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Research Awards

Dartmouth researchers were awarded $5.6 million during January, including $2.2 million in new and competing awards. Among the recipients of recent new and competing grants, as reported by the Office of Sponsored Projects:

Albert, Mary and I. Baker—Thayer School of Engineering
National Science Foundation
Collaborative Research: Norwegian-United States IPY Scientific Traverse: Climate Variability and Glaciology in East Antarctica

Ernstoff, Marc—Medicine
Point Therapeutics, Incorporated
Open Label Phase II Trial of PT100 in Patients with Metastatic Melanoma

Fisher, Elliott—Medicine and W. Weeks—Psychiatry
Commonwealth Fund
The Performance of Physician Practices and Medical Groups in the United States
16-month award

Fisher, Elliott—Medicine and W. Weeks—Psychiatry
California Healthcare Foundation
The Performance of Physician Practices and Medical Groups in the United States
3-year award

Grafton, Scott—Psychological and Brain Sciences
National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke
Mapping the Junction of Action Perception and Production
2-year award

Green, William—Microbiology
NERCE-Biodefense and Emerging Infectious Diseases
NERCE Career Development: A Novel MVA-Based Approach to a New Smallpox Vaccine
6-month award

Hwa, John—Pharmacology and Toxicology
American Heart Association
Prostanoid Receptor Pharmacogenetics and Environmental Trace Metals

Kennedy, Brian—Hood Museum of Art
LEF New England
Wenda Gu: Hair Monument
10-month award

Lacy, Brian—Medicine
Mayo Clinic
Antidepressant Therapy for Functional Dyspepsia

Lawrence, Margaret—Visiting Artists
National Endowment for the Arts
Access to Artistic Excellence
16-month award

Lee, Stephen—Medicine
Vanderbilt University
Parkinson's Disease in the Ohio Amish

McGovern, Mark—Psychiatry
New England Institute for Addiction Studies
Implementing Effective Alcohol and Drug Abuse Treatment for Adolescents
6-month award

McGrath, Dennis—Thayer School of Engineering
The Utah State University Research Foundation
Exercise Scenario Modeling Tool
14-month award

Merrens, Matthew—Psychiatry
Connecticut Department of Mental Health and Addiction Services
Integrated Dual Disorders Treatment Implementation

Pipas, Marc—Medicine
The Sanofi-Aventis Group
Phase I Dose Escalation Sequential Cohort Study of the Safety, Tolerability and Pharmcokinetics of Intravenous AVE0005 Administered Every Two Weeks in Combination with Weekly IV Gemcitabine then with Biweekly IV Gemcitabine and Oxaliplation in Subjects with Malignancy

Santos, Eugene—Thayer School of Engineering
Virginia Tech
A Framework for Adversarial Social Networks
3-year award

Shipman, Scott—Pediatrics
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
Assessing the Impact of the Generalist Physician Supply on Access and Quality of Care for Children
2-year award

Shubitidze, Fridon—Thayer School of Engineering
Department of Defense, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
Non-Traditional Physics-based Inverse Approaches for Determining Buried Objects Location

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

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