2005
Early Career Awards in Translational Research
Career
Awardee: Guillermo Ameer
Clinical
CO-Investigator: Melina Kibbe Institution: Northwestern University Project
Title: Biocompatibility
enhancement of ePTFEvascular grafts:
a tissue engineering approach
Career
Awardee: Hani Awad
Clinical
CO-Investigator: Regis O'Keefe Institution: University of Rochester
Project Title: Targeted
Gene Delivery Using Engineered Structural Bone Scaffolds
Career
Awardee: Vadim Backman
Clinical
CO-Investigator: Hemant Roy Institution: Northwestern
University Project Title: Rectal
Coherent Backscattering Spectroscopy to Screen for Colon Cancer
Career
Awardee: Dennis Barbour
Clinical
CO-Investigator: Lisa Davidson Institution: Washington University
, St. Louis Project Title: Improvement
of Noisy Signal Representation in Auditory Prostheses via Biologically
Inspired Spectral Contrast Shaping
Career
Awardee: Xinyan Cui
Clinical
CO-Investigator: Mingui Sun Institution: University of Pittsburgh Project Title: Conducting
polymer/ hydrogel skin surface electrode for
high resolution multichannel EEG
Career
Awardee: Karl Deisseroth
Clinical
CO-Investigator: H. Solvason Institution: Stanford
University
Project Title: Novel
optics-based methodology to drive neural stem cell differentiation
Career
Awardee: Rebekah Drezek
Clinical
CO-Investigator: Helen Rhodes Institution: Rice University Project Title: Optical
Imaging for Early Ovarian Cancer Detection in High Risk Women
Career
Awardee: Jennifer Elisseeff
Clinical
CO-Investigator: Oliver Schein Institution: Johns Hopkins University Project Title: Multilfunctional
chondroitin sulfate adhesive for corneal tissue
repair
Career
Awardee: Karen Haberstroh
Clinical
CO-Investigator: Martin Kaefer Institution: Brown
University Project Title: In
Vivo Efficacy of Nano -structured Bladder
Tissue Replacement Constructs
Career
Awardee: Stefan Judex
Clinical
CO-Investigator: Clifford Rosen Institution: SUNY at Stony Brook Project Title: Development
of a Low-Magnitude and Safe Biophysical Signal
Anabolic to Bone
Career
Awardee: Elisa Konofagou
Clinical
CO-Investigator: Shunichi Homma Institution: Columbia University Project Title: Development
of an elastocardiography prototype system
for automated detection of heart disease
Career
Awardee: Tao Lowe
Clinical
CO-Investigator: Thomas Gardner Institution: Pennsylvania State
University Project Title: Subconjunctivally
Implantable Hydrogels for Sustained Drug Delivery
to Treat Diabetic Retinopathy
Career
Awardee: Helen Lu
Clinical
CO-Investigator: Scott Rodeo Institution: Columbia University Project Title: Novel
Tissue Engineered Triphasic Scaffold for
the Biological Fixation of Tendon Grafts to Bone
Career
Awardee: Stephen McAleavey
Clinical
CO-Investigator: Deborah Rubens Institution: University of Rochester
Project Title: Characterization
and development of Acoustic Radiation Force Imaging of the Prostate
Career
Awardee: Cameron McIntyre
Clinical
CO-Investigator: Jerrold Vitek Institution: Cleveland Clinic Project Title: Deep
Brain Stimulation Interactive Visualization System
Career
Awardee: David Putnam
Clinical
CO-Investigator: Jay Calvert Institution: Cornell
University Project Title: Novel
Biodegradable Materials to Prevent Postoperative Tissue Adhesions
Career
Awardee: Shelly Sakiyama -Elbert
Clinical
CO-Investigator: Susan Mackinnon Institution: Washington
University , St. Louis Project Title: Rationally
Designed Delivery Systems for Nerve Injury
Career
Awardee: Aoy Tomita
Clinical
CO-Investigator: Michael Mitchell Institution: Medical
College of Wisconsin
Project Title: A non-invasive
fetal diagnostic test for chromosomal abnormalities
Career
Awardee: Andrew Tsourkas
Clinical
CO-Investigator: Mitchell Schnall Institution: University
of Pennsylvania Project Title: Protease-activated
nanoparticles for the sensitive detection
of cancer markers by MR
Career
Awardee: Adam Wax
Clinical
CO-Investigator: Frank Gress Institution: Duke
University Project Title: fLCI Optical
Biopsy Instrument for Diagnosing Pancreaticobiliary
Strictures
Career
Awardee: Thomas Webster
Clinical
CO-Investigator: Yuehuei An Institution: Brown University
Project Title: Bionanotechnology
for the improvement of orthopedic implants
Career
Awardee: Xuejun Wen
Clinical
CO-Investigator: Byron Bailey Institution: Clemson University Project Title: A tissue-engineered
multifilament entubulation bridging device
for the treatment of spinal cord injury
Career
Awardee: Justin Williams
Clinical
CO-Investigator: Paul Garell Institution: University
of Wisconsin-Madison
Project Title: BioMEMS Drug
Delivery for Treatment of Acute Neural Injury
Career
Awardee: Guillermo Ameer