ACADEMIC AFFAIRS
Developmental Disabilities
PI: Barbara W. LeRoy
Title: Implementation of Diagnostic Method for Persons with Co-Occurring Mental Retardation and Mental Illness
Sponsor: Ethel and James Flinn Family Foundation
Project Dates and Anticipated Amount of Award: 2/25/06-1/1/08; $75,000

EDUCATION
Teacher Education
PI: Kathleen Marie Crawford-McKinney
Title: Wayne Writing Project
Sponsor: University of California, Berkeley
Project Dates and Anticipated Amount of Award: 2/1/06-6/30/07; $30,000

PI: Sharon E. Elliot
Title: Initial Certificate or Endorsement Project for Students in Special Education or Bilingual Education
Sponsor: State of Michigan/Department of Education
Project Dates and Anticipated Amount of Award: 1/10/06-9/30/07; $100,000

ENGINEERING
Biomechanics Center
PI: Cynthia A. Bir
Title: Evaluation or the Cumulative Effects of Heading in Youth Soccer
Sponsor: National Operating Committee on Standards for Athletic Equipment
Project Dates and Anticipated Amount of Award: 3/1/06-2/28/07; $68,375

PI: Cynthia A. Bir
Title: Validation of Head-Neck Predictions ATBM
Sponsor: Joint Non-Lethal Weapons Directorate
Project Dates and Anticipated Amount of Award: 9/27/05-9/30/06; $149,880

PI: King-Hay Yang
Title: Investigation of Periphery Nerve and Blood Vessel Injury
Sponsor: Automotive Systems Laboratory, Inc.
Project Dates and Anticipated Amount of Award: 4/1/06-8/1/06; $35,856

Electrical and Computer Engineering
PI: Cheng-Zhong Xu
Title: Context-Aware Multi-Resource Management of High Service Availability on Internet Servers
Sponsor: National Science Foundation
Project Dates and Anticipated Amount of Award: 2/1/06-1/31/08; $209,103

Mechanical Engineering
PI: Ming-Chia Lai
Title: Water and Thermal Management Modeling in PEM Fuel Cells
Sponsor: Ford Motor Company
Project Dates and Anticipated Amount of Award: 2/1/06-1/31/09; $120,000

LAW SCHOOL
Law Instruction Units
PI: Erica Beecher-Monas
Title: Micro-Pilot Study Proposal: The Effects of Daubert on Evaluating Expert Testimony
Sponsor: University of Arkansas
Project Dates and Anticipated Amount of Award: 4/1/06-8/31/06; $4,121

LIBERAL ARTS AND SCIENCES
Biology
PI: Miriam L. Greenberg
Title: Does Copper Deficiency Play a Role in Barth Syndrome?
Sponsor: The Barth Syndrome Foundation, Inc.
Project Dates and Anticipated Amount of Award: 2/1/06-1/31/07; $40,000

PI: James David Tucker
Title: Culture Slide Preparation and Chromosome Painting
Sponsor: Food and Drug Administration
Project Dates and Anticipated Amount of Award: 3/24/06-3/23/08; $135,292

Chemistry
PI: Christine S. Chow
Title: High Throughput Screening Assay for RNA-Ligand Binding Interactions
Sponsor: Biopraxis, Inc.
Project Dates and Anticipated Amount of Award: 2/15/06-2/14/08; $65,287

PI: Dana M. Spence
Title: Deformation-Induced ATP Release from the Erythrocytes of MS Patients
Sponsor: National Multiple Sclerosis Society
Project Dates and Anticipated Amount of Award: 3/1/06-2/28/07; $44,000

Computer Science
PI: Monica Anne Brockmeyer
Title: BCP-Demonstration: Information Management and Systems Engineering
Sponsor: National Science Foundation
Project Dates and Anticipated Amount of Award: 3/1/06-2/28/09; $499,969

PI: Shiyong Lu
Title: Diabetes Gene Expression Data Analysis Using Fuzzy Set Theory
Sponsor: University of the District of Columbia
Project Dates and Anticipated Amount of Award: 4/1/06-9/30/06; $12,000

Nutrition and Food Science
PI: Ahmad Reza Heydari
Title: Base Exercision Repair Deficiency, Folate and GI Cancer
Sponsor: National Institute of Diabetes, Digestive and Kidney Disease
Project Dates and Anticipated Amount of Award: 1/30/06-12/31/09; $800,660

MEDICINE
Cancer Institute
PI: Stephen P. Ethier
Title: The Functional Effect of an Amphregulin Autocrine Loop Inflammatory Breast Cancer Progression
Sponsor: U.S. Army
Project Dates and Anticipated Amount of Award: 3/1/06-3/31/06; $90,000

Emergency Medicine
PI: Melissa Ann Barton
Title: Validation of a Modified Pulmonary Index (mPI) to Measure Severity of Acute Asthma in Pediatric Patients (Ages 6 to 14 years)
Sponsor: Merck & Company, Inc. Research Labs
Project Dates and Anticipated Amount of Award: 1/17/06-10/26/06; $4,094

PI: Scott A. Compton
Title: Outcomes Impacted by Family Witnesses to Resuscitation-A Simulation Study
Sponsor: Blue Cross/Blue Shield of Michigan
Project Dates and Anticipated Amount of Award: 1/1/06-12/31/06; $10,000

PI: David Phillip Levy
Title: Prevalence of Preclinical Cardiac Dysfunction Among an Asymptomatic Cohort of Predominantly African-American Hypertensive Patients Presenting
Sponsor: Blue Cross/Blue Shield of Michigan
Project Dates and Anticipated Amount of Award: 3/1/06-4/2/07; $74,122

PI: Robert Leigh Sherwin
Title: CREDO (Community Resources for ED Overuse)
Sponsor: Blue Cross/Blue Shield of Michigan
Project Dates and Anticipated Amount of Award: 1/1/06-12/31/06; $9,998

Immunology and Microbiology
PI: Paul Christopher Roberts
Title: Avian Influenza Virus Vaccines Bearing Immunomodulators
Sponsor: National Institute for Allergy and Infectious Diseases
Project Dates and Anticipated Amount of Award: 4/1/06-3/31/08; $413,875

Internal Medicine
PI: Ayad M. Al-Katib
Title: Activity of Anti-Cancer Agents in Lymphoid Xenografts
Sponsor: Aventis Pharmaceuticals Inc.
Project Dates and Anticipated Amount of Award: 2/20/06-10/31/06; $71,924

Neurology
PI: William Morris Coplin
Title: Randomized, Double-Blind, Placebo-Controlled, Multi-Center, Paralled Groups Confirmatory Efficacy and Safety Trial of Activated Recombinant Factor VII
Sponsor: Novo Nordisk Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
Project Dates and Anticipated Amount of Award: 2/24/06-9/21/06; $5,000

Ophthalmology
PI: Dean Eliott
Title: A Phase 2/3 Randomized, Controlled, Double-masked, Multi-center, Comparative Dose Finding Trial, in Parallel Groups, to Compare the Safety and….
Sponsor: Eyetech Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
Project Dates and Anticipated Amount of Award: 1/17/06-12/31/08; $283,924

Pharmacology
PI: Mohamad Bouhamdan
Title: RGS9-2 Protein: Novel Partners and Functional Roles
Sponsor: National Institute on Drug Abuse
Project Dates and Anticipated Amount of Award: 4/1/06-3/31/08; $413, 875

PI: Bonne Fiedorek Sloane
Title: Development of 3D Organotypic Breast Cancer Models to Analyze the Tumor Microenvironment and its Degradome During Malignant Progression
Sponsor: U.S. Army
Project Dates and Anticipated Amount of Award: 3/15/06-4/14/09; $90,000

Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation
PI: Collete A. Duggan
Title: Understanding the Post Injury Needs of Publicly Insured Recipients with Tetraplegia: A Family Prospective
Sponsor: Blue Cross/Blue Shield of Michigan Foundation
Project Dates and Anticipated Amount of Award: 3/13/06-3/12/08; $112,500

Surgery
PI: Lawrence N. Diebel
Title: A Phase III Randomized Double-Blind Study of Ceftobiprole Monotherapy Versus Linezolid Plus Ceftazidime in the Treatment of Nosocomical Pneumonia
Sponsor: Icon Clinical Research
Project Dates and Anticipated Amount of Award: 2/24/06-2/28/07; $1,890

NURSING
Family, Community and Mental Health
PI: Judith M. Fouladbakhsh
Title: Complementary and Alternative Therapy Use in a Cancer Population
Sponsor: Oncology Nursing Foundation
Project Dates and Anticipated Amount of Award: 3/15/06-3/15/08; $9,887

PHARMACY AND HEALTH SCIENCES
Deans Office of Pharmacy and Health Sciences
PI: Michael Joseph Rybak
Title: Evaluation of Novel B-Lactamase Inhibitors Combined with Cefepime Compared to Piperacillin/Tazobactam in an In Vitro Pharmacodynamic Model
Sponsor: Wyeth Lederle Pharmaceuticals
Project Dates and Anticipated Amount of Award: 3/1/06-8/31/06; $71,952

Pharmacy Practice
PI: Mary Elizabeth O’Connell
Title: Pharmacist Initiative to Increase Biphosphonate Use in Patients on Glucocorticoids
Sponsor: Merck Pharmaceuticals Company
Project Dates and Anticipated Amount of Award: 1/27/06-1/26/07; $19,993

RESEARCH
Gerontology
PI: Peter A. Lichtenberg
Title: Issues in Aging Conference
Sponsor: The Retirement Research Foundation
Project Dates and Anticipated Amount of Award: 4/1/06-3/31/07; $23,628

Institute of Environmental Health Sciences
PI: Paul M. Stemmer
Title: Linear Ion Trap for Proteomics
Sponsor: National Center for Research Resources
Project Dates and Anticipated Amount of Award: 4/1/06-3/31/07; $337,000

Institute for Manufacturing Research
PI: Guangzhao Mao
Title: Self-Assembly and Crystallization in Nanoscale Confinement
Sponsor: National Science Foundation
Project Dates and Anticipated Amount of Award: 3/15/06-2/28/09; $99,934