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Medicine@Yale.

September/October 2006  Volume 2 Issue 5

Inside this issue

Cover stories

NIH selects the School of Medicine for new clinical research initiative

Top asthma researcher is new leader of internal medicine

Glaucoma specialist is named chair of ophthalmology

People

School of Medicine alumnus is honored with Lasker Award

Expert on insulin action is winner of Keck Young Scholars award

Yale welcomes new leader of medical development

Lifelines: Priya Jamidar

Out & about

Awards & honors

Science

Yale launches new stem cell research program

Throwing new light on cellular networks

Protein sleuths' lab works around the clock

Advances: When lifting weights, keep your heart in mind | How cold sore viruses play hide-and-seek | Nicotine's addictive grip on the brain | An early start on the road to reason

An eye for science

Grants & contracts



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Grants and contracts awarded to Yale School of Medicine, March/April 2006

Federal

  • Frederick Altice, NIH, Improving Health Outcomes for Released HIV+ Prisoners, 2 years, $411,339
  • Lynn Cooley, NIH, Olympus DSU Confocal System, 1 year, $132,523
  • Richard Ehrenkranz, NIH, NICHD Cooperative Multi-Center Neonatal Research Network, 5 years, $1,193,506
  • Cynthia Epperson, NIH, Sex, GABA and Nicotine: A 1H-MRS Study, 5 years, $1,495,069
  • Erol Fikrig, NIH, Tissue-Specific Borrelia Gene Expression, 5 years, $2,043,750
  • Elena Grigorenko, NIH, Genetic Bases of Developmental Language Disorders, 5 years, $3,009,794
  • Stephanie Halene, NIH, Role of C/EBP epsilon in Myeloid Differentiation, 5 years, $646,311
  • Lyndsay Harris, U.S. Department of Defense, Molecular Classifications of Response to Therapy in HER2-Positive, Early Stage Breast Cancer, 2 years, $994,847
  • Christina Herrick, NIH, Th2 Responses in the Cutaneous Environment, 5 years, 1,839,375
  • Leonard Kaczmarek, NIH, Expression of Ion Channels in the Auditory System, 5 years, $1,737,190
  • Arie Kaffman, NIH, Effect of Maternal Care on Neurogenesis and Behavior, 5 years, $911,347
  • Anthony Koleske, NIH, A Biochemical Screen for Novel Regulators of Neuronal Morphogenesis, 2 years, $404,663
  • William Konigsberg, NIH, Molecular Biology and Structure of DNA Replicase, 4 years, $1,324,949
  • James Leckman, NIH, Treatment of Tourette’s Syndrome and Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder, 5 years, $641,520
  • Luis Marenco, NIH, Mediated Integration of Neuroscience Resources, 3 years, $995,103
  • Ruth Montgomery, NIH, Mechanism of Vector Saliva Inhibition of Innate Immunity, 2 years, $449,625
  • Peter Moore, NIH, Program in Macromolecular Structure, Motion, Control, 3 years, $4,563,043
  • Xenophon Papademetris, NIH, Bioimage Suite: A Structural, Functional, and Metabolic Image Analysis Platform, 4 years, $1,466,357
  • David Rothstein, NIH, Immune Tolerance to Transplanted Myoblasts, 5 years, 1,541,450
  • Jody Sindelar, NIH, Work Life, Health Habits, and Health: Longitudinal Analysis, 4 years, $1,717,006
  • Scott Strobel, NSF, Riboswitch Structure Function Analysis, 1 year, $244,881
  • Joann Sweasy, NIH, Characterization of a DNA Polymerase Beta–Deficient Mouse, 5 years, $1,451,065
  • Benjamin Turk, U.S. Department of the Army, Identification of Substrates and Inhibitors of the Anthrax Lethal Factor, 1 year, $259,928

Non-Federal

  •  Hervé Agaisse, Edward Mallinckrodt, Jr. Foundation, Identification of Host Factors Involved in Intracellular Pathogen Infection, 1 year, $60,000
  • Fengwei Bai, Health Research Inc., Lentivirus Mediated Delivery of West Nile Virus sRNA Therapeutics, 1 year, $53,309
  • Nancy Berliner, Robert Leet and Clara Guthrie Patterson Trust, Disruption of Myelopoiesis by Human Anaplasma Infection, 1 year, $62,500
  • Michael Bracken, University of Vermont, Cochrane Neonatal Review Group (CNRG), 5 years, $42,814
  • Kathleen Carroll, University of California–Los Angeles, Starting Treatment with Agonist Replacement (START), 17 months, $1,368,000
  • Marie Egan, Cystic Fibrosis Foundation, Bone Marrow–Derived Stem Cells: Potential Use in CF, 2 years, $194,400
  • Brian Elbel, Russell Sage Foundation, Choice Sets and Consumer Selection of Health Plans, 1 year, $4,639
  • Lyndsay Harris, CALGB Foundation, RNA Profiling from Paraffin in CALGB 934219840, 1 year, $101,057
  • Josephine Hoh, Verto Institute, LLC, Genome-Wide Linkage Disequilibrium Mapping for Carcinoid Susceptibility, 2 years, $234,000; Macula Vision Research Foundation, Age-Related Macular Degeneration Susceptibility Genes, 3 years, $240,000
  • Peter Jatlow, University of Connecticut Health Center, Urine Cotinine Safety Testing, 1 year, $29,120
  • Harriet Kluger, Novogen Limited, Assessing the Activity and Mechanism of Action of NV-143 and NV-196 in Melanoma, 1 year, $57,225
  • Charles Lockwood, March of Dimes, Abruption-Induced Preterm Delivery Effects Functional Endometrial Progesterone Withdrawal, 3 years, $483,101
  • Linda Marc, Connecticut Health Foundation, Recruiting, Retaining, and Promoting URM Faculty at YSPH, 18 months, $30,000
  • Angus Nairn, Rockefeller University, Drugs of Abuse—Role of Protein Phosphorylation: Three Striatal Phosphoproteins and Actions of Psychostimulants, 5 years, $256,444
  • Laura Niklason, Columbia University, Engineering Vascularized Cardiac Muscle, 6 months, $125,000
  • Errol Norwitz, March of Dimes, Progesterone Receptor Dysregulation and Preterm Birth, 3 years, $371,586
  • Scott Rivkees, JS Genetics, Newborn Screening for Sex Chromosome Disorders, 1 year, $50,588
  • Susumu Tomita, Edward Mallinckrodt, Jr. Foundation, Molecular Mechanism for Excitatory Synaptic Plasticity in the Brain, 1 year, $60,000
  • Marianne Ulcickas Yood, Henry Ford Health System, The HMO Cancer Research Network (CRN), 1 year, $13,003
  • Flora Vaccarino, Tourette Syndrome Association, Inc., Inhibitory Interneurons in Tourette’s Syndrome, 1 year, $74,195
  • Hong Wang, American Cancer Society, Inc., The Impact of the Penetration of Domestic-Made Foreign-Brand Cigarettes on Tobacco Consumption in China, 2 years, $40,000
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