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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Roberto C. Arduino, Medical School, MS, George Washington University Medical Center, $225,560, CPCRA Clinical Trials Unit

Myriam Fornage, Administration & Finance and Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences (GSBS), Broad Institute of MIT, $37,911, Large- Scale Genotyping of National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute Cohorts

Raymond J. Grill, MS and GSBS, Paralyzed Veterans of America, $143,556, Inflammation in Chronic Spinal Chord Injury

James C. Grotta, MS, National Institutes of Health (NIH), $100,000, 26th Princeton Conference on Cerebrovascular Disease

Gloria P. Heresi, MS, Baylor College of Medicine, $111,878, The Altered Lipid and Protein Metabolism of Pediatric Patients with HIV Infection

Harinder S. Juneja, MS, Texas Heart Institute, $21,000, Randomized Controlled Double-Blinded Trial of Intramyocardial Injection of Autologous Aldehyde Dehydrogenase-Bright Stem Cells under Electromechanical Guidance for Therapeutic Angiogenesis; Texas Heart Institute, $21,000, A Phase 1-11 Randomized Comparison of Autologous Bone Marrow Derived Aldehyde Dehydrogenase-Bright (Aldhbr) Enriched Mononuclear Cells Randomized against Unfractionated Autologous Mononuclear Bone Marrow

Gene Lesage, MS, Abbott Laboratories, $10,000, Gastro Fellowship Program Abbott Education Grant

Katherine A. Loveland, MS and GSBS, University of Houston, $10,000, Somatosensory, Motor and Auditory Function in Individuals with Autism Spectrum Disorder

Lillian C. Lyons, Dental Branch, American Board of Forensic Odontology, $500 Morphologic and Radiographic Analysis of Dental Implants for Forensic Postmortem Identification

F. Gerard Moeller, MS and GSBS, The University Of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston, $213,826, Clinical Neurobiology of Serotonin and Addiction

Melissa Fleschler Peskin, School of Public Health, City of Houston, $66,648, Structural Interventions to Increase School-Wide Support for HIV/AIDS Education; March of Dimes Birth Defects Foundation, $7,000, March of Dimes Comenzando Bien Program in the State of Texas

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William Dowhan, MS and GSBS, NIH, $1,834,411, Phospholipids and Mitochondrial Function

Susan Landry, MS, Texas Education Agency, $12,500,000, Texas Early Education Model (TEEM)

Hope Northrup, MS and GSBS, Texas Department of State Health Services, $213,734, Comprehensive Metropolitan and Outreach Genetic Services.

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