YCCI 2009 Pilot Awardees
Translational and Interdisciplinary Research
| PI | Department | Project | Amount Funded | Award Dates |
| Christopher Breuer | Surgery | Non-invasive techniques for serial monitoring of vascular neo tissue formation in vivo | $150,000 | 1/1/09-
12/31/10 |
| Geooffrey Lowell Chupp | Internal Medicine - Pulmonary and Critical Care | Genotype-Phenotype Relationships of the Chitinase- Like Protein CH13L1/YKL-40 in childhood and adult asthma and the establishment of the Yale Center for Asthma and Airways Disease Research Group | $150,000 | 1/1/09-
12/31/10 |
| Chiang-Shan (Ray) Li | Psychiatry | A Genetically Informed Neural Endophenotype of Cocaine Dependence | $149,925 | 1/1/09-
6/31/11 |
| Total Translational and Interdisciplinary Research | $449,925 | |||
Core Technologies
| PI | Department | Project | Amount Funded | Award Dates |
| Margaret Hostetter | Pediatrics | Inhibition of Candida Albicans Biofilm by Statin Analog | $13,583 | 1/1/09-
12/31/09 |
| Robert Malison | Psychiatry | D2 High and the Pharmacogenetics of Cocaine Aversion: A Clinical-Translational Study using {11 C} PHNO PET | $15,000 | 1/1/09-12/31/09 |
| Toshiharu Shinoka | Surgery | Evaluating the Growth Potential of Tissue Engineered Vascular Grafts Using Serial MRI | $9,720 | 1/1/09-6/31/11 |
| Stephen Strittmatter | Neurology | PET Imaging of Axonal Regeneration After Spinal Cord Injury | $15,000 | 1/1/09-12/31/09 |
| Total Core Technologies | $53,303 | |||
Novel Clinical and Translational Methodologies
| PI | Department | Project | Amount Funded | Award Dates |
| Ketan Bulsara | Neurosurgery | Encephalomyosynangiosis to Promote Angiogenesis and Neurogenesis following Ischemic Stroke | $25,000 | 1/1/09-
12/31/09 |
| Jonathan Grauer | Orthopaedics | Functional Spinal Range of Motion Before and After Treatment | $7,981 | 1/1/09-
12/31/09 |
| Richard Kibbey | Internal Medicine - Endocrine | Measurement of In Vivo Glucose Metabolism and TCA Flux by 13CIsotopologue Mass Spectroscopy | $22,906 | 1/1/09-
12/31/09 |
| Total Novel Clinical and Translational Methodologies | $55,887 | |||
Community-Based Research and Engagement
| PI | Department | Project | Amount Funded | Award Dates |
| Jody Sindelar, PhD and Stephanie O'Malley, PhD | EPH; Psychiatiry | Financial Message Framing to Motivate Low Income Smokers Who Would Not Otherwise Quit | $25,000 | 7/1/08-
6/30/09 |
| Lubna Pal | OGBYN | Health Benefits of Vitamin D in Overweight/Obese Women with Poly Cystic Ovarian Syndrome (PCOS) | $25,000 | 7/1/08-
6/30/09 |
| Total Community-Based Research and Engagement | $50,000 | |||
| Total Pilot Awards for 2009 | $609,115 | |||
