Numerous School of Medicine faculty recently have received grants of $1 million or more. The grants fund research on topics ranging from asthma to leukemia to transplantation.
The grant recipients include:
- Robert C. Strunk, M.D., professor of pediatrics, has received a four-year $1.9 million grant from the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute for a study of pediatric asthma and emergency room visits;
- Michael J. Holtzman, M.D., the Seldin Professor of Medicine and an associate professor of cell biology and physiology, received a five-year $1.8 million grant from the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute to study the link between asthma and viral infections;
- Jacques U. Baenziger, M.D., Ph.D., professor of pathology and of cell biology and physiology, has received a four-year $1.6 million grant from the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases to study a sugar chain that might influence the activity of certain proteins;
- Jay L. Hess, M.D., Ph.D., assistant professor of pathology and co-director of hematopathology services, has received a five-year $1.2 million grant from the National Cancer Institute to study how abnormal forms of a gene produce two types of leukemia; and
- Maurine E. Linder, Ph.D., assistant professor of cell biology and physiology, has received a four-year $1.1 million grant from the National Institute of General Medical Sciences to continue her studies on signalling proteins that are modified by fatty acids.
- Thalachallour T. Mohanakumar, Ph.D., professor of surgery, medicine and pathology, has received a four-year $1 million grant from the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute to study barriers to transplanting pig organs into humans.
