In the most recent cycle of Penn's internally-funded Research Foundation, the Office of the Vice Provost for Research has announced awards to the following members of the faculty for the projects listed here.
The deadline for the Spring Research Foundation proposals is March 15. The Research Foundation Proposal Coversheet is available from the Office of the Vice Provost for Research, 215 College Hall, and on the web at www.upenn.edu/VPR/RFGForm.html.
The Research Foundation Guidelines are available on line at www.upenn.edu/almanac/v47/n06/RFguide.html.
Research Foundation Fall Cycle 2000 Awards
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- G. K. Ananthasuresh, et al, SEAS; Vision-Based Mechanical Manipulation and Force Measurement of Single Cells.
- Michael Atchison, Veterinary Medicine; Mechanisms of Pu.1-Pip and E47-Pip DNA Binding and Transcriptional Synergy.
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- Jeanette Bennicelli, Medicine; PAX7 Transcriptional Repression in Development and Cancer.
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- Margret Casal, Veterinary Medicine; Fetal Immunity to In Utero Transplanted Murine Fetal Hematopoietic Cells.
- Russell Composto, SEAS; Paul Ducheyne, SEAS; M. Shapiro, Dental Medicine; A Laser Tweezer Apparatus for Quantifying Cell-Surface Adhesion.
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- Peter Davies, SEAS; Synthesis and Characterization of High Q Microwave Ceramics.
- Scott Diamond, SEAS; Enzyme Assay Microarrays for Functional Phenotyping.
- Arthur Dunham, SAS; Cryptic Speciation within a Prehensile-tailed, Arboreal, Island Skink. A Molecular Investigation into the Phylogeography of Corucia Zebrata.
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- Dawn Elliott, Medicine; Novel Micro-Sensor Technology to Measure Intradiscal Pressure in the Mouse Lumbar Spine Which will Quantify the Degree of Disc Degeneration.
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- Joseph Farrell, SAS; The Vergilian Century (a conference on the historical and political forces that shaped Latin literary studies during the twentieth century).
- Mark Fogel, Medicine; Cytokines, The Volume Loaded Ventricle and Congenital Heart Disease.
- Mark Fogel, et al, Medicine; Hierarchy of Cerebral and Pulmonary Blood Flow using Magnetic Resonance Imaging.
- Fred Frankel, Medicine; Immunogenicity of a New Safe Vaccine Vector for HIV.
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- Kenneth Ginsburg, Medicine; Transitioning Chronically Ill Adolescents from Pediatric to Adult Care: The Adult Clinician's Perspective.
- Mary Ellen Goldhamer, Medicine; Primary Care Needs of Patients with Inflammatory Bowel Disease-A Survey of Physicians' Knowledge and Attitudes.
- Marie Gottschalk, SAS; The Politics of Mass Imprisonment in the United States.
- Mauro Guillen, Wharton; Measuring Internet Development: A Global Study.
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- Trevor Hadley, Medicine; Primary Care Physicians as Mental Health Providers: A Survey In Three Countries.
- Ronald Harty, Veterinary Medicine; Functional Analysis of the VP24 Protein of Ebola Virus.
- Frank Horrigan, Medicine; Ion Channel Gating at Sub-Zero Temperatures.
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- Jerry Jacobs, SAS; Gender and Medical Education.
- Arthur Johnson, et al, SAS; Biomass, Productivity and Methane Production Potential of Oligocene-Age Forests from Western Siberia.
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- Nicholas Kefalides, Medicine; Collagen Type IV Inhibits Tumor Growth and Angiogenesis.
- Branko Kolarevic, GFSA; Digital Design and Manufacturing Technologies in Building Design and Construction.
- Robert Kraft, SAS; Digitizing the Penn Papyri Collections for the APIS Project.
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- Patricia Labosky, et al, Medicine; Request for a Microinjection Apparatus for the Production of Chimeric and Transgenic Mice and Embryos.
- Zhe Lu, Medicine; Application of Combinatorial Peptide Technology in Discovering Inhibitors for Ion Channels.
- Frank Luca, et al, Veterinary Medicine; Request for AKFA Purifier Liquid Chromatography System for Purification of Proteins and Peptides.
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- Chung Pei Ma, SAS; Probing Cosmic Baryons.
- K. J. McLaughlin, et al, Veterinary Medicine; Request for a LightCycler to Perform Quantitative and Allele Specific Analysis of Gene Expression in Mouse Germ Cells and the Early Mouse Embryo.
- Joshua Mosley, SAS; New Media Collaborative Art Forms.
- Ann Moyer, SAS; Book publication costs for two books: 1. Raffaele Brandolini, on Music Poetry: Edition, Translation, with Introduction 2. The Philosophers' Game: Rithmomachia in Medieval and Renaissance Europe.
- Kaivan Munshi, SAS; Culture, Marriage and Sexual Behavior: Health and AIDS Among the Luo.
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- Katherine Nathanson, Medicine; Genetic Predisposition to Testis Cancer.
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- Debkumar Pain, Medicine; Functional Studies of Human Frataxin in Saccharomyces Cerevisiae.
- Mark Vincent Pauly, Wharton; Health Care Information Technology and Business Performance.
- Hermann Pfefferkorn, SAS; Fossil Plants with Wood and Spores: The Solution for an Enigma in China.
- S. Michael Phillips, Medicine; Lung Transplantation and T-cell Costimulatiion.
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- Robert Rescorla, SAS; Associative Learning with Valuable Stimuli.
- Lawrence Rome, et al, SAS; Explaining the Paradox: Uncovering the Mechanism of Relaxation in Superfast Muscle by Measuring Muscle Contraction Energetics.
- Bruce Rosengard, Medicine; Ventricular Tissue Engineering for the Treatment of Congenital and Acquired Myocardial Dysfunction.
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- Nita Salzman, Medicine; Regulation of Enteric Antimicrobial Peptides by Salmonella Typhimurium.
- Richard Scarfone, Medicine; A Comparative Trial of Racemic Albuterol and levalbuterol for Children with Acute Asthma.
- Marc Schmidt, et al, SAS; Auditory-Motor Encoding in a Multi-Songed Passerine.
- Richard Schultz, et al, SAS; Departmental Resource: High Efficiency Mouse Caging System.
- Larry Silver, SAS; Transformations: Jews and Modernity.
- Gary Smith, Veterinary Medicine; Training to Develop PCR Based Analysis of Host Feeding History in Parasitic Arthropods.
- Peter Snyder, Medicine; Gonadotroph Adenomas: Search for an Etiology.
- Diane Spatz, Nursing; Influencing Nutrition of African American Adolescent Mothers and Their Infants by Using the Maternal Child Nutrition Support Team (MSCNT).
- Peter Struck, SAS; Greek and Roman Divination.
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- Richard Tannen, et al, Medicine; Utility of Computerized Ambulatory Medical Record Databases to Inform Medical Practice.
- Barbara Turner, Medicine; Understanding Access and Use of Medical Services by HIV+ Methodone-Treated Drug Users.
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- John Vohs, SEAS; Quantum Design Physical Property Measurement System for Studies of Multifunctional Oxides.
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- Doris Wagner, SAS; The Role of Chromatin Remodeling in Development.
- Yanyan Wang, Medicine; Functional Role of two Isoforms of Dopamine D2 Receptor.
- Josef Wegner, SAS; Archaeological Research on an Urban Site of Egypt's Middle Kingdom.
- Eric Weinberg, SAS; The Role of Eya 1 in Development of the Inner Ear.
- Hugh Williams, SAS; Development of a Time Measurement Integrated Circuit in a Deep Submicron Process.
- Saul Winegrad, Medicine; Experimental Treatment for Cardiomyopathy Due to Mutant Mysosin Binding Protein C.
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- Qin Yu, Veterinary Medicine; Regulation of CD44 Function by Intracellular Proteins.
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Almanac, Vol. 47, No. 23, February 20, 2001