The following grants were received through the UConn Health Center\u2019s Office of Research Administration and Finance in August 2012. The list represents new awards as well as continuations and is supplied to UConn Today by the Office of Research Administration and Finance.<\/p>\n
Amini, A.
\n<\/b>Evaluation of Recombinant Human Lactoferrin
\n<\/i>National Institute of Dental & Craniofacial Research, $36,632, 7\/12-6\/13<\/p>\n
Bauer, L.
\n<\/b>Post-Doctoral Training Program in Alcohol Studies
\n<\/i>National Institute on Alcohol Abuse & Alcoholism, $122,576, 6\/12-5\/13<\/p>\n
Dworkin, P.<\/b>
\nPredicting Response to Standardized Pediatric Colitis Therapy
\n<\/i>Connecticut Children\u2019s Medical Center, $6,585, 5\/12-4\/13<\/p>\n
Fong, G.
\n<\/b>Spatial Cues for Retinal Angiogenesis
\n<\/i>National Eye Institute, $495,778, 8\/11-7\/13<\/p>\n
Hand, A.
\n<\/b>UConn Combined DMD\/Master\u2019s Program
\n<\/i>National Institute of Dental & Craniofacial Research, $64,470, 8\/09-7\/14<\/p>\n
Ioannidou, E.
\n<\/b>Periodontal Infection and Systemic Inflammation
\n<\/i>National Institute of Dental & Craniofacial Research, $140,400, 8\/11-7\/13<\/p>\n
Kaminer, Y.
\n<\/b>Adaptive Treatment for Adolescent Cannabis Use Disorders
\n<\/i>National Institute on Drug Abuse, $400,007, 9\/11-7\/13<\/p>\n
Kenny, A.
\n<\/b>Clinical Research Curriculum Award
\n<\/i>National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences, $240,460, 9\/10-6\/13<\/p>\n
Laurencin, C.
\n<\/b>Enhanced Osteoinduction and Angioinduction
\n<\/i>National Institute of Arthritis & Musculoskeletal & Skin Diseases, $206,150, 7\/12-4\/13<\/p>\n
Lefrancois, L.
\n<\/b>Role of TCRY & T-Cells in the Mucosal Response to Intestinal Infection
\n<\/i>National Institute of Allergy & Infectious Diseases, $338,843, 7\/12-6\/13<\/p>\n
Levine, E.
\n<\/b>Brain-derived Neurotrophic Factors-Endocannabinoid Interactions
\n<\/i>National Institute of Neurological Disorders & Stroke, $377,655, 5\/12-6\/17<\/p>\n
Mayer, B.<\/b>
\nDynamics and Topology of Phosphytyrosine
\n<\/i>National Cancer Institute, $494,719, 7\/12-6\/13<\/p>\n
Mina, M.
\n<\/b>Skeletal, Craniofacial, and Oral Biology Graduate Program
\n<\/i>National Institute on Dental & Craniofacial Research, $17,187, 7\/12-6\/13<\/p>\n
Petry, N.
\n<\/b>ART Adherence and Secondary Prevention of Human HIV
\n<\/i>National Institute of Child Health & Human Development, $719,907, 7\/12-4\/13<\/p>\n
Petry, N<\/b>.
\nReinforcing Exercise in Cocaine Abusers
\n<\/i>National Institute on Drug Abuse, $593,273, 9\/09-8\/12<\/p>\n
Rash, C.
\n<\/b>Contingency Management for Smoking Cessation
\n<\/i>National Institute on Drug Abuse, $216,762, 8\/12-7\/13<\/p>\n
Rodionov, V<\/b>.
\nRegulation of Intracellular Transport
\n<\/i>National Institute of General Medical Sciences, $318,227, 8\/11-6\/13<\/p>\n
Schenck, P.
\n<\/b>Connecticut Children\u2019s Medical Center HUD Lead Action for Medicaid Primary Prevention (LAMPP) Project
\n<\/i>Connecticut Children\u2019s Medical Center, $50,000, 5\/12-12\/14<\/p>\n
Setlow, P.
\n<\/b>Mechanisms of Bacterial Spore Germination
\n<\/i>U.S. Army, $402,788, 7\/9-9\/12<\/p>\n
Setlow, P. Setlow, P. White, W. Zecevic, N. Aguila, H. Drissi, M. Fifield, J. Fortinsky, R. Lalla, R. Litt, M. Moraru, I. Rowe, D. Schaff, J. Schenck, P. Smilowitz, H. Tennen, H. Torti, S. Weiskopf, C. Weiskopf, C. Bidra, A. Birk, J. Clement, J. Cloutier, M<\/b>. Colpitts, S. Connor, D. Dibner, A. Doran, S. Fifield, J. Ford, J. Kamath, J. Kaminer, Y. Kelly, J. Lakshminarayanan, S. Morse, T. The following grants were received through the UConn Health Center\u2019s Office of Research Administration and Finance in August 2012. The list represents new awards as well as continuations and is supplied to UConn Today by the Office of Research Administration and Finance. Federal Amini, A. Evaluation of Recombinant Human Lactoferrin National Institute of Dental & […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":58,"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":[1],"tags":[],"magazine-issues":[],"coauthors":[117],"class_list":["post-72488","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"pp_statuses_selecting_workflow":false,"pp_workflow_action":"current","pp_status_selection":"publish","acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-21 05:26:00","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\/72488","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\/58"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72488"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72488\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":72538,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72488\/revisions\/72538"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72488"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72488"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72488"},{"taxonomy":"magazine-issue","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/magazine-issues?post=72488"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=72488"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n<\/b>Mechanisms of Bacterial Spore Germination<\/em>
\nU.S. Army, $42,000, 7\/9-9\/12<\/p>\n
\n<\/b>Mechanisms of Bacterial Spore Germination
\n<\/i>U.S. Army, $76,045, 7\/09-9\/12<\/p>\n
\n<\/b>Contingency Management for Initiating Smoking Abstinence
\n<\/i>National Institute on Drug Abuse, $476,354, 8\/11-7\/13<\/p>\n
\n<\/b>SHH Signaling and Interneuron Progenitor Cells
\n<\/i>National Institute of Neurological Disorders & Stroke, $231,000, 8\/11-7\/13<\/p>\nFederal Pass Through<\/b><\/h4>\n
\n<\/b>Identification of a Novel Population in the Adult Bone Marrow
\n<\/i>Indiana University, $10,531, 9\/11-8\/13<\/p>\n
\n<\/b>Estrogen Receptor Beta Regulation
\n<\/i>Trustees of Columbia University, $64,184, 5\/12-4\/13<\/p>\n
\n<\/b>Church-Based Diabetes Prevention and Translation Study
\n<\/i>Mercer University, $115,006, 7\/08-5\/13<\/p>\n
\n<\/b>Community Ambulation Following Hip Fracture
\n<\/i>University of Maryland at Baltimore, $533,642, 9\/10-8\/12<\/p>\n
\n<\/b>Device for Tooth Cleaning in Special Needs and Older Populations
\n<\/i>Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, $134,463, 5\/11-8\/12<\/p>\n
\n<\/b>Concurrent Alcohol\/Smoking Treatment: Effects on Alcohol Relapse Risk
\n<\/i>Yale University, $30,000, 8\/8-7\/13<\/p>\n
\n<\/b>Continued Development and Maintenance of Software
\n<\/i>University of Washington, $85,524, 5\/12-4\/13<\/p>\n
\n<\/b>Repair and Regeneration of Osteochondral Cartilage
\n<\/i>University of Connecticut, $25,000, 9\/11-8\/13<\/p>\n
\n<\/b>Extension of Neuron Simulator for Simulation of Reaction-Diffusion in NUERI
\n<\/i>Children\u2019s Center at SUNY Brooklyn, $38,250, 6\/10-2\/13<\/p>\n
\n<\/b>Cadmus Task Order IV
\n<\/i>The Cadmus Group Inc., $26,500, 6\/12-9\/12<\/p>\n
\n<\/b>Infared and X-Ray Nanogold Therapy of Head and Neck Cancers
\n<\/i>Nanoprobes Inc., $105,836, 4\/11-3\/13<\/p>\n
\n<\/b>Racial\/Ethnic Differences in Daily Dynamics
\n<\/i>Yale University, $70,614, 7\/11-5\/13<\/p>\n
\n<\/b>A Systems Approach to Iron Metabolism
\n<\/i>Virginia Technical University, $40,517, 7\/12-7\/12<\/p>\n
\n<\/b>Connecticut CJ-DATS2 Center
\n<\/i>University of Connecticut, $129,817, 9\/11-8\/12<\/p>\n
\n<\/i><\/b>Advancing Correctional Nurse Competencies
\n<\/i>University of Connecticut, $53,031, 7\/12-6\/13<\/p>\nNon-Federal<\/b><\/h4>\n
\n<\/b>Changes in Facial Attractiveness
\n<\/i>Academy of Prosthodontics, $3,000, 5\/12-6\/13<\/p>\n
\n<\/b>Gastroenterology Grand Rounds
\n<\/i>Solvay America Companies, $4,450, 4\/97-7\/15<\/p>\n
\n<\/b>Clinical Trial
\n<\/i>Dendreon Corp., $6,340, 6\/12-6\/13<\/p>\n
\nEvaluation of Graphic Warning Labels on Tobacco Packages
\n<\/i>University of Connecticut, $101,908, 5\/12-4\/13<\/p>\n
\n<\/b>Regulation of Interleukin-15 During Development
\n<\/i>American Cancer Society Inc., $150,000 7\/11-6\/14<\/p>\n
\n<\/b>Quality Assurance of the Mental Health Education Services
\n<\/i>Connecticut Judicial Branch Court Support Services, $95,000, 12\/08-6\/13<\/p>\n
\n<\/b>Lifetime Analysis of Bi-Layered Ceramics
\n<\/i>American Academy of Fixed Prosthodontics, $3,663, 6\/12-5\/13<\/p>\n
\n<\/b>The Role of MKP-1 in Ischemic Stroke
\n<\/i>American Heart Association, $5,000, 7\/12-6\/13<\/p>\n
\n<\/b>Phase 2 Diabetes Ecosystem<\/em>
\nHealth and Technology Vector Inc., $105,500, 7\/12-12\/13<\/p>\n
\n<\/b>Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with Advanced Training Solutions
\n<\/i>Advanced Trauma Solutions, $40,120, 7\/11-6\/13<\/p>\n
\n<\/b>Clinical Trial
\n<\/i>Pfizer Inc., $39,933, 2\/12-1\/13<\/p>\n
\n<\/b>Development and Testing of an Adolescent Development Test for Substance Abuse Treatment
\n<\/i>General Hospital Corporation Institute, $86,175, 9\/11-5\/13<\/p>\n
\n<\/b>Optimization & Evaluation of CAD\/CAP
\n<\/i>H Rauter GmbH & Co. KG., $280,730, 7\/12-6\/15<\/p>\n
\n<\/b>Clinical Trial
\n<\/i>Hoffman-La Roche, $101,911, 8\/12-8\/13<\/p>\n
\n<\/b>Connecticut Worker\u2019s Compensation Commission
\n<\/i>Connecticut Worker\u2019s Compensation Commission, $32,212, 7\/12-6\/13<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"