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University of North Texas Health Science Center
Research Office
UNTHSC Seed Grant Recipients - 2010
The UNTHSC Office of Research is pleased to announce the following nine faculty members have received intramural grants designed to foster collaborative, innovative research.
Project Title: Novel Chemotherapy for High Risk Neuroblastoma
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William Paul Bowman, M.D.
Chairman & Professor
Pediatrics
TCOM
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Project Title: Maintaining balance in conditions of sensory conflicts: the impact of individual perceptual style on mechanisms of control
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Nicoleta L. Bugnariu, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Physical Therapy Program
SHP
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Project Title: Inhibition of the Inflammatory & Gastric Pre-malignant Process by Subantimicrobial Doxycycline
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Lori Ann Fischbach, Ph.D.
Vice Chairman & Asst Professor
Epidemiology
SPH
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Project Title: Racial / Ethnic Differences in Stress Age among Women
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Kimberly G. Fulda, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Family Medicine
TCOM
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Project Title: Design & screening of chmeric acid-sensing ion channels for x-ray crystallography
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Eric B. Gonzales, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Pharmacology & Neuroscience
GSBS |
Project Title: Role of corticotropin releasing hormone in stress-induced induced susceptibility against Streptococcus Pneumoniae
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Harlan P. Jones, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Molecular Biology & Immunology
GSBS |
Project Title: Development of an activatable molecular probe for cancer hyaluronidase biomarkers
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Mark E. Mummert, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Psychiatry & Behavioral Health
TCOM |
Project Title: Development of a rodent behavioral model for assessing the addiction potential of drugs
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John Schetz, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Pharmacology & Neuroscience
GSBS |
Project Title: Adenosine A2A receptor in neural plasticity of peripheral chemoreflexes
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Weirong Zhang, Ph.D.
Research Assistant Professor
Integrative Physiology
GSBS |
UNTHSC 2009 Hyperbaric and Wound Healing Institutional Seed Grant Recipient
The UNTHSC Office of Research is pleased to announce the following intramural grant designed to foster research in hyperbaric medicine and wound healing.
Project Title: The Effect of Hyperbaric Oxygen Treatment on Mesenchymal Stem Cells Homing and Osteogenesis
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Slobadan D. Dimitrijevich, Ph.D.
Research Associate Professor
Integrative Physiology
GSBS |
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Past Intramural Funding Opportunities - 2009
UNT/UNTHSC Intramural Grants Awarded
UNT and UNTHSC Offices of Research awarded the following six intramural grants designed to foster collaborative, innovative research. Studies were conducted jointly by UNT and UNTHSC faculty to enhance opportunities for securing external research funding, particularly from Federal Agencies.
Project Title: Systems Biology of Rhodopseudomonas Palustris: Investigation of Global Gene Regulation and Stress Response via Alternative Sigma Factor
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Michael S. Allen, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Department Of Biological Sciences
University of North Texas |
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Laszlo Prokai, Ph.D.
Professor
Molecular Biology and Immunology
UNT Health Science Center |
Project Title: Functional Studies on Putative Plant Transporters using Xenopus Oocytes
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Rebecca Dickstein, Ph.D.
Professor
Department Of Biological Sciences
University of North Texas |
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Tina Machu, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Pharmacology & Neuroscience
UNT Health Science Center |
Project Title: Development of Lamellar Model of the Human Corneal Stroma
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Slobodan Dimitrijevich, Ph.D.
Research Associate Professor
Integrative Physiology
UNT Health Science Center |
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Nandika A. D’Souza, Ph.D.
Professor
Department of Materials Science and Engineering
University of North Texas |
Project Title: Couple Violence and Parenting Young Children: The Ecology of Diverse Low-Income Families, for the Joint Institutional Seed Research award
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Angela Nievar, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Department of Educational Psychology
University of North Texas |
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Suhasini Ramisetty-Mikler, Ph.D.
Research Associate Professor
SPH Epidemiology
UNT Health Science Center |
Project Title: Pharmacokinetics of Albumin-Coated Nanoparticles
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Robby Petros, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Department of Chemistry
University of North Texas |
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Zygmunt Gryczynski, Ph.D.
Professor
Cell Biology and Anatomy, Molecular Biology and Immunology
UNT Health Science Center |
Project Title: Genomic and Spatial Data for Rapid Assessment and Modeling of Emerging Infectious Disease
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Sam Atkinson, Ph.D.
Professor
Department of Biological Sciences
University of North Texas |
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Phillip Williamson, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Forensic and Investigative Genetics
UNT Health Science Center |
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Past Intramural Funding Opportunities - 2008
Cardiovascular Research Institute Grants
[One-year non-renewable $50,000 awards]
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Rong Ma, Ph.D.
Department of Integrative Physiology
"Regulation of Vascular Function by ROS via activation of TRPC6 channel in vascular myocytes" |
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Robert Mallet, Ph.D.
Department of Integrative Physiology
"Novel pyruvate induction of cytoprotective gene program" |
North and Central Texas Clinical and Translational Science Initiative
[One-year non-renewable $25,000 awards]
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James Caffrey, Ph.D.
Department of Integrative Physiology
"Structured Ventilatory Training, autonomic balance, and improved glycemic control" |
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Arti Sharma, Ph.D.
Department of Integrative Physiology
"Structured Ventilatory Training, autonomic balance, and improved glycemic control" |
FOR HER Intramural Grants
[One-year non-renewable $50,000 awards]
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Kathryn Cardarelli
Department of Epidemiology
"HPV vaccine among primary care givers of high-risk youths" |
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Shao-Hua Yang
Department of Pharmacology & Neuroscience
"Inverse association between Alzheimer's Disease and cancer: a mitochondrial estrogen receptor beta paradigm" |
School of Public Health Sponsored Interdisciplinary Research Grants
[One-year non-renewable $20,000 awards]
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Swati Biswas, Ph.D.
Department of Biostatistics
"Validation of a Statistical Model for Prediction of Carrying Breast/Ovarian Cancer Susceptibility Genes BRCA1 and BRCA2" |
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Martha Felini, D.C., Ph.D., M.P.H.
Department of Epidemiology
"Identification of a novel mAR to explain an epidemiological finding in gliomas" |
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Yu-Sheng Lin, Sc.D
Department of Environmental & Occupational Health
"Cigarette smoke and genetic polymorphisms of TNF and IL-10 increase risk of cardiovascular mortality" |
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Jim P. Stimpson, Ph.D.
Department of Social & Behavioral Sciences
"Influence of County and Facility Level Factors on Physician Cancer Screening Practice" |
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Fang Fang Zhang, M.D., Ph.D.
Department of Epidemiology
"Behavioral determinants of methylation abnormalities: a pilot study of potential markers for cancer prevention and control" |
TCOM Intramural Grants
[One-year non-renewable $25,000 awards]
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Arvind Nana, M.D.
TCOM Department of Orthopedic Surgery (in collaboration with GSBS)
"Growth and differentiation of mesenchymal stem cells in 3-D matrices" |
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Rita Patterson, Ph.D.
Osteopathic Research Center (in collaboration with TCOM)
"Effect of osteopathic manipulation on postural stability in the elderly" |
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John Planz, Ph.D.
Center for Human Identification (in collaboration with TCOM and SPH)
"Genetic and psychosocial predictors of response to OMT in low back pain" |
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