ENGINEERING
Chemical Engineering
PI: Simon Ng
Title: Synthesis, Characterization, and Performance Evaluation of B-20 Biodiesel
Sponsor: NextEnergy Center
Project Dates and Anticipated Amount of Award: 5/1/06-4/30/07; $75,500

Civil Engineering
PI: Haluk Mehmet Aktan
Title: Combining Link-Slab, Deck Sliding over Back-Wall and Revising Bearings
Sponsor: State of Michigan Department of Transportation
Project Dates and Anticipated Amount of Award: 4/18/06-4/18/08; $225,132

LIBERAL ARTS AND SCIENCES
Chemistry
PI: Charles H. Winter
Title: Purchase of an Atomic Layer Deposition System for Film Growth and Precursor Development
Sponsor: U.S. Army
Project Dates and Anticipated Amount of Award: 5/1/06-4/30/07; $269,850

Geology
PI: Mark Mahalingam Baskaran
Title: Radiochemical Investigations on Subsistent Food Chain in Arctic and Sub-Arctic Regions
Sponsor: Aleutian Pribilof Islands Association, Inc.
Project Dates and Anticipated Amount of Award: 3/15/06-5/30/06; $12,000

Mathematics
PI: Leonid Makar-Limanov
Title: Properties and Applications of AK Invariant
Sponsor: National Security Agency
Project Dates and Anticipated Amount of Award: 4/17/06-4/16/08; $48,911

Physics
PI: David Anthony Cinabro
Title: Research at CLEO-c and CESRc
Sponsor: National Science Foundation
Project Dates and Anticipated Amount of Award: 5/1/06-4/30/09; $721,095

Sociology
PI: Mary C. Sengstock
Title: Elder Abuse/Neglect Identification and Intervention
Sponsor: Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan Foundation
Project Dates and Anticipated Amount of Award: 7/1/06-6/30/08; $71,988

MEDICINE
Anatomy
PI: Morris Goodman
Title: Collaborative Research: Genotypic and Phenotypic Changes Associated with Encephalization
Sponsor: National Science Foundation
Project Dates and Anticipated Amount of Award: 4/15/06-3/31/10; $100,000

Community Medicine
PI: Rosalie Feldman Young
Title: Reducing Risk of Breast Cancer Recurrence in African American Women
Sponsor: Susan G. Komen Foundation
Project Dates and Anticipated Amount of Award: 5/1/06-4/30/08; $250,000

Family Medicine
PI: Jinping Xu
Title: Racial Differences in Prostate Cancer Treatment Decision Making
Sponsor: American Cancer Society
Project Dates and Anticipated Amount of Award: 7/1/06-6/30/11; $145,708

Internal Medicine
PI: Mona Doshi
Title: Impact of Cardiovascular Screening and Revascularization Procedures in Patients with End Stage Renal Disease
Sponsor: National Kidney Foundation of Michigan, Inc.
Project Dates and Anticipated Amount of Award: 1/1/06-12/31/09; $150,000

Karmanos Cancer Institute
PI: Qingping Dou
Title: Roles of polymorphic COMT, Tea Polyphenols and Proteasome in Cancer Prevention
Sponsor: National Cancer Institute
Project Dates and Anticipated Amount of Award: 4/12/06-2/28/11; $1,215,220

PI: June Kan-Mitchell
Title: Optimizing Gag CTL Epitopes to Improve Immunogenicity
Sponsor: National Institute for Allergy and Infectious Diseases
Project Dates and Anticipated Amount of Award: 5/1/06-4/30/11; $2,726,543

PI: Louis Allen Penner
Title: Using Doctor-Patient Teams to Reduce Health Disparities
Sponsor: National Institute of Child Health and Human Development
Project Dates and Anticipated Amount of Award: 4/15/06-3/31/08; $355,933
Pathology
PI: Rafael A. Fridman
Title: Dynamic Regulation of MT1-MMP at the Tumor Cell Surface and Malignancy
Sponsor: National Cancer Institute
Project Dates and Anticipated Amount of Award: 3/15/06-2/28/11; $1,327,410

Pharmacology
PI: Raymond R. Mattingly
Title: Control of Mammary Epithelial Hyperplasia and Malignant Progression by P21-Activated Kinase 1 (PAK1)
Sponsor: Susan G. Komen Foundation
Project Dates and Anticipated Amount of Award: 5/1/06-4/30/08; $125,000

Psychiatry
PI: Steven J. Ondersma
Title: Computer-Based Brief Intervention for Perinatal Drug, Alcohol, and Tobacco Abuse
Sponsor: National Institute on Drug Abuse
Project Dates and Anticipated Amount of Award: 5/10/06-3/31/10; $1,282,159

PHARMACY AND ALLIED HEALTH
Pharmaceutical Sciences
PI: Fusao Hirata
Title: Lipocortin/Annexin I as a Unique Target of Mechanism Based Chemoprevention of Breast Cancer: Computer Biology and In Vitro New Gene Mutation Assays
Sponsor: Susan G. Komen Foundation
Project Dates and Anticipated Amount of Award: 5/1/06-4/30/08; $250,000

PI: Anjaneyulu Kowluru
Title: Novel Approaches to Prevent IL-1-Induced Islet Beta Cell Dysfunction
Sponsor: Juvenile Diabetes Foundation
Project Dates and Anticipated Amount of Award: 5/1/06-4/30/09; $161,234

RESEARCH
Gerontology
PI: Mark Luborsky
Title: Hip Fracture: Cultural Loss and Long-term Reintegration
Sponsor: National Institute of Aging
Project Dates and Anticipated Amount of Award: 6/1/06-5/31/08; $1,081,082

Merrill Palmer Institute
PI: Valerie Ann Simon
Title: Cognitions about Sexual Abuse and Youth’s Mental Health
Sponsor: National Institute of Mental Health
Project Dates and Anticipated Amount of Award: 5/1/06-4/30/08; $157,688

Office of the Vice President for Research
PI: Anne C. Disante
Title: Validate Market Need, Competitive Positioning, and Product Requirements for Arsenic Filtration Systems
Sponsor: Michigan Universities Commercialization Initiative
Project Dates and Anticipated Amount of Award: 1/1/06-6/1/06; $21,000

PI: Andrew A. Jakimcius
Title: Diffractive Imaging Micro-Spectrometer: Prototype Development and Market Analysis
Sponsor: Michigan Universities Commercialization Initiative
Project Dates and Anticipated Amount of Award: 4/1/06-3/31/07; $41,000

PI: Andrew A. Jakimcius
Title: Nanomechanical Parylene Piezoresistive Cantilevers as a Platform for Biological and Chemical Sensing
Sponsor: Michigan Universities Commercialization Initiative
Project Dates and Anticipated Amount of Award: 6/1/06-12/30/06; $15,000