“The Blue Sheet” Vol. 36, no. 8

NIH RESEARCH GRANTS
[December 16-31, 19921

U. CALIFORNIA (Davis) - $195,071 - Judith Stern, Aging in male
& female obese rats.
NEW YORK STATE PSYCHIATRIC INSTITUTE (New York City) -
$284,678 - Jennie Kline, Epidemiology of trisomy & aging.
U. TEXAS HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER (San Antonio) - $161,027
- Arun Roy, Aging & androgen receptor gene regulation.
MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL (Boston) - $117,373 -
Junying Yuan, Molecular studies of cell death genes in vertebrates.
U. UTAH (Salt Lake City) - $107,291 - Sherrie Perkins, Vitamin
D & CSF-1 regulation of osteoclstogenesis.
BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE (Houston, TX) - $156,892 -
Stephen Elledge, Role of cell cycle genes in cellular senescence & aging.
OREGON STATE U. (Corvallis) - $63,474 - Philip McFadden, Determinants of longevity in neuronal cells.
BETH ISRAEL HOSPITAL (Boston, MA) - $107,816 - David Rigney,
Biomathematics of cyclin during cell senescence.
VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH U. (Richmond) - $111,009 - John
Nestler, Insulin regulation of human adrenal androgen metabolism.
BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE (Houston, TX) - $206,254 -
Dolores Evans, Virulence properties of helicobacter pylori.
U. HAWAII AT MANOA (Honolulu) - $89,610 - George Hui, Adjuvants & immune response to the P. falciparum GP195.
U. MICHIGAN (Ann Arbor) - $118,041 - Steven Meshnick, Pneumocystis dihydropteroate synthetase.
RUSH-PRESBYTERIAN-ST LUKES MEDICAL CENTER (Chicago, IL)
- $140,782 - Larry Thomas, Eosinophil major protein as inflammatory
mediator.
U. OKLAHOMA HEALTH SCIENCES CENTER (Oklahoma City) -
$124,897 - Rodney Tweten, Clostridium septicum lethal toxin.
U. CALIFORNIA (Irvine) - $239,284 - Luis De La Maza, Immunopathology of tubal infertility.
SCRIPPS RESEARCH INSTITUTE (San Diego, CA) - $182,086 -
Edward Morgan, Human complement C5A - inflammation &
immunomodulation.
DANA-FARBER CANCER INSTITUTE (Boston, MA) - $219,018 -
Barbara Bierer, Mechanisms of immunosuppression by FK506.
HARVARD - $180,443 - Michael Carroll, Complement receptor ligand
C3 - attachment to antibody.
U. CALIFORNIA (Riverside) - $165,412 - Sarjeet Gill, Ion regula.
tion in mosquitoes.
CASE WESTERN RESERVE U. (Cleveland, OH) - $188,935 - John
Schreiber, IGG subclass & function of anti-polysaccharide antibody.
U. NORTH CAROLINA (Chapel Hill) - $166,966 - Stanley Lemon,
Structure - function relations in HIV virus replication.

DANA-FARBER CANCER INSTITUTE (Boston, MA) - $175,400 -
George Siber, Role of pertussis antibody in pathogenesis of pertussis.
MEDICAL COLLEGE OF WISCONSIN (Milwaukee) - $166,079 -
Sidney Grossberg, Human JHK virus.
BOSTON CITY HOSPITAL (MA) - $190,816 - Peter Rice, Immunology of infection with neisseria gonorrhoeae.
UCLA - $222,075 - Janis Giorgi, Function of CD8 lymphocyte subsets
in HIV disease.
U. CALIFORNIA-LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL LABORATORY (NM) -
$131,936 - Goutam Gupta, Structure-function analyses of the V3
loops of HIV.
UCLA - $98,405 - Jerome Zack, HIV-1 reverse transcription in quiescent lymphocytes.
U. CALIFORNIA (San Francisco) - $213,949 - Dan Littman, Cellular
factors required for HIV entry.
U. GEORGIA (Athens) - $81,392 - Duncan Krause, Protein p4osphorylation in mycoplasma pneumoniae.
STANFORD - $214,400 - Yueh-Hsiu Chien, Role of MHC in gama
delta T cell recognition.
MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY (Cambridge) -
$253,091 - Hidde Ploegh, Assembly of MHC Class I molecules in vitro
& in vivo.
SCRIPPS RESEARCH INSTITUTE (San Diego, CA) - $232,780 -
Richard Ye, Molecular mechanisms of leukocyte activation.
U. PENNSYLVANIA - $150,239 - Charles Clevenger, Prolactin receptor function in T lymphocytes.
EMORY (GA) - $121,236 - David Stephens, Meningococcal lipooligosaccaride & mucosal pathogenesis.
U. WASHINGTON (Seattle) - $129,759 - Ann Pullen, T cell recognition of superantigens.
U. TEXAS (Austin) - $197,613 - Jonathan Sessler, Receptors &
carriers for antiviral agents.
U. WISCONSIN (Madison) - $93,053 - Daniel Muller, Molecular
characterization of CD4 + cytotoxic T cells.
U. CINCINNATI (OH) - $4,000 - Wesley Alexander, Support for
second conference on tolerance induction.
DANA-FARBER CANCER INSTITUTE (Boston, MA) - $158,288 -
Hans Reiser, Role of B7 in murine T cell activation.
SUNY (Buffalo) - $132,825 - Noreen Williams, Control & development of parasite energy metabolism.
STANFORD - $155,925 - Samuel Strober, Novel mouse cytokine
- use in autoimmunity.
U. TEXAS SOUTHWEST MEDICAL CENTER (Dallas) - $103,950
- Rebecca Gruchalla, Immunological analysis of sulfonamide hypersensitivity.

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