Recent grants top $9M

Central Administration

Office of the Provost

• Principal Investigator: Mickenberg, David. Title: The Darker Muse: Black Chicago and Creative Suggestion. Sponsor: Illinois Humanities Council. Amount: $2,000.

Office of the Vice President for Information Technology

• Principal Investigator: Rahimi, Morteza A. Title: Application of Intelligent Signaling and Control in Dynamically Switched Optical Networks. Sponsor: National Science Foundation (subcontracted from: University of Illinois at Chicago). Amount: $60,000.

• Principal Investigator: Rahimi, Morteza A. Title: NEXUS: A Virtual Learning Environment for Collaboration and Mentoring of Students in Music, Art, and Writing. Sponsor: National Educational Computing Association. Amount: $50,000.

School of Education and Social Policy

Education and Social Policy

• Principal Investigator: Bauer, John J. Title: Voluntary Life Transitions and the Development of Meaning and Happiness. Sponsor: John Templeton Foundation (subcontracted from: University of Pennsylvania). Amount: $10,000.

• Principal Investigator: Burnaford, Gail E. Title: Music in Education Consortium Project. Sponsor: Department of Education (subcontracted from: New England Conservatory of Music). Amount: $33,693.

• Principal Investigator: Reiser, Brian. Title: Middle School Science Curriculum Materials: Meeting Standards and Fostering Inquiry through Learning Technologies. Sponsor: National Science Foundation (subcontracted from: University of Michigan). Amount: $147,106.

• Principal Investigator: Wilensky, Uriel J. Title: Modeling Across the Curriculum. Sponsor: National Science Foundation (subcontracted from: The Concord Consortium). Amount: $121,513.

The Feinberg School of Medicine

Buehler Center on Aging

• Principal Investigator: Schrauf, Robert W. Title: Language(s) Lost Among Hispanic Immigrants with Alzheimer’s Disease. Sponsor: Illinois Department of Public Health. Amount: $30,000.

Cell and Molecular Biology

• Principal Investigator: Goldman, Robert D. Title: NRSA Fellowship in Support of Ethanol Induced Alterations in Intermediate Filament Transport. Sponsor: National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism. Amount: $33,717.

Center for AIDS Research

• Principal Investigator: Wolinsky, Steven M. Title: A Novel, Logical Approach to HIV Vaccine Development. Sponsor: National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (subcontracted from: University of Wisconsin-Madison). Amount: $42,714.

Center for Genetic Medicine

• Principal Investigator: Chisholm, Rex L. Title: Categorization of Wilms Tumor by Genetic Expression. Sponsor: National Cancer Institute (subcontracted from: Children’s Memorial Hospital). Amount: $12,777.

Cognitive Neurology and Alzheimer’s Disease Center

• Principal Investigator: Mesulam, Marsel. Title: International Registry for Patients with Primary Progressive Aphasia. Sponsor: Lawrence J. and Anne Rubenstein Charitable Foundation. Amount: $17,000.

Medicine

• Principal Investigator: Barrett, Terrence A. Title: IBD Research - Junior Faculty Symposium. Sponsor: National Institute of Diabetes, Digestive and Kidney Diseases. Amount: $4,000.

• Principal Investigator: Baumann, Gerhard. Title: Intergovernmental Personnel Agreement for E. Lee: Growth Hormone Receptor Gene Therapy for Catabolic States. Sponsor: VA Lakeside Medical Center. Amount: $53,055.

• Principal Investigator: Chang, Rowland W. Title: Research Registry for Juvenile Dermatomyositis. Sponsor: National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases (subcontracted from: Children’s Memorial Hospital). Amount: $8,199.

• Principal Investigator: Dunaif, Andrea. Title: Phenotype and Genotype in Familial Polycystic Ovary Syndrome. Sponsor: National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (subcontracted from: University of Pennsylvania). Amount: $145,062.

• Principal Investigator: Gerding, Dale N. Title: Intergovernmental Personnel Agreement for S. Sambol: Prevention of Clostridium Difficile Associated Diarrhea. Sponsor: VA Lakeside Medical Center. Amount: $10,336.

• Principal Investigator: Golub, Robert M. Title: Intergovernmental Personnel Agreement for R. Golub. Sponsor: VA Lakeside Medical Center. Amount: $20,002.

• Principal Investigator: Green, Richard M. Title: Intergovernmental Personnel Agreement for S. Wei: Hepatic Transport in Health and Disease. Sponsor: VA Lakeside Medical Center. Amount: $43,232.

• Principal Investigator: Jones, Michael P. Title: The Prevalence, Severity and Impact of Patients’ Anxiety on Test Performance and Results in the Gastroenterology Laboratory. Sponsor: Northwestern Memorial Foundation. Amount: $15,480.

• Principal Investigator: Murphy, Robert L. Title: Prot# 2NN: An Open-Label Comparative Study to Evaluate the Antiviral Efficacy and Safety of Nevirapine and Efavirenz or Both Drugs Combined in Combination with d4T and 3TC. Sponsor: The Academic Medical Centre at the University of Amsterdam. Amount: $30,000.

• Principal Investigator: Pope, Richard M. Title: Multidisciplinary Clinical Research Center in Rheumatology. Sponsor: National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases. Amount: $1,072,322.

• Principal Investigator: Smith, Lewis J. Title: Effectiveness of Low Dose Theophylline as Add-On Therapy in the Treatment of Asthma (The LoDo Trial). Sponsor: American Lung Association. Amount: $10,000.

• Principal Investigator: Stroupe, Kevin T. Title: Improving Medication Use in Patients with Hypertension. Sponsor: National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (subcontracted from: Purdue University). Amount: $10,027.

• Principal Investigator: Weiss, Kevin B. Title: All Inclusive Care: Long Term Care Evaluation. Sponsor: Department of Veterans Affairs. Amount: $12,000.

• Principal Investigator: Weiss, Kevin B. Title: Assessing Child Report of Asthma Health Status. Sponsor: National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (subcontracted from: American Academy of Pediatrics). Amount: $76,026.

• Principal Investigator: Weiss, Kevin B. Title: Virtual Integrated Practice: A New Approach to Health Care Teams. Sponsor: The John A. Hartford Foundation, Inc. (subcontracted from: Rush-Presbyterian-St. Luke’s Medical Center). Amount: $17,646.

Microbiology-Immunology

• Principal Investigator: Laimins, Laimonis A. Title: Effects of HPV31 E5 Protein on the Productive Viral Life Cycle. Sponsor: Illinois Department of Public Health. Amount: $35,000.

• Principal Investigator: Miller, Stephen D. Title: Molecular Mechanisms of CD154 Blockade of Relapsing EAE. Sponsor: National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (subcontracted from: The La Jolla Institute for Allergy and Immunology). Amount: $235,828.

• Principal Investigator: Miller, Stephen D. Title: Pathogenesis and Immunoregulation of PLP-Induced R-EAE. Sponsor: National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke. Amount: $296,353.

• Principal Investigator: Spear, Patricia G. Title: Binding of Herpes Simplex Virus gD to Heparan Sulfate for Viral Entry into Cells. Sponsor: Mizutani Foundation for Glycoscience. Amount: $45,028.

Molecular Pharmacology and Biological Chemistry

• Principal Investigator: Dubocovich, Margarita L. Title: ASPET Institutional Fellowship Program. Sponsor: American Society for Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics. Amount: $7,500.

Northwestern Center for Clinical Research

• Principal Investigator: Schnitzer, Thomas J. Title: Effectiveness of Interactive Media in Skin Cancer Control. Sponsor: National Cancer Institute (subcontracted from: EduMedia, Inc.). Amount: $24,504.

Ophthalmology

• Principal Investigator: Jampol, Lee M. Title: Research to Prevent Blindness Unrestricted Grant. Sponsor: Research to Prevent Blindness. Amount: $110,000.

Pathology

• Principal Investigator: Goolsby, Charles L. Title: Intergovernmental Personnel Agreement for A. Tyler: Clinical Flow Cytometry. Sponsor: VA Lakeside Medical Center. Amount: $46,156.

• Principal Investigator: Haldar, Kasturi. Title: Tubovesicular Traffic Induced in Red Cells by Plasmodia. Sponsor: National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases. Amount: $324,941.

• Principal Investigator: Kanwar, Yashpal S. Title: Pathogenesis of Diabetic Nephropathy. Sponsor: National Institute of Diabetes, Digestive and Kidney Diseases. Amount: $334,405.

• Principal Investigator: Karpus, William J. Title: Chemokine Regulation of Virus Induced Demyelination. Sponsor: National Multiple Sclerosis Society. Amount: $172,888.

• Principal Investigator: Yaseen, Nabeel. Title: Nuclear Transport and Leukemia. Sponsor: The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society (subcontracted from: The Rockefeller University). Amount: $101,204.

Pediatrics

• Principal Investigator: Sahai, Atul. Title: Chronic Local Hypoxia, Osteopontin, and Diabetic Nephropathy. Sponsor: American Diabetes Association. Amount: $100,000.

Physiology

• Principal Investigator: Houk, James C. Title: Assessment of Cognitive and Motor Roles of the Brest Ganglia. Sponsor: Evanston Northwestern Healthcare Research Institute. Amount: $75,000.

• Principal Investigator: Rymer, William. Title: Intergovernmental Personnel Agreement for A. Brown: Disturbances in Motoneuron Regulation in Spinal Injury. Sponsor: VA Lakeside Medical Center. Amount: $36,392.

• Principal Investigator: Rymer, William. Title: Intergovernmental Personnel Agreement for J Miller: Disturbance in Motoneuron Regulation in Spinal Injury. Sponsor: VA Lakeside Medical Center. Amount: $25,864.

• Principal Investigator: Rymer, William. Title: Intergovernmental Personnel Agreement for M. Johnson: Disturbances in Motoneuron Regulation in Spinal Injury. Sponsor: VA Lakeside Medical Center. Amount: $38,243.

• Principal Investigator: Surmeier, James. Title: Winter Conference on Brain Research. Sponsor: National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke. Amount: $5,000.

• Principal Investigator: Tkatch, Tatiana. Title: Changed Expression of Voltage Dependent Potassium Channels in Rodent Model of Parkinson’s Disease. Sponsor: National Parkinson Foundation, Inc. Amount: $36,694.

Preventive Medicine

• Principal Investigator: Daviglus, Martha L. Title: Androgens and Subclinical Atherosclerosis in Young Women. Sponsor: National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (subcontracted from: University of Washington). Amount: $188,146.

• Principal Investigator: Liu, Kiang. Title: Genomic Approaches to Cardiovascular Disease. Sponsor: National Institute of General Medical Sciences (subcontracted from: University of Michigan). Amount: $14,344.

• Principal Investigator: Van Horn, Linda V. Title: Fat Reduction, HRT Use, and Benign Breast Disease. Sponsor: National Cancer Institute (subcontracted from: Albert Einstein College of Medicine). Amount: $12,000.

Radiology

• Principal Investigator: Hendrick, Edward R. Title: ACRIN DMIST Patient Accrual. Sponsor: National Cancer Institute (subcontracted from: American College of Radiology Imaging Network). Amount: $46,240.

The Robert H. Lurie Comprehensive Cancer Center of Northwestern University

• Principal Investigator: Levenson, Anait S. Title: Gene Expression Profiles with Activation of ER-SERM Complex. Sponsor: Illinois Department of Public Health. Amount: $37,500.

• Principal Investigator: Pins, Michael R. Title: Solid Tumor Tissue Banking. Sponsor: National Cancer Institute (subcontracted from: Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group). Amount: $213,259.

Urology

• Principal Investigator: McVary, Kevin T. Title: The Efficacy of TUMT and Neoadjuvant Finasteride for BPH. Sponsor: National Institute of Diabetes, Digestive and Kidney Diseases. Amount: $100,000.

• Principal Investigator: Wang, Zhou. Title: Enhancement of Intermittent Androgen Ablation Therapy by Finasteride Administration in Animals Models. Sponsor: U.S. Army Medical Research and Materiel Command. Amount: $179,063.

SCHOOL OF LAW

Law

• Principal Investigator: Biehl, Julie A. Title: Clinical Coordination Unit Pilot Project. Sponsor: Circuit Court of Cook County. Amount: $120,000.

• Principal Investigator: Biehl, Julie A. Title: Clinical Evaluation and Services Initiative. Sponsor: The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation. Amount: $250,000.

• Principal Investigator: Dohrn, Bernardine. Title: Girl Law Project. Sponsor: Chicago Foundation for Women. Amount: $7,500.

• Principal Investigator: Geraghty, Thomas F. Title: Community Based Tribunals to Resolve Delinquency Cases. Sponsor: The Annie E. Casey Foundation. Amount: $100,000.

• Principal Investigator: Geraghty, Thomas F. Title: Community Panels for Youth. Sponsor: The Butler Family Fund. Amount: $20,000.

McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science

Administration

• Principal Investigator: Birge, John R. Title: 2002 Engineering Grant Program. Sponsor: Illinois Board of Higher Education. Amount: $334,800.

• Principal Investigator: Torkelson, John. Title: Claire Booth Luce Fellowship Program. Sponsor: The Henry Luce Foundation, Inc. Amount: $72,866.

Biomedical Engineering

• Principal Investigator: Backman, Vadim. Title: Novel Spectroscopic Methodologies for Improved Diagnosis, Detection, and Evaluation of Preinvasive Neoplasms in the Organs of Female Reproductive Tract. Sponsor: General Motors Cancer Research Foundation. Amount: $54,000.

• Principal Investigator: Swartz, Melody A. Title: CAREER: Effects of Interstitial Flow on Extracellular Matrix Architecture. Sponsor: National Science Foundation. Amount: $75,000.

Chemical Engineering

• Principal Investigator: Papoutsakis, Elefther. Title: Transcriptional Program of Ex Vivo Expanded T Cells. Sponsor: National Institute of General Medical Sciences. Amount: $222,783.

• Principal Investigator: Papoutsakis, Elefther. Title: Transcriptional Program of Ex Vivo Expanded T Cells. Sponsor: National Institute of General Medical Sciences. Amount: $15,608.

Civil Engineering

• Principal Investigator: Gaillard, Jean-Francois. Title: Illinois/Indiana Sea Grant College Program Graduate Fellowship. Sponsor: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (subcontracted from: Purdue University). Amount: $6,000.

• Principal Investigator: Packman, Aaron I. Title: Natural Attenuation of Cryptosporidium Parvum During Transport in Watersheds. Sponsor: Department of Agriculture (subcontracted from: University of California, Davis). Amount: $45,442.

Electrical and Computer Engineering

• Principal Investigator: Choudhary, Alok N. Title: Efficient Implementation for Overlapping File Access in MPI-IO. Sponsor: Department of Energy (subcontracted from: Sandia Corporation, Sandia National Laboratories). Amount: $179,157.

Engineering Sciences and Applied Mathematics

• Principal Investigator: Silber, Mary C. Title: Pattern Formation Research. Sponsor: University of Chicago. Amount: $27,230.

Materials Science and Engineering

• Principal Investigator: Koltover, Ilya. Title: Artificial Membrane Models of Polyvalent Receptor-Ligand Recognition and Signalling. Sponsor: March of Dimes Birth Defects Foundation. Amount: $75,000.

• Principal Investigator: Koltover, Ilya. Title: Peptide-Peptoid Chimeras: Ultra Stable Mimics of Helical Polypeptides with Applications to Cancer Research and Treatment. Sponsor: American Cancer Society, Illinois Division, Inc. Amount: $99,540.

Mechanical Engineering

• Principal Investigator: Brinson, L. Catherine. Title: Micromechanics-Continuum-Numerical Modeling of Shape Memory Alloys. Sponsor: National Aeronautics and Space Administration. Amount: $41,207.

• Principal Investigator: Patankar, Neelesh A. Title: CAREER: Computational Techniques for Sub-Micron/Nanoscale Fluid Dynamics. Sponsor: National Science Foundation. Amount: $60,761.

SCHOOL OF MUSIC

Music

• Principal Investigator: Stevens, Timothy S. Title: Millar Brass Ensemble. Sponsor: Illinois Arts Council. Amount: $3,680.

University Research Centers

Center for Public Safety

• Principal Investigator: Seyfried, Robert K. Title: Kentucky Traffic and Transportation Engineering Seminar. Sponsor: University of Kentucky, Kentucky Transportation Center. Amount: $23,100.

• Principal Investigator: Stenzel, William W. Title: Washington State Criminal Justice Training Commission - School of Police Staff and Command. Sponsor: Washington State Criminal Justice Training Commission. Amount: $72,150.

Center for Sleep and Circadian Biology

• Principal Investigator: Turek, Fred W. Title: Integrated, Low-Cost, EEG/EMG Recording System for Mice. Sponsor: National Institute of Mental Health (subcontracted from: Pinnacle Technology, Inc.). Amount: $13,317.

Institute for Neuroscience

• Principal Investigator: Ferreira, Adriana B. Title: CDK5 Activators in Neurite Polarization and Degeneration. Sponsor: Fogarty International Center. Amount: $39,020.

Institute for Policy Research

• Principal Investigator: Duncan, Greg J. Title: Census Research Development Grants Program. Sponsor: Bureau of the Census. Amount: $164,000.

• Principal Investigator: Duncan, Greg J. Title: The Effect of Welfare Mothers’ Education on Their Children’s School Outcomes and Behavior. Sponsor: Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation (subcontracted from: University of Wisconsin-Madison). Amount: $18,575.

Program of African Studies

• Principal Investigator: Stewart, Kearsley A. Title: Finding a Common Language: Bioethics and HIV/AIDS Research in Uganda. Sponsor: Department of State (subcontracted from: Council for International Exchange of Scholars). Amount: $40,000.

Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences

Anthropology

• Principal Investigator: Leonard, William R. Title: Doctoral Dissertation Improvement: Social and Biological Determinants of Cardiovascular Risk Among Urban and Rural Yakut: The Impact of Socioeconomic Upheaval. Sponsor: National Science Foundation. Amount: $10,027.

Biochemistry, Molecular Biology, and Cell Biology

• Principal Investigator: Beitel, Gregory J. Title: CAREER: Investigating Epithelial Tube Size-Control Mechanisms Using the Drosophila Tracheal System. Sponsor: National Science Foundation. Amount: $122,713.

• Principal Investigator: Carthew, Richard W. Title: Photoreceptor Cell Development and Signal Transduction. Sponsor: National Eye Institute. Amount: $227,999.

• Principal Investigator: Falk-Krzesinski, Holly J. Title: BioSurvival Skills: A Proposal for New Professional Development Program in the Life Sciences. Sponsor: National Institutes of Health (subcontracted from: University of Pittsburgh). Amount: $2,000.

• Principal Investigator: Lamb, Robert A. Title: Structure/Function of the Influenza Virus Genome. Sponsor: National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases. Amount: $220,500.

• Principal Investigator: Mondragon, Alfonso. Title: NRSA Fellowship in Support of Crystallographic Study of the RNA Component of RNaseP. Sponsor: National Institute of General Medical Sciences. Amount: $46,584.

• Principal Investigator: Morimoto, Richard I. Title: Studies on Polyglutamine Expansions in Caenorhabditis Elegans. Sponsor: Huntington’s Disease Society of America. Amount: $100,000.

Chemistry

• Principal Investigator: Jarrold, Martin F. Title: Melting of Size Selected Clusters and Nanocrystals. Sponsor: National Science Foundation. Amount: $170,000.

• Principal Investigator: Schatz, George C. Title: Theoretical Studies of State to State Chemistry. Sponsor: National Science Foundation. Amount: $126,677.

• Principal Investigator: Silverman, Richard B. Title: Selective Inhibition of Neuronal Nitric Oxide Synthase. Sponsor: National Institute of General Medical Sciences. Amount: $233,545.

• Principal Investigator: Wasielewski, Michael. Title: Acquisition of a Pulsed Fourier Transform Electron Paramagnetic Resonance Spectrometer. Sponsor: National Science Foundation. Amount: $325,338.

Geological Sciences

• Principal Investigator: Russo, Raymond. Title: Studies of Crust and Upper Mantle Structure, Mantle Flow, and Geodynamics of the Chile Ridge Subduction. Sponsor: National Science Foundation. Amount: $6,248.

• Principal Investigator: Russo, Raymond. Title: U.S.-Vietnam Joint Workshop: Collision-Related Mantle Flow Fields beneath East and Southeast Asia. Sponsor: National Science Foundation. Amount: $30,000.

Neurobiology and Physiology

• Principal Investigator: Klein, William L. Title: Immunologic and Anti-Flammatory Interventions into Alzheimer’s Disease. Sponsor: The John Douglas French Alzheimer’s Foundation (subcontracted from: University of Southern California). Amount: $22,500.

Physics and Astronomy

• Principal Investigator: Kalogera, Vassiliki. Title: Binary Compact Objects as Astrophysical Sources of Gravitational Waves. Sponsor: National Science Foundation. Amount: $41,308.

• Principal Investigator: Ketterson, John B. Title: MURI: Chalcopyrite and Orientation-Patterned Semiconductors of Mid-IRT Sources: Modeling, Growth and Characterization. Sponsor: Department of Defense (subcontracted from: Stanford University). Amount: $50,933.

• Principal Investigator: Schellman, Heidi M. Title: Illinois Consortium for Accelerator Research (ICAR). Sponsor: Illinois Board of Higher Education (subcontracted from: Illinois Institute of Technology). Amount: $450,000.

• Principal Investigator: Segel, Ralph E. Title: Research Fellowship for Issam Qattan: Research into the Measurement of the Protein Form Factor. Sponsor: Department of Energy (subcontracted from: University of Chicago, Argonne National Laboratory). Amount: $24,092.

• Principal Investigator: Ulmer, Melville P. Title: GaN Photo-Cathode Structures for Detection and Imaging in the UV. Sponsor: National Aeronautics and Space Administration. Amount: $100,000.

Political Science

• Principal Investigator: Goldman, Jerry. Title: EU-US Working Group for Spoken-Word Digital Audio Collections. Sponsor: National Science Foundation. Amount: $26,093.

Psychology

• Principal Investigator: Gentner, Dedre. Title: Analogical Learning and Case-Based Instruction. Sponsor: Office of Naval Research. Amount: $147,289.

• Principal Investigator: Ragin, Ann. Title: MRI Study of Aggressive Individuals. Sponsor: National Institute of Mental Health. Amount: $73,500.