2009 Award and Grants
Note from the Chairman:
“Listed below are the new grants and honors received by the members of the department. Included among them are six grants that were previously highlighted by the School of Medicine because they represent efforts by the National Institute of Health to encourage “out of the box”, high-stake research. They include the Pioneer and Innovator awards and the four Transformational R01s. My congratulations to all the grant recipients and to Stephanie Harmon for her selection to receive the Isaac Stein Award from the Board of Directors of Stanford Hospital.”
Pioneer Award: Ajay Chawla, MD, PhD, assistant professor of medicine (Endocrinology) will receive a grant of $2.5 million over the next 5 years to explore the biological means for tissue regeneration in mammals, which according to Chawla, would have therapeutic applications for humans.
New Innovator Award: Euan Ashley, MD, PhD, assistant professor (Cardiovascular Medicine) is one of 5 Stanford researchers to receive this award. He will receive $1.5 million over the next 5 years to explore therapeutic treatment options for hypertrophic cardiomyopathy.
Transformative R01 Award: Designed to support research with the potential to change the course of biomedical research is specific areas. The funding for each award varies.
The Recipients are:
Andrew Hoffman, MD, professor of medicine (Endocrinology), will apply $1.8 million to continue his research into the interactions between various DNA segments and how the interactions across chromosomes can affect how genes interact.
Calvin Kuo, MD, PhD, associate professor of medicine (Hematology) with the aid of advanced biomaterials, Kuo will apply his $3.9 million to grow artificial human intestine that will eventually aid in the treatment of various gastrointestinal disorders.
Julie Parsonnet, MD, PhD, the George DeForest Barnett Professor in Medicine and professor (Infectious Diseases) will use her grant to analyze the ways in which different micro-organisms infect people.
Joseph Wu, MD, PhD, assistant professor of medicine (Cardiovascular Medicine, Radiology) will employ an estimated $2 million to explore ways to keep the body from rejecting embryonic stem cells.
UO1 Grant: National Heart and Lung and Blood Institute:John Cooke, MD, PhD, professor of medicine, (Cardiovascular Medicine) was awarded $8.4 million to collaborate with other researchers at Stanford and John Hopkins on research to transform adult vascular cells into stem cells for the treatment of vascular disease.
ARRA Stimulus Grant: Robert Negrin, MD, professor of medicine, (Blood and Marrow Transplantation) will receive nearly $2 million grant over the next 2 years to fund his Grand Opportunity Translational Research Implementation Program (GO-TRIP) project.
Hanlee Ji, MD, PhD, assistant professor of medicine, with Ron Davis at the Genome Center for their work on resequencing of the human genome.
Dean Felsher MD, associate professor of medicine, (Oncology)
Douglas Owens, MD, PhD, professor of medicine, (Primary Care Outcomes Research)Grant: Comparative Effectiveness of Antiretroviral Therapy for HIV in Patients with Cormidities.
NIH Challenge Grant (RC1): Amar Das, MD, PhD,assistant professor of medicine, (Biomedical Informatics Research) is co-principal investigator along with Richard Wagner, PhD. Their work involves collaboration with Bob Shafer, associate professor of medicine, (Infectious Disease) and his group at the Stanford HIV Drug Resistance Database.
Abby King, PhD, professor of medicine, (Stanford Prevention Research Center), The 2-year grant, totaling approximately $1 million, will investigate applications of mobile phone technology for modifying physical activity and sedentary behaviors. The study represents a collaboration between SPRC and researchers from the School of Engineering.
Science Education Partnership Award (SEPA): Marilyn Winkleby, PhD, MPH, (Stanford Prevention Research Center) is principal investigator. Her 5-year grant will fund new components of the Stanford Medical Youth Science Program, a 22 year-old organization, which encourages low-income and underrepresented minority students in participatory science activities and health disparities research that is relevant to their schools and communities.
NIH Pathway to Independence Award (K99):Joshua Brody, MD, instructor of medicine, (Oncology),Grant:"Immunotransplant to Treat Lymphoma: Pre-Clinical Model to Clinical Trial Design"
Jonathan Irish, PhD, instructor of medicine, (Oncology) Grant: "Healthy and Lymphoma B Cell Receptor Signaling Networks"
NIH Grant: Joel Killen, PhD, professor of medicine, (Stanford Prevention Research Center), received a new grant from National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA): Extended Treatment for Smoking Cessation. Y1 funding= $608,190.
NIH Grant: Christopher Gardner, PhD, associate professor of medicine, (Stanford Prevention Research Center) received a new grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) titled “Effects of GHS +/- Arginine Inflammatory Markers Among Adults with CVD Risk”; Y1 funding = $314,000
Division of Oncology 2009 Development Award in Translational Research: Lauren Harshman, MD, acting assistant professor of medicine (Oncology) was funded for her research project: Validation of Proposed Molecular Pathways That Influence Chemo-resistance in Locally Advanced Urothelial Carcinoma.
Sandhya Srinivas, MD, associate professor of medicine; (Oncology)was funded to conduct aPhase I Study Evaluating the Efficacy and Safety of Sodium Selenite in Combination with Docetaxel in Castration-resistant Prostate Cancer.
Isaac Stein Award for Compassion in Medicine: Stephanie Harman, Director, Palliative Care Inpatient Consult Service and Instructor in Medicine