March 2010 Research Awards

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Bernier, Steve—Microbiology & Immunology Canadian Cystic Fibrosis Foundation Molecular Basis of Highly Drug-Resistant Biofilms of P. aeruginosa Grown on CFBE Cells 2-Year Project

Coch, Donna—Education National Institute of Child Health and Human Development Development of Word-Level Reading and the N400 Component of ERP 2-Year Project

Coffey, David—Medicine University of Vermont Parkinson Disease Neuroprotection Clinical Trial

Hawley, Robert—Earth Sciences National Aeronautics and Space Administration Across-Track Elevation Profiles and Sub-Surface Layering in CryoSat-2 Altimeter Waveforms 3-Year Project

Hogan, Deborah—Microbiology & Immunology Cystic Fibrosis Foundation Inhibition of Pseudomonas Phospholipase C 2-Year Project

Keller, Punam—Tuck School Rand Corporation Social Marketing Activities to Support the Financial Literacy Research Consortium

Leib, David—Microbiology & Immunology National Eye Institute Role of HSV Induced RNA Degradation in Pathogenesis 4-Year Project

Lenck-Santini, Pierre-Pascal—Medicine, G. Holmes—Pediatrics National Institute of Mental Health Maturation Processes of Hippocampal Coding in Developing Rats 2-Year Project

Lynch, Kristina—Physics & Astronomy Jet Propulsion Laboratory Dartmouth Greencube 3

McGurk, Susan—Psychiatry, D. Becker—Community and Family Medicine Northern California Institute for Research and Education Neuroscience-Guided Remediation of Cognitive Deficits in Schizophrenia

Morrow, Cathleen—Community & Family Medicine State of New Hampshire, Division of Public Health Services Rural Health Scholars 3-Month Project

Nattie, Eugene. K. Barrett—Physiology CJ Foundation for SIDS CJ Foundation Fellowship for SIDS Research

Norris, L Frances—Psychiatry University of Maryland An Integrated Conception of Community Reslience 2-Year Project

Onega, Tracy—Community & Family Medicine Group Health Center for Health Studies Development of a Versatile Geospatial Database within the CRN

Rigas, James—Medicine Pfizer Inc. Phase 3, Randomized, Open-Label Study of the Efficacy and Safety of PF-02341006 Versus Standard of Care Chemotherapy (Pemetrexed or Docetaxel) in Patients with Advanced NSLC Harboring ALK Gene Locus 2-Year Project

Rigas, James—Medicine Pfizer Inc. Phase 2,Open-Label Single Arm Study of the Efficacy and Safety of PF-02341066 in Patients with Advanced Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer (NSCLC) Harboring a Translocation or Inversion Involving the Anaplast 2-Year Project

Sloboda, Roger—Biological Sciences National Science Foundation Protein Methylation and Flagellar Stability 3-Year Project

Streltsov, Anatoly—Thayer School of Engineering Dept. of Defense, Office of Naval Research Comprehensive Numerical Study of ULF Magnetosphere-Ionosphere Interactions Triggered by High-Power HF Waves Transmitted from HAARP 3-Year Project

Supattapone, Surachai, M. Miller—Biochemistry Burroughs Wellcome Infectious Prion H-Bonded Core by H/D Exchange Mass Spectroscopy 3-Month Project

Torresani, Lorenzo—Computer Science National Science Foundation CAREER:  Learning Models for Scalable Content-Based Image Retrieval 3-Year Project

Wright, Peter—Pediatrics Gheskio GHESKIO Clinical Trials Unit

Award commitment from the sponsoring agency is for a single year unless otherwise indicated

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