Grant And Contract Awards - SDSU Research Foundation - San ...

Grant and Contract Awards
21
Dr. Mark Sussman
American Heart Association: “Telomeric Length
Preservation to Antagonize Myocardial Aging
- Cottage,” $21,500 • American Heart Association
Western States Affiliate: “American Heart
Association Predoctoral Fellowship for Natalie
Gude,” $21,500 • National Heart, Lung, and
Blood Institute: “Protecting Myocardium by
Enhancing Mitochondrial Integrity,” $1,976,109;
“ARRA - Engineering Cardiac Progenitor
Cells to Enhance Myocardial Regeneration,”
$500,000; “Stem Cell Signaling in the Pathologically
Challenged Myocardium,” $434,100;
“Protecting Myocardium by Enhancing Mitochondrial
Integrity - Pearl Quijada,” $45,263;
“Nucleolar Disruption in Response to Cardiomyopathic
Stress and Injury,” $224,250
Dr. Marilyn Thoman
National Institute on Aging: “Novel Gene
Therapy for Restoration of Aged Thymopoiesis,”
$697,153
Dr. Constantine Tsoukas
National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases:
“ARRA - Generation of an ITK Biosensor
Tool Box,” $184,400; “ARRA - Regulation of ITK
in Lung Allergy,” $185,638
Dr. Roland Wolkowicz
California HIV/AIDS Epidemiology Branch: “The
Role of CHII-COP9 Interactions in HIV-1 Infection,”
$100,000
Dr. Ricardo Zayas
California Institute for Regenerative Medicine:
“The Molecular Basis Underlying Adult
Neurogenesis During Regeneration and Tissue
Renewal,” $339,034
Dr. Robert Zeller
National Science Foundation: “The Regulation
and Function of miR-124 in Ascidian Neural
Development,” $130,000
Dr. Thomas Zink
Naval Facilities Engineering Command: “Erosion
Control for Mission Gorge Recreational Facility/
Murphy Canyon Housing Complex,” $27,269 •
U.S. Navy: “Assessing Landscape Subsidies for
Common Ravens,” $95,399; “Camp Pendleton
Weed Eradication and Riparian Restoration,”
$1,199,998; “Coronado Dunes Habitat Restoration,”
$27,531; “Endangered Plant Species
Management, Protection and Habitat Enhancement,
Naval Base Point Loma,” $31,234;
“Miramar Erosion Sites Restoration,” $194,574
• “Native Seed Collection, Propagation, Site
Selection Outplanting, and Maintenance and
Erosion Control and Habitat Restoration Integrated
Natural Resources Management Plan
(INRMP) Implementation,” $13,650; “Point
Loma Endangered Plant Species Management,”
$41,943; “San Diego River Habitat Restoration,”
$62,476; “Sensitive and Listed Plant Species
Management for Naval Base Coronado,”
$24,777; “Small Project Design for Habitat
Fragmentation at Naval Base Point Loma and
Marine Corps Air Station Miramar,” $57,328;
Southern California Edison Company: “Restoration
and Revegetation Research in Antelope
Valley,” $15,000 • U.S. Department of Defense:
“Miramar Pipeline Repair Restoration,” $44,971
• U.S. Navy: “Invasive Species Control at Point
Mugu and San Nicolas Island,” $50,188; “Camp
Pendleton 40-Acre Riparian Restoration,”
$285,997
Dr. Thomas Zink and Dr. John Crockett
San Diego River Conservancy: “San Diego River
Conservancy Restoration Project,” $475,567;
“Restoration of 4.5 Acres Near Carlton Oaks
Country Club,” $238,086
Chemistry and Biochemistry
Dr. Laurance Beauvais
The San Diego Foundation: “Preparation of Functional
Materials with Applications in Hydrogen
Storage,” $51,365
Dr. Bernt Mikael Bergdahl
MyChem LLC: “Synthetic Approaches and Biological
Evaluation of Some 5-Substituted and
5, 5-Disubstituted 2’-Deoxyribonucleotides,”
$19,110
Dr. Carl Carrano
National Science Foundation: “International Collaboration
in Chemistry: Mechanisms of Iron
Uptake and Storage in Marine Macroalgae - An
Integrated Bioinorganic Approach,” $105,822
• University of California, Office of the President:
“The Role of Bacteria Symbiotic Metabolites
in the Development of Toxic Phytoplankton
Blooms,” $83,266
Dr. Carl Carrano and Dr. Andrew Cooksy
National Science Foundation: “Purchase of
Molecular Sciences Computer Cluster,”
$147,708
Dr. Andrew Cooksy
U.S. Army Research Office: “Integrated Experimental
and Computational Study of Relocalization
in Combustion Intermediates,” $45,500
Dr. Andrew Cooksy and Dr. David Pullman
Army Material Command: “Computer Cluster
for Quantum Chemical Studies of High-spin
Intermediates and Graphite,” $94,366
Dr. Douglas Grotjahn
University of Pittsburgh: “A New Dimension in
Renal Clearance Design Criteria for Dendrimer
Nanostructures,” $144,153
Dr. Douglas Grotjahn and Dr. Andrew Cooksy
National Science Foundation: “Experimental and
Theoretical Studies of Bifunctional Organmetallic
Catalysis,” $35,000
Dr. Christopher Harrison
World Anti-Doping: “Blood Doping Screening
through Capillary Electrophoresis,” $100,000
Dr. Tom Huxford
American Cancer Society: “Structural Biochemistry
of the IkappaB Kinase Beta Subunit,”
$150,000 • Lpath Therapeutics, Inc.: “Structurebased
Design of Humanized Monoclonal Antibodies
to Recognize Bioactive Lipids: Platform
for Drug Discovery,” $22,023
Dr. Shelli McAlpine
National Cancer Institute: “ARRA - Conformational-based
Design and Development of
Antitumor Agents,” $315,400 • Herman Frasch
Foundation: “Development of New Antibiotics
with a Novel Target,” $50,000
Dr. David Pullman
PURE Bioscience: “Synthesis, Characterization,
and Manipulation of Silver Nanoclusters,”
$100,000
Dr. Diane Smith
University of California at San Diego: “Electrochemical
Studies of Nitroimidazole Derivatives,”
$20,000
Dr. William Stumph
California Metabolic Research Foundation: “Arne
N. Wick Predoctoral Research Fellowship for
Youly Ly,” $52,400; “Enzyme Regulation, Lipid,
and Carbohydrate Metabolism,” $68,688 •
National Science Foundation: “RNA Polymerase-
Specific Transformation Complex Assembly
on snRNA Genes: Structural and Functional
Relationships,” $159,999; “RNA Polymerasespecific
Transcription Complex Assembly
on snRNA Genes: Structural and Functional
Relationships - Supplement,” $6,000
Dr. William Tong
Johns Hopkins University: “Sensitive Standoff
Detection of Explosive Chemicals by Nonlinear
Laser Wave Mixing,” $100,000 • National Institute
of General Medical Sciences: “ARRA - San
Diego State University Biomedical Research
Support Program,” $319,248
Dr. William Tong and Dr. Sanford Bernstein
National Institute of General Medical Sciences:
“San Diego State University Minority Biomedical
Research Support Program,” $499,422
Computer Science
Dr. Leland Beck
National Science Foundation: “Cooperative
Learning Methods for Java-based CS1 Courses,”
$9,344 (see also Dr. Alexander Chizhik,
Teacher Education)
Dr. Robert Edwards
National Science Foundation: “REU-Collaborative
Research: PHANTOME: Phage Annotation
Tools and Methods,” $302,143
Dr. Christopher Paolini
National Aeronautics and Space Administration:
“Residence Time Driven Flame Spread Over
Solid Fuels,” $417,203 (see also Dr. Subrata
Bhattacharjee, Dr. Fletcher Miller, Mechanical
Engineering)
Dr. Marie Roch
University of California at San Diego: “Real Time
Detection Algorithms for Autonomous Underwater
Vehicles (AUVs),” $40,000
Dr. Faramarz Valafar
Genomics Institute of the Novartis Research
Foundation: “BioGPS Portal for Distributed Data
Generation, Gene Annotation, and Application
Development,” $37,375
Dr. Marko Vuskovic
New York University School of Medicine: “Biomarker
Study of Lung Cancer and AIDS Associated
Malignancies,” $35,561
Dr. Tao Xie
National Science Foundation: “ARRA - CAREER:
Architectural Support for Integrating NAND
Flash Solid State Disks into Enterprise-class
Storage Systems,” $436,000