February 2007

Dartmouth researchers were awarded $14.6 million during February, including $11.4 million in new and competing awards. Among the recipients of recent new and competing grants, as reported by the Office of Sponsored Projects:

Balkcom, Devin - Computer Science

• National Science Foundation
• CAREER:  Finding and Using Global Structure in Motion-Planning Problems
• 3 - year award

Cohen, Yale - Psychological and Brain Sciences

• Duke University
• CRCNS: Integrative Information Processing
• 10 - month award

Cohen, Yale

• Psychological and Brain Sciences
• Duke University
• Visual Signals in Auditory Midbrain
• 7 - month award

Demars, Leslie - Obstetrics and Gynecology

• Fresenius Biotech North America Incorporated
• An Open label Single Arm Phase II safety and Tolerability Study of Catumaxomab in Women with Advanced Epithelial Ovarian Cancer After a Complete Response to Chemotherapy
• 2 - year award

Drake, Robert - Psychiatry

• The West Family Foundation
• West Co-Occurring Disorders Study
• 4 - year award

Gautier, Marc - Medicine

• Genzyme Corporation
• Randomized Phase III Double Blind Controlled Study Comparing Clofarabine and Cytarabine Vs. Cytarabine Alone in Adult Patients Greater Than or Equal to 60 Years Old with Acute Myelogenous Leukemia Who Have Relapsed or Are Refractory After Receiving up to Two Prior Induction Regimens
• 2 - year award

Lurie, Jon - Medicine

• St. Francis Medical Technologies, Inc.
• Clinical Research Coordinating Center - Treatment of Lumbar Spinal Stenosis with X-Stop(pk)IPD in Moderately Symptomatic Patients
• 6 - year award

McGrath, Dennis - Thayer School of Engineering

• Endowment for Health
• Systems Dynamics Simulation for Healthcare Modeling
• 7 - month award

Pogue, Brian - Thayer School of Engineering

• National Cancer Institute
• Micro CT/NIR Molecular Imaging of Cancer

Supattapone, Surachai - Biochemistry

• National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke
• Biochemistry of Infectious Prions

Wira, Charles – Physiology

• National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases
• Innate Immune Protection Against HIV-1 by Reproductive Tract Epithelial Cells

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