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February 2009

Dartmouth researchers were awarded $8.9 million during February, including $3.8 million in new and competing awards. Among the recipients of recent new and competing grants, as reported by the Office of Sponsored Projects:

Albert, Daniel - Medicine

• Amgen, Inc.
• Dose Escalation Study to Evaluate the Safety, Tolerability, Pharmacokinetics, and Pharmacodynamics of AMG811 in Subjects with Systemic Lupus Erythematosus
• 2-Year Award

Bengtson, Elizabeth - Medicine

• Genentech Inc.
• A Phase III Multicenter Open Label Study of Rituximab Faster Infusion Time in Patients with Previously Untreated Diffuse Large B Cell or Follicular Non Hodgkins Lymphom
• 3-Year Award

Buckey, Jay - Medicine

• Creare, Inc.
• Non-Invasive Bubble Detections in Tissue
• 1.3-Year Award

Chaffee, Sara - Pediatrics

• Children's Oncology Group
• Children's Oncology Group
• 5-Year Award

Collier, John - Biomedical Engineering

• DePuy Inc, A Johnson and Johnson Company
• Depuy 2002

Compton, Duane - Biochemistry

• National Institute of General Medical Sciences
• Organization of the Mammalian Mitotic Spindle

Conejo-Garcia, Jose - Microbiology & Immunology

• Ovarian Cancer Research Fund
• Re-programming Therapeutically Relevant Immune Responses Against Ovarian Cancer
• 2-Year Award

Conradt, Barbara - Genetics

• National Institute of General Medical Sciences
• Analysis of Cell Death Regulation in C. elegans

Cybenko, George - Thayer School of Engineering

• Dept. of Defense, Air Force Office of Scientific Research
• Characterization and Planning for Computer Network Operations
• 9-Month Award

Demars, Leslie - Obstetrics and Gynecology

• Ortho Biotech, Inc.
• Phase II Single Arm Study of Carboplatin and DOXIL plus Bevacizumab in Subjects with Platinum Sensitive Recurrent Ovarian Fallopian Tube and Primary Peritoneal Cancers
• 2-Year Award

Fanos, Joanna - Pediatrics

• University of Massachusetts
• New England Regional Cooperative, Heritable Disorders

Garmire, Elsa - Thayer School of Engineering

• National Collegiate Inventors and Innovators Alliance
• Engineering a Sustainable Business Model Framework for Scalable Mobile Entrepreneurship in the Developing World

Gougelet, Robert - Medicine

• New Hampshire Hospital Association
• HC Standard (HCS) Implementation
• 2-Year Award

Halter, Ryan - Thayer School of Engineering

• Intuitive Surgical Incorporated
• Surgical Margin Detection of Prostate with EIS: Laboratory Investigation

Hoopes, P Jack - Surgery

• Philips Medical Systems
• Pre-Clinical Nepio Experimental Evaluations

Mueser, Kim - Psychiatry

• Veterans Administration
• Illness Management and Recovery for Veterans with Severe Mental Illness

Noelle, Randolph - Microbiology & Immunology

• National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases
• Cognate Activation of B Lymphocytes

O'Connor, Gerald - Medicine

• Cystic Fibrosis Foundation
• Cystic Fibrosis National Program

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• CF Patient Registry

O'Toole, George - Microbiology & Immunology

• Gilead Sciences, Inc.
• Effects of Aztreonam for Inhalation Solution and/or Fosfomycin/tobramycin (FTI) on Biofilm Formation
• 5-Month Award

Rigas, James - Medicine

• Pfizer Inc.
• Randomized Open-Label Phase III Trial of Erlotinib Alone or In Combination with CP-751, 871 in Patient with Non Small Cell Lung Cancer

Rutman, Maia - Pediatrics

• Bureau of Maternal and Child Health
• Emergency Medical Services for Children State Partnership

Sanchez, Yolanda - Pharmacology & Toxicology

• National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke
• Identification of Drug Targets for NF1

Shworak, Nicholas - Medicine

• Mizutani Foundation
• The Role of Anticoagulant Heparan Sulfate in Cell Signaling

Vlahovska, Petia - Thayer School of Engineering

• National Science Foundation
• CAREER: Dynamics of Cells and Cellular Mimetics in Flow and Electric Fields: An Integrated Biophysical and Engineering Approach
• 5-Year Award

Waddell, Richard, von Reyn, C. - Medicine

• University of Massachusetts Medical Center
• New England AIDS Education and Training Center

Wright, Peter - Pediatrics

• Gheskio
• GHESKIO Clinical Trials Unit
• 2-Year Award

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