White Coat Ceremony
There was a special touch in this year’s White Coat Ceremony, a traditional ritual in which members of the School of Medicine faculty present incoming medical students with physician’s coats to mark their entry into the profession of medicine. The Class of 2014, as the first class of the medical school’s third century, received coats embroidered not only with their names, but bearing a patch with the school’s Bicentennial motif. Each new student also received a stethoscope, provided through a fund created by School of Medicine alumni. Serene Chen ’14, of Columbia, S.C., and her mother, Rita Chou, celebrated after the ceremony.
Federal
- Karen Anderson, NIH, Exploring Novel Targeting Strategies for AIDS Protozoal Pathogens, 4 years, $1,655,000
- Susan Baserga, NIH, The Architecture and Function of RNPs Required for Ribosome Biogenesis, 4 years, $1,779,285
- Christopher Breuer, NIH, Investigating the Mechanisms of Vascular Neotissue Formation in Engineered Tissue, 5 years, $2,068,750
- Arthur Broadus, NIH, Ihh and PTHrP Regulate Articular Chondrocyte Maintenance, 2 years, $409,613
- Paul Cleary, NIH, National AIDS Prevention Research Centers Proposed Multi-Level Intervention Planning Workshop, 1 year, $88,835
- Marie Egan, NIH, CFTR and the Immune Response, 5 years, $2,068,750
- Barbara Ehrlich, Department of the Army, Strategies to Prevent Chemotherapy-Induced Peripheral Neuropathy, 2 years, $620,625
- Jack Elias, NIH, BRP-39/YKL-40 in TH2 Inflammation and Asthma, 4 years, $1,655,000
- Erol Fikrig, NIH, Interactions between Anaplasma phagocytophilum andIxodes scapularis, 5 years, $2,068,750
- John Hwa, NIH, Pharmacogenetics of the Human Prostacyclin Receptor, 4 years, $1,656,491
- Dewan Hyder, NIH, Energetics of Neuronal Populations by fMRI, 5 years, $2,068,750
- Celina Juliano, NIH, Determining piwi Function using in vivo Imaging of Stem Cells in Hydra, 3 years, $143,670
- Susan Kaech, NIH, iCyt Reflection Cell-Sorter: High-End Instrumentation Grant Program, 1 year, $898,724
- Cathryn Kubera, NIH, Role of GLUK6 in Cerebellar Circuitry Development,3 years, $137,330
- Brett Lindenbach, NIH, Molecular Determinants of Hepatitis C Virus Assembly, 5 years, $2,068,750
- Laura Niklason, NIH, Lung Tissue Engineering, 4 years, $2,577,329
- Pasko Rakic, NIH, Neurogenetic Processes in the Fetal Brain, 5 years, $5,406,186
- Nancy Ruddle, NIH, Lymphatic Vessel Imaging, 2 years, $455,125
- Kristin Rudenga, NIH, Influence of Physiological Significance, Preference, and Stress on Taste Coding, 2 years, $51,210
- Gary Rudnick, NIH, Neurotransmitter Transporters, 5 years, $1,655,000
- Joseph Santos-Sacchi, NIH, Structural Correlates of Prestin Activity, 5 years, $1,758,440
- Mark Shlomchik, NIH, Mechanisms of Autoimmune Activation and Regulation by Innate Immune Receptors, 5 years, $768,890; NIH, Image Stream Analyzer, 1 year, $455,000
- Karen Smith, NIH, The Role of Astrocytes in Cortical Interneuron Development, 4 years, $676,869
- Dieter Söll, NSF, Expanding the Genetic Code with Phosphoserine and Phosphotyrosine, 3 years, $555,397
- Jane Taylor, NIH, Cognitive Dysfunction after Chronic Cocaine Use, 5 years, $1,415,000
- Susumu Tomita, NIH, Mechanism for Regulating Kainate-Type Glutamate Receptor Activity, 5 years, $2,068,750
- Anthony Van den Pol, NIH, Response Properties of Hypothalamic MCH Neurons, 5 years, $1,810,155
Non-Federal
- Vikki Abrahams, Burroughs Wellcome Fund, The Role of Placental Nod-Like Receptors in Infection-Associated Preterm Labor, 1 year, $50,000
- Kyung-Heup Ahn, NARSAD, GABA–Dopamine Interactions and Psychosis, 2 years, $59,310
- Emily Ansell, American Foundation for Suicide Prevention, Personality Disorders and Suicidal Behaviors: A Prospective Study of Associations, Mediators, and Moderators, 2 years, $85,000
- Xiaoxiao Bai, Epilepsy Foundation of America, Neuroimaging Biomarkers of Network Dysfunction in Childhood Absence Epilepsy, 1 year, $45,000
- Mounira Banasr, NARSAD, Implications of Glial Changes in the Development of Depressive-Like Behaviors, 2 years, $60,000
- Diana Beardsley, ITP Foundation, Fcy Balance in Immune Thrombocytopenia, 1 year, $19,110
- Vineet Bhandari, Washington University in St. Louis, Screening for Genetic Causes of Neonatal Respiratory Distress, 1 year, $10,450
- Thomas Biederer, NARSAD, Neuronal Functions and Biochemical Pathways of SynCAM-Mediated Synapse Organization, 2 years, $60,000
- Michael Bloch, NARSAD, Pilot Study of a Potent NMDA Receptor Antagonist in the Treatment of Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder, 2 years, $59,890
- Angelique Bordey, McKnight Endowment Fund for Neuroscience,Cognitive Deficits in Tuberous Sclerosis Complex, 3 years, $300,000
- Elizabeth Bradley, Avram Corporation, Master in Healthcare and Hospital Administration (MHA) Program, Ethiopia, 1 year, $324,195
- Sonia Caprio, American Diabetes Association, Inc., Insulin Resistance in Obese Youth with Prediabetes, 4 years, $144,000
- Richard Carson, Wyeth Pharmaceuticals Inc., Receptor Occupancy Assessed with PET in Nonhuman Primates II, 7 months, $348,339
- Heidi Chen, American Urogynecologic Society, Using Quantitative Sensory Testing of the Sensory Distribution of the Pudendal Nerve in Predicting Success of Sacral Neuromodulation, 1 year, $10,000
- Jersey Chen, American Heart Association, Geographic Variation in Imaging with Cardiac Stress Testing, 2 years, $104,720
- Lara Chepenik, NARSAD, Interhemispheric Connectivity and Rapid Cycling in Bipolar Disorder, 2 years, $60,000
- Jaehyuk Choi, American Skin Association, A Forward Genetic Screen for Tumor Suppressor Genes using Transposon Mutagenesis in Mouse Skin, 1 year, $15,000
- Young Choi, Dong-A Pharmaceutical Company, Emerging Role of Estrogen Receptor and Isoforms in Breast Cancer, 3 years, $105,000
- Joseph Craft, American Autoimmune Related Diseases Association, Inc., Follicular Helper T Cells in SLE, 1 year, $10,000
- Pietro De Camilli, Lowe Syndrome Trust, Novel Interactors of the Lowe Syndrome Protein OCRL, 2 years, $120,000
- Sachin Desai, Gerber Foundation, The Effectiveness of Rotavirus Vaccine in Preventing Hospitalization of Young Children, 1 year, $20,000
- Ronald Duman, Hope for Depression Research Foundation, Influence of Isolation Stress on Cell Proliferation and Neurotrophic Factor Signaling: Reversal by Opiate Drug Treatments, 2 years, $110,000
- Andrew Epstein, University of Pennsylvania, Comparative Effectiveness of Cardiovascular Devices and Medicare Cost Growth, 3 years, $34,268
- David Feliciano, Epilepsy Foundation of America, Electrophysiological Analysis of a Malformation of Cortical Development, 1 year, $45,000
- John Geibel, Institute for OneWorld Health, Proposed Research to be Conducted in Preliminary Phase of the Joint Yale/IOWH Program on Employment of Calcimimetics as a Treatment for ADI, 1 year, $120,000
- Joel Gelernter, Butler Hospital, Childhood Maltreatment: Risk and Resilience, 4 years, $55,871
- John Giuliano Jr., Children’s Hospital Corporation, Novel Influenza A (H1N1) Surveillance Registry, 9 months, $21,600
- Rosana Gonzalez-Colaso, Physician Assistant Education Association,Putting Physician Assistants on the Map: Geographic Analysis of Workforce Capacity, 1 year, $7,000
- Bonnie Gould Rothberg, LAM Treatment Alliance, Mechanisms of Benign Metastasis in Kidney AMLS, 1 year, $60,000
- David Hafler, National Multiple Sclerosis Society, Collaborative Multiple Sclerosis Research Center Award, 5 years, $742,500; University of California, San Francisco, A Haplotype Map for Multiple Sclerosis, 18 months, $142,624
- Jonas Hannestad, NARSAD, The Effect of Citalopram on Inflammation-Induced Depressive Symptoms, 2 years, $45,850
- Robert Heimer, State of CT Department of Public Health, Emerging Infections, 2 years, $3,922,258
- Erica Herzog, Scleroderma Foundation, Semaphorin 7A Mediated Effects on Fibrocyte Biology, 2 years, $150,000
- Mark Horowitz, Maine Medical Center Research Institute,Interdisciplinary Study of Marrow Adiposity, Mineral Metabolism, and Energy Balance, 1 year, $124,125
- Steven Kerfoot, Multiple Sclerosis Society of Canada, Identification of Cellular Interactions through which B Cells Drive Central Nervous System Autoimmune Disease in vivo, 6 years, $260,000
- Tae Hoon Kim, Harvard University, Integrative Systems Biology Approaches to Auditory Hair Cell Regeneration, 5 years, $413,750
- Anthony Koleske, Breast Cancer Alliance, Inc., Inhibition of Breast Cancer Invasiveness via Targeting of an Arg Contactin Switch, 1 year, $100,000
- Diane Krause, Community Foundation for Southeast Michigan, SRF and Myelodysplasia, 2 years, $50,000
- Gary Kupfer, St. Baldrick’s Foundation, The Yale Pediatric Oncology Psychological Service, 1 year, $50,000
- Tukiet Lam, University of Chicago, Proteomic Assays of Neuronal Protein Palmitoylation, 1 year, $24,337
- Forrester Lee, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, Summer Medical and Dental Education Program, 2 years, $567,686
- Soo Hee Lee, Jane Coffin Childs Memorial Fund, Function and Mechanism of Action of a Novel Argonaute-Like Protein in the Mitochondrion of Trypanosoma brucei, 21 months, $82,000
- Chiang-Shan Li, NARSAD, Neural Predictors of Anti-Depressant Efficacy in Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder, 2 years, $60,000
- John MacMicking, Burroughs Wellcome Fund, Support to Present Seminar Speaker, Harmit Malik, 6 months, $1,000
- Mark Mamula, Genentech Foundation for Biomedical Sciences,Molecular Probes for the Detection of Isoaspartyl in Proteins, 1 year, $80,000
- David Matuskey, NARSAD, Genetic Vulnerability to Paranoia: An [11C]PHNO D2High PET Study in Human Cocaine Use, 2 years, $60,000
- James McPartland, NARSAD, Neural Correlates of Social Perception in Autism, 2 years, $60,000
- Pramod Mistry, Shire Human Genetics Therapies, Inc., Mechanisms of the Effect of Velaglucetase vs. Imiglucetase Enzyme Replacement Therapy in Authentic Mouse Model of Type 1 Gaucher Disease, 2 years, $393,506
- Deepak Narayan, American Society of Maxillofacial Surgeons,Hemangiomas are Stem Cell Tumors of Pericyte Origin, 1 year, $6,390
- Joseph Piepmeier, Voices Against Brain Cancer, Targeted Delivery of Nanoparticle-Based Combination Therapy for Glioblastoma, 1 year, $50,587
- Christopher Pittenger, NARSAD, Deconstructing Habits: The Differential Contributions of Striatal Subregions to Procedural Learning, 2 years, $60,000
- Valerie Reinke, Stanford University, Global Identification of Transcription Factor Binding Sites in C. elegans, 9 months, $1,590,767
- Lawrence Rizzolo, International Retinal Research Foundation, Co-Maturation RPE and Retinal Neurons Derived from Stem Cells, 1 year, $100,000
- Frederick Romberg, American Heart Association, High-Resolution Time-Frequency Analysis of Neurovascular Responses to Ischemic Challenges, 6 months, $11,000
- Carla Rothlin, Crohn’s & Colitis Foundation of America, Role of TAM Receptor Signaling in Intestinal Mucosal Homeostasis, 3 years, $386,100
- Gerard Sanacora, Merck Sharp & Dohme, In vivo Evaluation of Drug Effects on Glutamate Neurotransmission using Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy, 2 years, $483,403
- Mark Shlomchik, University of Florida, B Cell Developmental Defects in Murine Memory, 1 year, $280,793; University of Massachusetts,Activation and Regulation of Autoimmunity by Innate Immune Sensing Pathways, 5 years, $2,247,390
- Patrick Skosnik, NARSAD, Cannabis Use and Schizophrenia-Related Biomarkers: A Longitudinal Study, 2 years, $60,000
- Karen Smith, NARSAD, Postnatal Inhibitory Neuron Maturation, 2 years, $60,000
- Michael Stankewich, National Ataxia Foundation, Molecular Mechanisms of Beta 3 Spectrin in Spinocerebellar Ataxis 5 (SCA5), 1 year, $35,000
- Philip Stein, Genzyme Corporation, Comprehensive Fellowship Training in Lysosomal Diseases, 18 months, $106,438
- Hanna Stevens, NARSAD, Prenatal Stress and the Development of Inhibitory Interneurons, 2 years, $60,000
- Stephen Strittmatter, Christopher and Dana Reeve Foundation, PET Imaging of Axonal Regeneration after Spinal Cord Injury, 1 year, $62,334
- Dorothy Stubbe, Campagna Associates, LLP, Forensic Evaluations, 7 months, $17,250
- Suman Tandon, American Heart Association, Effect of Cardiac Resynchronization Therapy on Myocardial Mechanics and Flow: Evaluation with 3D 82Rb PET/CT, 2 years, $110,000
- Cenk Tek, NARSAD, A Pilot Trial of Acute N-Acetylcysteine Effects on Working Memory in Schizophrenia, 2 years, $60,000
- Whitney Tolpinrud, American Skin Association, Mechanistic Elucidation of Photopheresis, A Treatment of Cutaneous T Cell Lymphoma, 1 year, $7,000
- Tamara Vanderwal, American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Neurophysiological Correlates of Treatment with Guanfacine in Children with ADD, 6 months, $9,000
- Hongwei Wang, Richard & Susan Smith Family Foundation, Structure and Mechanism of the Human RISC-Loading Complex, 3 years, $300,000
- Sherman Weissman, University of Massachusetts, Gene Expression in Mature Neutrophils, 1 year, $49,999
- Yong Xiong, March of Dimes, Molecular Dissection of Fanconi Anemia, 2 years, $150,000
- Qin Yan, Breast Cancer Alliance, Inc., Roles of Histone Demethylase JARIDIB in Breast Cancer, 2 years, $125,000
- Xiaoyong Yang, American Diabetes Association, Inc., Regulation of Metabolic Homeostasis by Cyclic O-GlcNAc Modification, 3 years, $400,200
- Yawei Zhang, American Cancer Society, Inc., Epidemiology Study of Thyroid Cancer, 5 years, $1,020,000
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