The following grants were received through the UConn Health Center\u2019s Office of Research Administration and Finance in August 2011. The list represents new awards as well as continuations. The list of grants is supplied to UConn Today by the Office of Research Administration and Finance.<\/p>\n
Federal <\/strong><\/p>\n Alessi, S.,<\/strong> Pat and Jim Calhoun Cardiology Center Claffey, K<\/strong>., Center for Vascular Biology Dongari-Bagtzoglou, A.,<\/strong> Periodontology Fong, G.,<\/strong> Center for Vascular Biology Hand, A.,<\/strong> Pediatric Dentistry Hewett, S.,<\/strong> Neuroscience Ioannidou, E.,<\/strong> Periodontology Kuwada, S.,<\/strong> Neuroscience Lowe, L.,<\/strong> Cell Analysis Modeling Mains, R.,<\/strong> Neuroscience Mayer, B<\/strong>., Genetics and Developmental Biology Mohan, R.,<\/strong> Neuroscience Mohan, R.,<\/strong> Neuroscience Mukhopadhyay, B.,<\/strong> Hematology\/Oncology Oncken, C.,<\/strong> Medicine-Administration Shapiro, L.,<\/strong> Center for Vascular Biology Shapiro, L.,<\/strong> Center for Vascular Biology Shapiro, L.,<\/strong> Cell Analysis Modeling Shapiro, L.,<\/strong> Center for Vascular Biology Shapiro, L.,<\/strong> Center for Vascular Biology Shapiro, L.,<\/strong> Center for Vascular Biology White, W.,<\/strong> Pat and Jim Calhoun Cardiology Center Private<\/strong><\/p>\n Cole, M<\/strong>., Child and Family Studies Ems, S.,<\/strong> Medicine-Administration Fifield, J.,<\/strong> Ethel Donaghue Tripp Center Fifield, J.,<\/strong> Ethel Donaghue Tripp Center Finck, C.,<\/strong> Center for Vascular Biology Li, J.,<\/strong> Neuroscience Manwani, B.,<\/strong> Neuroscience Petry, N.,<\/strong> Pat and Jim Calhoun Cardiology Center Plumlee, C<\/strong>., Immunology Puddington, L<\/strong>., Immunology Secor, E<\/strong>., Immunology Takeda, K.,<\/strong> Center for Vascular Biology Tikoo, M<\/strong>., Institute for Clinical and Translational Science Ungemack, J<\/strong>., Community Medicine and Health Care Venna, V<\/strong>., Neuroscience State<\/strong><\/p>\n Aliyu, O<\/strong>., Medicine-Administration Bayer, M<\/strong>., Traumatology\/Emergency Medicine Blechner, M.,<\/strong> Pathology and Lab Medicine Dadras, S.,<\/strong> Genetics and Developmental Biology Ford, J.,<\/strong> Psychiatry Ford, J.,<\/strong> Psychiatry Robinson, E.,<\/strong> Center for Public Health Robinson, E.,<\/strong> Center for Public Health Vella, A.,<\/strong> Immunology *Denotes funds that are awarded to other institutions and \u201cpassed through\u201d to the UConn Health Center.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The following grants were received through the UConn Health Center\u2019s Office of Research Administration and Finance in August 2011. The list represents new awards as well as continuations. The list of grants is supplied to UConn Today by the Office of Research Administration and Finance. Federal Alessi, S., Pat and Jim Calhoun Cardiology Center Prize […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_crdt_document":"","wds_primary_category":0,"wds_primary_series":0,"wds_primary_attribution":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[179,1],"tags":[],"magazine-issues":[],"coauthors":[43],"class_list":["post-54584","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uconn-health","category-uncategorized"],"pp_statuses_selecting_workflow":false,"pp_workflow_action":"current","pp_status_selection":"publish","acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-05-07 03:55:51","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54584","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=54584"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54584\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54618,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54584\/revisions\/54618"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54584"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54584"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54584"},{"taxonomy":"magazine-issue","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/magazine-issues?post=54584"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=54584"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nPrize Contingency Management for Cocaine-Dependent Methadone Patients
\n<\/em>National Institute on Drug Abuse, $505,322, 8\/11-4\/16<\/p>\n
\nPatient-Specific B-Cell Antibody Factories to Treat Metastatic Disease
\n<\/em>U.S. Army, $566,988, 8\/11-7\/13<\/p>\n
\nOral Epithelial Cells, Candida, and PMN Activities
\n<\/em>National Institute of Dental & Craniofacial Research, S503,652, 8\/07-6\/12<\/p>\n
\nSpatial Cues for Retinal Angiogenesis
\n<\/em>National Eye Institute, $495,778, 8\/9-7\/14<\/p>\n
\nUConn Combined DMD\/Master\u2019s Program
\n<\/em>National Institute of Dental & Craniofacial Research, $108,220, 8\/09-7\/14<\/p>\n
\nExcitotoxicity and Inflammation
\n<\/em>National Institute of Neurological Disorders & Stroke, $25,139, 1\/09-12\/13<\/p>\n
\nPeriodontal Infection and Systemic Inflammation in Renal Patients
\n<\/em>National Institute of Dental & Craniofacial Research, $140,400, 9\/08-7\/14<\/p>\n
\nNeural Mechanisms of Binaural Hearing
\n<\/em>National Institute on Deafness & Other Communication Disorders, $25,355, 7\/04-3\/12<\/p>\n
\nPotentiometric Dyes and Membrane Permeability
\n<\/em>National Institute of Biomedical Imaging & Bioengineering, $20,959, 9\/04-1\/13<\/p>\n
\nDissecting the Role of One Neuronal RhoGEF Amongst Many: the Kalirin-7Null
\n<\/em>National Institute on Drug Abuse, $319,781, 9\/08-6\/13<\/p>\n
\nDynamics and Topology of Phosphotyrosine-SH2 Interaction Networks
\n<\/em>National Cancer Institute, $483,000, Genetics and Developmental Biology<\/p>\n
\nMolecular Targets of Corneal Anti-Angiogenesis<\/em>
\n<\/em><\/strong>National Eye Institute, $484,945, 10\/10-07\/12<\/p>\n
\nNovel Modular Vascular Patterning Assay for HTS
\n<\/em>National Cancer Institute, $16,829, 10\/10-11\/11<\/p>\n
\nTCR Engineered CD4 Cells as Helpers in Tumor Immunology
\n<\/em>National Cancer Institute, $226,056, 7\/09-6\/13<\/p>\n
\nExercise in Smoking Cessation in Postmenopausal Women
\n<\/em>Centers for Disease Control & Prevention, $50,882, 2\/09-1\/14<\/p>\n
\nInteractive Signaling Modules in Vascular Inflammation
\n<\/em>National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, $385,000, 7\/11-5\/12<\/p>\n
\nInteractive Signaling Modules in Vascular Inflammation
\n<\/em>National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, $554,382, 7\/11-5\/12<\/p>\n
\nInteractive Signaling Modules in Vascular Inflammation
\n<\/em>National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, $80,420, 7\/11-5\/12<\/p>\n
\nInteractive Signaling Modules in Vascular Inflammation
\n<\/em>National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, $101,014, 7\/11-5\/12<\/p>\n
\nInteractive Signaling Modules in Vascular Inflammation
\n<\/em>National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, $498,048, 7\/11\/-5\/12<\/p>\n
\nInteractive Signaling Modules in Vascular Inflammation
\n<\/em>National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, $86,240, 7\/11-5\/12<\/p>\n
\nContingency Management for Initiating Smoking Abstinence
\n<\/em>National Institute on Drug Abuse, $546,145, 9\/08-7\/13<\/p>\n
\nSubcontract with Family Voices Inc.
\n<\/em>*American Family Voices, Inc., $5,440, 6\/10-9\/10<\/p>\n
\nIdentification of RpoS-Dependent Genes Required for Dissemination of Borrelia
\n<\/em>*University of Connecticut Health Center, $1,974, 6\/11-5\/12<\/p>\n
\nChurch Based Diabetes Prevention and TRA
\n<\/em>*Mercer University, $155,197, 7\/08-6\/13<\/p>\n
\nChurch Based Diabetes and Translation Study
\n<\/em>*Mercer University, $12,749, 8\/09-7\/13<\/p>\n
\nCCMC Strategic Funds
\n<\/em>Connecticut Children\u2019s Medical Center, $9,200, 10\/10-9\/11<\/p>\n
\nAMPK and Glucose Transporters in Ischemia Parent Artery
\n<\/em>American Heart Association, $77,000, 7\/09-6\/13<\/p>\n
\nSex Differences in Ischemic Stroke: The Role of Genetic Sex
\n<\/em>American Heart Association, $22,000, 7\/11-6\/13<\/p>\n
\nPsychotherapy Development Research Center
\n<\/em>*Yale University, $435,960, 7\/11-6\/12<\/p>\n
\nControl of Memory CD8+ T-Cell Progenitors Following Bacterial or Viral Infection
\n<\/em>*Harvard Medical Center, $90,315, 3\/11-2\/13<\/p>\n
\nMaternal Influence on the Development of Allergy in Offspring
\n<\/em>*Connecticut Children\u2019s Medical Center, $23,200, 9\/08-7\/12<\/p>\n
\nAronia (Chokeberry) for the Prevention of Allergic Asthma
\n<\/em>University of Connecticut, $9,000, 1\/11-12\/11<\/p>\n
\nIs Prolyl Hydoxylase Domain Containing A Therapeutic Target for Diabetes-Impaired Angiogenesis?
\n<\/em>American Heart Association, $77,000, 7\/11-6\/15<\/p>\n
\nRegion Ten Community Services Board Services Contract
\n<\/em>Region Ten Community Services Board Inc., $121,500, 7\/11-6\/13<\/p>\n
\nShow-Safe and Healthy Opportunities for Women Coalition\u2019s Strategic Plan
\n<\/em>East of the River Action for Substance Abuse, $5,000, 5\/11-9\/11<\/p>\n
\nPost-Stroke Social Isolation
\n<\/em>American Heart Association, $41,000, 7\/11-6\/13<\/p>\n
\nMOU for Occupational Safety
\n<\/em>Conn. Department of Transportation, $218,750, 7\/10-6\/12<\/p>\n
\nPublic Health Preparedness
\n<\/em>*Conn. Department of Public Health, $7,304, 7\/10-6\/11<\/p>\n
\nLeveraging an HIE Infrastructure to Build a Clinical Research Data Warehouse
\n<\/em>University of Connecticut Health Center (CICATS), $39,296, 7\/11-6\/12<\/p>\n
\nSequencing Human Dicer Gene in Cutaneous Melanoma
\n<\/em>University of Connecticut Health Center (CICATS), $10,000, 7\/11-6\/12<\/p>\n
\nPublic Health Preparedness
\n<\/em>Conn. Department of Mental Health & Addiction Services, $25,000, 8\/09-6\/12<\/p>\n
\nPublic Health Preparedness
\n<\/em>Conn. Department of Mental Health & Addiction Services, $19,530, 8\/09-6\/12<\/p>\n
\nAdoption Assistance Program
\n<\/em>*Conn. Department of Children & Families, $350,000, 7\/11-6\/12<\/p>\n
\nAdoption Assistance Program
\n<\/em>Conn. Department of Children & Families, $445,000, 7\/11-6\/12<\/p>\n
\nRevealing a Functional Role for Intestinal T-Cells in Inflammatory Bowel Disease
\n<\/em>University of Connecticut Health Center (CICATS), $50,000, 7\/11-6\/12<\/p>\n