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 Beierlein, Medical School (MS) & Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences (GSBS), American Heart Association, National, $140,000, Properties and Functional Consequences of Transmitter Release from Neocortical Astrocytes

Rebecca L. Casarez, School of Nursing (SON), Texas Organization of Baccalaureate and Graduate Nursing Education, $1,500, Development of a Spiritually-Based Self-Management Intervention Curriculum for African Americans with Type 2 Diabetes

Marlene Z. Cohen, SON, American Cancer Society, $30,000, ACS Doctoral Degree Scholarship in Cancer Nursing

Vittorio Cristini, School of Health Information Sciences (SHIS), University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center, $9,948, Clinical Microarray Data Predict Lung Cancer Outcomes

Stephen P. Daiger, School of Public Health (SPH) & GSBS, Emmes Corporation, $193,375, Part 1 DNA Testing of Autosomal Dominant Retinitis Pigmentosa

Florence J. Dallo, SPH, UT Southwestern Medical Center, $9,998, Pre-Doctoral Training in Primary Care

Carrie L. Dodrill, MS, National Institutes of Health (NIH), $149,750, Expressive Writing for Co-Occurring Depression and Alcohol Misuse

Gerard E. Francisco, MS, Allergan Inc., $146,455, Residency Rotation in Interventional Psychiatry

Lex Frieden, SHIS, Memorial Hermann Hospital, $8,904, Cil-Net; Memorial Hermann Hospital, $19,464, Southwest ADA Center

Mehran Haidari, Administration & Finance, American Heart Association, Texas, $140,000, Increased Oxidative Stress in Atherosclerosis-Predisposed Regions of Mouse Aorta

Keith Hoots, MS, National Hemophilia Foundation, $197,969, National Hemophilia Foundation Clinical Fellowship

Vasanthi Jayaraman, MS & GSBS, American Heart Association, Texas, $140,000, Allosteric Mechanism in NMDA Receptors

Todd R. Johnson, SHIS, Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, $1,300,350, AHRQ Training Program in Patient Safety and Quality

Elizabeth B. Jones, MS, University of Michigan, $127,500, A Double-Blind, Randomized Clinical Trial of the Efficacy of IM Midazolam vs. IV Lorazepam in the Pre-Hospital Treatment Of Status Epilepticus by Paramedics; Rapid Anticonvulsant Medication Prior To Arrival Trial (RAMPART) Study

Scott D. Lane, MS & GSBS, National Institutes of Health (NIH), $1,069,200, Neural Correlates of Alcohol Effects on Aggressive Behavior

Tao Lin, MS, Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board, $108,197, Unraveling the Mystery of Lyme Disease and Southern Tick-Associated Rash Illness (STARI) in Texas

Katherine A. Loveland, MS & GSBS, Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board, $49,007, Facial Expression Analysis Using 6d Data: Application to Autism

David D. McPherson, MS, Baylor College of Medicine, $16,647, Salary Reimbursement Agreement

John O'Brien, MS & GSBS, NIH, $53,598, Regulation of Connexin35/36-Mediated Coupling by Phosphorylation

Mya C. Schiess, MS, Medtronic Inc., $25,000, UT Houston Movement Disorders Program and Fellowship

Rita D. Swinford, MS, Montefiore Medical Center, $10,823, FSGSFocal Segmental Glomerulosclerosis Trial

S. Ray Taylor, Dental Branch, National Aeronautics & Space Administration, $141,997, Development and Rapid Assessment of a Smart and Environmentally Friendly Coating

Stephen C. Waring, SPH, Texas Council on Alzheimer's Disease and Related Disorders, $232,613, Research Epidemiologist for the Texas Consortium of Alzheimer's Disease Centers

Erik B. Wilson, MS, Ethicon Inc., $1,200, Quarterly Rice-Texas Medical Center Technology Design Forum Meetings: May 2008

Jiajie Zhang, SHIS, Arizona State University, $164,542, Cognitive Complexity and Error in Critical Care; Mission Hospitals Inc., $168,000, Usability Evaluation of CHCS/AHLTA and Cerner CPOES

Wenzheng Zhang, MS & GSBS, American Heart Association, Texas, $140,000, Af17 Upregulates ENAC Transcription and NA Transport by Enhancing Dot1a Nuclear Export

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Susan Landry, MS, Texas Education Agency, $9,090,042, School Readiness Certification System (Oz).

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