Contracts & Grants

Information is courtesy of the Office of Sponsored Projects. Each listing includes the faculty member's name and school(s) appointments at The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, contracting or granting agency, funding amount and project title.

New

Roberto C. Arduino, Medical School (MS), Abbott Laboratories, $29,202, A Phase III, Randomized, Open-Label Study of Lopinavir/ Ritonavir Tablets 800/200 Mg Once-Daily vs. 400/100 Mg Twice- Daily when Co-administered with Nucleoside/Nucleotide Reverse Transcriptase Inhibitors in Antiretroviral-Experienced, HIV-1 Infected Subjects.

Douglas Baxter, MS and Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences (GSBS), Society for Neuroscience (SFN), $1,092, 2006 SFN Chapter Grant.

Marie-Francoise Doursout, MS, Sintetica S.A. Pharmaceuticals, $116,562, A Comparative in vivo Study of Local Neurotoxicity of 2-Chloroprocaine, Lidocaine and Bupivacaine.

Maria E. Fernandez-Esquer, School of Public Health (SPH), St. Luke's Episcopal Hospital, $24,983, The Health Risks of Foreign- Born Latino Men.

Craig L. Hanis, SPH and GSBS, University of Chicago, $42,729, Genome-Wide Association Mapping of Metabolic Lung and Cardiovascular Phenotypes (Subcontract).

Jacqueline T. Hecht, MS and GSBS, National Institutes of Health, $1,765,754, Genetic Studies of Clubfoot.

Mohammad Madjid, Administration and Finance, Pfizer Inc., $40,000, Effect of Lipitor on Influenza.

Christine Markham, SPH, Baylor College of Medicine, $34,540, Baylor/UT-Houston Center for AIDS Research; old: Feasibility of a Computer HIV Self-Management Program.

Karen L. McNiece, MS, King Pharmaceuticals Research and Development, $36.505, A Randomized, Double-Blind, Placebo- Controlled, Multi-Center, Parallel-Arm Study Assessing the Efficacy, Safety, and Dose Response of Ramipril for the Treatment of Hypertension in Children and Adolescents.

Lemuel A. Moye III, SPH, National Institutes of Health (NIH), $17,879,942, Cardiovascular Cell Therapy Research Network - Data Coordinating Center.

Cheryl Perry, SPH, University of Minnesota, $38,255, An Adaptation of Project Northland for Urban Youth.

Susan M. Ramin, MS and GSBS, Houston Gynecological and Obstetrical Society, $2,000, Impact of 17 Alpha-Hydroxyprogesterone Caproate on Cytokine-Stimulated Nuclear Factor.

William D. Spears, SPH, Community First Health Plans, $53,742, Research on Complex Care Births in Bexar County.

Thomas H. Stock, SPH, Clean Air Clear Lake, $5,000, Clean Air Clear Lake.

Elaine Symanski, SPH, Mickey Leland National Urban Air Toxics Research Center, $50,000, Relationship Between Personal Exposures to VOCS and Behavioral, Socioeconomic, and Demographic Characteristics: Analysis of The NHANES VOC Project Data Set.

Peter Tran, MS, Amgen Inc., $2,500, Division of Cardiology Grand Rounds Program.

Robert Joseph Yetman, MS, Medimmune Inc., $82,195, A Prospective, Non-Interventional Study to Evaluate the Incidence of Hospitalizations and Medically Attended Lower Respiratory Tract Infection (MALRI) in Premature Infants 32 to 35 Weeks Gestational Age Who Are Not Recommended to Receive Prophylaxis for RSV.

Renewal

Deanna M. Hoelscher, SPH, Flaghouse Inc., $158,449, CATCH Flaghouse.

Bruce C. Kone, MS and GSBS, Harris County Hospital District, $18,105, Ryan White Title III Department of General Medicine (services for Dr. Gus Krucke).

Transfer

David D. McPherson, MS, NIH, $348,233, Targeted Liposomes for Acoustic Cardiovascular Imaging.

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