July 2008
Dartmouth researchers were awarded $24 million during July, including $12.1 million in new and competing awards. Among the recipients of recent new and competing grants, as reported by the Office of Sponsored Projects:
Andrews, Mary-Margaret and Purvis, L. - Medicine
- Bureau of Maternal and Child Health
- Dartmouth-Hitchcock Family HIV Program
Baker, Ian - Thayer School of Engineering
- National Science Foundation
- MRI: Acquisition of a Cold Room Equipped Micro CT
Barry, Elizabeth - Community & Family Medicine
- Hutchinson Cancer Center
- Aspirin Pharmacogenetics in the Aspirin/Folate Polyp Prevention Trial
Bartlett, Donald and Leiter, J. - Physiology
- National Institute of Child Health and Human Development
- The Upper Airway and the Sudden Infant Death Syndrome
Blaydon, Colin - Tuck School
- Kauffman Foundation
- Business Plan for Private Equity Fund Performance Data Institute
Bostick, Benjamin - Earth Sciences
- Columbia University
- Iron and Arsenic Speciation in Arsenic-Impaired Sediments
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- Dept. of Defense, Cold Regions Research and Engineering Lab.
- Effect of Speciation and Mineral Transformations on the Fate and Speciation of Metals in Munitions-Impacted Soils
Chang, Ta Yuan - Biochemistry
- National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute
- Cell Mutants Defective in Cholesterol Ester Formation
Demidenko, Eugene - Community & Family Medicine
Alexander, R. - Radiology
Borsic, A., Hartov, A., and Paulsen, K. - Thayer School of Engineering
- National Cancer Institute
- Breast Cancer Detection Using Electrical Impedance Measurements
deMuinck, Ebo - Medicine
- University of CT Health Center
- Angiogenesis in Diseased Model
Helisch, Armin - Medicine
- National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute
- Molecular Analysis of Arteriogenesis
Holmes, Gregory - Medicine
- Citizens United for Research in Epilepsy
- Reduction in Seizure Susceptibility Through Modification of Extracellular Sialic Acid
Korc, Murray and Gordon, S. - Medicine
Tsongalis, G. - Pathology
- National Cancer Institute
- microRNAs as novel Biomarkers for Pancreatic Ductal Adenocarcinoma
Llewellyn-Thomas, Hilary - Community & Family Medicine
- Foundation for Informed Medical Decision Making
- Health Decision Resource
Lynd, Lee and Gerngross, T. - Thayer School of Engineering
- Mascoma Corporation
- Bioenergy Science Center
- 4-year Award
Martin, Kathleen - Surgery
Zhuang, Z. - Medicine
- Flight Attendant Medical Research Institute
- Effects of Secondhand Cigarette Smoke Exposure on Adiponectin, mTOR, and Vascular Disease
Palumbo, Paul - Medicine
- Social & Scientific Systems Inc
- International Maternal Pediatric Adolescent AIDS Clinical Trials Group
Ray, Laura - Thayer School of Engineering
- Dept. of Defense, Air Force Office of Scientific Research
- Distributed Beamforming with Wireless Sensor Networks for Remote Auditory Presence
- 3-year Award
Sentman, Charles - Microbiology & Immunology
- National Cancer Institute
- Chimeric NKG2D Receptors in Ovarian Cancer Immunotherapy
Simons, Michael - Medicine
- MedStar Research Institute
- Collaterals in Aging: Enhanced by Genetic/Cell Therapy
Smith, Elizabeth - Biological Sciences
- National Institute of General Medical Sciences
- Calcium Regulation of Flagellar Motility
Sullivan, Charles - Thayer School of Engineering
- Enphase Energy
- Transformer Design and Optimization For a High-Efficiency Power Converter
Uranga , Rebecca S. - Obstetrics and Gynecology
- Foundation for Informed Medical Decision Making
- Creation and Implementation of a Decision Aid to Support Patients Making Prenatal Screening Decisions
Virginia, Ross - Environmental Studies
Albert, M. and Baker, I. - Thayer School of Engineering
Feng, X. - Earth Sciences
Ranco, D. - Native American Studies
- National Science Foundation
- IGERT: Polar Environmental Change
Woloshin, Steven, Schwartz, L., and Welch, H. - Community & Family Medicine
- Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
- Drug Facts Box
Zayfert, Claudia - Psychiatry
- Dept. of Defense, Army Medical Research and Development
- Computer-Guided Prolonged Exposure Therapy for PTSD
Award commitment from the sponsoring agency is for a single year unless otherwise indicated