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Research Awards

Dartmouth researchers were awarded $32.9 million during July and August, including $13.8 million in new and competing awards. Among the recipients of recent new and competing grants, as reported by the Office of Sponsored Projects:

Adachi-Mejia, A.—Pediatrics
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
"A Study of Motivation, Barriers, and Perceptions of the Built Environment on Physical Activity Levels among Rural Mothers"

Alvord, L.—Medical School Administration
University of Colorado
"Surgical Outcomes in American Indian Veterans"

Becker, D.—Community and Family Medicine
University of Massachusetts
"New England Community Rehabilitation Provider Training Network"

Birnie, R.—Earth Sciences, J. LaBelle—Physics and Astronomy, S. Shepherd—Engineering Sciences
and M. Pavone—Women in Science Project
University of New Hampshire
"New Hampshire Space Grant Consortium"

Borsuk, M.—Biological Sciences
University of Basel represented by Institut MGU
"Estrogenic Endocrine Disruption in Switzerland: Assessment of Fish Exposure and Modeling of Effects on Population Level (SAFE II)"

Collier, J.— Engineering Sciences
DePuy Inc, a Johnson and Johnson Company
"Depuy 2002"

Collins, E.—Surgery Foundation for Informed Medical Decision Making
"Implementing Shared Decision Making in Clinical Care"
Three-Year Award

Cornell, C. and L. McKernan—Medicine
University of Massachusetts
"Hemophilia Comprehensive Care"
Two-month Award

Craig, R.—Pharmacology and Toxicology
National Cancer Institute
"Modifications Matter in MCL1 Turnover and Cell Viability"
Five-Year Award

Cui, Z.—Medicine
Flight Attendant Medical Research Institute
"A Disposable Device to Measure Secondhand Smoke Exposure"
Two-Year Award

Demars, L.—Obstetrics and Gynecology
Parexel International Corporation
"Phase II Study to Assess the Safety and Efficacy of the Trifunctional Antibody of Catumaxomab"

Dietrich, A.—Community and Family Medicine
National Cancer Institute
"An RCT to Increase Colon Cancer Screening in Medicaid Managed Care"
Five-Year Award

Dmitrovsky, E.—Pharmacology and Toxicology
The Samuel Waxman Cancer Research Foundation
"Rexinoid Therapy for Lung Cancer Prevention"

Fisher, E.—Medicine
State of Vermont
"Vermont Data Analysis Project"
Two-Year Award

Goodman, D.—Pediatrics
Health Resources and Services Administration
"CAT Frontier Definition Development"
Seven-month award

Gougelet, R.—Medicine
Yale New Haven Health System
"New England Partnership for Healthcare Emergency Response Education and Training"

Green, W.—Microbiology
National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases
"Immunobiology of Myeloid and Lymphoid Cells"
Five-Year Award

Gribble, G.—Chemistry
American Chemical Society, Petroleum Research Fund
"Synthesis of Complex Indoles and Related Natural Products"
Two-Year Award

Guerinot, M.—Biological Sciences
Department of Energy
"From the Soil to the Seed: Metal Transport and Homeostasis in Arabidopsis"
Three-Year Award

Heaney, J.—Surgery
Southwest Oncology Group
"S0437 Prostate Cancer Prevention Trial PCPT Companion Long Term Follow Up Study
for Men with Diagnosed Prostate Cancer"

Hegel, M.—Psychiatry
National Cancer Institute
"Preserving Function in Rural Breast Cancer Patients"
Two-Year Award

Hoopes, P. and J. Bergeron—Surgery
Boston Scientific
"Ethylene Vinyl Alcohol (EVOH) for Obesity"
Six-Month Award

Kasper, L.—Medicine
Mount Sinai School of Medicine
"Combination Therapy in Multiple Sclerosis-CombiRx Phase III"

Kerrigan, C.—Surgery
University of Washington
"Carpal Tunnel Syndrome: Diagnosis & Treatment Study"

Kollisch, D.—Community and Family Medicine
Endowment for Health
"New Hampshire Health Professions Loan Program"
Six-Month Award

Kotz, D.—Computer Science and E. Johnson—Surgery
Dept. of Commerce, National Institute of Standards and Technology
"Institute for Security Technology Studies"
Two-Year Award

Lewis, L.—Medicine
GlaxoSmithKline
"A Multi Center Open Label Multiple Probe Drug Interaction Study to Determine the Effects of GW786034 on Metabolism of Cytochrome P4
50 Probe Drugs in Patients with Solid Tumors VEG10007"

Llewellyn-Thomas, H.—Community and Family Medicine
Foundation for Informed Medical Decision Making
"Health Decision Resource"

Lotko, W.—Engineering Sciences
University of New Hampshire
"SERSIO Sounding Rocket Data Analysis"

Lynd, L.—Engineering Sciences
Mascoma Corporation
"Advanced Ethanol Production Technology"
Two-Year Award

McAllister, T. and L. Flashman—Psychiatry
Brain Injury Association of New Hampshire
"Project RESPONSE: Enhancement of the Capacity of Elderly Adults with Brain Injuries
and Families/Caregivers to Self-Manage the Neurobehavioral Consequences of TBI"

McClay, L.—Financial Aid
Department of Education
"SMART"

McClung, C.—Biological Sciences
National Science Foundation
"TRMS-Genetic Analysis Of Natural Variation In the Control Of Flowering Timing and Inflorescence Architecture in Brassica Rapa"
Four-Year Award

Merrens, M.—Psychiatry
State of Vermont
"Integrated Dual Disorder Treatment Training & Evaluation"
15-Month Award

Moore, J.—Genetics
National Library of Medicine
"Machine Learning Prediction of Cancer Susceptibility"
Four-Year Award

Mueller, H.—Physics and Astronomy
National Science Foundation
"Modeling Cool Stellar Winds Interacting With a Partially Ionized ISM"
Three-Year Award

Nelson, W.—Psychiatry
National Library of Medicine
"Handbook for Rural Health Care Ethics"
Two-Year Award

O'Connor, G.—Medicine
Cystic Fibrosis Foundation
"CF Patient Registry"
and
"Cystic Fibrosis National Program"

O'Donnell, J.—Medicine
Association of American Medical Colleges
"Mascoma Valley Free Health Clinic (Mascoma Clinic)"
Four-Year Award

Peterson, K.—Biological Sciences and C. Cole—Biochemistry
National Science Foundation
"microRNAs and Metazoan Evolution"

Ray, L. and M. Phan—Engineering Sciences
Dept. of Commerce, National Institute of Standards and Technology
"Dartmouth Initiative on Intelligent Control of Distributed Systems - FY06 Appropriations"
Two-Year Award

Rimberg, A.—Physics and Astronomy
Dept. of Defense, Army Research Office
"Practical Implementation of Electron Spin Resonance in Quantum Dots"
Three-Year Award

Santos, E.—Engineering Sciences
Securboration, Incoporated
"Dynamic Adversarial Gaming Algorithm"
Two-Year Award

Sargent, J.—Pediatrics
National Cancer Institute
"Minary Conference-Movies and Adolescent Smoking"
Five-Month Award

Schwartz, G.—Medicine
Wyeth Pharmaceuticals Incorporated
"Phase 2 Study of HK1-272 in Subjects with Advanced Breast Cancer"
and
Bayer Pharmaceutical
"Phase I Study of Aprotinin in Advanced Breast Cancer"

Sinnott-Armstrong, W.—Philosophy
John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation
"Law and Neuroscience"

Sloboda, R.—Biological Sciences
Howard Hughes Medical Institute
"HHMI Undergraduate Science Education"

Speck, N.—Biochemistry
The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society
"Animal Models of Hematological Malignancies"

Sporn, M.— Pharmacology and Toxicology
Reata Discovery, Incorporated
"Sponsored Research Agreement on Triterpenoids"

St John, W.—Physiology
National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute
"Mechanisms and Sites of Ventilatory Neurogenesis"
Three-Year Award

Sullivan, C.—Engineering Sciences
Dept. of Commerce, National Institute of Standards and Technology
"Power Electronics - FY06 Appropriations"
Two-Year Award

Swartz, H., R. Dong, and Y. Sakata—Radiology
Henry Jackson Foundation
"In Vivo Dosimeter for Measurement of Radiation Exposures"
Three-Year Award

Tse, P.—Psychological and Brain Sciences
National Science Foundation
"Mapping Visual Attention with Change Blindness in 3D"
Two-Year Award

Wickner, W.—Biochemistry
National Institute of General Medical Sciences
"The Role of Actin Remodeling in Membrane Microdomains"
Four-Year Award

Yeo, K.—Pathology, R. Foote—Medicine, and K. Curtis—Electron Microscope Facility
Inverness Medical Innovations, Inc.
"Imagine Study"

Zomorodian, A.—Computer Science
Dept. of Defense, Advanced Research Projects Agency
"Multiparameter Topological Analysis of Point Cloud Data"
Three-Year Award

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

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