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.

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Hector Balcazar, School of Public Health (SPH), Promotoras de Salud Contra la Hipertension, Association of Schools of Public Health, $124,889.

Charles E. Begley, SPH, Socioeconomic Status, Health Care Use, and Outcomes, Association of Schools of Public Health, $524,519.

Staley Brod, Medical School (MS), A 24-Week, Randomized, Double- Blind, Parallel-Group, Placebo-Controlled, Dose Finding, Safety Tolerability, and Efficacy Study of the Human Anti-IL-12 Antibody ABT-874 in Subjects with Multiple Sclerosis with a 24-Week Double- Blind, Active Extension Phase, Abbott Laboratories, $220,337.

Louvenia Carter-Dawson, MS and Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences (GSBS), Alcon, Alcon Research Ltd., $40,000.

Guy Clifton, MS, North American Spinal Cord Injury Clinical Trials Network, Christopher Reeves Paralysis Foundation, $149,600.

Valentin Dragoi, MS and GSBS, Network Mechanisms of Visual Behavior, University of California at San Francisco, $240,000.

Ralph F. Frankowski, SPH, North American Clinical Trials Network for the Treatment of Spinal Cord Injury, Christopher Reeves Paralysis Foundation, $246,388.

Gennady V. Gololobov, MS, Antibody-Based Drug Carriers for Targeted Prostate Cancer Chemotherapy, Department of the Army, $111,375.

Jacqueline T. Hecht, MS and GSBS, The University of Texas Genetic Counseling Program-Multicultural Training Program Development, Smart Family Foundation Inc., $25,000.

Steven H. Kelder, SPH, The Impact of Senate Bill 19 on Elementary School Children's Level of Physical Activity, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, $500,000.

Gwangpyo Ko, SPH, Air Disinfection of Pathogenic Viral Aerosols 254 NM UV, Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, $45,000.

Jary Lesser, MS, A Phase III Study of the Efficacy and Safety of Aszhemed in Patients with Mild to Moderate Alzheimer's Disease, Neurochem Inc., $202,500.

Lenard M. Lichtenberger, MS and GSBS, Use of PC-NSAIDS in Chronic Pain, Department of the Army, $1,789,202.

Luis Ostrosky-Zeichner, MS, Correlation of Posaconazole MICS for Candida SPP Using the Broth Microdilution (NCCLS M 27-A2), E-Test, And Disk Diffusion (NCCLS M 44-P) Methods, Schering Plough Research Institute, $31,525.

John Powers, Dental Branch (DB) and GSBS, Bond Strength and Microleakage of Xeno IV, Dentsply International, $16,800.

Ke He Ruan, MS and GSBS, Structure and Function Relationship: Prostanoid Receptors, National Institutes of Health, $1,452,894.

Oleg Tcheremissine, MS, Effects of Chronic Administration of Atomoxetine (Strattera) on Aggressive and Impulsive Responses of Adult Human Volunteer with a Childhood History of Conduct Disorder, Lilly Research Laboratories, $74,135.

Joan Wasserman, MS and School of Nursing, Capturing Costs for Outpatient Rehabilitative Stroke Care, American Nurses Foundation, $7,500.

Mark E.Wong, DB and GSBS, Promotion of Alveolar Socket Healing with Biopolymers, Rice University, $131,898.