Wake Forest University scientists collected five grants totaling $372,221 in the 2007-2008 funding cycle. East Carolina University had three, worth $175,375. One $75,000 grant each went to North Carolina Agricultural & Technical State University, the University of North Carolina at Greensboro and the University of North Carolina Wilmington.
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$25,415 to Colin Burns, Ph.D., of East Carolina University in Greenville, to develop anti-HIV agents.
$75,000 to Garry Dawson, Ph.D., of the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, to study nanoparticle-enhanced separations for biomarker detection.
$75,000 to William Gmeiner, Ph.D., of Wake Forest University in Winston-Salem, to develop multivalent aptamer complexes from triplex DNA scaffolds. $75,000 to Ashok Hegde, Ph.D., of WFU, to develop an Alzheimer’s disease treatment.
$75,000 to Omoanghe Isikhuemhen, Ph.D., of North Carolina Agricultural & Technical State University in Greensboro, to use biotechnology methods for the mass propogation, inoculation and screening of truffle-inoculated seedlings.
$75,000 to W. Todd Lowther, Ph.D., of WFU, to develop cancer therapies from fatty acid synthase inhibitors.
$75,000 to Jed Macosko, Ph.D., of WFU, to develop a nanoscale “Lab-On-Bead” that can process encoded chemical libraries.
$72,221 to Michael Robbins, Ph.D., of WFU, to develop a rat model to study radiation-induced brain injury in children.
$74,960 to George Sigounas, Ph.D., of ECU, to investigate screening tools to detect DNA damage in normal and cancerous human breast tissue.
$75,000 to Mary Thomassen, Ph.D., of ECU, to explore carbon nanotubes as a tool for generating an experimental model of pulmonary sarcoidosis.
$75,000 to Sridhar Varadarajan, Ph.D., of the University of North Carolina Wilmington, to develop a breast cancer therapy.
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