship award from the Heart and Stroke Foundation of Canada. …
Soo-Jin Cho, pre-doctoral trainee in internal medicine, has received a two-year, $50,000 grant from the American Heart Association for research titled “Characterization of Murine and Human APOBEC3G, a Homolog of APOBEC1 Involved in Anti-HIV Defense.” …
Ryan Drenan, pre-doctoral trainee in cell biology and physiology, has received a two-year, $50,000 grant from the American Heart Association for research titled “PKG1-dependent Regula-tion of RGS2.” …
Gregory Gurtner, M.D., instructor of medicine, has received a one-year, $50,000 grant from the GlaxoSmithKline Institute for Digestive Health for research titled “IDO Downregulates Intestinal Inflammation.” …
Kory Lavine, pre-doctoral trainee in molecular biology and pharmacology, has received a two-year, $50,000 grant from the American Heart Association for research titled “FGF Regulation of Cardiac Development.” …
Xuhui Zeng, Ph.D., postdoctoral research scholar, has received a one-year, $45,000 grant from the American Heart Association for research titled “The Functional Association between Beta1 Subunit and Calcium Regulatory Sites in BK Channels.” …
Anne Cross, M.D., professor of neurology, has received a one-year, $44,000 grant from the National Multiple Sclerosis society for a pilot research project titled “Reg Proteins as Treatment for CNS Inflammatory Demyelination.” …
Nathan Andrew Baker, Ph.D., assistant professor of biochemistry and molecular biophysics, has received a one-year, $40,000 Sloan Research Fellow award from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. …
Joel Goebel, M.D., professor of otolaryngology, has received a one-year, $40,000 grant from the American Otological Society for research titled “Efficacy of Corticosteroids and Antiviral Therapy in Acute Vestibular Neuritis: A Perspective, Randomized, Placebo-controlled Trial.” …
Buck E. Rogers, Ph.D., assistant professor of radiation oncology, has received a one-year, $38,300 grant from FRIENDS for research titled “PET Imaging for Early Detection of Breast Cancer With a Radioactive Peptide.” …
Shiming Chen, Ph.D., assistant professor of ophthalmology and visual sciences, has received a one-year, $35,000 grant from Prevent Blindness America for research titled “Chemotherapy for CRX-Associated Photoreceptor Regeneration.” …
Ramakrishna Venkatesh, M.D., assistant professor of surgery, has received two one-year, $37,200 grants from the Midwest Stone Institute for research titled “Physiologic Changes of the Ureter with Stone Passage and Effects of Hydration Status,” and “Pharmacologic Manipulation of Porcine Ureter.” …
Jay Belani, M.D., clinical fellow of urological surgery, has received a one-year, $30,000 MSI research grant award from the Midwest Stone Institute for research titled “Complete Urinary Bladder Creation and Augmentation With Cell Seeding of Silicone Prosthesis Induce Fibrous Capsule.” …
Andrew Bowman, pre-doctoral trainee in internal medicine, has received a one-year, $25,000 grant from the American Heart Association for research titled “Characterization of Four-Chambered Heart Dynamics by Magnetic Resonance Imaging.” …
Tillmann Cyrus, M.D., clinical fellow, has received a one-year, $25,000 grant from the Society for Cardiovascular Angiography and Interventions for research titled “Novel Nanoparticulate Platform Technology to Advance 3-dimensional Cardiovascular Imaging of Arterial Injury and Deliver Anti-Restenotic Therapy Following Angioplasty.” …
James M. Cheverud, Ph.D., professor of anatomy, has received a one-year, $11,984 grant from the National Science Foundation for research titled “Modularity of Pleiotropic Effects on Skeletal Morphology.” …
James Hsieh, M.D., Ph.D., assistant professor of medicine, has received a four-year, $557,776 grant from the National Cancer Institute for research titled “Genetic and Biochemical Analyses of MLL Cleavage.” …
Bradley Stoner, M.D., Ph.D., associate professor of anthropology in Arts & Sciences, has received a one-year, $6,190 grant from the National Science Foundation for “Dissertation Research: The Effects of Suicide Prevention Programs on Local Understandings of Suicide and Gender in Rural China.”