March 2009
Dartmouth researchers were awarded $12 million during March, including $2.3 million in new and competing awards. Among the recipients of recent new and competing grants, as reported by the Office of Sponsored Projects:
Caldwell, Robert - Physics & Astronomy
- Jet Propulsion Laboratory
- Testing General Relativity on Cosmological Scales with Weak Gravitational Lensing
Choudhury, Tanzeem - Computer Science
- National Science Foundation
- CAREER: Enabling Community-Scale Modeling of Human Behavior and its Application to Healthcare
Cornell, Cornelius and Mckernan, L. - Medicine
- University of Massachusetts
- Prevention of Complications of Hemophilia
Fadul, Camilo - Medicine
- ICON Clinical Research
- A Phase III Randomized Parallel Group Multi Centre Study in Recurrent Glioblastma Patients to Compare the Efficacy of Cediranib Monotherapy of Cediranib with Lomustine to the Efficacy of Lomustine Alone
- 2-Year Award
Fisher, Elliott - Medicine
Skinner, J. - Economics
- Brown University
- Shaping Long Term Care in America: Transitions Project
and
- Shaping Long Term Care in America: Data Management Core
Fisher, Elliott - Medicine
Goodman, D. - Pediatrics
- Colorado Foundation for Medical Care
- Geographic Variation Data Support
- 3-Year Award
Flanagan, Mary - Film and Television Studies
- National Science Foundation
- Collaborative Research: SoD-TEAM: "Values at Play: Integrating Ethical and Political Factors into System Design
Freidberg, Susanne - Geography
- Mellon Foundation
- Global Warming and the Future Map of Food
Gawler, Rory and Cutter, D. - Outdoor Programs
- United States Department of Agriculture, Forest Service
- Jacob's Brook Bridge and Moosilauke Alpine Steward
- 1.4-Year Award
Gormley, Elizabeth - Surgery
- National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Disease
- UITN Steering Committee Chair
Hartford, Alan - Medicine
- American College of Radiology
- Radiation Therapy Oncology Group
- 6-Year Award
Kaufman, Peter - Medicine
- Genentech Inc.
- A Randomized Double Blind Placebo Controlled Clinical Trial to Evaluate the Efficacy and Safety of Pertuzumab & Trastuzumab + Docetaxel vs. Trastuzumab + Docetaxel in Previously Untreated Her2 Positive Metastatic Breast Cancer
- 2-Year Award
McGovern, Mark - Psychiatry
- Hazelden
- Field Applications of the Hazelden Co-occurring Disorders Program Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) Manual in Routine Community Settings
Nattie, Eugene - Physiology
- CJ Foundation for SIDS
- CJ SIDS Research Initiative
- 6-Month Award
Nelson, William - Psychiatry
- Veterans Administration
- Rural Health Care Ethics Project
- 1.6-Year Award
Pipas, Marc - Medicine
- FibroGen Incorporated
- Phase I Study of Safety and Bioactivity with FG-3019 in Combination with Gemcitabine and Erlotinib for Subjects with Locally Advanced or Metastatic Pancreatic Cancer
- 2-Year Award
Smith, Sean - Computer Science
- CA Labs
- Identity Management Modeling and Organizational Simulation
- 2-Year Award
Tanski, Susanne - Pediatrics
- American Academy of Pediatrics
- Legacy Ex-Campaign
Whitfield, Michael - Genetics
- University of New Hampshire
- Scleroderma Diagnostics
- 2-Year Award
and
- Celdara Medical, LLC
- Scleroderma Diagnostics
- 2-Year Award
Zomorodian, Afra - Computer Science
- National Science Foundation
- CAREER: Persistent Theories for Computational Topology
- 5-Year Award
Award commitment from the sponsoring agency is for a single year unless otherwise indicated