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EHSRC Pilot Grant Program - Funded Applications

2006 - Present


 

  2006      

Investigator(s):   
Katarina Kulhankova, PhD Candidate, Occupational & Environmental Health; Peter S. Thorne, Professor, Occupational & Environmental Health; Elizabeth H. Field, Professor, Department of Internal Medicine
Project Title:    
Role of fetal and perinatal allergen exposures in pulmonary and immune hyperresponsiveness
Year Funded: 
2006
Amount Received: 
$30,000

Investigator(s):   
Gregor Luthe, Postdoctoral Research Scholar, Occupational & Environmental Health; Peter S. Thorne, Professor, Occupational & Environmental Health; Larry W. Robertson, Professor, Occupational & Environmental Health
Project Title:    
Pulmonary exposure to airborne polybrominated diphenyl ethers (PBDEs), using promising novel biomarkers
Year Funded: 
2006
Amount Received: 
$30,000

Investigator(s):   
Tom Peters, Assistant Professor, Occupational & Environmental Heatlh
Project Title:    
Relating cardiac function to diesel exhaust inhalation exposure
Year Funded: 
2006
Amount Received: 
$8,500

Investigator(s):   
Robert Cornell, Assistant Professor, Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology
Project Title:    
Modeling genetic sensitivity to environmental toxins implicated in Parkinson's Disease
Year Funded: 
2006
Amount Received: 
$27,000


Investigator(s): 
Frederick E. Domann, Professor, Free Radical and Radiation Biology; Susan Schultz, Professor, Psychiatry; Margaret Voelker, Assistant Research Scientist, Epidemiology
Project Title:    
Analysis of single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) in eosinophil peroxidase as risk factors for asthma and emphysema
Year Funded: 
2006
Amount Received: 
$50,000

Investigator(s):   
Jonathan A. Doorn, Assistant Professor, Pharmacy
Project Title:    
Maneb-mediated formation of oxidized Dopamine
Year Funded: 
2006
Amount Received: 
$29,980

Investigator(s):   
Izabela Kania-Korwel and Hans-Joachim Lehmler, Occupational & Environmental Health
Project Title:    
Are individual PCB congeners substrates for the multidrug resistance transporter mdr1a/b in mice?
Year Funded: 
2006
Amount Received: 
$30,000

Investigator(s):   
Joel N. Kline, Professor, Internal Medicine; Kim Baker, Pulmonary Fellow, Internal Medicine; Jerrold P. Weiss, Professor, Internal Medicine; Peter S. Thorne, Professor, Occupational & Environmental Health; Paul B. McCray, Professor, Pediatrics
Project Title:    
Role of MD-2 in regulation of endotoxin sensing in the lung
Year Funded: 
2006
Amount Received: 
$50,000

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