Of note

Denise E. Wilfrey, Ph.D., professor of psychiatry, has received a five-year, $537,966 grant from the National Institute of Mental Health for research titled “Clinical Research in Eating Disorders and Obesity.” …

David C. Van Essen, Ph.D., the Edison Professor of Neurobiology, has received a three-year, $594,764 grant from the G. Harold and Leila Y. Mathers Charitable Foundation for research titled “Pattern Recognition and Pattern Generation in the Brain.” …

Jan A. Nolta, Ph.D., associate professor of medicine, has received a one-year, $352,688 grant from Children’s Hospital of Los Angeles for research titled “Regulation of Human Hematopoietic Stem Cell Cycle Induction.” …

Jay W. Ponder, Ph.D., associate professor of biochemistry and molecular biophysics, has received a two-year, $343,220 grant from the National Science Foundation for research titled “Polarizable Atomic Multipole Forch Field for Biomacromolecules.” …

Karen L. O’Malley, Ph.D., professor of anatomy and neurobiology, has received a two-year, $275,400 grant from the National Institute of Mental Health for research titled “Signaling By Nuclear G-protein Coupled Receptors.” …

Gregory A. Storch, M.D., professor of pediatrics, has received a one-year, $266,752 grant from the St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital Inc. for the project “Pediatric AIDS Clinical Trials Group.” …

Anne M. Bowcock, Ph.D., professor of genetics, has received a one-year, $150,000 grant from the National Psoriasis Foundation for research in the genetics of psoriasis. …

David A. Rudnick, M.D., Ph.D., assistant professor of pediatrics, has received a two-year, $150,000 grant for research titled “Functional Analyses of Adipocytic Gene Expression and Complement Cascade Activation During Liver Regeneration.” …

Jeffrey D. Milbrandt, M.D., Ph.D., professor of pathology and immunology, has received a one-year, $100,000 grant for research titled “Mutational Profiling of the Kinone in Prostate Tumors.” …

Randall Bateman, M.D., postdoctoral research scholar in neurology, has received a two-year, $100,000 grant from the American Academy of Neurology Foundation for an AAN Foundation Clinical Research Training Fellowship. …

Jeffrey F. Moley, M.D., professor of surgery, has received a one-year, $99,642 grant from Barnes-Jewish Hospital for research titled “Limited Neck FDG-PET for Indeterminate Follicular Thyroid Lesions.” …

Kelle H. Moley, M.D., associate professor of obstetrics and gynecology, has received a one-year, $89,788 grant from Barnes-Jewish Hospital for research titled “Prospective Randomized Clinical Trial of Metformin in Patients with Recurrent Pregnancy Losses.” …

Mark E. Warchol, Ph.D., research associate professor of otolaryngology, has received a one-year, $82,426 grant from the University of Virginia for research titled “Peripheral Sensory System Development and Regeneration.” …

Randall R. Odem, M.D., professor of obstetrics and gynecology, has received a one-year, $81,500 grant from Barnes-Jewish Hospital for research titled “A Prospective, Randomized, Double-blind Study for the Evaluation of Assisted Hatching.” …

Rodney D. Newberry, M.D., assistant professor of medicine, has received a one-year, $69,000 grant from the Crohn’s and Colitis Foundation of America for research titled “Lymphotoxin Beta Receptor Function and Blockage in Intestinal Inflammation.” …

Barbara Jost, M.D., clinical fellow of internal medicine, has received a one-year, $10,000 grant from the Foundation of the American College of Allergy, Asthma and Immunology for research titled “Correlation of Mold Extract Intradermal Skin Testing with Clinical Sensitivity in Mold-induced Perennial Rhinitis.” …

Mitchell H. Grayson, M.D., assistant professor of medicine, has received a one-year, $20,000 grant from the American Academy of Allergy, Asthma and Immunology for research titled “Chemokine and Dendritic Cell Activity in Viral Airway Disease.” …

Daniel W. Coyne, M.D., associate professor of medicine, has received a one-year, $20,000 grant from Amgen for a nephrology fellowship. …

Michael R. Chicoine, M.D., assistant professor of neurological surgery, has received a one-year, $45,567 grant from Barnes-Jewish Hospital for research titled “Characterization of the Anti-Tumoral Effects of Lipopolysaccharide Upon Brain Tumors.” …

Adam S. Kibel, M.D., associate professor of surgery, has received a one-year, $30,000 grant from the Midwest Stone Institute for research titled “Feasibility Study of Prostate Tumor Localization for Focal Cryoablation of Prostate Carcinoma.” …

Matthew J. Ellis, Ph.D., associate professor of medicine, has received a one-year, $42,346 grant from Duke University for research titled “Letrozole 024 Clinical Trail Correlative Science Program.” …

David M. Jaffe, M.D., the Dana Brown/St. Louis Children’s Hospital Professor of Pediatrics, has received a one-year, $22,789 grant from the University of California, Davis, for research titled “Childhood Head Trauma: A Neuroimaging Decision Rule.” …

Edwin Trevathan III, M.D., professor of neurology, has received a one-year, $33,019 grant for research titled “Childhood Absence Epilepsy: RX, PK-PD-Pharmacogenetics.” …

Joseph O. Deasy, Ph.D., associate professor of radiation oncology, has received a one-year, $12,569 grant from the Georgia Institute of Technology for research titled “A Prototype Radiation Therapy Treatment Planning Research Toolkit.” …

Thomas A. Woolsey, M.D., professor of neurological surgery, has received a one-year, $15,000 grant from the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke for a “Spring Brain Conference.” …

Samuel Achilefu, Ph.D., associate professor of radiology, has received a one-year, $23,000 grant from the National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bio-engineering for a “Symposium on Imaging Agents and Molecular Beacons.” …

Kathryn G. Miller, Ph.D., professor of biology, has received the Visiting Miller Professorship at the Miller Institute for Basic Research in Science at the University of California, Berkeley, for Fall 2005. Miller will be collaborating with Berkeley Professor Loy Volkman in Berkeley’s Department of Plant and Microbial Biology to investigate the role of myosin VI in baculovirus invasion and replication. …

M. Bruce Fegley, Ph.D., professor of earth and planetary sciences in Arts & Sciences, has received a five-year, $350,000 grant from NASA for research entitled “Origin and Evolution of Organics in Planetary Systems.” …

Christine Floss, Ph.D., senior research scientist in physics in Arts & Sciences, has received a three-year, $37,048 grant from Arizona State University for research titled “Mixing State and Nano/Micro-scale Physical and Chemical Properties of Black Carbon Aerosols in the Polluted Marine Troposphere.” …

Sandra Hale, Ph.D., associate professor of psychology in Arts & Sciences, has received a five-year, $1,549,125 grant from the National Institute on Aging for research titled “Listening Comprehension across the Adult Life Span.” …

Bradley L. Jolliff, Ph.D., research associate professor of earth and planetary sciences in Arts & Sciences, has received a one-year, $30,000 grant from NASA for research titled “Sample and Remote-sensing Approaches to Understanding Planetary Crystal Composition and Asymmetry.”