Karen K. Kaplan,
Director of University
Communications & Publications

Distinctions Editor
Jenna C. Taylor

April 2008
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Contracts & Grants

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

Due to confidentiality concerns in Clinical Trial Agreements from some pharmaceutical companies, the OSP no longer publishes some pharmaceutical awards in Distinctions.

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Michael R. Blackburn, Medical School (MS) and Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences (GSBS), Battelle Memorial Institute, $74,022, Project 1: Systems Analysis of Adenosine-Mediated Lung Disease in Mice

Staley A. Brod, MS, National Multiple Sclerosis Society, $44,000, Clinical Conversion of Female Monozygotic Twins Discordant for CIS/MS

Alexandra E. Evans, School of Public Health (SPH), University of South Carolina, $18,892, ENRICH: Duke Endowment Wellness Project

Ernest A. Gonzalez, MS, Department of the Army, $753,274, Early Whole Blood for Patients Requiring Massive Transfusion after Major Trauma

Gloria P. Heresi, MS, Harris County Hospital District, $137,053, HIV Women-Child Program

M. Sriram Iyengar, School of Health Information Sciences, Microsoft Research, $82,000, Structured Multi-Modal Clinical Guidelines on Cell Phones

Hamed Jafar-Nejad, Administrative & Finance (A&F) and GSBS, March of Dimes Birth Defects Foundation, $150,000, Cell Biological Regulation of the Notch Signaling Pathway

Steven H. Kelder, SPH, Marathon Kids, $570,439, Marathon Kids Evaluation

David S. Loose, MS and GSBS, Wyeth-Ayerst Research Inc., $402,740, Analysis of Biomarker Expression in Endometrial Biopsies: Response to SERMS

Ali J. Marian, A&F, National Institutes of Health (NIH), $1,872,500, Canonical WNT Signaling in Pathogenesis and Rescue of ARVC Phenotype

Heinrich Taegtmeyer, MS and GSBS, Takeda Pharmaceuticals North America Inc., $1,350, Visiting Professorship: Saul Powell


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