2006
Early Career Awards in Translational Research
Career
Awardee: Tarek Fahmy
Clinical
CO-Investigator: Joseph Craft Institution: Yale University Project
Title: Multimodal Nanoparticles for Targeting Autoimmune
T Cells in Systemic Lupus Erythematosus: A Strategy for Non-Invasive
Diagnosis and Targeted Drug Delivery
Career
Awardee: Xudong Fan
Clinical
CO-Investigator: Paul Dale Institution: University of Missouri
Project Title: Prototyping Lab-on-a-Chip
Based on Liquid Core Optical Ring Resonators For
Detection of Breast Cancer Biomarkers
Career
Awardee: Elizabeth Hillman
Clinical
CO-Investigator: Désirée Ratner Institution: Columbia
University Project Title: Development of
depth-resolved optical imaging for melanoma margin
mapping and invasion depth determination
Career
Awardee: Ali Khademhosseini
Clinical
CO-Investigator: Richard Lee Institution: Harvard University
-- MIT Project Title: Microscale Bottom-Up
Cardiac Tissue Engineering
Career
Awardee: Kirill Larin
Clinical
CO-Investigator: Michael Allon Institution: University
of Houston Project Title: Development of
Objective, Noninvasive Technique to Assess Viability
of Human Pre-Implantation Stage Embryos
Career
Awardee: Erin Lavik
Clinical
CO-Investigator: Young Kwon Institution: Yale
University Project Title: Sustained Delivery
of Timolol Maleate for Management of Elevated IOP
for Glaucoma
Career
Awardee: Anant Madabhushi
Clinical
CO-Investigator: Michael Feldman Institution: Rutgers University Project Title: Automated
Detection of Prostate Cancer from High Resolution
MRI
Career
Awardee: Mia Markey
Clinical
CO-Investigator: Gary Whitman Institution: University
of Texas at Austin Project Title: Evidence-Based
Computer-Aided Detection of Breast Cancer
Career
Awardee: Steven Nicoll
Clinical
CO-Investigator: Sunday Akintoye Institution: University of Pennsylvania Project Title: Novel Dermal Fibroblast-Cellulose
Composites for Mandibular Condyle Cartilage Regeneration
Career
Awardee: Krishnendu Roy
Clinical
CO-Investigator: Larry Kwak Institution: University of Texas
at Austin Project Title: Polymer-based
delivery systems for genetic vaccines against
B cell lymphoma
Career
Awardee: Shiladitya Sengupta
Clinical
CO-Investigator: Harold Dvorak Institution: Harvard University
-- MIT Project Title: Multivalent hybrid-nanocells
for spatiotemporal ablation of neovasculature and
solid tumors
Career
Awardee: Palaniappan Sethu
Clinical
CO-Investigator: Salvatore Bertolone Institution: University of Louisville Project Title: Leukocyte Isolation
using a Microfluidic System for Clinical Analysis
of Patient Samples to Study Disease Processes
Career
Awardee: Samuel Sia
Clinical
CO-Investigator: William Rodriguez Institution: Columbia University Project Title: BioMEMS Device
for Counting of CD4+ Lymphocytes
Career
Awardee: Maurice Smith
Clinical
CO-Investigator: Herminia Rosas Institution: Harvard
University -- MIT Project Title: Error feedback
control dysfunction as a measure of the progression
of Huntingtons disease
Career
Awardee: Stavroula Sofou
Clinical
CO-Investigator: David Scheinberg Institution: Polytechnic University Project Title: Liposomes containing
'raft-switches' for targeted therapy of solid tumors
Career
Awardee: James Tunnell
Clinical
CO-Investigator: Tri Nguyen Institution: University
of Texas at Austin Project Title: Spectral Diagnosis
of Early Cutaneous Melanoma
Career
Awardee: John Viator
Clinical
CO-Investigator: Paul Dale Institution: University
of Missouri Project Title: Photoacoustic
detection of circulating melanoma cells
Career
Awardee: Yingxiao Wang
Clinical
CO-Investigator: Stephen Boppart Institution: University
of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign Project Title: Development
of Specific FRET Biosensors to Monitor Live-Cell
MT1-MMP Activity and to Detect Cancer Cells
Career
Awardee: Ronald Xu
Clinical
CO-Investigator: Stephen Povoski Institution: Ohio
State University Project Title: Development
of an Integrated Dynamic Breast Imaging System
for the Early Detection of Breast Cancer
Career
Awardee: Changhuei Yang
Clinical
CO-Investigator: Karl Gaal Institution: California
Institute of Technology Project Title: Applying
Optofluidic Microscopy to Cell Imaging
Career
Awardee: Gang Yao
Clinical
CO-Investigator: Judith Miles Institution: University
of Missouri Project Title: Dynamic Pupillary
Light Reflex for Autism Screening
Career
Awardee: Jason Zara
Clinical
CO-Investigator: Michael Manyak Institution: George
Washington University Project Title: Microfabricated
Optical Coherence Tomography Imaging Probes
Career
Awardee: Xiaojing Zhang
Clinical
CO-Investigator: Ann Gillenwater Institution: University
of Texas at Austin Project Title: In-Vivo
Molecular Imaging of Oral Epithelial Cancer Using
MEMS Silicon Confocal Microscope
Career
Awardee: Tarek Fahmy