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CCTS Pilot Grant Projects Funded

The UIC Center for Clinical and Translational Science (CCTS) announced this week that it has awarded funding to seven projects in its 2008 Pilot Grant Program. The program, supported by the Office of the Provost, the Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research, and the Health Science Colleges, focuses on clinical and translational research - research that involves human subjects, facilitates human subject investigations, establishes infrastructure related to human subject investigation, or concerns disease mechanisms with clear, near term implications for therapeutics or prevention. Seventy-five proposals were received from a variety of UIC departments and colleges, representing the Chicago, Peoria and Rockford campuses. The funded projects include investigators from 17 different departments and 4 colleges.

We are pleased to announce the following Pilot Grant awards:

1. "Mast Cell, Macrophage, and Eosinophil Interactions in Asthma". PI: Steven J. Ackerman, Ph.D., Professor, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics, College of Medicine; Co-Investigators: John Christman, M.D., Professor, Pulmonary, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine, College of Medicine; Richard Ye, Ph.D. Professor, Pharmacology, College of Medicine; H. Ari Jaffe, Associate Professor, Pulmonary, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine, College of Medicine.
2. "T-cell Immunotherapy for Adenoviral Infections of Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplant Patients". PI: Marlene Bouvier, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Microbiology and Immunology, College of Medicine; Co-Investigator: James L. Cook, M.D., Professor, Infectious Diseases, College of Medicine.
3. "Three Dimensional Human Ovary Organ Culture to Study Early Ovarian Cancer Events". PI: Joanna E. Burdette, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Medicinal Chemistry and Pharmacognosy, College of Pharmacy; Co-Investigator: Nita K. Lee, M.D., Obstetrics and Gynecology, College of Medicine.
4. "Planning Grant for Developing Research in Rural Cancer Control". PI: Michael L. Glasser, Ph.D., Associate Dean for Rural Health Professions, University of Illinois at Rockford; Co-Investigators: Usha Menon, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Biobehavioral Health Science, College of Nursing; Lissette Piedra, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Social Work, UIUC.
5. "Novel Electroretinographic Mapping of Retinal Function for Diagnosis of Progressive Eye Disease". PI: John R. Hetling, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Bioengineering, College of Engineering; Co-Investigator: Janet Szlyk, Ph.D., Professor, Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences, College of Medicine.
6. "Activation of P21 Activated Kinase-1 as a Novel Therapeutic Strategy for Ischemic Heart Diseases". PI: Yunbo Ke, Ph.D., Research Assistant Professor, Physiology and Biophysics, College of Medicine; Co-PI: R. John Solaro, Ph.D., Professor, Physiology and Biophysics, College of Medicine; Co-Investigator: Samuel C. Dudley, M.D., Ph.D., Professor, Cardiology, College of Medicine.
7. "A Pilot Study of White Matter Involvement in Glioma Patients Using High-Resolution Diffusion MRI". PI: Xiaohong Joe Zhou, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Neurological Surgery, College of Medicine; Co-Investigators: Herbert H. Engelhard, M.D., Ph.D., Associate Professor, Neurological Surgery; John L. Villano, M.D., Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Oncology, College of Medicine; Tibor Valyi-Nagy, M.D., Ph.D., Associate Professor, Pathology, College of Medicine.

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