Notables

Raymond E. Arvidson, Ph.D., the James S. McDonnell Distinguished University Professor in Arts & Sciences, has received a one-year, $30,652 subaward from the Colorado School of Mines for research titled “The Sedimentary Record of Arabia Terra: Remote Sensing and Hydrologic-Climatic Modeling.” … Marco Colonna, M.D., professor of pathology and immunology, has received a one-year, $60,000 […]

Of note D. Craig Allred, M.D., professor of pathology and immunology, has received a one-year $200,000 grant from the Breast Cancer Research Foundation for research titled “Epithelial-Stromal Interactions in the Progression of Non-Invasive to Invasive Breast Cancer.” … Pratim Biswas, Ph.D., the Stifel & Quinette Jens Professor of Environmental Engineering Science, has received a one-year, […]

Dwight Towler, M.D., Ph.D., professor of medicine, has received a one-year, $215,147 grant from the Barnes-Jewish Hospital Foundation for “Bone and Mineral Diseases Research Operations.” … M. Alan Permutt, M.D., professor of medicine, has received a one-year, $165,000 grant from the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation International for research titled “Notch Signaling in Beta Cell Development and Regeneration” and a one-year, $92,054 grant from the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases for research titled “Metabolic Basis of Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus: a Genetic Analysis.” … Roberta Faccio, Ph.D., assistant professor of orthopaedic surgery, has received a two-year, $150,000 grant from the Arthritis Foundation for research titled “Role of PLC-Gamma2 in Inflammatory Arthritis.” … Audrey McAlinden, Ph.D., research assistant professor of orthopaedic surgery, has received a two-year, $150,000 grant from the Arthritis Foundation for research titled “Regulation of the COL2A1 Alternative Splicing Switch During Chondrogenesis.”

Kevin J. Black, M.D., associate professor of psychiatry, has received a five-year, $1,999,873 grant from the National Institute of Mental Health for research titled “Dopaminergic Effects on Cortical Function in Tourette’s.” … John W. Olney, M.D., the John P. Feighner Professor of Psychiatry, has received a five-year, $1,901,876 grant from the National Institute on Drug Abuse for research titled “Developmental Brain Damage by Drugs of Abuse.”… Herbert W. Virgin, M.D., professor of pathology and immunology, has received a five-year, $1,693,102 grant from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases for research titled “Norovirus Infection of Dendritic Cells and Macrophages.”… John P. Atkinson, M.D., the Samuel Grant Professor of Medicine, has received a five-year, $1,635,875 grant from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases for research titled “CD46: Protecting the Host from Complement Attack.”

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Shirley K. Baker, Dean of University Libraries and Vice Chancellor for Information Technology, has been appointed for a three year term to the National Institutes of Health’s PubMed Central National Advisory Committee. She has also agreed to serve a two-year on the Advisory Board for the Canadian Research Knowledge Network, a collaborative program of Canadian […]

Mark S. Conradi, Ph.D., professor of physics in Arts & Sciences, received a three-year, $360,000 grant from the National Science Foundation for research titled “NMR Studies of Hydrogen-Hydrate Clathrates and Large Band-Gap Amorphous Semiconductors and Development of Ultra-High Sensitivity NMR.” … Rudolf B. Husar, Ph.D., professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering and director of the […]

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