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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Jack Bristol, School of Public Health (SPH), Public Health Medicine on the Texas Mexico Border, Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center, $24,000.

Susan M. Cooley, Medical School (MS), Reach Out and Read Texas, The Jackson Foundation, $2,500.

Jack Fletcher, MS, CSI Printing of the Third Grade Texas Primary Read, Texas Education Agency, $254,178.

Adelaide Hebert, MS, An Adrenal Suppression Study of Clobetasol Propionate Lotion, 0.05% (Clobex Topical Lotion) in Subjects with Plaque-Type Psoriasis, Galderma Research & Development Inc., $48,425.

Deanna M. Hoelscher, SPH, School Physical Activity and Nutrition (SPAN) Survey III, 2004-2005, Department of State Health Services, $550,345.

Steven H. Kelder, SPH, Smoking Cessation Program for College Students, University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center, $18,721.

Robert L. Levine, MS, Heparin Antibodies in Intensive Care Unit Patients (HAICU), Smithkline Beecham Corporation, $131,650.

Scott R. Lillibridge, SPH, Public Health Training in Disaster Response, Texas Institute for Health Policy Research, $77,663.

Kristina D. Mena, SPH,Water Consumption Along the Border: Determining Intake Patterns Within a U.S.-Mexico Border Population, Paso Del Norte Health Foundation, $73,283.

Frederick Moore, MS, An Evaluation of the Inspectra Tissue Spectrometer During Traumatic Shock Resuscitation, Hutchinson Technology Inc., $222,026.

Luis Ostrosky-Zeichner, MS, Bacteriology and Mycology Study Group, University of Alabama at Birmingham, $140,200. Sudhir Paul, MS and Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences (GSBS), Neutralizing Antibodies to Hepatitis C, Stanford University, $241,312.

Jimmy Perkins, SPH, Hispanic-Serving Health Professions Schools Inc. - Regional Academic Health Center Environmental Health and Medicine Educational Initiatives, The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, $10,800.

Roberta Pileggi, Dental Branch (DB), An Innovative Treatment for Dental Resorption, American Association of Endodontists Foundation, $4,530.

John Powers, DB and GSBS, Bond Strength of Self-Etching Bonding Agent, Danville Materials, $1,600.

Michael Ross, SPH, HIV Risk in Non-Gay-Identifying MSM Seeking Net Sex, Boston University, $42,900.

Eric J. Thomas, MS, Measuring the Value of Remote ICU Monitoring, Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, $1,458,107.

Robert J. Yetman, MS, A Pivotal Phase 3 Study of Med-524 (Numax), An Enhanced Potency Humanized Repiratory Syncytial Virus (RSV) Monoclonal Antibody for the Prophylaxis of Serious RSV Disease in High-Risk Children, PPD Development LP, $60,450.

Z. Hong Zhou, MS and GSBS, Crest Center for Research Excellence in Bioinformatics and Computational Biology, New Mexico State University, $22,958.