Initial round of CTSI projects awarded, Spring 2008

In early 2008, applications closed for a funding opportunity offered by Penn State's Clinical and Translational Science Award Initiative.

Winners of the initial round of awards have now been announced. 13 pilot projects have been selected for funding. These are:

• Eating Behaviors Phenotypes: Relationship to Risk Factors for Metabolic Syndrome and Peripheral Feeding Signals
• Vitamin D and Crohn’s Disease: from the Bench to the Clinic
• Adapting an RNA Sensor Platform to Protein Detection using Aptamers
• A Novel Dietary Iron Supplement for the Treatment of Iron Deficiency Anemia
• Role of UGT2B7 Genotype in Patient Response to Tamoxifen
• Interactive Web-Based Diabetes Self-management Tool
• Mechanisms of Unexpected Drug Side Effects Related to Obesity and Diabetes
• Development of Novel Molecular Subtyping Methods for Identifying Pathways of Transmission of Endemic and Epidemic Clones of Community-associated and Healthcare-associated Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA)
• Nanostructured Raman Detection and Diagnosis of Respiratory Pathogens
• Sequencing of LGL Leukemia Retrovirus Genome
• Pattern Recognition from 3D Histology Images for Translational Science and Discovery
• Dissecting the Interaction between Radiofrequency Ablation and Tumor Antigenspecific Immune Response In Hepatocellular Cancer: A Murine Model and a Human Protocol
• Central Pennsylvania Women’s Health Study (CePAWHS): Extending the Strong Healthy Women Behavior Change Intervention to Urban Areas

Download the full award announcement (100KB pdf), including details of faculty involved in each project, from the CTSA website.