Garrett A. Duncan, Ph.D,
"a terrific asset as a teacher and colleague"
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Garrett A. Duncan, Ph.D, "a terrific asset as a teacher and colleague" |
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Of Note
Samuel Achilefu, Ph.D., associate professor of radiology, Carolyn J. Anderson, Ph.D., associate professor of radiology, and John Schotland, M.D., Ph.D., associate professor of electrical engineering, have received a three-year, $620,000 grant from the National Science Foundation for research titled, " Biophotonics: Novel RGD Peptide Dendrimeric Optical Contrast Agents for Imaging Tumor Angiogenesis." . . . Stephen Legomsky, J.D., D.Phil, Nagel Professor of International Law, was appointed a senior visiting fellow at Oxford University and a senior researcher at the UN High Commission for Refugees in Geneva for the past spring and summer. In the past several months he has given invited presentations at the University of Wisconsin, the University of California, Davis, and Georgetown University, and in Porto Alegre (Brazil), Dublin, Oxford, Bogota, Potsdam, Maastricht (Nether-lands), Casablanca, Geneva, and Kathmandu on various immigration, refugee, human rights, and criminal law subjects. . . . Barry Hong, Ph.D., assistant professor of medical psychology in psychiatry, and Amy Waterman, Ph.D., research associate in general medical sciences, have received a one-year, $24,500 grant from the Missouri Kidney Program for research titled " Increasing Living Donor Volunteer Rates, Comfort, and Satisfaction: A Comparison of Three Educational Approaches." . . . Dora E. Angelaki, Ph.D., associate professor of neurobiology, has received a three-year, $970,937 grant from the National Aero- nautics and Space Administration for research titled " Multisensory Interactions to Discriminate Gravity for Translational Accelerations." . . . James Benjamin Skeath, Ph.D., assistant professor of genetics, has received a one-year, $152,445 grant from the National Aeronautics and Space Admin-istration for research titled " Evolution of Anthropod Neural Pattern." . . . Andrew Pekosz, Ph.D., assistant professor of molecular microbiology, has received a two-year, $60,000 grant from the Infectious Diseases Society of America for the " 2001 Wyeth-Lederle Vaccines Young Investigator Award in Vaccine Development." . . . Mario Schootman, Ph.D., assistant professor of medicine, has received a two-year, $408,540 grant from the National Institute on Aging for research titled " Radiation Therapy in Older Breast Cancer Patients." . . . Ling-Gang Wu, Ph.D., assistant professor of anesthesiology, has received a five-year, $951,700 grant from the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communi-cation Disorders for research titled " Sustained Transmitter Release During Repetitive Firing." . . . Michael S. Diamond, M.D., Ph.D., assistant professor of medicine, has received a three-year, $447,045 grant from Centers for Disease Control and Prevention for research titled " Applied Research in Emerging Infections Investigations of West Nile Virus." . . . Irina Surgucheva, Ph.D., assistant professor of ophthalmology and visual sciences, has received a three-year, $462,000 grant from the National Eye Institute for research titled " Role of Persyn in Neurodegeneration." . . . Daniel S. Ory, M.D., assistant professor of medicine, has received a one-year, $124,300 grant from the Ara Parseghian Medical Research Foundation for research titled " Proteomic Analysis of the NPC1 Compartment." . . . Kathryn L. Plax, M.D., instructor of pediatrics, has received a one-year, $50,285 Medicine as a Profession Program Fellowship grant from the Open Society Institute. . . . Monica Bessler, M.D., Ph.D., assistant professor of medicine, has received a four-year, $300,000 grant from the American Heart Association for research titled " Glycosyl Phosphatidylinositol (GPI) -- Anchor Deficiency Targeted to the Erythroid/ Megakaryon Lineage." . . . Thomas G. Diacovo, M.D., assistant professor of pediatrics, has received a four-year, $300,000 grant from the American Heart Association for research titled " Kinetic Analysis of the GPIb Alpha-vWF-A1 Bond and Influence of Type 2b Mutations." . . . George W. Gokel, Ph.D., professor of molecular biology and pharmacology, has received a two-year, $80,000 grant from the American Chemical Society for research titled " Molecular Probes of Cation-Arene Interactions." . . . Lawrence H. Snyder, M.D., Ph.D., assistant professor of anatomy and neurobiology, has received a three-year, $300,000 grant from The EJLB Foundation for research titled " Deciding to Act: The Role of the Frontal Cortex in Releasing and Inhibiting Goal Directed Movements." . . . Edward M. Barnett, M.D., Ph.D., assistant professor of ophthalmology and visual sciences, has received a four-year, $200,000 Research to Prevent Blindness Career Development Award from Research to Prevent Blindness. |
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