January 23, 2003

Recent grants top $17M

The Office of Research and Sponsored Programs reports 96 new grants and competing renewal grants for September and October 2002 totaling $17,034,670

CENTRAL ADMINISTRATION
Office of the Provost
• Morimoto, Richard I., Title: Graduate Research Fellowships. Sponsor: National Science Foundation, $670,000.
• Morimoto, Richard I., Title: Jacob Javits Fellowship. Sponsor: Department of Education, $32,531.
• Morimoto, Richard I., Title: Support of Graduate Students. Sponsor: Howard Hughes Medical Institute, $50,865.
• Morimoto, Richard I., Title: Support of Graduate Students. Sponsor: Howard Hughes Medical Institute, $50,865.

Office of the Vice President for Research
• Villa-Komaroff, Lydia. Title: The Women’s Entrepreneurial Life Science Initiative. Sponsor: National Science Foundation, $187,137.

SCHOOL OF COMMUNICATION
Communication Sciences and Disorders
• Booth, James R., Title: Brain Activation in Developmental Communi-cation Disorder. Sponsor: National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders, $124,990.
• Kraus, Nina. Title: Neural Representation of Acoustic Elements of Speech. Sponsor: National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders, $524,799.

SCHOOL OF EDUCATION AND SOCIAL POLICY
Education and Social Policy
• Diamond, John B., Title: Family Background, Cultural Capital, and Teacher’ Perceptions of Students and Parents. Sponsor: The Spencer Foundation, $24,838.
• Kanter, David E., Title: Developing Teacher Leaders in Science: Professional Development for the “I, Bio” Curriculum. Sponsor: National Science Foundation, $49,937.
• Olszewski-Kubilius, Paula M., Title: Jack Kent Cooke Foundation Young Scholars Program. Sponsor: Jack Kent Cooke Foundation, $190,259.

FEINBERG SCHOOL OF MEDICINE
Buehler Center on Aging
• Iris, Madelyn A., Title: Los Caminos: Pathways to Alzheimer’s Diseases - Identifying Factors that Promote or Inhibit Early Detection in Hispanic Elders. Sponsor: Illinois Department of Public Health, $20,000.
• Iris, Madelyn A., Title: Needs Assessment Congregate Dining Sites Improvement. Sponsor: Suburban Area Agency on Aging, $23,675.

Cell and Molecular Biology
• Vassar, Robert. Title: Cholesterol Modulation of Alpha and Beta Secretase Processing of APP. Sponsor: Alzheimer’s Association, $79,997.

Center for AIDS Research
• Wolinsky, Steven M., Title: Detec-tion of HIV Targets by Gold Nanoparticle Probes. Sponsor: National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, $234,675.

Center for Genetic Medicine
• Ormond, Kelly E., Title: Assessing the Attitudes and Understanding of Participants in Nugene: Impacts on Informed Consent for a Large-Scale DNA Research and Banking Project. Sponsor: Department of Energy, $32,996.

Dermatology
• Lavker, Robert M., Title: Isolation of Limbal Epithelial Stem Cells. Sponsor: National Eye Institute, $146,471.

Medicine
• Baker, David W., Title: Health Outcomes for Uninsured Older Adults-II. Sponsor: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, $178,020.
• Bass, Joseph. Title: Participation in Various Endocrinology Studies. Sponsor: Evanston Northwestern Healthcare Research Institute, $232,500.
• Bennett, Charles L., Title: Study of TTP: Incidence Rates and Risk Factors. Sponsor: National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, $623,382.
• Chang, Rowland W., Title: Juvenile Dermatomyositis: Factors Associated with Disease Outcome. Sponsor: Arthritis Foundation (subcontracted from Children’s Memorial Hospital), $11,538.
• Chang, Rowland W., Title: Untreated DQA1*0501+ JDM: Clinical and Genetic Profiles. Sponsor: National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases (subcontracted from Children’s Memorial Hospital), $10,422.
• Jameson, J. Larry. Title: Identifi-cation of Sex Determination Genes by ENU Mutagenesis. Sponsor: National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, $548,128.
• Kopp, Peter A., Title: Targeted Overexpression of a Dominant Negative Insulin Growth Factor I (IGF-1) in Thyroid Follicular Cells in Vivo. Sponsor: American Thyroid Association, Inc., $25,000.
• Liang, George C., Title: A Cross-Sectional Study to Assess the Association between TNF Alpha Blockers and Remission in Rheumatoid Arthritis. Sponsor: Northwestern Memorial Foundation, $25,000.
• Makoul, Gregory. Title: Communi-cation Assessment Tool - Pilot Test. Sponsor: American Board of Medical Specialties Research and Education Foundation, Inc., $50,000.
• Weiss, Kevin B., Title: Chicago Initiative to Raise Asthma Health Equity. Sponsor: National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, $595,198.

Microbiology-Immunology
• Spear, Patricia G., Title: Herpes Simplex Virus Receptors and Signal Transduction. Sponsor: National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, $223,500.

Molecular Pharmacology and Biological Chemistry
• Dubocovich, Margarita L., Title: NRSA Fellowship in Support of Melatonin Regulation of MT2 Melatonin Receptors. Sponsor: National Institute of Mental Health, $24,629.

Pathology
• Green, Kathleen J., Title: Function of Desmoglein 1/Pemphigus Foliaceus Antigen. Sponsor: National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases, $336,520.
• Haldar, Kasturi. Title: Cholesterol Transport and Salmonella Pathogenesis. Sponsor: National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, $73,256.
• Haldar, Kasturi. Title: Tubovesicular Traffic Induced in Red Cells by Plasmo-dia. Sponsor: National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, $37,083.
• Peterson, LoAnn C., Title: College of American Pathologists Foundation Fellowship Award. Sponsor: College of American Pathologists Foundation, $25,000.

Physical Therapy and Human Movement Sciences
• Dewald, Julius P., Title: Effect of Neural Constraints on Movement in Stroke. Sponsor: National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, $267,900.
• MacKinnon, Colum D., Title: STN Stimulation: Neural Control of Move-ment and Posture. Sponsor: National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (subcontracted from University of Illinois at Chicago), $308,371.

Physiology
• Disterhoft, John F., Title: Interact-ions of APP and BACE on Behavior and Hippocampal Physiology in Aging Mice. Sponsor: Alzheimer’s Association, $62,821.
• Sandercock, Thomas G., Title: Muscle Properties During Normal Movements. Sponsor: National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases, $301,432.

Preventive Medicine
• Gann, Peter H., Title: The Effects of Lycopene on High-Risk Prostatic Tissue. Sponsor: National Cancer Institute, $314,113.
• Greenland, Philip. Title: Northwestern University Mentored Scholars Program. Sponsor: National Center for Research Resources, $499,627.
• Liu, Kiang. Title: Inflammation Genomics and Atherosclerosis. Sponsor: National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (subcontracted from University of Washington), $10,435.
• Stamler, Jeremiah. Title: Metabo-nomic Urine Analysis: The INTERMAP Diet-BP Study. Sponsor: National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, $111,321.

Radiology
• Small, William. Title: ACRIN 6651: Role of Radiology in the Pretreatment Evaluation of Invasive Cervical Cancer. Sponsor: National Cancer Institute (subcontracted from American College of Radiology Imaging Network), $30,000.
The Robert H. Lurie Comprehensive Cancer Center of Northwestern University
• Platanias, Leonidas C., Title: Signal Transduction of Type I Interferons in Malignant Cells. Sponsor: National Cancer Institute, $298,373.

Surgery
• Abecassis, Michael I., Title: Adult Live Donor Liver Transplant: A Com-parative Analysis. Sponsor: National Institute of Diabetes, Digestive and Kidney Diseases, $210,000.
• Kaufman, Dixon B., Title: Biolumi-nescent Imaging of Pancreatic Islet Transplants. Sponsor: National Institute of Diabetes, Digestive and Kidney Diseases, $315,362.

The Davee Department of Neurology and Clinical Neurological Sciences
• Chetkovich, Dane. Title: Stargazin in Targeting Glutamate Receptors to Synapses. Sponsor: National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, $123,049.

Urology
• Brannigan, Robert E., Title: 5th Annual SMRU Traveling Scholar Award. Sponsor: National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, $9,000.
• Calhoun, Elizabeth. Title: Racial and Ethnic Approaches to Community Health. Sponsor: Centers for Disease Control (subcontracted from Access Community Health Network), $217,241.
• McVary, Kevin T., Title: Saw Palmetto and Pygeum Africanum on BPH Progression. Sponsor: National Institute of Diabetes, Digestive and Kidney Diseases, $135,000.

SCHOOL OF LAW
Law
• Dohrn, Bernardine. Title: 100 Years of Juvenile Justice. Sponsor: The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, $35,000.
• Dohrn, Bernardine. Title: Equal Justice Works (NAPIL) Fellowship. Sponsor: Equal Justice Works, $37,500.
• Dohrn, Bernardine. Title: National Children’s Law Project. Sponsor: Anonymous Sponsor (II), $21,488.
• Morsch, Thomas. Title: Small Business Opportunity Clinic. Sponsor: Polk Bros. Foundation, $7,500.

MCCORMICK SCHOOL OF ENGINEERING AND APPLIED SCIENCE
Biomedical Engineering
• Ameer, Guillermo A., Title: A Scaffold for Cardiovascular Tissue Engineering. Sponsor: National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, $213,455.
• Backman, Vadim. Title: ITR: Fine-Grain Data Management in Computa-tional Grids and Applications in Net-work-Enabled Medical Imaging for Early Cancer Detection. Sponsor: National Science Foundation, $127,967.

Center for Intelligent Processing of Composites
• Daniel, Isaac M., Title: Agile Manu-facturing of Composite Structures. Spon-sor: Office of Naval Research, $3,856,589.

Center for Optimization Technology
• Nocedal, Jorge. Title: ITR: Collabo-rative Research: Optimization of Systems Governed by Partial Differential Equations. Sponsor: National Science Foundation, $40,309.

Center for Quantum Devices
• Razeghi, Manijeh. Title: High Power Quantum Cascade Lasers (QCL) Oper-ating at Room Temperature. Sponsor: Office of Naval Research, $200,022.

Center for Science and Technology of Advanced Cement-Based Materials
• Shah, Surendra P., Title: Model to Predict Fatigue Response of Concrete Airport Pavement. Sponsor: Federal Aviation Administration (subcontracted from University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign), $38,000.

Chemical Engineering
• Hatzimanikatis, Vassily. Title: A Computational Framework for the Discovery of Novel Biotransformations. Sponsor: Department of Energy, $226,090.
• Ottino, Julio M., Title: Dynamics of Segregation and Mixing of Granular Matter. Sponsor: Department of Energy, $147,602.

Civil Engineering
• Finno, Richard J., Title: Collabora-tive Research: A Joint NU-UIUC Project for the Development of New Integrated Tools for Predicting, Monitoring and Controlling Ground Movements Due to Excavations. Sponsor: National Science Foundation, $363,594.
• Gaillard, Jean-Francois. Title: Collaborative Research - NIRT: The Role of Nano-Scale Colloids in Particle Ag-gregation and Trace Metal Scavenging in Aquatic Systems. Sponsor: National Science Foundation, $77,896.
• Rittmann, Bruce E., Title: Biofilter Demonstration Through Three-Phase Circulating Bed Biofilm Reactor. Sponsor: U.S. Army Construction Engineering Research Laboratories (CERL), $24,911.
• Ziliaskopoulos, Athanasios. Title: NSF/USDOT Development and Testing of a Vehicle Based Zero-Public-Infrastructure Real-Time Traffic Information System. Sponsor: National Science Foundation, $100,000.

Electrical and Computer Engineering
• Taylor, Valerie E., Title: Collabora-tive Research: DOT- Distributed Optical Testbed to Facilitate the Development of Techniques for Efficient Execution of Distributed Applications. Sponsor: National Science Foundation, $120,051.

Industrial Engineering and Management Sciences
• Coullard, Collette R., Title: Insti-tute for Mathematics and Its Appli-cations. Sponsor: National Science Foundation (subcontracted from University of Minnesota), $40,000.
• Mehrotra, Sanjay. Title: Methods for Linear and Mixed Integer Programs. Sponsor: Office of Naval Research, $38,670.

Materials Science and Engineering
• Bedzyk, Michael J., Title: Synchro-ton X-Ray Studies of Magnetic Nano-structures. Sponsor: Department of Energy (subcontracted from University of Chicago, Argonne National Laboratory), $28,520.
• Fine, Morris E., Title: Alloy Design of Nanoscale Precipitation Strengthened Alloys: Design of a Heat-Treatable Aluminum Alloy Useful to 400C. Spon-sor: Department of Energy, $157,588.
• Koltover, Ilya. Title: Acquisition of Fourier Transform Infrared Spectrometer for Molecular Thin Film Research and Education. Sponsor: National Science Foundation, $107,341.
• Olson, Gregory B., Title: Accelerat-ed Insertion of Materials. Sponsor: Air Force Research Laboratory (subcontracted from QuesTek Innovations LLC), $37,537.
• Weertman, Julia R., Title: A Study of the Fundamental Processes Involved in the Deformation of Nanocrystalline Metals, Both Monotonic and Cyclic. Sponsor: Department of Energy, $98,708.

Mechanical Engineering
• Colgate, James E., Title: Institute for Design Engineering and Applications: Fostering Creative Synthesis Across the Curriculum. Sponsor: National Science Foundation, $100,000.
• Espinosa, Horacio Dante. Title: Research and Development into Ultra-Nanocrystalline Diamond Thin Films. Sponsor: Department of Energy (subcontracted from University of Chicago, Argonne National Laboratory), $24,000.

University Research Centers Center for Public Safety
• Baker, Kenneth S., Title: AI1,AI2, VD,TAR 1, TAR 2 & HVCR Courses for the Lousiana Highway Safety Commis-sion. Sponsor: Louisiana Highway Safety Commission, $71,552.
• Lucke, Roy E., Title: Development of Bicycle Safety Data Base Project. Sponsor: Chicagoland Bicycle Federation, $11,265.
• Van Dyke, Peter M., Title: Drugged Driver Identification Instructor Course for the Louisiana Highway Safety Commission. Sponsor: Louisiana Highway Safety Commission, $10,456.
• Van Dyke, Peter M., Title: Stan-dardized Field Sobriety Testing (SFST) Instructor Course for the Louisiana Highway Safety Commission. Sponsor: Louisiana Highway Safety Commission, $11,306.

Institute for Neuroscience
• Spruston, Nelson P., Title: Modeling Microcircuits of Realistic Hippocampal Neurons. Sponsor: National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, $199,973.

Institute for Policy Research
• McDaniel, Marla K., Title: Dissertation Awards for Min. Doctoral Can-didates for Viol-Related Inj PRV., Sponsor: Centers for Disease Control, $13,479.
Materials Research Institute
• Chang, R.P.H., Title: Pan-American Advanced Studies Institute on Materials for Energy Conversion and Environmen-tal Protection, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, September 2003. Sponsor: National Science Foundation, $100,000.

WEINBERG COLLEGE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES
Biochemistry, Molecular Biology, and Cell Biology
• Goldberg, Erwin. Title: Molecular and Cellular Transport in Mucus. Sponsor: National Institutes of Health (subcontracted from Yale University), $91,712.
• Loach, Paul A., Title: Artificial Photosynthetic Antennas and Develop-ment of Nanodevice. Sponsor: New Energy and Industrial Technology Devel-opment Organization (NEDO), $20,113.

Chemistry
• Appella, Daniel H., Title: Nitrogen Substituted Quaternary Carbons via Asymmetric Catalysis. Sponsor: American Chemical Society Petroleum Research Fund (subcontracted from American Chemical Society), $17,500.
• Godwin, Hilary. Title: Howard Hughes 2002 Professors Program. Sponsor: Howard Hughes Medical Institute, $250,000.
• Meade, Thomas J., Title: New Contrast Agents for MR Imaging of the Immune System. Sponsor: National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, $401,899.
• Mirkin, Chad A., Title: Fellowship in Support of The Use of DNA-Modified Gold Nanoparticles for Ultrasensitive and Selective Detection of DNA/RNA Biomarkers Using a Chip-Based Format for the Development of Rapid, Simple and Cheap Biomarker Assays. Sponsor: Howard Hughes Medical Institute, $32,000.
• Schatz, George C., Title: Acqui-sition of an Integrated Network Server System for Research and Education in Chemistry and Materials. Sponsor: National Science Foundation, $93,212.
• Silverman, Richard B., Title: Select-ive Inhibition of Neuronal Nitric Oxide Synthase. Sponsor: National Institute of General Medical Sciences, $2,425.

Geological Sciences
• Lerman, Abraham. Title: Coastal Zone Control of Interacting C-N-P Cycles Under Global Change. Sponsor: National Science Foundation (subcontracted from The Research Corporation of the University of Hawaii), $30,512.

Mathematics
• Emerton, Matthew J., Title: A P-ADIC Riemann Hilbert Correspondence and A P-ADIC Theory of Mixed Hodge Modules. Sponsor: National Science Foundation, $56,864.

Neurobiology and Physiology
• Ferster, David L., Title: Collabora-tive Research: CRCNS: Detection and Recognition of Objects in Visual Cortex. Sponsor: National Science Foundation, $49,976.
• Ferster, David L., Title: The Mech-anisms Underlying Cortical Motion Selectivity. Sponsor: National Eye Institute, $38,320.

Physics and Astronomy
• Kalogera, Vassiliki. Title: Fellowship in Science and Engineering. Sponsor: The David and Lucile Packard Found-ation, $125,000.

Psychology
• Jung Beeman, Mark E., Title: An fMRI Investigation of Language in Both Hemispheres. Sponsor: National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders, $428,401.
• Jung Beeman, Mark E., Title: Ford Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowships for Minorities. Sponsor: National Research Council, $31,111.