University of North Texas Health Science Center
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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   William Paul Bowman, M.D.   Chairman & Professor   Pediatrics   TCOM   Project Title: Maintaining balance in conditions of sensory conflicts: the impact of individual perceptual style on mechanisms of control   Nicoleta L. Bugnariu, Ph.D.   Associate Professor   Physical Therapy Program   SHP   Project Title: Inhibition of the Inflammatory & Gastric Pre-malignant Process by Subantimicrobial Doxycycline   Lori Ann Fischbach, Ph.D.   Vice Chairman & Asst Professor   Epidemiology   SPH   Project Title: Racial / Ethnic Differences in Stress Age among Women   Kimberly G. Fulda, Ph.D.   Assistant Professor   Family Medicine   TCOM   Project Title: Design & screening of chmeric acid-sensing ion channels for x-ray crystallography   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   Harlan P. Jones, Ph.D.   Assistant Professor   Molecular Biology & Immunology   GSBS   Project Title: Development of an activatable molecular probe for cancer hyaluronidase biomarkers   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   John Schetz, Ph.D.   Associate Professor   Pharmacology & Neuroscience   GSBS   Project Title: Adenosine A2A receptor in neural plasticity of peripheral chemoreflexes   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   Slobadan D. Dimitrijevich, Ph.D.   Research Associate Professor   Integrative Physiology   GSBS

 

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 Michael S. Allen, Ph.D. Assistant Professor Department Of Biological Sciences University of North Texas Laszlo Prokai, Ph.D. Professor Molecular Biology and Immunology UNT Health Science Center   Project Title: Functional Studies on Putative Plant Transporters using Xenopus Oocytes Rebecca Dickstein, Ph.D. Professor Department Of Biological Sciences University of North Texas Tina Machu, Ph.D. Associate Professor Pharmacology & Neuroscience UNT Health Science Center   Project Title: Development of Lamellar Model of the Human Corneal Stroma Slobodan Dimitrijevich, Ph.D. Research Associate Professor Integrative Physiology UNT Health Science Center 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 Angela Nievar, Ph.D. Assistant Professor Department of Educational Psychology University of North Texas Suhasini Ramisetty-Mikler, Ph.D. Research Associate Professor SPH Epidemiology UNT Health Science Center   Project Title: Pharmacokinetics of Albumin-Coated Nanoparticles Robby Petros, Ph.D. Assistant Professor Department of Chemistry University of North Texas 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 Sam Atkinson, Ph.D. Professor Department of Biological Sciences University of North Texas Phillip Williamson, Ph.D. Assistant Professor Forensic  and Investigative Genetics UNT Health Science Center

Past Intramural Funding Opportunities - 2008 Cardiovascular Research Institute Grants [One-year non-renewable $50,000 awards] Rong Ma, Ph.D. Department of Integrative Physiology "Regulation of Vascular Function by ROS via activation of TRPC6 channel in vascular myocytes" 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] James Caffrey, Ph.D. Department of Integrative Physiology "Structured Ventilatory Training, autonomic balance, and improved glycemic control" 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] Kathryn Cardarelli Department of Epidemiology "HPV vaccine among primary care givers of high-risk youths" 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] Swati Biswas, Ph.D. Department of Biostatistics "Validation of a Statistical Model for Prediction of Carrying Breast/Ovarian Cancer Susceptibility Genes BRCA1 and BRCA2" Martha Felini, D.C., Ph.D., M.P.H. Department of Epidemiology "Identification of a novel mAR to explain an epidemiological finding in gliomas" 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" Jim P. Stimpson, Ph.D. Department of Social & Behavioral Sciences "Influence of County and Facility Level Factors on Physician Cancer Screening Practice" 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] Arvind Nana, M.D. TCOM Department of Orthopedic Surgery (in collaboration with GSBS) "Growth and differentiation of mesenchymal stem cells in 3-D matrices" Rita Patterson, Ph.D. Osteopathic Research Center (in collaboration with TCOM) "Effect of osteopathic manipulation on postural stability in the elderly" 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"