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Award Highlights

Ultrathin but super strong

nanoparticle sheets
  • 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
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Addressing Health Disparities

Students
  • 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
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A new way to fight transplant rejection

Surgeons
  • 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
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Building a better mouse model

Mice
  • 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
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Testing tools that detect head/neck cancer

Head/Neck exam
  • 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
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New equipment opens up the world

Head/Neck exam
  • 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
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Tracking climate change by studying solar radiation

Head/Neck exam
  • 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
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