virtual reality software
With funding from the National Institutes of Health, David Cone, associate professor of surgery and director of emergency medical services, is exploring the use of virtual reality software designed by E-Semble, a Dutch designer of simulation technology, to compare triage systems in emergencies involving mass casualty.
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- Norrina Allen, Agency for Health Care Research and Quality (AHRQ), Geographic Patterns in Recurrent Stroke Rates by Gender and Race, 18 months, $37,519
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- Hilary Blumberg, NIH, Stress, Neurodevelopment and the Emergence of Addictive Behaviors in Adolescence, 5 years, $992,250
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- Ronald Braithwaite, NIH, A Computer Simulation of the Sub-Saharan HIV Pandemic That Can Estimate Benefit and Value from Alcohol Interventions, 5 years, $2,144,325
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- Michael Cappello, NIH, Research Training in Pediatric Infectious Diseases, 5 years, $610,290
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- Harlan Krumholz, NIH, Young Women with Acute Myocardial Infarction, 4 years, $9,848,211
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- John Leventhal, NIH, Integrating Well-Woman and Well-Baby Care to Improve Parenting and Family Wellness, 2 years, $454,605
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- Charles Lockwood, NIH, Progestin Effects on Uterine Hemostatsis and Angiogenesis, 5 years, $2,163,672
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- Sherry McKee, NIH, Modeling Stress-Precipitated Smoking Lapse for Medication Development, 5 years, $1,240,500
- Diane McMahon-Pratt, NIH, Integrated Functional Genomics: On the Road to Leishmaniasis Control, 1 year, $4,000; NIH, Multidisciplinary Parasitology Training Program, 5 years, $1,176,943
- Ewan McNay, NIH, Insulin in the Hippocampus: Memory Enhancement and Impact of Type 2 Diabetes, 5 years, $1,529,950
- Yorgo Modis, Dept. of the Army, The Structural Basis of Pathogen Recognition by Receptors of the Innate Immune System, 1 year, $178,655
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- Laura Niklason, NIH, Enabling Strategies for Growing Collagenous Tissues, 4 years, $2,061,843
- Stephanie O’Malley, NIH, Naltrexone for Heavy Drinking in Young Adults, 5 years, $3,062,762
- Godfrey Pearlson, NIH, Bipolar and Schizophrenia Consortium for Parsing Intermediate Phenotypes, 4 years, $3,195,446
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- Ann Rasmusson, NIH, GABAergic Neurotransmission in PTSD, 18 months, $356,980
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- Robert Soufer, NIH, Neurobehavioral Correlates of Mental Stress Ischemia, 5 years, $2,397,801
- Julie Staley-Gottschalk, NIH, Neuroreceptor Imaging of Tobacco Smokers, 5 years, $504,467
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- Derek Toomre, NIH, Novel TIRF Microscopy for Analyzing Trafficking and Signaling at the Cell Cortex, 5 years, $2,481,250
- Xiao-Jing Wang, NIH, Recurrent Neural Circuit Basis of Time Integration and Decision Making, 5 years, $1,860,938
- Joanne Weidhaas, NIH, Defining the Genetic Basis of the Radioresponse Using a C. elegans Tissue Model, 5 years, $555,660
- Stuart Weinzimer, NIH, Yale Study of Closed-Loop Automated Glucose Control for Hypoglycemia Prevention, 5 years, $1,197,606
- John Wysolmerski, NIH, The Effect of PTHrP during Lactation, 4 years, $1,308,611
- Huiping Zhang, NIH, Association and Function of Opioid Receptor Gene Variants to Substance Dependence, 2 years, $176,324
- Zhengdong Zhang, NIH, Gene Regulation in Metastasis and New Methods to Analyze Its Microarray Profiles, 2 years, $178,496
- Hongyu Zhao, Nat’l Science Foundation (NSF), Collaborative Research: A General Framework for High-Throughput Biological Learning: Theory Development and Applications, 3 years, $359,997
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- Vikki Abrahams, Lupus Foundation of America, Mechanisms of Antiphospholipid Antibody-Induced Pregnancy Complications in Patients with APS, 1 year, $60,000
- Anna Cali, Thrasher Research Fund, Intrahepatic Fat Accumulation, Total and HMW Adiponectin, and the Metabolic Syndrome in Obese Youth, 1 year, $26,750
- Jodi Carlson, Animal Welfare Institute, Development of a Booklet on the Pair Housing of Macaques, 6 months, $3,000
- Sreeganga Chandra, American Parkinson’s Disease Association, Inc., Delineating the Physiological Function of Synucleins, 1 year, $50,000
- Lauren Cohn, Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation Int’l, Inhaled Insulin and Lung Immunity, 1 year, $110,000
- Miriam Delphin, Advocates for Human Potential, Inc., Shared Decision Making, 6 months, $10,000
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- Terri Fried, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, Evolving Toward Effective and Efficient Health Care Decision Making Based on Health Outcomes Priorities Among Adults with Multiple Health Concerns, 2 years, $224,986
- John Geibel, AstraZeneca AB, Zinc is a Potent Inhibitor of Acid Secretion, 1 year, $250,000
- Mark Gerstein, Wellcome Trust, Integrated Human Genome Annotation: Generation of a Reference Gene Set, 9 months, $177,403
- Jeffrey Gruen, JS Genetics, Molecular Diagnosis of Dyslexia, 6 months, $36,409
- Lyndsay Harris, The Breast Cancer Research Foundation, Biomarker Incubator to Define and Validate Predictors of Response to Paclitaxel and Trastuzumab, 1 year, $223,911
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- Steven Kleinstein, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, Modeling Viral Immunity and Antagonism, 3 years, $794,542
- Jeffery Kocsis, Nat’l Multiple Sclerosis Society, Therapeutic Potential of Cellular Transplantation into a Focal Model of EAE, 3 years, $463,694
- Themis Kyriakides, Georgia Institute of Technology, Regenerative Acellular Biomaterials Derived from Embryonic Stem Cells, 2 years, $21,009
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- Mark Mamula, L2 Diagnostics, LLC, EGFR Peptides as Vaccines in Anti-Tumor Immunity, 18 months, $96,144
- Rory McCrimmon, Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation Int’l, Restoring Hypoglycemia Counterregulation in T1DM, 3 years, $495,000
- Thomas McMahon, Columbia University-Teachers College, Maternal Drug Use, Psychopathology and Child Adaptation, 5 years, $889,255
- Gil Mor, The Johns Hopkins University, Multiplex Serum Biomarker for Ovarian Cancer, 2 years, $267,985
- Angus Nairn, Brown University, Structural and Functional Analysis of Signaling Proteins in Dendritic Spines, 1 year, $23,703
- Alexander Neumeister, Nat’l Alliance for Research on Schizophrenia and Depression, Contribution of Early Life Trauma on Serotonin 1b Receptor Expression in Depression, 2 years, $99,040
- Karin Provost, American Thoracic Society, Airway Epithelial Regulation of Allergic Airway Response, 1 year, $50,000
- David Reiss, Oregon Social Learning Center, Early Growth and Development Study, 5 years, $292,366
- Scott Rivkees, JS Genetics, Newborn Screening for Sex Chromosomes Disorders, 1 year, $109,379
- Gerard Sanacora, Nat’l Alliance for Research on Schizophrenia and Depression, The Effect of Stress and Antidepressants on Amino Acid Neurotransmission and Glial Cell Function, 2 years, $98,952
- Alan Sartorelli, Nat’l Foundation for Cancer Research, Development of a Rapid Simple Quantitative Assay for AGT, the Resistance Protein for Cloretazine and Other 06-Guanine Targeting Drugs, for the Selection of Patients with a High Probability of Response, 1 year, $75,000
- Heather Scobie, Cancer Research Fund of the Damon Runyon-Walter Winchell Foundation, Defining the Functional Interface Between Campylobacter jejuni and its Mammalian Host Cells, 3 years, $140,000
- Stephen Strittmatter, F.M. Kirby Foundation, Inc., Stroke Research Project, 1 year, $100,000
- Susumu Tomita, Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, Research Fellowship, 2 years, $90,000
- Fred Volkmar, The Nancy Lurie Marks Foundation, Undergraduate Education in Autism, 2 years, $35,051
- Anne Williamson, ITN Energy Systems, Inc., Wireless Multimodal Brain Monitoring, 1 year, $29,223
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