About the Department

Departmental Funding

Faculty Funding | Postdoc Funding | Graduate Student Funding

Faculty Funding

Project Title (Principal Investigator) Funding Agency
Mechanism of Cardiac Muscle Regulation by Troponin
(Potter, James)
NIH

Physiological Role of the Myosin Regulatory Light Chains
(Potter, James)

NIH

Training Program in Cardiovascular Signaling
(Potter, James)

NIH

FHC Tn Mutations: Functional Consequences and Mechanisms
(Potter, James)

NIH
   

Cardiovascular Genetics Center Grant
(Bishopric, Nanette)

MHRI

Transcription Programming in Cardiac Growth
(Bishopric, Nanette)

NIH/NHLBI
Molecular Mechanisms of Acquired Dilated Cardiomyopathy
(Bishopric, Nanette)
AHA
   
Receptor tyrosine phosphatases and the growth of vertebrate axons
(Bixby, John)
NIH/NHLBI
Broadly-based predoctoral training program in the neurosciences
(Bixby, John)
NIH
Effect of antibodies on CD148 activity
(Bixby, John)
Amgen, Inc.
Novel compounds that overcome inhibition of regeneration
(Bixby, John)
Paralyzed Veterans of America
   
Cellular basis of airway secretion-clearance coupling
(Bookman, Richard)
NIH
   
Vav3, a Rho GEF, Stimulates Androgen Receptor Activity and Prostate Cancer Growth
(Burnstein, Kerry)
NIH/NIDDK
Rho family GTPases - key regulators of prostate cancer cell cycle progression and tumorigenesis
(Burnstein, Kerry)
DOD
Vitamin D promotes G1 arrest via Cdk2 Mislocalization
(Burnstein, Kerry)
NIH/NCI
Nuclear Transport & Oncolysis, Novel Targets in Cancer Therapy
(Burnstein, Kerry)
FDH
   
Role of Clathrin and Actin in Endocytosis in Yeast
(Lemmon, Sandra)
NIH
   
Regulation of Phospholipase C-Beta Isoforms by Hormones and Phosphatidic Acid
(Litosch, Irene )
NIH
Regulation of Phospholipase C-Beta Signaling by G Protein Coupled Receptors in Hypoxia
(Litosch, Irene)
NIH
   
Potentiation of Neuronal Nicotinic Receptors by Zinc
(Luetje, Charles)
NIH/NIMH
Binding Site Structure of Neuronal Nicotinic Receptors
(Luetje, Charles)
NIH/NIDA
Development of Ligands for Nicotinic Receptors
(Luetje, Charles, Investigator)
NIH
Center to explore connections between Oceans and Human Health
(Luetje, Charles, Investigator)
NIH
   
Regulation of G protein GTPase in photoreceptors
(Slepak, Vladlen)
NIH
Interaction of RGS proteins with G beta subunit G beta 5
(Slepak, Vladlen)
NIH/NIGMS
   
Study of transgenic mice with D166V-RLC mutant that causes malignant phenotype of hypertrophic cardiomyopathy in humans
(Szczesna, Danuta)
AHA
Functional Consequences of FHC-linked RLC Mutations
(Szczesna, Danuta)
NIH/NHLBI
The Function of Slow Skeletal TnT in Muscle Contraction
(Szczesna, Danuta, Co-PI)
NIH/NIAMS 
Molecular mechanism of mutant cardiac myosin
(Szczesna, Danuta, Co-PI)
NIH/NHLBI
   
Mechanisms of Orb6 kinase regulation in response to cellular stress
(Verde, Fulvia)
NSF
   
Pathways of Apoptosis in Hypoxic Cardiac Myocytes
(Webster, Keith)
NIH/NHLBI
Regulated Therapeutic Angiogenesis: for Ischemic Disease
(Webster, Keith)
NIH/NHLBI
Design, Construction and Testing of a Pacing-Responsive Promoter
(Webster, Keith)
Medtronics

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Postdoc Funding

Project Title (Postdoc Name) Funding Agency

Regulation of cardiomyocyte cell death by glucose, BNIP3 and NIX
(Graham, Regina)

AHA

Role of lipid rafts in G protein signaling (Nair, Saidas)

AHA

Functional Assessment of Human Cardiac Troponin T Isoforms in the Regulation of Cardiac Muscle Contraction
(Gomes, Aldrin)
Regulation of Neural Stem Cell Differentiation in the Mouse Brain
(Jhaveri, Dhanisha)

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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 ($23,000 effective June 1, 2007) to cover living expenses.

Some students have successfully competed for prestigious fellowships:

Current Predoctoral Fellowship Funding:

Project Title (Student Name) Funding Agency
Identification and Characterization of Replication Initiation
Defective (rid) Mutants in Schizosaccharomices Pombe (Locovei, Alexandra)
AHA
Assessment of Ca2+ Sensitivity of Force Development in Cardiac
Troponin C Mutants with Altered Ca2+ Affinities (Parvatiyar, Michelle)
AHA
Molecular Mechanism of Signal-Dependent
G Protein Translocation (Rosenzweig, Derek)
AHA
Analysis of BNIP3 Cleavage and its Role in
Initiating Cardiac Myocyte Death (Wilson, Amber)
AHA
Environmental Arsenic and Androgen Reception Regulation (Rosenblatt, Adena) NIH/NIEHS

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
Leah Lyons, PhRMA
Mark McCollum, AHA
Billy Thompson, AHA
Thanh Tran, AHA
Eddy Yang, NIH/NIEHS

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