In our quest to bring more varied and in-depth information to Research@Wayne, the Office of the Vice-President for Research introduces a new, regular feature: WSU Awarded Grants.

ENGINEERING
Biomechanics Center
PI: Warren N. Hardy
Title: Development of Biofidelic Abdominal Insert for the Hybrid III Six Year Old Dummy
Sponsor: Ford Motor Company
Project Dates and Anticipated Amount of Award: 12/16/05-5/31/06; $147,500

Civil Engineering
PI: Tapan K. Datta
Title: Commercial Motor Vehicle Direct Observation Survey of Safety Belt Use
Sponsor: State of Michigan State Police/Office of Highway Safety Planning
Project Dates and Anticipated Amount of Award: 12/16/05-9/30/06; $62,959

Deans Office Engineering
PI: Albert I. King
Title: Segmentation and Characterization of Brain Structures
Sponsor: Henry Ford Hospital
Project Dates and Anticipated Amount of Award: 1/1/06-12/31/06; $28,791

Electrical and Computer Engineering
PI: Hao Ying
Title: Decision Support System
Sponsor: Henry Ford Hospital
Project Dates and Anticipated Amount of Award: 1/1/06-12/31/06; $28,791

LIBERAL ARTS AND SCIENCES
Biology
PI: Karen Lindsey Myhr
Title: Novel Gene Expression Assay in Living Neuronal Subtypes
Sponsor: National Eye Institute
Project Dates and Anticipated Amount of Award: 1/15/06-11/30/07; $299,444

Chemistry
PI: Colin F. Poole
Title: Determination of Solute Descriptors of Organosilison Compounds and Application of Linear Solvation Energy Relationships for Predicting Partition Prope
Sponsor: Dow Corning Corporation
Project Dates and Anticipated Amount of Award: 1/1/06-12/31/06; $77,703

MEDICINE
Anatomy
PI: Paul D. Walker
Title: Signal Transduction in Mechanisms Controlling L-DOPA Induced Dyskinesia: Fellow Margaret F. Prior
Sponsor: Michigan Parkinson Foundation
Project Dates and Anticipated Amount of Award: 1/19/06-1/18/07; $6,000

Center for Molecular Medicine and Genetics
PI: Li Li
Title: A Role for Histone Deacetylases in Transforming Growth Factor-Beta1 Induced Myofibroblast Differentiation: Fellow: Rauel Ritchie
Sponsor: American Heart Association/National Center
Project Dates and Anticipated Amount of Award: 1/1/06-12/31/07; $52,000

Neurology
PI: Jun Li
Title: The Utility Skin Biopsy in the Evaluation of Inherited Neuropathy
Sponsor: Muscular Dystrophy Association
Project Dates and Anticipated Amount of Award: 1/1/06-12/31/08; $100,000

PI: Michael E. Shy
Title: Early and Late Onset CMT1B
Sponsor: National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke
Project Dates and Anticipated Amount of Award: 1/1/06-12/31/10; $338,625

PI: Michael E. Shy
Title: CMT North American Database
Sponsor: Muscular Dystrophy Association
Project Dates and Anticipated Amount of Award: 1/1/06-12/31/06; $85,000

Pathology
PI: Lucia Schuger
Title: Pathogenesis of Lymphangioleiomyomatosis
Sponsor: National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute
Project Dates and Anticipated Amount of Award: 1/1/06-12/31/10; $338,625

Pediatrics
PI: Gyula Acsadi
Title: Muscle Proton Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy (1H-MRS) in Spinal Muscular Atrophy
Sponsor: Andrew’s Buddies Corporation/Fight SMA
Project Dates and Anticipated Amount of Award: 12/21/05-7/31/06; $32,000
PI: Gyula Ascadi
Title: The Effects of SMN Depletion on the Expression of Genes Participating in Axonal Growth and Transport
Sponsor: Muscular Dystrophy Association
Project Dates and Anticipated Amount of Award: 1/1/06-12/31/08; $281,955

PHARMACY AND ALLIED HEALTH
Deans Office of Pharmacy and Allied Health
PI: Michael Joseph Rybak
Title: Moxifiloxacin Verus Levofloxin and Gatifloxin Against First-Step ParC Mutants of Streptococcus Pneumoniae in an in Vitro Pharmacodynamic Model
Sponsor: Schering-Plough Research Institute
Project Dates and Anticipated Amount of Award: 1/12/06-11/30/07; $92,735

RESEARCH
Gerontology
PI: Hector Mario Gonzalez
Title: Vascular Depression and Function in Older Latinos
Sponsor: National Institutes of Health
Project Dates and Anticipated Amount of Award: 12/5/05-3/31/06; $16,500