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.

New

Marco Alejandro Chaoul, Medical School (MS), University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center (UTMDACC), $28,261, Effect of Tibetan Yoga on Fatigue and Sleep in Cancer Patients

Marlene Z. Cohen, School of Nursing (SON), UTMDACC, $26,211, Parenteral Hydration in Advanced Cancer Patients: A Randomized Controlled Project

Jodie Conyers, Administration and Finance (A&F), Rice University, $108,965, Nanovector Trojan Horses as Radioprotectors

Craig L. Hanis, School of Public Health (SPH) and Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences (GSBS), Case Western Reserve University $32,584, Fine Mapping of Hypertension Genes Detected by Admixture Mapping in the FBPP

Hamed Jafar-Nejad, A&F and GSBS, National Institutes of Health (NIH), $1,341,963, Fine Tuning the Notch Signaling Pathway Via O-Glucosylation

Emil Martin, A&F, NIH, $1,830,903, Modulation of Soluble Guanylyl Cyclase by Endogenous Elements and Exogenous Factors

Melissa Fleschler Peskin, SPH, March of Dimes Birth Defects Foundation, $27,750, Expecting the Best and Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) Programs

Joel L. Steinberg, MS, Department of Veterans Affairs, $22,229, An FMRI Study of TBI Associated with Blast Injury

Nadarajah Vigneswaran, Dental Branch, UTMDACC, $46,150, Molecular-Based Therapy for Oral Cancer Prevention

Helena M. VonVille, SPH, National Network of Libraries of Medicine, $24,686, Turning Evidence into Practice: A Pilot Project to Develop New Training and Research Tools

Hongbin Wang, School of Health Information Sciences, Department of the Navy, $438,846, Modeling Spatial Cognition in Complex Environments

Renewal

Sharon Crandell, MS, Abbott Laboratories, $6,000, Medical School Pediatric Residency Program (Memorial Hermann Healthcare System); Abbott Laboratories, $6,000, Medical School Pediatric Residency Program (Lyndon Baines Johnson General Hospital)

Stephen L. Mills, MS and GSBS, NIH, $1,497,390, Connectivity Patterns of Retinal Bipolar Cells

John L. Spudich, NIH and GSBS, $3,277,267, Structure/Function of Microbial Sensory Rhodopsins

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