Contracts & Grants

Information is courtesy of the Office of Sponsored Projects. Each listing includes the faculty member's name and school(s) appointments at The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, project title, contracting or granting agency, and funding amount.

New

Roberto C. Arduino, Medical School (MS), A Multicenter, Randomized, Double-Blind, Placebo-Controlled Trial of a Novel CCR5 Antagonist UK-427,857, in Combination with Optimized Background Therapy Alone for the Treatment of Antiretroviral- Experienced HIV-1 Infected Subjects, Quintiles Inc., $71,753.

Benjamin S. Bradshaw, School of Public Health (SPH), The Metabolic Syndrome in Mexican American Children, Southwest Foundation for Biomedical Reseach, $21,441.

Charles S. Cox Jr., MS, The Role of Inducible Nitric Oxide in Gut Edema Induced Ileus, Baylor College of Medicine, $10,000.

Rena Sue Day, SPH, Micronutrient Enhancement of Maize and Plantains in Nigeria: A Sustainable Approach, International Institute of Tropical Agriculture, $16,225.

Carlos A. Dumas, MS, CME Horizons in Family Medicine (Depression, Obesity Control, Smoking Cessation, Efficacy of Lipid Lowering Drugs), Glaxo Smith Kline, $2,500.

Harinder S. Juneja, MS, A Phase IIIi, Multicenter, 52-Week, Randomized, Double-Blind, Placebo-Controlled Study of the Clinical Efficacy and Safety of ICA-17043 with or without Hydroxyurea Therapy in Patients with Sickle Cell Disease who have had >2 Acute Sickle-Related Painful Crises Within the Preceding 12 Months, Quintiles Inc., $48,864.

Ronald J. Peters, SPH, Comprehensive Minority Biomedical Behavior, National Institutes of Health, National Cancer Institute, $632,413.

Didier Sciard, MS, Efficacy of a Newly Developed Catheter for Continuous Nerve Block Anesthesia, Life-Tech Inc., $6,463.

Renewal

Gloria P. Heresi, MS, Community-Based Primary Care Targeted to Pediatric, Harris County, $71,119; and Medical Case Management Team Targeted to African-American Women and Children, Harris County, $207,998.

Rodney C. Lester, School of Nursing, Nurse Anesthetist Traineeship, Health Resources and Services Administration, $11,722.

Steven J. Norris, MS and Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Virulence-Associated Proteins in Lyme Disease, NIH, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, $1,796,666.