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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Charles E. Begley, School of Public Health (SPH), Houston-Galveston Area Council (HGAC), $49,719, HGAC Data Committee and Trauma Policy Council Proposal

Mauro Ferrari, Administration and Finance (A&F) and Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences (GSBS), Nano Medical Systems Inc., $416,409, Proof of Principles for nDS Devices

Mehran Haidari, A&F, Amino Up Chemical Co. Ltd., $40,000, Research Agreement

Chung How Kau, Dental Branch (DB) and GSBS, GC America Inc., $24,994, The Use of MI Paste Plus in Orthodontics

Susan Landry, Medical School (MS), Texas Education Agency, $1,000,000, Texas Higher Education & Early Childhood Education Partnership Demonstration Project

Yahuan Lou, DB and GSBS, National Institutes of Health (NIH), $674,063, A Novel Type of Dendritic Cell in Prevention of Glomerulonephritis

Maureen D. Mayes, MS, University of California (UC) - Los Angeles, $56,430, Pilot Study to Examine the Use of Imatinib (Gleevec) for the Treatment of Active Alveolitis in Systemic Sclerosis

Dianna M. Milewicz, MS and GSBS, NIH, $381,458, Sequencing Caudidate Genes for Hyperplastic Vasculomyopathy

Mohammad Hossein Rahbar, SPH, Michigan State University, $8,868, Data Coordinating Center for Autism and Other Disabilities

Jan M. Risser, SPH, UC San Francisco, $233,405, A Community-Level HIV Prevention Intervention for Young Black Men

Heinrich Taegtmeyer, MS and GSBS, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, $38,000, Metabolic Stress of Type 2 Diabetes Induces Autophagy in Heart

Cynthia Trajtenberg, DB, GC America Inc., $5,000, Microtensile Bond Strength of Resin Modified Glass Ionomer to Laser Treated Teeth

Karen Uray, MS and GSBS, Baylor College of Medicine, $25,000, The Role of Stat3 in Regulating Intestinal Contractile Activity

Steven W. Wang, MS and GSBS, E. Matilda Ziegler Foundation for the Blind Inc., $240,000, Using Math5 Locus to Study the Mechanism of Retinal Stem Cell Formation

Wenzheng Zhang, MS, Friends for an Earlier Breast Cancer Test, $40,000, Developing a New Serum Assay for Detection of a Potential Novel Biomarker in Early Stages of Breast Cancer

Ba-Bie Teng, A&F and GSBS, NIH, $1,485,000, The Novel Approach of RNA-Based Therapeutic Technologies

Ah-LimTsai, MS and GSBS, NIH, $313,596, Magnetic Circular Dichroism/Circular Dichroism System

M. Neal Waxham, MS and GSBS, University of Houston, $45,114, Nanobiology Institutional Training Grant

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Kim Anderson, MS, Reading Is Fundamental Inc., $110,550, Reading Is Fundamental

Gloria P. Heresi, MS, Harris County, $75,916, Pediatric Primary Medical Care and Medical Case Management

Joseph B. McCormick, SPH and GSBS, NIH, $7,050,973, Center of Excellence for Diabetes in Americans of Mexican Descent

Ferid Murad, A&F and GSBS, Robert A. Welch Foundation, $270,000, Inhibitors of Cyclic Nucleotide Synthesis: Mechanism of Action and Therapeutic Applications

C. S. Raman, MS and GSBS, Robert A. Welch Foundation, $210,000, Structural Basis for Inhibitor Recognition and Catalysis in Nitric Oxide Synthases

Kevin D. Ridge, MS and GSBS, Robert A. Welch Foundation, $150,000, Isotope-Labeling of G-Protein Coupled Receptors for Structural Analysis by NMR

Gary C. Rosenfeld, MS and GSBS, NIH, $539,395, Short-Term Research Training

Transfer

Perry Bickel, MS, NIH, $310,352, Trafficking of Triacylglycerol in Adipocytes

Tien C. Ko, MS, NIH, $46,765, Growth Regulation in Surgical Diseases of the Gut

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