Ken Cadwell, Ph.D., postdoctoral research scholar in pathology & immunology, received a three-year, $140,000 postdoctoral fellowship from the Damon Runyon Cancer Research Foundation for research titled “Characterization of Mice Deficient in Autophagy Protein ATG16.” …
Jonathan M. Chase, Ph.D., associate professor of biology in Arts & Sciences and director of the Tyson Research Center, has won the Mercer Award from the Ecological Society of America for a paper published in the proceedings of the National Academy of Science in 2007. The Mercer Award is given for an outstanding ecological research paper published within the past two years by a younger researcher. The lead author must be 40 years old or younger at the time of publication. The paper addressed the effects of drought on ecosystem structure. …
Joseph C. Corbo, M.D., Ph.D., assistant professor of pathology & immunology and of genetics, has received a one-year, $100,000 grant from the International Retinal Research Foundation Inc. for research titled “Development of Cone-Specific Drivers for Targeting Gene Therapy to the Macula.” …
Vadim Fedorov, Ph.D., research assistant professor of biomedical engineering, has received a two-year, $143,000 grant from the American Heart Association for research titled “The Role of Substrates in Atrial Fibrillation Mechanisms: Implications for Painless Defibrillation.” …
Ted H. Hansen, Ph.D., professor of pathology & immunology and of genetics, received a one-year, $304,000 grant from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases for research titled “Development of a Novel WNV Vaccine to Elicit Protective T Cell Immunity.” …
Elizabeth Kelley, graduate fellow, and Robert W. Sussman, Ph.D., professor, both in the Department of Anthropology in Arts & Sciences, have received a one-year, $7,126 grant from the National Science Foundation for research titled “Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Proposal: Introduced Cacti and Villages: A Study on Lemur Catta (Ring-tailed Lemurs) in its Primary Remaining Habitat Type.” …
Blaine Maley, graduate research assistant in anthropology in Arts & Sciences, and Erik Trinkaus, Ph.D., the Mary Tileston Hemenway Professor in Arts & Sciences, have received a one-year, $14,992 grant from the National Science Foundation for research titled “Doctoral Dissertation Improvement: Population Structure and Demographic History of Prehistoric Alaskan Populations Using Ancient DNA and Cranial Morphology.” …
Patricia McKevitt, a social worker in the Chromalloy American Kidney Center in the Department of Medicine, received the Lifetime Achievement Award from the National Kidney Foundation’s Council of Nephrology Social Workers at its annual conference. McKevitt, who has worked at the center since 1973, has helped to develop programs and policies for the National Kidney Foundation and the Council of Nephrology Social Workers nationally and locally. …
Himadri B. Pakrasi, Ph.D., the George William and Irene Koechig Freiberg Professor of Biology in Arts & Sciences and director of the International Center for Advanced Renewable Energy and Sustainability (I-CARES), has received a five-year, $939,500 grant from the National Science Foundation for research titled “Dynamic Regulation of the Form and Function of Photosystem II, a Membrane Protein Complex.” …
Robert Pless, Ph.D., associate professor of computer science and engineering, has received a one-year, $30,000 subaward from Barron Associates Inc. for research titled “SBIR: Propagation of Uncertainty in Anticipatory Image Exploitation Using Polynomial Chaos Random Process Representations Phase 1.” …
Douglas A. Wiens, Ph.D., professor of earth & planetary sciences in Arts & Sciences, has received a two-year, $195,596 grant from the National Science Foundation for research titled “Mantle Serpentinization and Subduction of Water: Constraints from Seismological Studies of the Tonga Outer Rise.”