The following new grants were awarded to JCCC members in October 2011:
Principal Investigator:
Banerjee, Utpal
Sponsor Name: NIH/Office of the Director, National Institutes of Health
Award Title: Developmental Control of Metabolism
Principal Investigator: Bower, Julienne
Sponsor Name: Breast Cancer Research Foundation
Award Title: Stress, Inflammation, and Breast Cancer: Role of Tumor-Associated Macrophages
Principal Investigator: Brown, E. R.
Sponsor Name: CA/Department of Managed Health Care
Award Title: California Health Interview Survey (CHIS) 2011-2012
Principal Investigator: Brown, E. R.
Sponsor Name: DHHS/Centers for Disease Control (Including CDC Foundation)
Award Title: California Health Interview Survey (CHIS)—Epilepsy Prevalence and Health-Related Quality of Life in Adolescents
Principal Investigator: Brown, E. R.
Sponsor Name: Commonwealth Fund
Award Title: Undocumented Immigrants and Health Care Reform
Principal Investigator: Greendale, Gail
Sponsor Name: NIH/National Center for Complementary & Alternative Medicine/University of Southern California
Award Title: Safe & Effective Yoga Prescription for Older Adults: Biomechanical Considerations—Year 3
Principal Investigator: Heaney, Anthony P.
Sponsor Name: Novartis Pharmaceuticals
Award Title: Randomized, Double-Blind, Multicenter, Phase III Study to Evaluate the Efficacy and Safety of Pasireotide LAR in Patinets with Cushing's Disease
Principal Investigator: Hevener, Andrea
Sponsor Name: NIH/National Institute of Diabetes, Digestive and Kidney Disease
Award Title: ERALPHA and the Metabolic Syndrome
Principal Investigator: Hodge, Felicia S.
Sponsor Name: California Dialogue on Cancer
Award Title: Colorectal Cancer Foundation and Awareness for Healthcare Providers Serving American Indians
Principal Investigator: Huang, Jing
Sponsor Name: NIH/National Center for Complementary & Alternative Medicine/University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas
Award Title: Identifying Molecular Targets and Biological Signatures of CAM Natural Products
Principal Investigator: Irwin, Michael
Sponsor Name: NIH/National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute/University of South Carolina
Award Title: Chronic Moderate Sleep Restriction in Older Long and Older Average Sleepers
Principal Investigator: Kasahara, Noriyuki
Sponsor Name: Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation
Award Title: Tumor-Selectively Replicating Retrovirus Vectors for Gene Therapy of Breast Cancer CNS Metastasis (Fellow: Akihito Inagaki)
Principal Investigator: Martinez, Otoniel M.
Sponsor Name: NIH/National Cancer Institute/Brigham and Women's Hospital
Award Title: Prospective Analysis of Peripheral Blood Cytokines and Non-Hodgkin Lymphoma
Principal Investigator: McCarthy, William J.
Sponsor Name: Public Health Foundation Enterprises, Inc.
Award Title: LAUSD Menu and Plate Waste Evaluation
Principal Investigator: Mischel, Paul
Sponsor Name: Universita Degli Studi di Verona (University of Verona)
Award Title: Genomic and Transcriptional Analysis of Glioblastoma Microvenironmental Cellular Subsets Using Antibody Microarrays
Principal Investigator: Morrison, Sherie L
Sponsor Name: UC California HIV/AIDS Research Program
Award Title: Targeted Delivery of Mucosal HIV Vaccines to Human M Cells
Principal Investigator: Nelson, Stanley F.
Sponsor Name: Cal Institute for Regenerative Medicine
Award Title: Combination Therapy to Enhance Antisense Mediated Exon Skipping for Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy
Principal Investigator: Ribas, Antoni
Sponsor Name: Cal Institute for Regenerative Medicine
Award Title: Genetic Re-Programming of Stem Cells to Fight Cancer
Principal Investigator: Ribas, Antoni
Sponsor Name: Bristol-Myers Squibb Company
Award Title: A Phase I/I Trial of Vemurafenib (RG7204) and Ipilmumab in Subjects with V600 BRAF Mutation-Positive Metastatic Melanoma
Principal Investigator: Silverman, Daniel H.
Sponsor Name: NIH/National Institute of Neurological Disorders & Stroke
Award Title: Acute and Long-Term Effects of Chemotherapy on Regional Cerebral Metabolism
Principal Investigator: Teitell, Michael A.
Sponsor Name: California Capital Equity, Llc.
Award Title: Laser-Induced Fluid Cavitation to Drive Robust Cell Transfection and Sorting
Principal Investigator: Weiss, Shimon
Sponsor Name: United States Israel Binational Science Foundation
Award Title: Voltage Sensitive Semiconductor Heterostructure Nanoparticles for Bioimaging Applications