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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Ananth Annapragada, School of Health Information Sciences (SHIS) and Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences (GSBS), Medical Informatics Training Grant, Rice University, $2,700.

Frank C. Arnett Jr., Medical School (MS), LASR Research Program, Brown Foundation, $12,500.

Raul Caetano, School of Public Health (SPH), Lung Cancer Pathogenesis and HZE Particle Exposure, The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, $41,663.

Ann L. Coker, SPH, Environmental Public Health Services (Agreement), City of Houston, $27,622.

Susan Cooley King, MS, Reach Out and Read Texas, Reach Out and Read National Center, $4,500; and Reach Out and Read Texas, Reach Out and Read National Center, $92,000.

Valentin Dragoi, MS and GSBS, State-Dependent Cortical Activity and Visual Behavior, James S. McDonnell Foundation, $452,353.

Carlos A. Dumas, MS, Residency Training in Primary Care, Health Resources and Services Administration, $409,438.

Sandra K. Hanneman, School of Nursing (SON), Multi-Site Randomized Clinical Trial of Horizontal Positioning to Prevent and Treat Pulmonary Complications in Mechanically Ventilated Critically Ill Patients: A Feasibility Study, Texas Medical Center, $15,000.

Adelaide A. Hebert, MS, An Exploratory, Double-Blind, Randomized, Placebo-Controlled, Paired Study to Evaluate the Efficacy and Safety of Combined Use of Elidel and Cutivate in Patients with Severe Atopic Dermatitis Flares, Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corp., $26,520.

Keith Hoots, MS and GSBS, A Randomized Two-Way Blinded Crossover-Design Study to Establish the Bioequivalence of B-Domain Deleted Recombinant Factor VIII (BDDRFVIII, Refacto AF) with a Full-Length Recombinant Factor VIII Preparation (FLRFVIII, Advate), Followed by an Open-Label T, Wyeth Pharmaceuticals, $6,922.

Hualou Liang, SHIS and GSBS, Quantitative Tools for Analyzing Brain Circuits, National Institutes of Health (NIH), National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, $1,275,958.

Sherry Lipsky, SPH, Partner Violence, Alcohol Use and Healthcare, NIH, National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, $532,858.

Marianne T. Marcus, SON, Project Mainstream, Association for Medical Education and Research on Substance Abuse, $29,852.

Joseph B. McCormick, SPH and GSBS, Genetic, Behavioral and Lifestyle Risk Factors for Complications of Type 2 Diabetes in a Mexican-American Population in the Lower Rio Grande Valley, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, $496,000.

Sudhir Paul, MS and GSBS, Beta-Amyloid Antibodies with Specific Proteolytic Activity, NIH, National Institute on Aging, $1,506,039.

Deborah A. Pearson, MS and GSBS, ADHD Symptoms in Autism: Cognition, Behavior, Treatment, NIH, National Institute of Mental Health, $1,446,539.

John M. Powers, DB and GSBS, Staining Effect of Stannous and Sodium Fluoride Therapy on All-Ceramic Restorations, UT M. D. Anderson Cancer Center, $5,000; and Pull-Out Forces of Posts with Aged Resin Cement, Centrix Inc., $500.

John L. Spudich, MS and GSBS, Eukaryotic Membrane Protein Folding in E. Coli, NIH, National Institute of General Medical Sciences, $341,594.

James Stark, MS and GSBS, Effect of Passive Immunoprophylaxis for RSV and CFTR Mutations on Bacterial Secondary Infections in a Murine RSV Sequential Infection Model, Medimmune Inc., $57,939.

Thomas H. Stock, SPH, City of Minneapolis Air Toxics Monitoring Study, City of Minneapolis, $35,100.

Jon E. Tyson, MS, High Risk Infant Liaison Nurse, Harris County Hospital District, $50,000.

Joan Wasserman, MS and SON, Hemophilia Utilization Group Study - Phase V (HUGS V), University of Southern California, $19,375.

Wenzheng Zhang, MS, Aldosterone-Sensitive Repression of ENAC by AF9 and DOT1, NIH, National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases, $329,292.

Z. Hong Zhou, MS and GSBS, Structural Basis of Kaposi’s Sarcoma- Associated Herpes Virus, Leukemia and Lymphoma Society, $165,000.

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Christine A. Brosnan, SON, Professional Nurse Traineeship, Health Resources and Services Administration, $118,646.

John H. Byrne, MS and GSBS, Neural Models of Plasticity: Molecules to Networks, NIH, $5,531,257.

John R. Herbold, SPH, Bioterrorism Preparedness and Response to Bioterrorism, Texas Department of State Health Services, $36,000.

Vasanthi Jayaraman, MS and GSBS, Structure and Function of Membrane Proteins, National Science Foundation, $405,000.