“The Blue Sheet” Vol. 36, no. 8

NIH RESEARCH TRAINING GRANTS
[December 16-31, 1992]
NYU (New York City) - $110,580 - Robert Shapley, Training in
visual neuroscience.
NIH RESEARCH GRANTS
[January 1-15, 1993]

GLIATECH, INC. (Beachwood, OH) - $50,000 - Kurt Brunden, Glial
B-amyloid peptide receptors in Alzheimer's disease.
U. COLORADO HEALTH SCIENCES CENTER (Denver) - $11,668
- Robert Harris, Effects of ethanol on gene expression.
CREIGHTON U. (Omaha, NE) - $73,078 - Martha Gentry, Ethanol
abuse & defense against pneumococcal pneumonia.
BRIGHAM & WOMEN's HOSPITAL (Boston, MA) - $237,723 -
Abul Abbas, Cellular & molecular mechanisms of autoimmunity.
SECRETECH, INC. (Birmingham, AL) - $49,999 - Prasanna Kumar,
Mucosal immunity against non-infectious SIV particle.
STRATAGENE (San Diego, CA) - $49,347 - Alan Greener, Isolation of proteolytic antibodies in E. co/i.
VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH U. (Richmond) - $176,743 - John
Monaco, Role of the proteasome/LMP complex in antigen processing.
U. GEORGIA (Athens) - $223,584 - Chung Chu, Asymmetric synthesis of L-nucleosides as anti-HBV agents.
HOSPITAL FOR JOINT DISEASES ORTHO INSTITUTE (New York
City) - $171,423 - Franco Celada, Computer simulation for immunological experiments.
WISTAR INSTITUTE OF ANATOMY & BIOLOGY (Philadelphia, PA)
- $187,988 - Hildegund Ertl, T cell-associated responses in the CNS
to rabies virus.
BIO-MOLECULAR TECHNOLOGY, INC. (Frederick, MD) - $50,000
- Berge Hampar, Detection of an active HSV infection during pregnancy.
PANORAMA RESEARCH, INC. (Mountain View, CA) - $49,950
- James Larrick, Novel gene delivery technique for organ transplantation.
PANORAMA RESEARCH, INC. (Mountain View, CA) - $50,000
- James Larrick, Novel sensitive test for gram negative sepsis.
CENTER FOR BLOOD RESEARCH (Boston, MA) - $50,000 - David
Bing, New liposome technology for vaccines.
UCLA - $193,745 - Marcus Horwitz, Role of exochelins in tuberculosis & AIDS.

YALE - $72,600 - Mark Mamula, Immune responses to cytochrome
C in autoimmune disease.
U. TEXAS SOUTHWEST MEDICAL CENTER (Dallas) - $100,603
- Laurie Davis, Analysis of anergized human T cells/IL2 gene activation.
LKT LABORATORIES, INC. (Minneapolis, MN) - $50,000 - Luke
Lam, Stable derivatives of fecapentaene.
U. MASSACHUSETTS MEDICAL SCHOOL (Worcester) - $164,341
- Carel Mulder, Mechanisms of EBV activation in B cells.
STANFORD - $112,461 - Susan Knox, Radiobiology of low dose
rate radioimmunotherapy.
U. PENNSYLVANIA - $301,298 - Mitchell Schnall, High resolution
MR imaging of suspicious breast lesions.
CHILDREN's HOSPITAL OF LOS ANGELES (CA) - $164,097 -
Gregory Shackleford, Multistep tumorigenesis in transgenic mice.
U. WISCONSIN (Madison) - $220,959 - Charles Mistretta, X-ray
optical mammography & chest radiography.
U. NEBRASKA MEDICAL CENTER (Omaha) - $160,637 - Diane
Birt, Prevent pancreatic ca in hamster by calorie restriction.
U. WISCONSIN (Milwaukee) - $107,641 - Robert Byrnes, DNA
& cell damage by oxidative stress.
DANA-FARBER CANCER INSTITUTE (Boston, MA) - $125,650 -
Anne Goldfeld, TNF-gene expression in activated lymphocytes.
IMMUNOGEN, INC. (Cambridge, MA) - $50,000 - Braydon Guild,
Recombinant immunotoxin produced in mammalian cells.
BLACK FOREST ENGINEERING, INC. (Colorado Spring, CO) -
$50,000 - Stephen Gaalema, Low x-ray dose digital mammography
system.
SPIRE CORPORATION (Bedford, MA) - $49,621 - Edward Johnson,
Enchanced resolution mammography x-ray detector.
LKT LABORATORIES, INC. (Minneapolis, MN) - $50,000 - Luke
Lam, Glutathione generators in cancer chemoprevention.
QUANTUM RESEARCH CORPORATION (Bethesda, MD) - $49,542
- Thomas Trumble, Improvement of CATI technology.
GORDON RESEARCH CONFERENCES (Kingston, RI) - $5,000 -
James Cleaver, Gordon research conference on DNA repair.

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