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Dartmouth researchers were awarded $7.9 million during January, including $5.7 million in new and competing awards. Among the recipients of recent new and competing grants, as reported by the Office of Sponsored Projects:
Bartels, Stephen—Psychiatry
Endowment for Health
Evaluation of a Health Promotion Intervention for Persons with Severe Mental Illness
Buckey, Jay—Medicine
National Space Biomedical Research Institute
Pharmacotherapeutics of Intranasal Scopolamine
Buckey, Jay—Medicine
Creare Inc.
Prediction of Hyperbaric Oxygen Toxicity
Carriere, Catherine—Medicine
Marc Lustgarten Foundation for Pancreatic Research
Adult Pancreatic Progenitors as Target of Late Oncogenic Events
Dorosko, Stephanie—Microbiology and Immunology
National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases
Mechanisms for HIV-1 Persistence in Human Mammary Tissue and Breast Milk Cells
Fesen, Robert—Physics and Astronomy
Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory
Investigating the X-Ray Variability of Cassiopeia A
2-year award
Kasper, Lloyd—Medicine, J. Gorham—Pathology, J. Moore—Genetics, R. Noelle—Microbiology and Immunology, J. Smith—Microbiology and Immunology, Z. Szczepiorkowski—Pathology and H. Wishart—Psychiatry
National Multiple Sclerosis Society
DMS Collaborative MS Center
5-year award
Koval, Kenneth and K. Spratt—Orthopaedics
Foundation for Orthopaedic Trauma
Early Prediction of Post-Traumatic In-Hospital Mortality in Pediatric Patients
Madden, Dean—Biochemistry
National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Disease
Keeping CFTR in its Place: An Integrated Small-Molecule Approach
Merrick, Cybele—Psychiatry
Veterans Administration
Contract for Library Services
Mierke, Dale—Chemistry
National Institute of General Medical Sciences
G Protein Receptor—Structural Characterization
9-month award
Mierke, Dale—Chemistry
National Institute on Drug Abuse
Drug Design: Glutamate Receptor Signaling
Nelson, Gail—Psychiatry
Mount Sinai School of Medicine
Physician Training Program: Abstinence Based Recovery from Addictive Disease
Norris, L. Frances—Psychiatry
University of Maryland
Advancements in Assessment of Community Resilience
16-month award
Olfati Saber, Reza—Thayer School of Engineering
National Science Foundation
CAREER: Multi-Agent Coordination and Distributed Estimation for Mobile Sensor Networks
5-year award
Pavone, Mary—Women in Science Project
Department of Defense, Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory
CRREL Contract for Services–WISP Internship Program
Paye, Julie and M. Simons—Medicine
National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute
Role of Synectin in Arterial Development
Pellacini, Fabio—Computer Science
National Science Foundation
CAREER: Intuitive Appearance Design
Pogue, Brian—Biomedical Engineering
Massachusetts General Hospital
An Online-Measurement and Model-Based Approach to PDT
Schaller, George—Biological Sciences
Rohm and Haas Company
Effect of Ethylene Receptor Levels upon the Efficacy of 1-MCP
Swartz, Harold—Radiology
Dept. of Defense, Advanced Research Projects Agency
High Throughput-Low Cost Biologically Based Triage for Radiation Exposure Based on EPR Measurements of Radiation-Induced Changes in Fingernails and Toenails
9-month award
Swartz, Harold—Radiology
Dept. of Defense, Advanced Research Projects Agency
High Throughput-Low Cost Biologically Based Triage for Radiation Exposure Based on In Vivo EPR Measurements of Radiation-Induced Changes in Teeth
9-month award
Van Citters, Douglas—Thayer School of Engineering, R. Connor—Microbiology and Immunology, J.Leiter—Physiology, and S. Spielberg—Dartmouth Medical School
Johnson & Johnson
Extrusion of UHMWPE for Orthopaedic Bearings
2-year award
Wasson, John—Community and Family Medicine
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
Care Experience Survey Instruments
10-month award
Award commitment from the sponsoring agency is for a single year unless otherwise indicated.
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