Award Highlights
Ultrathin but super strong
- Principal Investigator: Heinrich Jaeger, PhD, Physics Professor; the James Franck Institute Professor; and Director of the Materials Research Science and Engineering Center at the University of Chicago
- Amount: $405,000
- Source: National Science Foundation ARRA Funding
- Goal: Test the properties of a new class of ultrathin nanoparticle sheets created at The University of Chicago
Addressing Health Disparities
- Principal Investigator: Julian Solway, Walter L. Palmer Distinguished Service Professor of Medicine and Pediatrics; Vice Chair of Research; Associate Dean for Translational Medicine; and Chairman, Committee on Molecular Medicine
- Amount: $857,156
- Source: National Institutes of Health ARRA Funding
- Goal: To encourage more African American and Hispanic undergraduates to pursue careers in science and research by studying health disparities in underserved populations
A new way to fight transplant rejection
- Principal Investigator: Anita Chong, PhD, Professor of Surgery, Pathology and Immunology; Committee on Immunology; and Committee on Molecular Metabolism and Nutrition, The University of Chicago
- Amount: $390,000 (year one); $390,000 (year two)
- Source: National Institutes of Health ARRA Funding
- Goal: Harnessing B cells to induce the body to accept rather than reject a transplanted organ
Building a better mouse model
- Principal Investigator: Kathleen Millen, Associate Professor of Human Genetics; Committee on Genetics; and Committee on Neurobiology at the University of Chicago
- Amount: $500,000 (year one); $499,998 (year two)
- Source: National Institutes of Health ARRA Funding
- Goal: Develop a fast, inexpensive way to generate mouse models to study human genetic diseases
Testing tools that detect head/neck cancer
- Principal Investigator: Mark Lingen, DDS, PhD, Associate Professor of Pathology; Director of the Core Lab, General Clinical Research Center; Director of the Human Tissue Resource Center; Committee on Cancer Biology; and Committee on Molecular Medicine/MPMM at the University of Chicago
- Amount: $768,159
- Source: National Institutes of Health ARRA Funding
- Goal: To develop a comprehensive plan for a large multi-center clinical trial to determine the diagnostic accuracy of handheld oral cancer screening devices
New equipment opens up the world
- Principal Investigator: Albert Colman, PhD, Assistant Professor of Geophysical Sciences at the University of Chicago
- Amount: $463,218
- Source: National Science Foundation ARRA Funding
- Goal: Purchase two advanced mass spectrometers to study carbon, oxygen, sulfur and nitrogen in samples of air, water, ice, plants, soils, rocks and fossils
Tracking climate change by studying solar radiation
- Principal Investigator: John Frederick, PhD, Professor and Master, Geophysical Sciences at the University of Chicago
- Amount: $694,904
- Source: National Science Foundation ARRA Funding
- Goal: Obtain high quality data related to solar radiation measured at two locations in the Arctic