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June 2005

Dartmouth researchers were awarded $29.4 million during June, including $4.5 million in new and competing awards. Among the recipients of recent new and competing grants, as reported by the Office of Sponsored Projects:

Baker, K. - Tuck School

• Henry P. Kendall Foundation
• "Business Strategies for Vermont Natural Resources Agencies"

Baron, J. - Medicine

• University of Michigan
• "Great Lakes-New England Clinical and Epidemiology Center"

Birenbaum, D. - Obstetrics and Gynecology

• State of New Hampshire, Division of Public Health Services
• "Admin Unit for Breast & Cervical Cancer Screening Program"

Birnie, R. - Earth Sciences
LaBelle, J. - Physics and Astronomy
Shepherd, S. - Engineering Sciences
Pavone, M. - Women in Science Project

• University of New Hampshire
• "New Hampshire Space Grant Consortium"
• 5-Year Award

Bolger, D. - Environmental Studies

• Montana State University
• "The Impact of Invasive Plants on Detrital Food Webs"

Cheung, A. - Microbiology

• National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases
• "RAT, A Regulator of Autolysis in S. aureus"

and

• "In Vivo Gene Expression in Staphylococcus aureus"
• 5-Year Award

Cohen, Y. - Psychological and Brain Sciences

• National Institute on Deafness and other Communication Disorders
• "Auditory Response Properties of the Prefrontal Cortex"
• 5-Year Award

Craig, R. - Pharmacology and Toxicology

• Dept of Defense, U.S. Army Medical Research and Materiel Command
• "Therapeutic Conversion of Viability-Promoting MCL1 to Death-Inducing Forms"

Cybenko, G. and Berk, V. - Engineering Sciences

• Dept. of Defense, Air Force Research Laboratory
• "Proactive and Predictive Information Assurance for Next Generation Systems"
• 3-Year Award

Deharvengt, S. and Korc, M. - Medicine

• Sass Foundation for Medical Research
• "Novel Strategies for Targeting Cyclin D1 in Pancreatic Cancer"

Dehghani, H. - Engineering Sciences

• DOBI Medical International, Inc.
• "DOBI Medical-Dartmouth Sponsored Project"

deMuinck, E. - Medicine

• Medtronic Bio-Medicus, Inc.
• "Filterwire Pilot Study"

and

• NH Industrial Research Center/Percardia, Incorporated
• "VPASS Safety Study"

Direnzo, J. - Pharmacology and Toxicology

• Mary Kay Ash Charitable Foundation
• "Evaluation of Genetic Pathways Underlying Stem Cell Renewal"
• 2-Year Award

Ericson, S. - History

• Japan-US Friendship Commission
• "Portsmouth Treaty Conference (JUSFC)"

Hansen, R. - Tuck School

• The UPS Foundation
• "Nonprofit Leadership Development"
• 2-Year Award

Heschel, S. - Jewish Studies

• Institute of International Education
• "Participants Costs in the Dartmouth Summer Institute on Gender in the Fields of Jewish Studies and Islamic Studies"

Karagas, M. - Community and Family Medicine

• Harvard University
• "Superfund Hazardous Substances Basic Research Program"

Kaufman, P. - Medicine

• Ortho Biotech, Incorporated
• "Randomized Open Label Trial Comparing Treatment with Either Pegylated Liposomal Doxorubicin or Capecitabine as First Line Chemotherapy for Metastatic Breast Cancer in Women 65 Years and Older"

Lawrence, M. - Hopkins Center

• New England Foundation for the Arts
• "Meet the Composer - John McGuire"

McGurk, S. - Psychiatry

• The Coalition of Voluntary Mental Health Agencies, Incorporated
• "Cognitive Remediation Program"

Meehan, K. - Medicine

• Genentech Inc.
• "National Lymphomocare Study"

Millan, R. and Denton, R. - Physics and Astronomy

• National Science Foundation
• "GEM-Quantitative Comparison of the Theory and Observations of Relativistic Electron Precipitation Due to Electromagnetic Ion Cyclotron Waves"
• 3-Year Award

Nelson, W. - Psychiatry

• Veteran's Administration
• "Business Case for Patient Safety II"

and

• Foundation for Healthy Communities
• "Rural Ethics Needs Assessment"

Nichols, D. - Anthropology

• National Science Foundation
• "Collaborative Research at Cerro Portezuelo: Spanning the Classic to Postclassic at a Teotihuacan Regional Center"
• 3-Year Award

Olson, A. - Pediatrics
Gaffney, C. - Community and Family Medicine

• Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
• "Healthy Teens Systems Change Project"

Pipas, J. - Medicine

• Exelixis, Incorporated
• "A Phase III Multicenter, Single Blind, Randomized Study of XL119 versus 5-Fluororacil (5FU) Plus Leucovorin in Subjects with Advanced Biliary Tumors not Amendable to Conventional Surgery"

and

• Therion Biologics Corporation
• "Phase III Randomized Controlled Study to Evaluate the Safety and Efficacy of PANVAC-VF in Combination with GM-CSF vs Best Supportive Care or Palliative Chemotherapy in Patients with Metastatic (Stage IV) Adenocarcinoma of the Pancreas"

Ratcliffe, N. - Pathology

• National Blood Foundation
• "The Role of Dendritic Cell Subsets in Autoimmune Myocarditis and the Potential for Cytotherapy"

Rockmore, D. - Mathematics

• Johns Hopkins University
• "Group-Theoretic Methods in Protein Structure Determination"

Stitham, J. - Pharmacology and Toxicology

• American Heart Association
• "Pharmacogenetic/Physiological Importance of hIP Polymorphisms"

Wennberg, J. - Community and Family Medicine

• California Healthcare Foundation
• "Dartmouth Atlas Project/California HealthCare Foundation"
• 3-Year Award

Wickner, W. - Biochemistry

• National Institute of General Medical Sciences
• "Protein Compartmentation"
• 4-Year Award

Yun, K. - Genetics

• National Brain Tumor Foundation
• "Characterization and Abiation of Tumor Stem Cells in Oligodendroglioma"

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