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Medicine@Yale.

March/April 2008   Volume 4 Issue 1

Inside this issue

Cover stories

Couple with a cause

Slow readers, creative thinkers

New faculty prize will recognize superb patient care

Partnerships

Student-run auction benefits seven New Haven-area charities

Awards support research on health disparities, depression

Grants & contracts

People

Lifelines: Pasko Rakic

Renowned teacher, researcher named dean of engineering

Alumnus is winner of Yale's highest honor

Expert on women's health is honored for leadership

Advocates for universal preschool share education prize

Out & about

Science

Gene-hunters search the world for treatments

Advances: Raising the Rae-1 flag | Early treatment could quiet epilepsy | Running depression out of our lives | Arthritis therapy stops diabetes in its tracks

Health

Implant lets patients put the best foot forward

Family sharing a risky mutation now shares newfound hope



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Grants and contracts awarded to Yale School of Medicine
May/June 2007

 

Federal

  • Hervé Agaisse, NIH, High-Throughput Assays for Imaging Human Intracellular Pathogen Infections, 3 years, $1,115,907
  • Norma Andrews, NIH, Molecular Determinants of Intracellular Survival and Replication in Leishmania, 4 years, $3,903,249
  • Jonathan Bogan, NIH, Insulin-Stimulated Ubiquitin-Like Modification, 5 years, $1,529,795
  • Titus Boggon, NIH, Structural Basis of Jak3-Mediated Interleukin-2 Family Signal Transduction, 5 years, $2,060,895
  • Alfred Bothwell, NIH, Generation of Synthetic Human Islet Microorgans, 4 years, $1,355,905
  • Valeria Busygina, NIH, Role of BLM Protein Complex in the Maintenance of Genome Integrity, 1 year, $49,646
  • Lawrence Cohen, NIH, Optical Studies of Neuron Activity and Organization, 1 year, $412,500
  • Michael Crair, NIH, Yale Core Grant for Vision Research, 5 years, $2,423,665
  • John Forrest, NIH, Short-Term Research Training: Students in Health Professional Schools, 5 years, $1,078,790
  • Nigel Grindley, NIH, Structure and Function of DNA Polymerase I of E. coli, 4 years, $2,393,726
  • Stuart Hicks, NIH, S. typhimurium Leucine-Rich Repeat Effector Proteins, 3 years, $153,822
  • Fahmeed Hyder, NIH, Core Center for Quantitative Neuroscience with Magnetic Resonance, 5 years, $3,730,341
  • Shrikant Mane, NIH, GeneChip Automation and MegAllele System for Microarray Analysis at Yale University, 1 year, $1,054,868
  • Daniel Mathalon, NIH, Functional Brain Abnormalities in the Schizophrenia Prodrome, 5 years, $2,559,966
  • Laura Ment, NIH, Gene Targets for Intraventricular Hemorrhage, 5 years, $8,024,951
  • Drew Murphy, NIH, The Effect of MRE11/RAD50 on Fidelity of Synthesis by DNA Polymerase Beta, 1.5 years, $66,739
  • Chirag Parikh, NIH, Novel Biomarkers in Cardiac Surgery to Detect Acute Kidney Injury, 5 years, $3,884,530
  • James Poling, NIH, Pharmacotherapy and Contingency Management for Opioid and Cocaine Dependence, 5 years, $2,136,192
  • Robert Roth, NIH, Chronic PCP Primate PFC Dopamine Deficit and Schizophrenia, 5 years, $2,615,109
  • David Schatz, NIH, Immunoglobulin and T Cell Receptor Gene Assembly, 5 years, $1,653,917
  • Gerald Shadel, NIH, Mitochondrial Dysfunction and Oxidative Stress in Ataxia-Telangiectasia, 5 years, $1,808,971
  • Sally Shaywitz, NIH, The Connecticut Longitudinal Study in the Fourth Decade, 3.5 years, $3,274,067
  • Mark Shlomchik, NIH, LSR II Flow Cytometer Analyzer, 1 year, $339,163
  • Hugh Taylor, NIH, Alteration of HOX Gene Expression by Endocrine Disrupting Chemicals, 5 years, $1,757,111; NIH, Center for Endometrial Biology and Endometriosis, 5 years, $6,492,789
  • Flora Vaccarino, NIH, Inhibitory Interneurons in Tourette Syndrome, 4 years, $1,042,521
  • Lawrence Young, NIH, VisualSonics’ Vevo 770 Imaging System, 1 year, $274,450
  • David Zenisek, NIH, Development of a Model System for Presynaptic Study, 2 years, $454,375
  • Tongzhang Zheng, NIH, Research Training for Environmental Health Study in China, 5 years, $611,250
  • Yufeng Zhou, NIH, Structural Basis of the Binding of Blockers to Potassium Channels, 5 years, $1,488,450

Non-Federal

  • David Cone, Nat’l Association of EMS Physicians, Disaster Triage Research Using Virtual Reality, 1 year, $6,500
  • Daryn David, American Psychoanalytic Association, Investigating the Internal Working Model, 1 year, $13,287
  • Nancy Dunbar, Cystic Fibrosis Foundation, Characterization of Cystic Fibrosis Bone Disease, 1 year, $36,500
  • Caroline Easton, Children’s Community Programs of CT Inc., New Haven Educational Reentry and Delinquency Program, 1 year, $90,849
  • Cynthia Epperson, March of Dimes, Effectiveness of Cognitive Processing Therapy in Reducing Post-Traumatic Symptoms and Enhancing Birth Outcomes in Pregnant Women with a Previous Pregnancy Loss or Complication, 3 years, $220,101
  • Jason Fletcher, American Educational Research Association, Examining the Effects of Full Inclusion on the Classmates of Children with Special Needs, 1 year, $19,800
  • Gerald Friedland, Doris Duke Charitable Foundation, Combating MDR and XDR TB and HIV in Rural South Africa, 2 years, $200,000
  • Rosana Gonzalez-Colaso, Physician Assistant Education Association, Physician Assistant Utilization Among Children with Special Health Care Needs: Type of Provider and Satisfaction with Care, 1 year, $8,000
  • Keith Hawkins, Hartford Hospital, Schizophrenia Biomarkers: Memory, Genes and Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging, 1 year, $10,795
  • Amy Justice, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Genetic and Inflammatory Factors in Anemia in the Elderly, 1 year, $53,218
  • Jonathan Knisely, Radiation Therapy Oncology Group, Hypoxia, Stem Cell Markers, and DNA Repair Genes in Glioblastoma Multiforme—Correlation with Prognosis, 1.5 years, $50,000; HistoRx, Inc., Glioblastoma Tissue Microarray Clinical Data Abstraction Project, 0.5 years, $41,106
  • Qiang Leng, Iowa State University, Pain Receptor Mediated Anti-Inflammatory Activity of Echinacea and Other Species, 1 year, $78,388
  • Sheng-Fu Lo, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, The Role of TGF-Beta, IL-17, and Th17 Cells in Cerebral Aneurysm Formation and Rupture, 2 years, $36,000
  • Prakash Nadkarni, Massachusetts General Hospital, Cancer Genetics Network, 5 years, $659,494
  • Peter Rabinowitz, Mary Imogene Bassett Hospital, Occupational Risk Factors for Infection in Northeastern Poultry Workers, 1 year, $20,000
  • Lynne Regan, University of Washington, Combining Computation and Selection in Protein-Ligand Design, 0.5 years, $52,794; Human Frontier Science Program Organization, The Folding of Helical Repeat Proteins, 3 years, $462,000
  • Marc Rosen, University of California–Los Angeles, Multi-Site Collaborative Study for Adherence: Virologic and Clinical Outcomes, $96,300
  • Eugene Shapiro, Northern Illinois University, Long-Term Outcome of Childhood Onset Epilepsy, 1 year, $341,575
  • Frederick Sigworth, Harvard University, Atomic Resolution in Biological Electron Microscopy, 1 year, $273,999
  • Benjamin Turk, University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey, Regulation of Metal Ion Homeostasis by Channel Kinases, 1 year, $75,994
  • Mary Warner, Physician Assistant Education Association, Career Patterns in Physician Assistants: A Retrospective Longitudinal Study, 1 year, $10,806
  • Sherman Weissman, March of Dimes, Precise Definition of Genomic Alterations Associated with Velo-Cardio-Facial Syndrome (VCFS), 3 years, $325,719
  • John Wysolmerski, University of Pennsylvania, Intercellular Signaling in Embryonic and Postnatal Mammary Gland Development, 10 months, $13,699
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