New Grant Awardees
The Carver College of Medicine Office of Scientific Affairs wishes to congratulate our Principal Investigators who have been awarded funding during the month of May
| Name | Department | Funding Agency | Title |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tucker, Robert | Pathology | Medical Murray, Inc. | Minimally Invasive Tissue Tightening Device |
| Packer, Hans | Psychiatry | Nellie Ball Trust | A Mammalian Model of a Gene Variant that is a Risk Factor for Schizophrenia |
| Ho, Beng Choon | Psychiatry | Nellie Ball Trust | A Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy Study of Young, Nonpsychotic Siblings of Schizophrenia Patients |
| Anderson, Michael | Physiology & Biophysics | Knights Templar Eye Foundation, Inc. | New Genetic Pathways of Congenital Glaucoma |
| Goldman, Frederick | Pediatrics | Talecris Biotherapeutics | Immunomodulatory Properties of IGIV in Developing Immune Systems Post Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplant |
| Fingert, John | Ophthalmology & Visual Sciences | American Glaucoma Society | Molecular Genetics of Pigment Dispersion Syndrome |
| Chaloupka, John | Radiology | Boston Scientific Corporation | MAPS Trial: Matrix and Platinum Science: A Prospective, Randomized, Multicenter Trial Investigating Matrix2tm and GDC Coils for the Treatment of Intracranial Saccular Aneurysms |
| Song, Long-Sheng | Internal Medicine | American Heart Association | Defective Local Excitation-Contraction Coupling in Heart Failure |
| Brennan, Timothy | Anesthesia | Painceptor Pharma Corporation | Painceptor Service Agreement |
| Fredericks, Douglas | Orthopaedics and Rehabilitation | Electro-Biology, Inc. | Assessment of Biomet Ultrasound System (BUSS) Fresh Fracture Healing Device in a Rabbit Fibular Osteotomy Model: 21 Day Study Period |
| Fasano, Mary | Internal Medicine | American College of Allergy, Asthma & Immunology | The ACAAI Clinical Fellowship Stipend in Allergy and Immunology |
| Hoballah, Jamal | Surgery | Sanofi Aventis Groupe | A Randomized, Double-Blind, Placebo Controlled, Parallel Group Trial of HMR1766 Assessing the Efficacy and Safety of 3 doses of HMR1766 (25, 100, 200 mg OD) versus Placebo with Cilostazol, 100 mg BID as a Calibrator, Administered for 26 Weeks in Patients with Peripheral Arterial Disease (PAD), Fontaine Stage II |
| Amendola, Annunziato | Orthopaedics and Rehabilitation | American Orthopaedic Society for Sports Medicine | Non-Invasive Assessment of Cartilage Health: A New Approach with T1rho MRI |
| Link, Brian | Internal Medicine | Eli Lilly & Company | A Phase 3 Clinical Study to Investiage the Prevention of Relapse in Lymphoma Using Daily Enzastaurin |
| Davidson, Beverly | Internal Medicine | National Institutes of Health | RNAi for Dominant Neurological Disease P01 |
| Wilkinson, Neal | Surgery | NSABP Foundation, Inc. | Addendum to NSABP TIND for Subpart NSABP B-40-ROCHE and Subpart NSABP LTS-01 - UCLA |
| Hoffman, Eric | Radiology | Marval Therapeutics, Inc. | Liposomal Contrast Agent Assessment |
| Dornfeld, Kenneth | Radiation Research Laboratory | National Institutes of Health | Mitochondrial Oxidative Stress in Thymineless Death |
| Winokur, Patricia | Internal Medicine | Saint Louis University | IMVAMUNE Smallpox Vaccine Trial |
| Strack, Stefan | Pharmacology | National Institutes of Health | Regulation of Mitochondrial Fission/Fusion by PP2A and PKA in Neurons |
| Martin, Brian | Microbiology | National Institutes of Health | Complement Protection and Anaphylatoxins in Neuroinflammation |
| Magnotta, Vincent | Radiology | National Institutes of Health | BRAINS Morphology and Image Analysis |
| Nauseef, William | Internal Medicine | National Institutes of Health | Biosynthesis, Structural Organization, and Function of NOX Proteins |
| Kusner, David | Internal Medicine | Vertex Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | Proposal for the Development of Novel Kinase Inhibitor Treatments for Mycobacterium tuberculosis Infection |
| Sheffield, Val | Pediatrics | National Institutes of Health | Interdisciplinary Approach to Retinal Disease Gene Identification |
| Paulsen, Jane | Psychiatry | National Institutes of Health | Cognitive and Functional Brain Changes in Preclinical Huntington's Disease (HD) |
| Johnson, Hans | Psychiatry | National Institutes of Health | Enterprise Storage in a Collaborative Neuroimaging Environment |
| Schmidt, Warren | Internal Medicine | Human Genome Sciences, Inc. | A Phase 3, Randomized, Multi-Center Study to Evaluate the Efficacy and Safety of Albumin Interferon Alfa-2b (alb-IFN) in Combination with Ribavirin Compared with Peginterferon Alfa-2a (PEGASYS or PEG-IFNα2a) in Combination with Ribavirin in Interferon Alfa Naïve Subjects with Chronic Hepatitis C Genotype 1: ACHIEVE-1 |
| Cram, Peter | Internal Medicine | National Institutes of Health | Cardiac Care in Specialty and General Hospitals |
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