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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Sandeep K. Agarwal, Medical School (MS) and Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences (GSBS), National Institutes of Health (NIH), $601,290, Cadherin-11 Regulation of Fibroblast-Like Synoviocytes in Synovial Inflammation

Ananth Annapragada, School of Health Information Sciences (SHIS) and GSBS, Georgia Institute of Technology, $12,450, Masked Targeted Nanocarriers for Improved Chemotherapy of Gilomas

Roberto C. Arduino, MS, Washington University in St. Louis, $46,190, Neurological AIDS Research Consortium

Michael Beierlein, MS, Whitehall Foundation Inc., $225,000, Control of Local Circuit Dynamics by Neocortical Astrocytes

Jodie Conyers, Administration & Finance (A&F), Texas Heart Institute, $17,545, Salary Reimbursement for Venkata Ravindra Kumar Panchumarthi

Vittorio Cristini, SHIS, Cullen Trust for Health Care, $1,500,000, Virtual Cancer

Herbert L. DuPont, School of Public Health (SPH) and GSBS, University of Houston, $25,290, Salary Reimbursement - Vaneet Arora

Mauro Ferrari, A&F and GSBS, National Aeronautics & Space Administration, $813,491, Alliance for Nanohealth Training Program for Space Nanomedicine

Jacqueline T. Hecht, MS and GSBS, NIH, $108,310, Characterization of NSCLP GENE CRISP LD2

Georgene W. Hergenroeder, MS, Health Resources & Services Administration, $710,698, Nutritional Status and Enteral Absorption Capability after Brain Death

Mikhail G. Kolonin, A&F and GSBS, Susan G. Komen for The Cure Houston Affiliate, $180,000, Identification and Targeting of Adipose Stem Cell Markers for Breast Cancer Therapy

Patrick M. Krueger, SPH, NIH, $162,988, Health and Mortality Risks among Co-Resident Grandchildren, Parents and Grandparents

Joseph B. McCormick, SPH and GSBS, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, $383,187, Preventing Obesity and Diabetes and Their Consequences in Mexican Americans in the Lower Rio Grande Valley

Scott T. Walters, SPH, University of Texas at Austin, $11,845, Multidisciplinary Approach to Reduce Injuries and Alcohol Use

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Ruth Heidelberger, MS and GSBS, NIH, $1,875,000, Mechanisms of Neurotransmission in Vertebrate Retina

Philip R. Orlander, MS, Harris County Hospital District, $904,380, Ryan White Title 1 Formula (DHHS) Outpatient Ambulatory Grants (TS)

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