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Departmental Funding

Faculty Funding

Project Title (Principal Investigator)	Funding Agency
“Detection of Melanoma by Canine Olfactory Receptors” (Abaffy, Tatjana)	NIH/NCI
“Novel Compounds That Overcome Glial Inhibition of Axonal Regeneration” (Bixby, John)	NIH/NINDS
“Novel Compounds That Overcome Glial Inhibition of Axonal Regeneration” (ARRA Summer Supplement to Parent R01) (Bixby, John)	NIH/NINDS
“RPTPs in the Growth of Vertebrate Axons” (Bixby, John)	NIH/NINDS
“Predoctoral Training Program in the Neurosciences” (Bixby, John)	NIH/NINDS
“Vav3 Oncogene Potentiation of Androgen Receptor Signaling in Prostate Cancer” (Burnstein, Kerry)	NIH/NCI
"VAV3 Potentiates AR Activity in Androgen-Independent Prostate Cancer via its Pleckstrin Homology (PH) Domain; an Emerging Drug Target” (Burnstein, Kerry)	DOD
“DNA Replication Checkpoints in Fission Yeast” (D'Urso, Gennaro)	NIH/NCI
“Clathrin and Actin in Endocytosis in Yeast” (Lemmon, Sandra)	NIH/NIGMS
“Molecular regulation of heart valve development and function” (Lincoln, Joy)	NIH/NHLBI
"Molecular regulation of heart valve development and disease” (Lincoln, Joy)	J&E King FL Biomedical Research Program
"Synthetic Olfaction for Real-World Applications" (Luetje, Charles)	DARPA/Evolved Machines Subcontract
“Ligand Recognition Among Mammalian Odorant Receptors” (Luetje, Charles)	NIH/NIDCD
“Development of Ligands for Nicotinic Receptors” (Luetje, Charles)	NIH/RTI Subcontract
"Nicotine and Chronic Kidney Disease" (Luetje, Charles)	NIH/University of Alabama Subcontract
“Functional genomics of host seeking and selection behavior by Nasonia sp. and economically important representatives of the parasitic Hymenoptera” (Luetje, Charles)	USDA/ Univ. of Illinois
“The Function of Slow Skeletal TnT in Muscle Contraction” (Potter, James)	NIH/NIAMS
“Cardiac Troponin in Health and Disease” (Potter, James)	NIH/NHLBI
“HTS for Regulated Muscle Thin Filament Function” (Potter, James)
“Training Program in Cardiovascular Signaling” (Potter, James)	NIH/NHLBI
“Mechanism of Cardiac Stem Cell Survival” (Rodrigues, Claudia)	AHA
“Mechanisms of intercellular communication during angiogenesis” (Rodrigues, Claudia)	J&E King FL Biomedical Research Program
“Interaction of RGS Protein with G beta subunit G beta 5” (Slepak, Vlad)	NIH/NIGMS
“Light-dependent Transducin Movement in Retinal Rods” (Slepak, Vlad)	NIH/NEI
“Hope for Vision Award for Retinal Degenerative Disease Research” (Slepak, Vlad)	Hope for Vision
“Functional Consequences of FHC-linked RLC Mutations” (Szczesna-Cordary, Danuta)	NIH/NHLBI
“Single Cross-Bridge Kinetics in Transgenic Mouse Hearts Expressing FHC Mutations” (Szczesna-Cordary, Danuta)	NIH/NHLBI
“Control RHO-Gap RGA4 and the Conserved Protein Kinase ORB 6” (Verde, Fulvia)	NSF
“Mechanisms of action and activation of the death-inducing protein Bnip3” (Webster, Keith)	NIH/NHLBI
“JNK exacerbates schemia/reperfusion injury in hyperglycemic subjects” (Webster, Keith)	NIH/NHLBI
“Regulated Therapeutic Angiogenesis: for Ischemic Disease” (Webster, Keith)	NIH/NHLBI
“Mechanisms of Neuronal Maintenance and Protection” (Zhai, Grace)	NIH/NINDS
"Mechanisms of smoking-related retinal degeneration” (Zhai, Grace)	J&E King FL Biomedical Research Program
“Protecting Neurons Against Degeneration” (Zhai, Grace)	Pew Charitable Trusts

Postdoc Funding

Project Title (Postdoc Name)	Funding Agency
"Regulation of endocytosis by clathrin light chain" (Boettner, Doug)	NIH/NIGMS
"Phosho-regulation of Endocytosis by multifunctional PP1 targeting protein Scd5" (Chi, Richard)	NIH/NIGMS
"Charcterization of cTnC Mutations related to HCM, RCM, and DCM in Knock in Mice" (Parvatiyar, Michelle)	AHA
" Functional Effects of Newly Discovered Troponin C Mutations Linked to Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy" (Pinto, Jose)	AHA

Graduate Student Funding:

All applicants accepted into the graduate program receive financial support throughout their graduate student years. Support includes tuition, 80% of health insurance premium for a single person and a stipend ($25,500 effective June 1, 2009) to cover living expenses.

Some students have successfully competed for prestigious fellowships:

Current Predoctoral Fellowship Funding:

Project Title (Student Name)	Funding Agency
"Transcriptional Regulation of a Neuroprotective Factor NMNAT upon Oxidative Stress" (Ali, Yousuf)	AHA
"Effector mechanisms in myocardial protection mediated by p300." (Jain, Sumit)	AHA
"Characterization of a Calcineurin-mAKAP Signalosome" (Lopez, Johanna)	AHA
"The Role of sox9 in heart valve development and disease." (Peacock, Jacque)	AHA
"Regulation of Angiogenesis by microRNA during Hypertrophy." (Sharma, Salil)	AHA

Recent Graduate Fellowship Awardees:

Papia Chakraborty, AHA
Audrey Chang, PhRMA
Fatima De Freitas, AHA
David Dweck, AHA
Christina Ford, HHMI
Donna Frazier, AHA
Huifang Li, AHA

Alexandra Locovei, AHA
Leah Lyons, PhRMA
Mark McCollum, AHA

Michelle Parvatiyar, AHA

Adena Rosenblatt, NIH/NIEHS

Derek Rosenzweig, AHA
Billy Thompson, AHA
Thanh Tran, AHA

Amber Wilson, AHA
Eddy Yang, NIH/NIEHS

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