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September/October 2008   Volume 4 Issue 4

Inside this issue

Cover stories

Quick study, big hearted contributor

Van will bring much-needed mammography to Uganda's poor

Vessel researcher is appointed as new cardiovascular chief

People

Expert on RNA splicing wins Albany Medical Center Prize

Lifelines: Richard Flavell
RSS - Mouse with a human immune system

Doctor who stays in touch wins prize for clinical excellence

Genetics researcher is named inaugural Cohen Professor

Genome authority is awarded Connecticut Medal of Science

Professor emeritus of public health is winner of Ivy Award

Yale Medical Group physicians shine on latest ‘top docs’ list

Out & about

Science

Type 1 diabetes: is prevention finally in sight?

Yale lab hones virus that selectively kills brain tumor cells

Advances: Lyme disease has European roots | Secrets of a stowaway bug | Testing neurons’ crossover potential

Health

On-the-spot blood tests make surgery quicker
RSS - Minimally invasive surger

Advances: A decline in falls

Partnerships

Grants & contracts



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Grants and contracts awarded to Yale School of Medicine

November/December 2007

Federal

  • Karen Anderson, NIH, Molecular Mechansims in EGF Signaling and Iressa/Tarceva Inhibition in NSCLC, 5 years, $1,440,519

  • Maile Brown, NIH, Genetic Regulation of K(Na) Channels in Neuronal Excitability, 3 years, $154,422

  • Dario Englot, NIH, Neuroimaging, Energetics and Neuronal Activity in Spike-Wave Seizures, 3 years, $40,972

  • Gerald Shadel, NIH, Epigenetic Regulation of Mitochondrial Complex II, 2 years, $574,992

  • Gordon Shepherd, NIH, Integrative Mechanisms of Cortical Circuits, 3 years, $868,365

  • Mark Shlomchik, NIH, Activation and Regulation of Autoreactive B Cells in Health and Disease, 5 years, $2,677,905

  • Mary Torregrossa, NIH, Peptide Regulation of the Neurocircuitry Underlying Drug Relapse, 3 years, $49,646

  • Benjamin Turk, NIH, Application of Peptide Arrays and Mass Spectrometry to Proteases, 3 years, $620,260

  • Dianqing Wu, NIH, Therapeutic Targeting of Wnt Signaling, 5 years, $1,584,059

Non-Federal

  • Clara Abraham, Crohn’s & Colitis Foundation of America Inc., LFA-1 and Regulatory T Cells, 1 year, $23,647

  • Maysa Abu-Khalaf, Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation, An Integrated Approach to Biomarker Validation in Patients with HER-2 Positive Metastatic Breast Cancer Treated with Rapamycin (Rapamune) to Overcome Resistance to the HER-3 Targeted Therapy, Trastuzumab, 2 years, $300,000

  • Dorothy Baker, State of Connecticut, Connecticut Fall Prevention Program, 18 months, $1,500,000

  • Kathleen Connell, American Urogynecologic Society, Effect of HOXA11 Silencing in In Vitro and In Vivo Extracellular Matrix Remodeling, 2 years, $30,000

  • Nihal deLanerolle, ORA Inc., DARPA Blast Injury (PRVENT), 1 year, $262,492

  • Robert Dubrow, Pfizer Inc, Milestones in Public Health Grand Rounds Series: Health Disparities and the Challenge of the New Millennium, 1 year, $15,000

  • David Geller, The Research Institute at Nationwide Children’s Hospital, Mechanisms of Glucocorticoid Action in Podocytes, 1 year, $9,446

  • Michelle Harris, Arthritis Foundation, Interrogating Distal Checkpoints in Autoreactive Germinal Center Regulation, 3 years, $150,000

  • Hajime Kanda, The Human Frontier Science Program Organization, Analysis of the Mechanism of Leptin Sensitivity in Immune Cells to Control Energy Balance In Vivo, 3 years, $145,900

  • Patricia Keenan, The Pennsylvania State University, The Regional Quality Strategy Planning Grant, 6 months, $12,603

  • Anthony Koleske, Elsa U. Pardee Foundation, Control of Breast Cancer Invasiveness by Adhesive Cues in the Tumor Microenvironment, 1 year, $122,233

  • Dania Magri, American Vascular Association, The Role of EphB4 in Mediating VEGF-A Induced Vein Graft Adaptation, 1 year, $3,000

  • Yuxin Mao, Lowe Syndrome Association, Structure Studies of the Lowe Syndrome Protein OCRL, 1 year, $20,000

  • Michael Nathanson, American Gastroenterological Association, Development and Validation of a Multiphoton Endoscope for Surveillance Studies of Patients with Barrett’s Esophagus, 1 year, $10,000

  • Kevin Nickerson, The S.L.E. Lupus Foundation, Inc., Opposing Roles of TLR7 and TLR9 Signaling in Systemic Lupus Erythematosus, 3 years, $135,000

  • Edward Novotny, Children’s Hospital (Cincinnati), Childhood Absence Epilepsy (CAE): Evaluation and Predictors of Long-Term Outcome, 1 year, $54,573

  • Rita Rienzo, Physician Assistant Education Association, Factors Influencing Graduate Physician Assistants in their Decision to Pursue Postgraduate Residencies, 1 year, $5,000

  • Joanne Weidhaas, Radiation Therapy Oncology Group, Uterine Cancer and MicroRNAs, 1 year, $50,000

  • Li Wen, Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation International, Prevention and Treatment of T1D in Human CD20 Transgenic NOD Mice, 3 years, $495,000

  • James Yue, Covidien, A Study to Evaluate the Performance of DuraSeal Xact Adhesion Barrier and Sealant System for the Prevention of Perivascular Adhesions in the Rabbit Artificial Disc Model, 1 year, $59,958
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