ACADEMIC AFFAIRS

Developmental Disabilities Institute
PI: Judy Lynn Cerano
Title: Did You Know?
Sponsor: Michigan Developmental Disabilities Council
Project Dates and Anticipated Amount of Award: 01/01/2007-09/30/2007; $63,750

Center for Urban Studies
PI: Douglas Towns
Title: Good Neighborhoods Initiative
Sponsor: Skillman Foundation
Project Dates and Anticipated Amount of Award: 12/01/2006-01/01/2008; $25,000

Interdisciplinary Studies Program
PI: A. Ronald Aronson
Title: Living Without God
Sponsor: Democratic Values Project
Project Dates and Anticipated Amount of Award: 01/01/2007-05/31/2007; $16,390

COLLEGE OF EDUCATION

Administration and Organizational Studies
PI: Ingrid Guerra-Lopez
Title: Detroit Digital Learning Community Planning Grant Proposal
Sponsor: Skillman Foundation
Project Dates and Anticipated Amount of Award: 01/01/2007-01/01/2008; $75,000

COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING

Engineering Technology
PI: Ece T. Yaprak
Title: Using a Model Undergraduate Learning Laboratory for Teaching Real-Time Embedded-Systems Networking
Sponsor: National Science Foundation
Project Dates and Anticipated Amount of Award: 01/01/2007-12/31/2008; $150,242

COLLEGE OF LIBERAL ARTS AND SCIENCES

Chemistry
PI: Dana M. Spence
Title: Monitoring Red Cell Metabolism Using Lab on a Chip
Sponsor: National Institute of Diabetes Digestive and Kidney Disease
Project Dates and Anticipated Amount of Award: 01/15/2007-12/31/2009; $957,456

Physics
PI: Gavin Lawes
Title: Magnetodielectric Coupling in Oxide Nanocomposites
Sponsor: American Chemical Society
Project Dates and Anticipated Amount of Award: 01/01/2007-08/31/2009; $40,000

SCHOOL OF MEDICINE

Anatomy and Cell Biology
PI: Robert Skoff
Title: Mitochondrial Impairment in Pelizaeus-Merzbacher Disease: Consequences for Therapeutic Strategies
Sponsor: Ela Fondation de Recherche
Project Dates and Anticipated Amount of Award: 01/23/2007-11/30/2007; $82,532

Department of Family Medicine and Public Health Sciences
PI: Kendra Schwartz
Title: Brief Intervention for Healthy Food Choices in Primary Care Practices
Sponsor: State of Michigan Department of Community Health
Project Dates and Anticipated Amount of Award: 01/01/2007-09/30/2007; $55,771

Immunology and Microbiology
PI: Harley Tse
Title: Mechanisms of EAE Resistance and Development of Chronic Relapsing Disease
Sponsor: National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke
Project Dates and Anticipated Amount of Award: 03/01/2007-02/28/2012; $1,481,485

Neurology
PI: John Kamholz
Title: Structural Analysis of the Extracellular Domain of MPZ from Patients with CMT1B
Sponsor: Muscular Dystrophy Association
Project Dates and Anticipated Amount of Award: 01/01/2007-12/31/2007; $54,395

PI: Jun Li
Title: The Utility of Skin Biopsy in the Evaluation of Inherited Neuropathy
Sponsor: Muscular Dystrophy Association
Project Dates and Anticipated Amount of Award: 01/01/2007-12/31/2007; $100,000

PI: Samia Ragheb
Title: Baff and the B-Cell in Myasthenia Gravis
Sponsor: Muscular Dystrophy Association
Project Dates and Anticipated Amount of Award: 01/01/2007-12/31/2009; $130,480

Obstetrics and Gynecology
PI: David Kmak
Title: Kenneth J. Ryan Training Program in Family Planning
Sponsor: Susan Thompson Buffett Foundation
Project Dates and Anticipated Amount of Award: 01/01/2007-12/31/2007; $261,132

Ophthalmology
PI: Monica Alexander
Title: The Role that Patient Education has on Persistency with and Tolerability of Bimatoprost in Patients with Primary Open Angle Glaucoma or Ocular Hyperte
Sponsor: Allergan, INC.
Project Dates and Anticipated Amount of Award: 01/30/2007-01/31/2008; $34,398

Otolaryngology
PI: James Coticchia
Title: Nasopharyngeal Biofilms in the Pathogenesis of Recurrent Acute Otitis Media
Sponsor: The Children’s Research Center of Michigan
Project Dates and Anticipated Amount of Award: 01/01/2007-12/31/2008; $100,000

Pathology
PI: Richard Vanderheide
Title: Cytoskeletal-based Survival Pathways in Myocardium
Sponsor: National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute
Project Dates and Anticipated Amount of Award: 01/02/2007-12/31/2010; $1,204,000

Pediatrics
PI: Fangyu Peng
Title: Human Copper Transporter 1 as Reporter Gene for Imaging
Sponsor: National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering
Project Dates and Anticipated Amount of Award: 04/01/2007-03/31-2009; $369,180

Pharmacology
PI: Robert Silver
Title: Sentinel for Detection of Explosives, Chem/Bio WMDs and Ionizing Radiation
Sponsor: Defense Threat Reduction Agency
Project Dates and Anticipated Amount of Award: 01/29/2007-01/28/2010; $450,000

Physiology
PI: Robert Lasley
Title: Compartmentation of Myocete Adenosine Receptor Signaling
Sponsor: National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute
Project Dates and Anticipated Amount of Award: 12/01/2006-05/31/2007; $27,135

Psychiatry
PI: Elizabeth Agius
Title: Evaluation of the Compassion Capital Initiative
Sponsor: New Detroit, Inc.
Project Dates and Anticipated Amount of Award: 01/01/2007-10/31/2007; $27,370

PI: Manuel Tancer
Title: Planning for a Center for Innovation in Services and Intervention Research in Michigan
Sponsor: Ethel and James Flinn Family Foundation
Project Dates and Anticipated Amount of Award: 01/01/2007-01/01/2008; $60,000

Surgery
PI: Anil Wali
Title: The Ubitquitin Proteasome Pathway in Mesothelioma
Sponsor: The Mesothelioma Applied Research Foundation, Inc.
Project Dates and Anticipated Amount of Award: 01/01/2007-12/31/2007; $44,953

APPLEBAUM COLLEGE OF PHARMACY AND HEALTH SERVICES

Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences
PI: Anjaneyulu Kowluru
Title: GTP-Binding Proteins in Islet Signal Transduction
Sponsor: Veterans Administration
Project Dates and Anticipated Amount of Award: 01/01/2007-12/31/2008; $29,143

PI: Jayanth Panyam
Title: Nanoparticles for Targeted Drug Delivery to Eliminate Chlamydial Infection
Sponsor: Ralph Wilson Medical Research Foundation
Project Dates and Anticipated Amount of Award: 01/01/2007-12/31/2007; $200,000

DIVISION OF RESEARCH

Office of the Vice President for Research
PI: Anne DiSante
Title: Market Analysis of CIAS: Computerized Intervention Authoring Software
Sponsor: Michigan Universities Commercialization Initiative
Project Dates and Anticipated Amount of Award: 01/01/2007-12/31/2007; $30,000

PI: Eric Stief
Title: Aminoglycoside Antibiotics Synthesis for Industry Testing
Sponsor: Michigan Universities Commercialization Initiative
Project Dates and Anticipated Amount of Award: 01/01/2007-12/31/2007; $20,000