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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Douglas Baxter, Medical School (MS) and Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences (GSBS), Society for Neuroscience Chapter Grant Proposal 2004, Society for Neuroscience, $2,000.

Ann O. Cheek, School of Public Health (SPH), Individual Level Indicators: Reproductive Function in Estuarine Fishes, University of Texas at Austin, $66,475.

Pramod Dash, MS and GSBS, Reduction of Working Memory Deficits by Modulation of Dopamine Receptors, Mike Hogg Fund, $14,700; and Working Memory Deficits Following Brain Trauma, National Institutes of Health (NIH), National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS), $1,711,315.

Jasenka Demirovic, SPH, Consortium for Research in Elder Self- Neglect, Baylor College of Medicine, $7,605.

Rena N. D'Souza, Dental Branch (DB) and GSBS, Bioengineering of Adult Stem Cells for Dental Tissue Regeneration, UT Austin, $16,517.

Susan P. Fisher-Hoch, SPH and GSBS, Expression of MTB and Host Genes in Early Tuberculosis, NIH, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), $152,260.

Jack Fletcher, MS, Adolescent Literacy: Classification, Mechanism, Outcome, Yale University, $14,217.

Luisa Franzini, SPH, Consortium for Research in Elder Self- Neglect, Baylor College of Medicine, $6,528.

Adelaide A. Hebert, MS, A Clinical Study to Examine the Efficacy of Atopiclair in the Management of Mild to Moderate Atopic Dermatitis in Adults, Sinclair Pharmaceuticals Limited, $97,630.

Roger Janz, MS and GSBS, The Role of Synaptic Vesicle Protein SV2 in Calcium Transport, Epilepsy Foundation of America, $20,000.

Vasanthi Jayaraman, MS and GSBS, Subtype Specific NMDA Receptor Antagonists, NIH, NINDS, $343,647.

Gwangpyo Ko, SPH, Occurrence, Treatment and Evaluation of Analytical Methods of Waterborne Adenovirus, AWWA Research Foundation, $350,000.

Bruce C. Kone, MS and GSBS, Ryan White Title IV, Harris County Hospital District, $8,797.

Scott R. Lillibridge, SPH, Region VI Center for Biodefense and Emerging Infections, UT Medical Branch at Galveston, $67,869.

Mohammad Madjid, MS, Pilot Study of the Role of Influenza Exposure on Cardiovascular Risk, Pfizer Inc., $37,500.

Dianna M. Milewicz, MS and GSBS, Genetic Repository Core of the Aortic Valve Operative Outcomes in Marfan Patients, National Marfan Foundation, $14,822.

Alanna C. Morrison, SPH and GSBS, Genetics Etiology of Sodium- Lithium Countertransport, NIH, National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute (NHLBI), $1,491,842.

Roger G. O'Neil, MS and GSBS, Role of TRP Channels in Collecting Duct Calcium Dynamics, NIH, National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases, $1,487,290.

Ronald Portman, MS, Dose-Ranging and Safety Study of Candesartan Cilexetil in Hypertensive Pediatric Subjects 1 to less than 6 Years of Age: A Four-Week, Multicenter, Randomized, Double-Blind Study with a One-Year Open-Label, Follow-Up Period, Astrazeneca, $54,500.

John M. Powers, DB and GSBS, Bond Strength of Cements, Dentsply International, $12,800.

Belinda M. Reininger, SPH, Cancer Information in the Lower Rio Grande Valley, UT M. D. Anderson Cancer Center, $95,520.

Maureen Sanderson, SPH, Partnership Between the Texas Cancer Registry and the UTSPH-B for Assuring Timely, Complete and Accurate Cancer Data in the Lower Rio Grande Valley of Texas, Texas Cancer Council, $66,150.

Kimberly C. Smith, MS, Testing for Mycobacterium Tuberculosis Infection in Humans, Oxford Immunotec Limited, $62,045.

William D. Spears, SPH, Community Health Workers (CHW) Health Workforce Study, UT Health Science Center at San Antonio, $27,446.

Ambro Van Hoof, MS and GSBS, Metabolism of Yeast MRNAs that Lack a Stop Codon, NIH, National Institute of General Medical Sciences, $1,313,525.

Xiaodong Zhou, MS, Regulation of SPARC in Scleroderma Fibroblasts, NIH, National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal Diseases, $222,854.

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Barbara E. Murray, MS and GSBS, Alternative Approaches for E. Faecalis Infections, NIH, NIAID, $2,124,723.