Simon Gordonov secured an Aresty grant for his research on the use of lentiviral fluororeporter vectors for assessing human mesenchymal stem cell lineage commitment and cytoskeletal dynamics. The Aresty research Center for Undergraduates (ARC) has decided to grant funding in the amount of $600 in support of their undergraduate research project for the Fall & Spring. Simon is supervised by Prabhas Moghe.
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September 2008
September 28, 2008
Paul Gianella and David Pal secured an Aresty grant for their work on silencing of genes that confer resistance to chemotherapy. The Aresty Research Center for Undergraduates (ARC) has decided to grant funding in the amount of $1,000 in support of their undergraduate research project for the Fall & Spring. Paul supervised by Charles Rothand David is co-supervised by Charles Roth and Prabhas Moghe.
September 28, 2008
Vani Mathur secured an Aresty grant for her work on human embryonic stem cell engineering. The Aresty Research Center for Undergraduates (ARC) has decided to grant funding in the amount of $1000 in support of her undergraduate research project for the Fall & Spring. Vani is supervised by Prabhas Moghe.
August 2008
August 21, 2008
Li Cai received a second two year $412,059 award from the NIH R21. The project is titled, “Comparative genomic and molecular genetics approaches to retinal stem cells.” This award will support his research in Retinal Stem Cells.
August 12, 2008
Li Cai received a two year $329,647 award from the NIH R21. This award will support his research in the area of Cancer Stem Cells.
July 2008
July 24, 2008
Yannis Androulakis received a $50K Knowledge Build Award from Exxon Mobil R&E Company. This award will support his work on High-dimensional Data Analysis.
July 24, 2008
Yannis Androulakis received a 3 year $1.2M award from NIH R01. This award will support his research in the area of Bioinformatics Analysis of Control Mechanisms of Hypermetabolism. This work is in collaboration with Professors Charlie Roth, Marianthi Ierapetritou (CBE), and Francois Berthiaume (Harvard Medical School/Massachusetts General Hospital)
July 9, 2008
Professor Martin Yarmush received a three-year $280,367 grant from the National Science Foundation to support his gene therapy related research focusing of the development of novel methods for engineering improved retrovirus stability. The work will be done in collaboration with Professor Li Cai.
July 7, 2008
Three BME students, recent graduate Ronn Friedlander (Class of 2008), Laith Qumei(Class of 2010), and David Pal (Class of 2011), are participating with Engineers Without Borders in a project designed to improve water quality in rural Thailand. You can follow their progress here.
July 1, 2008
Li Cai received a two year $50,000 Busch Biomedical Research Grant to support his research on "Control of CD44 Expression in Breast Cancer Stem Cells". The project is to study the transcription regulation of breast cancer stem cells.