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Research Award Achievements - July 2005 - March 2006 

(State & Federal Government/Foundation/Association Awards of $10,000 and above)  

Department

PI

Award Details

Anesthesiology

McQuillian, Robert

 

Health Future Foundation - $20,000 - CHANGING SAFETY CULTURE IN THE PERIOPERATIVE AREA

Health Future Foundation -  $30,000 - HFF DISCRETIONARY:  ANESTHESIOLOGY RESEARCH  PROGRAM START-UP

Biomedical Sciences

Agrawal, Devendra

National Institutes of Health - $41,746 - SUPPLEMENT: FLT3-LIGAND IMMUNOMODULATION AND THERAPY IN ASTHMA

National Institutes of Health - $221,798 - FLT3-LIGAND IMMUNOMODULATION AND THERAPY IN ASTHMA

National Institutes of Health - $44,015 - APOPTOSIS OF SMOOTH MUSCLE CELLS IN CARTOID PLAQUES

National Institutes of Health - $199,500 - APOPTOSIS OF SMOOTH MUSCLE CELLS IN CAROTID PLAQUES

National Institutes of Health-  $34,200 - SUPPLEMENT: APOPTOSIS OF SMOOTH MUSCLE CELLS IN CAROTID PLAQUES

State of NE - LB506 - $40,000 -  SURVIVIN IN TRIAL-INDUCED APOPTOSIS IN BREAST CANCER

 

Beisel, Kirk 

University of Nebraska Medical Center/National Institutes of Health - $21,375 - UNMC CORE B: MOLECULAR BIOLOGY OF NEUROSENSORY SYSTEMS

National Institutes of Health  - $351,732 - MOLECULAR DISSECTION OF THE ORGAN OF CORTI

National Institutes of Health  - $80,360 - SUPPLEMENT: MOLECULAR DISSECTION OF THE ORGAN OF CORTI

University of Nebraska Medical Center/National Institutes of Health  - $54,073 - UNMC COBRE B: MOLECULAR BIOLOGY OF NEURSENSORY SYSTEMS

 

Bergren, Dale

State of NE-LB595 - $40,000 - AIRWAY HYPERRESPONSIVENESS AND TOBACCO SMOKE EXPOSURE

 

Brauer, Philip

American Heart Association- NE Affiliate - $71,500 -TISSUE INHIBITOR OF METALLOPROTEINASE-2 (TIMP-2) REGULATION OF CARDIAC NEURAL CHREST

 

Fritzsch, Bernd

University of Nebraska Medical Center/National Institutes of Health - $44,778  COBRE: THE MOLECULAR BIOLOGY OF NEUROSENSORY SYSTEMS

Health Future Foundation - $10,400 - HFF SOM RESEARCH DEVELOPMENT: GENERATION OF A TRANSGENIC MOUSE THAT ENABLES OVEREXPRESSION OF A GENE OF INTEREST IN AN ORGAN/CELL SPECIFIC QUANTITIATIVELY REGULATED WAY

 

Hansen, Laura

University of Nebraska Medical Center/National Institutes of Health- $297,396 - UNMC COBRE: ERBB2 IN CUTANEOUS DEVELOPMENT AND CARCINOGENESIS

State of NE-LB692 - $300,000  - ROLE OF ERBB2 IN PNS, SKIN AND EAR AS REVEALED BY CONDITIONAL MUTATION ANALYSIS

 

 

Jensen-Smith, Heather

Deafness Research Foundation  - $20,000  - RELATIVE CONTRIBUTIONS OF LATERAL WALL COMPONENTS TO OUTER HAIR CELL MECHANICS

 

Lovas, Sandor

University of Nebraska Medical Center/National Institutes of Health - $144,445 - UNMC INBRE: NEBRASKA RESEARCH NETWORK IN FUNCTIONAL GENOMICS - BIOINFORMATICS CORE

University of Nebraska Medical Center/National Institutes of Health - $101,491UNMC INBRE: NEBRASKA RESEARCH NETWORK IN  FUNCTIONAL GENOMICS - PROTEOMICS CORE

 

Mackin, Robert

Health Future Foundation - $20,800 - HFF SOM RESEARCH DEVELOPMENT: INITIAL STAFFING OF THE PROTEOMICS CORE FACILITY

National Institutes of Health - $199,683 - SPECIFICITY OF PROPEPTIDE CONVERTING ENZYMES

 

Murphy, Richard

University of Nebraska Medical Center/National Institutes of Health - $46,116 - UNMC INBRE: NEBRASKA RESEARCH NETWORK IN FUNCTIONAL GENOMICS - PROGRAM DIRECTION CORE

 

 

Petzel, David

National Science Foundation - $149,370- TEMPERATURE AND HORMONAL CONTROL OF DRINKING AND NA/K-ATPASE IN ANTARCTIC FISH

 

Reidelberger, Roger          

National Institutes of Health - $ 247,958  - REGULATION OF FOOD INTAKE AND BODY ADIPOSITY BY PEPTIDE YY

Canadian Institutes of Health Research  - $42,437 - PRASANTH CHELIKANI: ROLE OF PEPTIDE YY(3-36) IN THE REGULATION OF FOOD INTAKE AND BODY WEIGHT

National Institutes of Health - $179,100 - REGULATION OF FOOD INTAKE AND BODY WEIGHT BY AMYLIN  

 

Soukup, Garrett

University of Nebraska Medical Center/National Institutes of Health - $21,375 - COBRE: PROJECT 1 ROLE OF MICRORNAS IN  DEVELOPMENT OF THE EAR: THE MOLECULAR BIOLOGY OF NEUROSENSORY SYSTEMS

 

University of Nebraska Medical Center/National Institutes of Health - $21,375 - COBRE: PROJECT 1 ROLE OF MICRORNAS IN  DEVELOPMENT OF THE EAR: THE MOLECULAR BIOLOGY OF NEUROSENSORY SYSTEMS

 

University of Nebraska Medical Center/National Institutes of Health - $277,775 COBRE: PROJECT 1 ROLE OF MICRORNAS IN  DEVELOPMENT OF THE EAR: THE MOLECULAR BIOLOGY OF NEUROSENSORY SYSTEMS

 

Weston, Michael

Deafness Research Foundation -  $20,000 MOLECULAR CHARACTERIZATION THE USHER SYNDROME TYPE 11C GENE, VLGR1

Cancer Center

Govindarajan, Venkatesh

State of NE-LB595 -$40,000 - RAS SIGNALING IN CORNEAL DEVELOPMENT

State of NE-LB692 - $52,215 - CANCER CENTER DEVELOPMENTAL/ MOLECULAR BIOLOGIST PROJECT

 

 Loggie, Brian

State of NE-LB595 - $170,000 - CANCER BIOLOGY PROGRAM COMPONENT 3 - DR. GOVINDARAJAN

State of NE-LB595  - $170,000 - CANCER BIOLOGY COMPONENT 1 - DR. WANG

State of NE-LB595 - $110,000 - CANCER BIOLOGY PROGRAM COMPONENT 2 - DR. GOVINDARAJAN

 

Wang, Zhaoyi

 

University of Nebraska Medical Center/National Institutes of Health - $15,273 - UNMC COBRE: NEBRASKA CENTER FOR CELLULAR SIGNALING

Dean's Office

Enarson, Cam

Creighton Saint Joseph Regional HealthCare System  - $782,534 -   MISSION SUPPORT AGREEMENT

National Institutes of Health - $625,000 - CUMC COMMUNITY-ORIENTED PRIMARY CARE RESEARCH  ENDOWMENT

Creighton Saint Joseph Regional HealthCare System  - $650,000  - MISSION SUPPORT AGREEMENT

Health Future Foundation - $2,250,000 - SCHOOL OF MEDICINE RESEARCH DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM GRANT

State of NE-LB595 - $150,000 - CANCER AND SMOKING DISEASE RESEARCH PROGRAM ADMINISTRATION AND PLANNING

Health Future Foundation - $30,000 - HFF SOM RESEARCH DEVELOPMENT:  ASSOCIATE DEAN FOR RESEARCH START-UP

State of NE-LB692 - $30,000  - SCHOOL OF MEDICINE ASSOCIATE DEAN FOR RESEARCH START-UP

 

Huggett, Katie

American Medical Association - $15,000 - AMA MEDICAL EDUCATION RESEARCH CONSORTIUM PLANNING GRANT

 

McLaughlin, Barbara

Health Future Foundation - $454,480 -  HFF SOM RESEARCH DEVELOPMENT:  PROTEOMICS CORE FACILITY

State of NE-LB692  - $439,906FLORESCENCE ACTIVATED CELL SORTER FOR THE FLOW CYTOMETRY CORE FACILITY

State of NE-LB692 - $437,000 PROTEOMICS CORE FACILITY

Family Practice

Frey, Donald

Health and Human Services  - $74,785 -  RESIDENCY TRAINING IN PRIMARY CARE

Health and Human Services  - $77,812  - PREDOCTORAL TRAINING IN PRIMARY CARE

Health and Human Services  - $74,414  - ACADEMIC ADMINISTRATIVE UNITS IN PRIMARY CARE

Medicine

Anderson, Robert

Veterans Administration  - $13,304  - ASSIGNMENT AGREEMENT - IPA RENEW

 

Casale, Thomas

American Academy of Allergy Asthma & Immunology -$12,500 - 2004 CLINICAL FELLOWSHIP AWARD

American Academy of Allergy Asthma & Immunology - $25,000 - 2004 CLINICAL FELLOWSHIP AWARD

Health Future Foundation - $267,430 - DEVELOPMENT OF CLINICAL TRIALS OFFICE

 

Cullen, Diane

Health Future Foundaion - $75,878 - HFF SOM RESEARCH DEVELOPMENT: ANABOLIC ACTION OF WNT IN THE ADULT SKELETON

National Institutes of Health -$403,725 - ANABOLIC ACTION OF WNT IN THE ADULT SKELETON

 

Deng, Hong-Wen

National Institutes of Health - $20,205 - GENETIC BASIS OF OSTEOPOROTIC FRACTURES AND BONE MASS

 

Haynatzki, Gleb

University of Nebraska Medical Center/National Institutes of Health -$28,410 - BIOMEDICAL COMPUTING TOOLS FOR PANCREATIC CANCER RESEARCH

 

Kizer, Robert

Health Future Foundation - $63,799 - HFF DISCRETIONARY:  GI RESEARCH FELLOW

 

Lappe, Joan

National Institutes of Health -$173,940 CALCIUM FOODS AND BONE HEALTH OF ADOLESCENT GIRLS

 U.S. Department of Defense - $21,250 - EFFICACY OF CALCIUM AND VITAMIN D SUPPLEMENTATION FOR THE PREVENTION OF STRESS  FRACTURES IN FEMALE NAVAL RECRUITS

National Institutes of Health -  $239,302 - BONE MINERAL DENSITY IN CHILDHOOD STUDY-CLINICAL CENTER

State of NE-LB692 - $69,745 - USE OF RISENDRONATE IN CHILDREN ON  GLUCOCORTOIDS

 

Mohiuddin, Syed

Region 6 Behavioral Healthcare/State of NE-DHHS - $17,609 - COMMUNITIES OF EXCELLENCE IN TOBACCO CONTROL (DOUGLAS COUNTY)

Region 6 Behavioral Healthcare/State of NE-DHHS - $13,800 - WOMEN AND TOBACCO SUMMIT PREPARATION

State of NE-DHHS - $40,000 - EVERY WOMAN MATTERS: WISEWOMAN PROGRAM- WOMEN'S COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTER

State of NE-LB692 -  $86,512 - WOMEN'S COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTER

Environmental Protection Agency  $20,000 -  SMOKE-FREE MULTIFAMILY HOME PROJECT

State of NE-LB692- $290,757 - CREIGHTON HEALTH CENTER

Health Future Foundation- $302,387  - HFF SOM RESEARCH DEVELOPMENT:  CREIGHTON  HEALTH  CENTER

 

Morrow, Lee

American College of Chest Physicians - $50,000 -MULTIDISCIPLINARY INTERVENTION TO OPTIMIZE THE RECOVERY OF ELDERLY PATIENTS HOSPITALIZED WITH COMMUNITY ACQUIRED PNEUMONIA

National Institutes of Health - $126,427  -PROBIOTIC PROPHYLAXIS OF VENTILATOR-ASSOCIATED PNEUMONIA

State of NE-LB692 - $97,315 - PROBIOTIC PROPHYLAXIS OF VENTILATOR ASSOCIATE PNEUMONIA

 

O'Brien, John

Health Future Foundation - $68,755 - HFF SOM RESEARCH DEVELOPMENT: EFFECTS OF GENISTEIN AND OMEGA-3 FATTY ACIDS ON HUMAN COLORECTAL CANCER CELL LINES AND KUPFFER CELLS

 

Recker, Robert

State of NE-LB595 - $186,796 -  BONE BIOLOGY AND TOBACCO PROGRAM COMPONENT 1  

State of NE-LB595 - $143,204 -  BONE BIOLOGY AND TOBACCO PROGRAM COMPONENT  2  

University of Missouri at Kansas City/National Institutes of Health - $258,343 -  ROBUST AND POWERFUL TEST OF CANDIDATE GENES  TO BONE MASS

 

Shen, Xuedong

Health Future Foundation -$19,794  EFFECTS OF INSULIN ON MYOCARDIAL MICROANGLIOPATHY IN DIABETICS

Microbiology and Immunology

Bartz, Jason

University of Nebraska-Lincoln/National Institutes of Health -  $178,125 - UNL COBRE: PRION STRAIN COMPLETION IN THE CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM

 

Belshan, Michael

Health Future Foundation - $352,278 -HFF SOM RESEARCH DEVELOPMENT:  MICHAEL BELSHAN START-UP

 

Drescher, Kristen  

University of Nebraska Medical Center/National Institutes of Health - $267,286 -  UNMC COBRE: ROLE OF NEUREGULINS IN MYELIN  REPAIR IN THE CNS AND PNS

 

Goering, Richard

University of Nebraska Medical Center/National Institutes of Health - $29,925  UNMC INBRE: NEBRASKA RESEARCH NETWORK IN FUNCTIONAL GENOMICS - FUNCTIONAL GENOMICS CORE FACILITY    

 

Gorby, Gary  

University of Nebraska Medical Center/State of NE-DHHS - $13,440  - NEBRASKA CENTER FOR BIOTERRORISM EDUCATION

 

Swanson, Patrick 

National Institutes of Health -$243.627 - CHARACTERIZATION OF V(D)J CLEAVAGE AND REPAIR COMPLEXES

State of NE-LB692 -$82,120 - RAG MECHANISMS IN LYMPHOID CELL DEVELOPMENT AND CANCER         

Neurology

Bertoni, John

American Parkinson's Disease Association - $10,500 - APDA INFORMATION AND REFERRAL CENTER

American Parkinson's Disease Association-  $18,767 -  APDA INFORMATION AND REFERRAL CENTER

Pathology

Cavalieri, Stephen

 State of NE-DHHS - $25,000  - AUTOMATED ELECTRONIC LAB REPORTING (ELR)

 

Gatalica, Zoran

State of NE-LB595 - $26,551- MTHFR POLYMORPHISMS AND CANCER IN BARRETT'S ESOPHAGUS

Pediatrics

Romero, Jose

University of Alabama/National Institutes of Health  -$20,900 - DOUBLE-BLIND PLACEBO-CONTROLLED VIROLOGIC EFFICACY TRIAL OF PLECONARIL (VP63843) IN THE TREATMENT OF NEONATES WITH ENTEROVIRAL SEPSIS SYNDROME

 

Townley, Theresa

University of Nebraska Medical Center/Health and Human Services - $48,101 - DEVELOPMENT OF THE NEBRASKA AHEC NETWORK - URBAN AHEC

Pharmacology

Bockman, Charles 

Health Future Foundation - $20,000 -  A-1-ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR SUBTYPES IN SUBMANDIBULAR GLAND SECRETION

 

Tu, Yaping 

University of Nebraska Medical Center/National Institutes of Health - $71,250  - UNMC COBRE: G-PROTEIN COUPLED RECEPTOR SIGNALING AND PROSTATE CANCER PROGRESSION

State of NE-LB692 - $98,538 - MOLECULAR MECHANISM OF G ALPHA 12 IN PROSTATE CANCER

Preventive Medicine

Lynch, Henry

M. D. Anderson/National Institutes of Health- $39,240 - EARLY DETECTION OF URINARY BLADDER CANCER

University of Pennsylvania Medical Center/National Institutes of Health - $19,360 - MODIFIERS OF BRCA1/2 ASSOCIATED CANCER

Mayo Clinic Rochester/National Institutes of Health -$154,839 - PANCREATIC CANCER GENETIC EPIDEMIOLOGY CONSORTIUM

University of California, Irvine/National Institutes of Health - $19,360 - GENETIC EPIDEMIOLOGY OF BREAST CANCER: BRCA1 AND BRCA2

State of NE-LB595- $92,226  - CANCER AND SMOKING DISEASE RESEARCH PROGRAM HEREDITARY CANCER PROGRAM COMPONENT 3

State of NE-LB595 - $65,084 - CANCER AND SMOKING DISEASE RESEARCH PROGRAM HEREDITARY CANCER PROGRAM COMPONENT 1

State of NE-LB595 - $92,690  -CANCER AND SMOKING DISEASE RESEARCH PROGRAM HEREDITARY CANCER PROGRAM COMPONENT 2

Evanston Northwestern Healthcare/National Institutes of Health - $87,896 - SPECTRAL MARKERS FOR EARLY DETECTION OF COLON NEOPLASIA

Psychiatry

Ramaswamy, Sriram

National Alliance for Research on Schizophrenia & Depression - $30,000 -  ASSOCIATION BETWEEN ANTIPSYCHOTIC INDUCED HYPERLEPTINEMIA AND BONE MINERAL DENSITY AND BONE METABOLISM IN MALE AND PREMENOPAUSAL WOMEN

 

Sattar, Syed

Health Future Foundation -  $20,000 - 12-WEEK PROSPECTIVE DOUBLE BLIND PLACEBO CONTROLLED RANDOMIZED CLINICAL TRIAL OF QUETIAPINE FOR ALCOHOL DEPENDENCE AND  COMORBID ANXIETY

 

Sullivan, Patricia

National Institutes of Health - $100,000 - VIOLENCE EXPOSURE OUTCOMES IN CHILDREN WITH DISABILITIES

State of NE-LB692 - $275,000 - PROGRAM & INFRASTRUCTURE FOR VIOLENCE & BEHAVIOR RESEARCH

 

Wilson, Daniel

National Institutes of Health - $10,617 -  RELAPSE PREVENTION: LONG ACTING-ATYPICAL ANTISYCHOTICS

National Institutes of Health -$191,092 - RELAPSE PREVENTION: LONG-ACTING ATYPICAL ANTISYCHOTICS

University of Cincinnati/National Institutes of Health -  $39,936 -ETHNICITY AND DIAGNOSIS OF AFFECTIVE ILLNESS

Surgery

Bajenova, Olga 

Health Future Foundation -  $156,000 - HFF SOM RESEARCH DEVELOPMENT:  OLGA BAJENOVA START-UP PROJECT - THE ROLE OF HnRNP M4 SPLICING IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF CANCER METASTASIS

 

Chakkalakal, Dennis

State of NE-LB595 - $40,000 - OVERCOMING DRUG RESISTANCE IN BREAST CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY

 

Fitzgibbons, Robert 

American College of Surgeons Oncology Group-  $28,342 - HERNIA OUTCOMES REGISTRY

American College of Surgeons Oncology Group-  $41,505 - HERNIA OUTCOMES REGISTRY

 

Forse, R. Armour

Health Future Foundation - $208,000 - HFF SOM RESEARCH DEVELOPMENT:  SURGERY CHAIRMAN

 

McGuire, Michael

Veterans Administration - $21,211- IPA EDWARD FRITZ: NEW METHODS TO OVERCOME CHRONIC DISORDERS OF THE CERVICAL SPINE

Veterans Administration- $25,673 - IPA TERESA MOLLNER: NEW METHODS TO OVERCOME CHRONIC DISORDERS OF THE CERVICAL SPINE

 

Thomas, Peter

Health Future Foundation - $147,258 - HFF SOM RESEARCH DEVELOPMENT:  PETER THOMAS START UP PROJECT 2- CFA RECEPTOR STRUCTURE FUNCTION AND METASTASIS

Health Future Foundation -  $80,918 -  HFF SOM RESEARCH DEVELOPMENT:  PETER THOMAS START UP PROJECT 1 - ENDOTOXIN PROCESSING BY KUPFFER CELLS

University Chair

Heaney, Robert

National Institutes of Health - $301,388 - BONE-SPARING BYCA SALTS WITH AND WITHOUT EXTRA PHOSPHORUS

Creighton University