The following new grants were awarded in April 2011:
Principal Investigator: Samuel W. French
Sponsor Name: NIH/National Inst of Diabetes, Digestive and Kidney Disease
Award Title: "Heat Shock Protein Synthesis Inhibitor Treatment of Hepatitis C Viral Infection"
Principal Investigator: Jiaoti Huang
Sponsor Name: U.S. Army/Medical Research Acquisition Activity
Award Title: "The Function of Neuroendocrine Cells In Prostate Cancer"
Principal Investigator: Roger S. Lo
Sponsor Name: American Association for Cancer Research
Award Title: "Exome Sequencing of Melanomas with Acquired Resistance to BRAF Inhibitors"
Principal Investigator: Hannah K. Mikkola
Sponsor Name: Leukemia and Lymphoma Society (Leukemia Society of America)
Award Title: "MEF2C In Hematopoietic Stem Cell Self-Renewal and Transformation"
Principal Investigator: Elizabeta Nemeth
Sponsor Name: Amgen
Award Title: "Unbiased Identification of Ferroportin Post-Translational Modifications and Ferroportin Interactome"
Principal Investigator: Beate R. Ritz
Sponsor Name: NIH/National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences
Award Title: "Pesticide Exposure and Childhood Cancer (PECC) Study"
Principal Investigator: Kathleen M. Sakamoto
Sponsor Name: NIH/National Cancer Institute
Award Title: "Career Development and Increasing Diversity In Pediatric Hematology/Oncology"
Principal Investigator: Linda Sarna
Sponsor Name: Pfizer Inc. (including Warner-Lamber and Parke-Davis)
Award Title: "Adapting a Smoking Cessation Distance Learning Program to Educate Nurses in China"
Principal Investigator: Michael A. Teitell
Sponsor Name: NIH/National Cancer Institute
Award Title: "A Fourth Outcome: DNA Damage and the Differentiation of B Cells"
Principal Investigator: James A. Waschek
Sponsor Name: NIH/National Institute of Child Health and Human Development
Award Title: "Protein Kinase A/Hedgehog Pathway Interaction at the Primary Cilium"
Principal Investigator: Ernest M. Wright
Sponsor Name: Boehringer Ingelheim Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
Award Title: "Functional Characterization of Human SGLT5 "
Principal Investigator: Jerome A. Zack
Sponsor Name: Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation
Award Title: "Generation of Novel Nanoparticles of Antagonizing HIVLatency "