April 2004

Dartmouth researchers were awarded $8 million during April including $1.8 million in new and competing awards. Among the recipients of recent new and competing grants, as reported by the Office of Sponsored Projects:

Belden, W. - Genetics

National Institute of General Medical Sciences
" Role of Chromatin Remodeling in Circadian Regulation"
3-Year Award

Bynum, J. - Community and Family Medicine

Pfizer Inc.
" Cognitive Impairment in Elderly"
2-Year Award

Caldwell, R. - Physics and Astronomy

National Science Foundation
" CAREER; The Physics of the Universe: Cosmology, Fields, Gravitation, and Scientific Literacy"
5-Year Award

Cormen, T. - Computer Science

University of Connecticut
" ITR Information Extraction from Massive Data Sets"
4-Year Award

Dmitrovsky, E. - Pharmacology and Toxicology, K. Dragnev - Medicine and W. Petty - Medicine

Commonwealth Foundation for Cancer Research
" Phase I Study of ABT-751 w. Carboplatin"

Dunlap, J. - Genetics

The National Academies Keck Futures
" Existence of Autocatalysis Based on FRQ Protein Proteolysis and Stabilization in Neurospora crassa"
2-Year Award

Goundrey, A. - Pediatrics

State of Vermont
" Children with Special Health Needs"

Grubbs, R. - Chemistry

3M Corporation
" Functional Self-Assembled Polymeric Materials"

Hudson, M. and M. Blencowe - Physics and Astronomy

Department of Education
" Graduate Assistance in Areas of National Need Fellowship"
3-Year Award

Kotz, D. and T. Henderson - Computer Science

Intel Corporation
" Modeling High-Throughput Wireless Networks Using Real-World Data"

Lawrence, M. - Hopkins Center

New England Foundation for the Arts
" Musicians of the Old Post Road"
and
" Robert Dick"

Lewis, L. - Medicine

GlaxoSmithKline
" Effects of Food on Pharmacokinetics of GW572016"

McClung, C. and M. Ayres - Biological Sciences

Department of Education
" Increasing Graduate Education in the Biological Sciences"
3-Year Award

McGovern, M. - Psychiatry

National Institute on Drug Abuse
" Cognitive Therapy for PTSD in Addiction Treatment"
5-Year Award

Millan, R. - Physics and Astronomy

National Science Foundation
" An Arctic Winter Balloon Campaign to Study Mechnisms of Relativistic Electron Precipitation"
2-Year Award

Moeschler, J. - Pediatrics

University of New Hampshire
" A University Affiliated Program in New Hampshire"

Pogue, B. - Engineering Sciences, J. Dunn - Radiology and K. Paulsen - Engineering Sciences

National Cancer Institute
" Spectral-Encoding for Video-Rate Hemodynamic Tomography"
2-Year Award

Roebuck, B. - Pharmacology and Toxicology

Johns Hopkins University
" Molecular Mechanisms of Chemoprevention: Dithiolethiones"

Saykin, A. and T. McAllister - Psychiatry

University of Vermont
" A Brain fMRI Study of Cholinergic Blockade in Normal Post-Menopausal Women"
2-Year Award

Weinstein, J. and W. Abdu - Orthopedics

Orthopaedic Research Foundation
" DHMC/Department of Orthopaedic Surgery Spine Lectureship"

Whitfield, M. - Genetics

Scleroderma Research Foundation
" A Gene Expression Map of Scleroderma"

Award commitment from the sponsoring agency is for a single year unless otherwise indicated.