Grants
Eighteen IU School of Medicine faculty members receive IU Collaborative Research Grants
Mar. 21, 2013
Eighteen faculty members from the IU School of Medicine are among the recipients of 2012-2013 IU Collaborative Research Grants.
The grants support research aimed at advancing a research field and impacting the lives of residents in Indiana, the United States and the world. The program also aims to increase IU’s competitiveness for external funding involving innovative and transformative research.
Award winning proposals fit at least one of the following subject areas: biological and health sciences, physical sciences and computer sciences, and social and behavioral sciences. The maximum amount is $75,000, except for “exceptional cases” which have received a greater amount.
Nadia Carlesso, M.D., Ph.D., is one of the 18 IU School of Medicine faculty members to earn an IU Collaborative Research Grants.
IU School of Medicine recipients and their collaborators are:
- Teresita Bellido, Ph.D., professor of anatomy and cell biology, IU School of Medicine. Additional recipients include Stuart Warden of the IU School of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences at IUPUI. Project title: “Localizing the Skeletal Effects of the Serotonin Transporter.”
- Alan Breier, M.D., AAMHRE/IUPA Professor of Psychiatry, and Jennifer Vohs, Ph.D., assistant professor of clinical psychology, IU School Of Medicine. Additional recipients include Christopher Lapish of the Purdue School of Science at IUPUI and Brian O’Donnell and Dae Jin Kim of the IU College of Arts and Sciences at IU Bloomington. Project title: “Translational Biomarkers in a Rodent Model of Schizophrenia.”
- Nadia Carlesso, M.D., Ph.D., associate professor of pediatrics and medical and molecular genetics, and Yunlong Liu, Ph.D., associate professor of medical and molecular genetics and medicine, IU School of Medicine.” Additional recipients include David Skalnik of the Purdue School of Science at IUPUI. Project title: “Role Of The Epigenetic Regulator Cfp1 In Hematopoietic Stem Cell (HSC) Response To Stress.”
- Matthias Clauss, Ph.D., associate research professor in cellular and integrative biology, medicine and microbiology and immunology, IU School of Medicine. Additional recipients include Horia Petrache and Fangqian Zhu of the Purdue School of Science at IUPUI and David Clemmer of the IU College of Arts and Sciences at IU Bloomington. Project title: “Mechanism Of The Non-Classical Release Of EMAPII.”
- Dipika Gupta, Ph.D., associate professor of biochemistry and Molecular and biology, IU School Of Medicine-Northwest. Additional recipients include Iztok Hozo of the IU School of Arts and Sciences at IU-Northwest. Project title: “Genetic Link Of Peptidoglycan Recognition Proteins With Inflammatory Bowel Disease.”
- Derek Houston, Ph.D., Philip F. Holton Scholar in Otology, and Tonya Bergeson-Dana, Ph.D., Philip F. Holton Investigator in Otology. Additional recipients include Linda Smith, David Pisoni, and Chen Yu of the IU College of Arts and Sciences at IU Bloomington. Drs. Houston and Bergeson-Dana also serve as associate professor of otolaryngology-head and neck surgery at the IU School Of Medicine. Project title: “A Novel Multimodal Methodlogy to Investigate Communicative Interactions Between Parents and Deaf Infants Before and After Cochlear Implantation.”
- Andy Hudmon, Ph.D., assistant professor of biochemistry and molecular biology, IU School Of Medicine. Additional recipients include Andrea Hohmann and Yvonne Lai of the IU College of Arts and Sciences at IU Bloomington. Project title: Novel Analgesic Mechanisms For Suppressing Excessive Glutamate Signaling Through Targeted Disruption Of Protein-Protein Interactions.”
- Melissa Kacena, Ph.D., assistant professor of orthopaedic surgery; Michael Sturek, Ph.D., Chair and professor of cellular and integrative physiology and professor of medicine; and Christine Boehm, VM, assistant research professor and assistant director of the Laboratory Animal Resource Center, IU School of Medicine. Additional recipients include Tien-Min Gabriel Chu of the IU School of Dentistry. Project title: “Thrombopoietic Agents in Bone Regeneration: Development of a Mini-pig Bone Healing Model.”
- Amber Mosley, Ph.D., assistant professor of biochemistry and molecular biology, IU School of Medicine. Additional recipients include Andrew Kusmierczyk of the Purdue School of Science at IUPUI. Project title: “Identifying Post-translational Modifications in Protein Complex Assembly through STAP.”
- Richard Nass, Ph.D., associate professor of pharmacology and toxicology, IU School of Medicine. Additional recipients include Jonathan Trinidad of the IU College of Arts and Sciences at IU Bloomington. Project title: “Acetylomic Analysis in a Novel Genetic Model for Parkinson’s Disease.”
- Brian Samuels, M.D., Ph.D., assistant professor of ophthalmology and cellular and integrative physiology, and Lyne Racette, Ph.D., assistant professor of ophthalmology, IU School Of Medicine. Additional recipients include Gavril Tsechpenakis of the Purdue School of Science at IUPUI. Project title: “A Novel Retinal Imaging Approach to Diagnose Glaucoma.”
- S. Elizabeth Zauber, M.D., assistant professor of clinical neurology, IU School Of Medicine. Additional recipients include Leonid Rubchinskey of the Purdue School of Science at IUPUI. Project title: “Relating Electrophysiology and Symptoms of Parkinson’s Disease.”
