Dartmouth Discovery: Grants

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Dartmouth researchers were awarded $2.1 million in new and competing awards during December 2012, as reported by the .

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Todd Heatherton, the Lincoln Filene Professor in Human Relations in the Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, is one of the investigators working on a project sponsored by the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism. (Photo by Eli Burakian ’00)

December 2012 Research Awards

Award commitment from the sponsoring agency is for a single year unless otherwise indicated.

Kristen Anton—Community and Family MedicineSponsoring agency: Jet Propulsion Laboratory Project: “JPL Early Detection Research Network”

William Green—Microbiology and ImmunologySponsoring agency: VERANNE Project: “Lathrop JPA”

Auden McClure—PediatricsSponsoring agency: National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism Project: “New Media Alcohol Marketing and Adolescent Drinking” Five-year project

Mark McGovern—PsychiatrySponsoring agency: Veterans Administration Project: “IPA Hamblen Grant FY13 (McGovern)”

William North—PhysiologySponsoring agency: Woomera Therapeutics, Incorporated Project: “Targeted Treatment of Recurrent Small Cell Lung Cancer With Anti-AbnV2” 23-month project

William North—PhysiologySponsoring agency: Woomera Therapeutics, Incorporated Project: “Woomera Therapeutics, Inc. Testing Project”

Patricia Pioli—Obstetrics and GynecologySponsoring agency: Scleroderma Research Foundation Project: “Mechanisms of Macrophage Activation and Function in Scleroderma” Three-year project

Leslie Robinson and K. Lewellen—Tuck School of BusinessSponsoring agency: Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Project: “Internal Ownership Structures of Multinational Firms” Three-year project

Eugene Santos—Thayer School of EngineeringSponsoring agency: University of Texas at El Paso Project: “A Social, Cultural, and Emotional Basis for Trust and Suspicion: Manipulating Insider Threat in Cyber Intelligence and Operations” Two-month project

James Sargent , A. McClure and S. Tanski—Pediatrics and T. Heatherton and W. Kelly—Psychological and Brain SciencesSponsoring agency: National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism Project: “Alcohol Marketing and Underage Drinking” Five-year project

Charles Sentman—Microbiology and ImmunologySponsoring agency: National Cancer Institute Project: “A Novel NKG2D-Specific BiTE Cancer Immunotherapy” Five-year project

Sean Smith—Computer ScienceSponsoring agency: University of Illinois Project: “NSA UIUC Science of Security Lablet Security Through Resiliency”

Douglas Van Citters—Thayer School of EngineeringSponsoring agency: Topsfield Medical, GmbH Project: “Glenoid Loosening and Subsequent Fixation Simulation” Nine-month project

Scott Williams—Institute for Quantitative Biomedical SciencesSponsoring agency: Vanderbilt University Project: “Southern Community Cohort Study” 11-month project

Charles Wira, J. Bodwell and J. Fahey—PhysiologySponsoring agency: Advanced BioScience Laboratories, Inc. Project: “Tenofovir Biological Effectiveness”

Heather Wishart—PsychiatrySponsoring agency: Multiple Sclerosis Foundation Project: “MS Center Neuropsychology Service”

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