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Grants and contracts awarded to Yale School of Medicine
March/April 2007
Federal
- Norma Andrews, NIH, Regulated Exocytosis of Lysosomes, 4 years, $1,418,100
- Peter Aronson, NIH, Roles of SLC26A6 in Renal NaCl Transport and Prevention of Oxalate Urolithiasis, 5 years, $2,863,567
- Angelique Bordey, NIH, Glial Cell Function on SVZ Neurogenesis, 5 years, $2,071,292
- Walter Boron, Dept. of Defense (U.S.), Instrumentation for Studying the Structural Biology and Cellular Physiology of Gas Channels, 1 year, $325,918
- Tiffany Briere, NIH, Characterization of Polyductin Family Proteins, 2 years, $52,544
- Yung-Chi Cheng, NIH, Mechanism and In Vivo Anti-HBV Study of a Novel Class of Non-Nucleoside Compounds, 4 years, $1,488,094
- Enrique De La Cruz, NIH, Functional Diversity of Myosin VII, 4 years, $1,175,811
- Deepak D’Souza, NIH, Cannabinoid Receptor Function in Alcoholism: Effects of D-9-THC, 2 years, $339,818; NIH, Neurobiology of Cannabis Effects, 3 years, $679,322
- James Duncan, NIH, Bioimaging and Intervention in Localization-Related Epilepsy, 5 years, $4,918,621
- Ewa Folta-Stogniew, NIH, Asymmetric Flow FFF and Composition Gradient/Light Scattering System, 1 year, $270,827
- Murat Gunel, NIH, Molecular Genetic Pathogenesis of Intracranial Aneurysm, 5 years, $1,808,698
- Manisha Juthani-Mehta, NIH, Clinical Features in Nursing Home Residents with Suspected UTI, 2 years, $135,437
- Maria Lalioti, NIH, Functional Characterization of FSHR Alternatively Spliced Variants, 2 years, $165,250
- Csaba Leranth, NIH, Negative Effects of Bisphenol A on the Monkey CNS, 2 years, $454,485
- Haifan Lin, NIH, Function of PIWI/Argonuate Proteins in Spermatogenesis, 5 years, $1,653,667
- Joseph Madri, NIH, Proteinase Modulation During T-Cell Endothelial Adhesion, 4 years, $1,611,875
- Graeme Mason, NIH, Neurotransmitter Function, Psychiatric Disorders and MRS, 1 year, $15,000
- James McPartland, NIH, Neural Correlates of Perceptual Expertise for Faces and Letters in Autism, 1 year, $82,500
- Wang Min, NIH, TNF Receptor 2 Signaling in Arteriogenesis/Angiogenesis, 4 years, $1,653,438
- Melinda Pettigrew, NIH, Molecular Epidemiologic Identification of Pneumococcal Tissue-Specific Genes, 4 years, $2,277,984
- Andrew Rasmussen, NIH, Cytokine Signaling in Drosophila Acute Phase Response, 3 years, $147,750
- Naomi Rogers, NIH, Sister Kenny, Polio and American Medicine, 1940–1960, 1 year, $82,500
- Gary Rudnick, NIH, Ion and Biogenic Amine Transport Mechanism, 5 years, $1,653,750
- Gerald Shulman, NIH, Mechanisms of Fat-Induced Insulin Resistance, 5 years, $1,694,923
- Stephen Strittmatter, NIH, Nogo Receptor in Adult Central Nervous System Plasticity and Regeneration, 4 years, $1,446,571
- Patrick Sung, NIH, BLM-Mediated Homologous Recombination Regulation and Suppression, 5 years, $1,860,469; Dept. of the Army, Molecular Basis of BRCA2-Mediated Breast Tumor Suppression, 3 years, $495,708
- Ian Suydam, NIH, Probing pKa Shifts at A756 of the VS Ribozyme by 19F NMR, 2.5 years, $122,111
- Joann Sweasy, NIH, DNA Polymerase Beta and Breast Cancer, 2 years, $363,375
- Hemant Tagare, NIH, Constrained Maximum Likelihood Cryo-EM Reconstruction in Proteomics, 2 years, $165,188
- Christina Tam, NIH, Modulation of the Phagolysosome by Salmonella, 3 years, $153,822
- Peter Tattersall, NIH, Molecular Basis of Parvoviral Target Cell Specificity, 5 years, $2,507,128
- Benjamin Turk, NIH, Proteome-Wide Analysis of Kinase Phosphorylation Specificity in Yeast, 5 years, $1,570,983
- Erika Wells, NIH, Minority Predoctoral Fellowship Program, 4 years, $171,800
- Dianqing Wu, Dept. of Defense (U.S.), Identification and Validation of Small Molecule Wnt Antagonists as Potential Therapeutics for Prostate Cancer, 3 years, $619,385
- Kimberly Yonkers, NIH, Symptom-Onset Antidepressant Treatment for PMDD, 5 years, $1,559,420
- Yong Zhu, NIH, Database of Functional SNPs in Cancer-Related Environmentally Responsive Genes, 3 years, $847,986
Non-Federal
- Ali Abu-Alfa, Astellas Pharma U.S., Inc., 10 months, $5,000; Genzyme Corporation, 1 year, $5,000
- Loren Berman, Foundation for Informed Medical Decision Making, Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm Repair: Facilitating Collaborative Decision-Making, 1 year, $25,000
- Elizabeth Bradley, William J. Clinton Foundation, Liberia Health Management Delivery Program, 16 months, $99,940
- Judson Brewer, American Psychiatric Institute for Research and Education, Evaluation of Mindfulness Training in the Modulation of Cocaine Craving, 2 years, $2,500
- Richard Bucala, Alliance for Lupus Research, MIF Inhibition in SLE, 2 years, $890,042
- Daniel DiMaio, Health Research Inc., Small Transmembrane Proteins that Target Marburg Virus Glycoprotein, 1 year, $173,998
- Terri Fried, The Patrick and Catherine Weldon Donaghue Medical Research Foundation, EPIIC: Empowering Patients to Improve Informed Choice, 20 months, $150,200
- Josephine Hoh, American Health Assistance Foundation, AMD Beyond Complement and Serine Protease Pathways, 2 years, $100,000
- Mark Horowitz, Jackson Laboratory, Mouse Models to Delineate a Unique Metabolic and Skeletal Network, 1 year, $147,150
- Yingqun Huang, Connecticut Innovations Inc., Function of the Fragile X Mental Retardation Protein in Early Human Neural Development, 2 years, $200,000
- Ivana Kawikova, Tourette Syndrome Association, Inc., The Role of the Immune System in Tourette’s Syndrome, 15 months, $75,000
- Anthony Koleske, Institute for the Study of Aging, Inc., Inhibition of Rho Signaling to Prevent Dendritic Regression in Alzheimer’s Disease, 1 year, $100,000
- Diane Krause, Connecticut Innovations Inc., Role of Leukemia Gene MKL in Developmental Hematopoiesis Using hES Cells, 3 years, $856,654
- Haifan Lin, G. Harold and Leila Y. Mathers Charitable Foundation, Epigenetic Programming of Stem Cells, 4 years, $1,000,000; Connecticut Innovations Inc., Human Embryonic Stem Cell Core Facility at Yale Stem Cell Center, 2 years, $2,500,000
- Qun Lin, Oak Ridge Institute for Science Education, Tissue Microenvironment and its Role in Cell Differentiation, 1 year, $50,000
- Brett Lindenbach, Edward Mallinckrodt, Jr. Foundation, Dissecting Crucial Aspects of Hepatitis C Virus Infectivity, 1 year, $60,000
- K. Brooks Low, Aviex Technologies, LLC, Development of an Attenuated Salmonella Vaccine for Avian Flu, 1 year, $94,594
- Eleni Markakis, Connecticut Innovations Inc., Directed Neuronal Differentiation of Stem Cells Derived from Human Embryos, 2 years, $184,407
- Matthew Oetgen, Orthopedic Trauma Association, The Influence of Racial and Economic Factors on the Treatment of Pediatric Fractures of the Wrist and Forearm, 1 year, $10,000
- Lynne Regan, Weizmann Institute of Science, Single-Molecule Fluorescence Studies of Protein Folding, 1 year, $125,400
- Valerie Reinke, University of Washington, Global Identification of Transcribed Regions of the C. elegans Genome, 1 year, $387,854
- Harvey Risch, H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center and Research Inst., Haplotype-Based Genome Screen for Ovarian Cancer Loci, 1 year, $220,523
- Erik Shapiro, Connecticut Innovations Inc., Magnetic Resonance Imaging of Directed Endogenous Neural Progenitor Cell Migration, 2 years, $199,725
- Warren Shlomchik, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Targeting Alloreactivity for Leukemia Eradication, 1 year, $109,301
- Mehmet Sofuoglu, Baylor College of Medicine, GABA Medications and Amphetamine Interactions in Humans, 16 months, $193,207
- James Tsai, Eye-Bank for Sight Restoration, Inc., Evaluation of Neuroprotection with an Anti-Nogo Receptor Blocking Protein in a Rat Model of Glaucoma, 1 year, $24,053
- Caroline Zeiss, American Health Assistance Foundation, Interaction of Diet and Genotype in AMD Pathogenesis, 2 years, $100,000
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