TRO Awards - 2007
 
Carol M. Baldwin Breast Cancer Research Awards
Paul R. Fisher, M.D.
Associate Professor, Department of Radiology
"3-D localization of breast lesions using breast tomosynthesis"

Michael Frohman, Ph.D.
Professor, Department of Pharmacological Sciences
"PLD2 therapeutic inhibitor for breast cancer metastasis"

Alexei Petrenko, Ph.D.
Senior Research Scientist, Department of Pathology
"Role of p63 in breast cancer"

Robert Rizzo, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Department of Applied Math & Statistics
"Structure-based design of ErbB family inhibitors"
 
Catacosinos Cancer Scholar Award
Srinivas Pentyala, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Department of Anesthesiology
"Characterization and validation of prostate cancer markers"
 
Walk-For-Beauty Foundation Research Award
Christopher S. Lee, M.D.
Assistant Professor, Department of Urology
"Urinary cancer markers to predict prognosis and follow treatment"

Shinya Shibutani, Ph.D.
Senior Research Scientist, Department of Pharmacological Sciences
"Anti-breast cancer potential of soy isoflavones and their analogs"
 
FUSION Awards
David Brown, MD (PI)
Professor, Department of Medicine - Cardiovascular Medicine
Lisa Benz Scott, PhD (Co-PI)
Associate Professor, Department of Health Care Policy and Management
"African American Cardiac Patient Navigators to Improve Care Transitions"

Richard A. Clark, MD (PI)
Professor, Department of Biomedical Engineering
Adam J. Singer, MD (Co-PI)
Professor, Department of Emergency Medicine
"Fibronectin peptides for wound healing in diabetes"

Dmitri Gnatenko, PhD (PI)
Research Assistant Professor, Department of Medicine - Hematology
Wei Zhu, PhD (Co-PI)
Professor, Department of Applied Math & Statistics
"Class prediction model/tool to evaluate causes of Thrombocytosis"

Stefan Judex, PhD (PI)
Associate Professor, Department of Biomedical Engineering
Irwin Kurland, MD, PhD (Co-PI)
Professor, Department of Medicine
"A non-pharmacological prophylaxis for obesity"

James Konopka, PhD (PI)
Professor, Department of Molecular Genetics & Microbiology
Roger Johnson, PhD (Co-PI)
Professor, Department of Physiology & Biophysics
"Novel anti-fungal drug strategy"

Steffen Mueller PhD (PI)
Assistant Professor, Department of Molecular Genetics & Microbiology
Steven Skiena, PhD - (Co-PI)
Professor, Department of Computer Science
"Synthetic Viral Genome Design for Rapid Vaccine Development"

Iwao Ojima, PhD (PI)
Professor, Department of Chemistry, ICB & DD
Stanley Zucker, MD (Co-PI)
Professor, Department of Medicine, VAMC/Northpor
Maria Ryan, PhD (Co-PI)
Professor, Department of Oral Biology & Pathology
"Preclinical studies on DHA-SBT-1214 for IND filing"

Yingtian Pan, PhD (PI)
Associate Professor, Department of Biomedical Engineering
Wayne Waltzer, MD (Co-PI)
Professor, Department of Urology
Jingxuan Liu, MD (Co-PI)
Assistant Professor, Department of Pathology
"Optical biopsy for epithelial cancer diagnosis & grading"

Peter Tonge, PhD (PI)
Professor, Department of Chemistry
Thomas O'Riordan (Co-PI)
Associate Professor, Department of Medicine
"Aerosol delivery of TB drugs"