Science Grants

SCIENCE GRANTS (The Scientist, Vol:5, #4, pg. 25, February 18, 1991) (Copyright, The Scientist, Inc.) ---------- Below is a list of notable grants recently awarded in the sciences--federal grants as well as awards from private foundations. The individual cited is the project's principal investigator. BIOLOGY/BIOTECHNOLOGY To develop assay for lethal food contaminants botulinal toxin and Listeriolysin O. $140,000 from North Carolina Biotechnology Center (NCBC), Research Triangle Park, to Elcatech Inc., Winston- Salem, N.C.; G.J. Doellgast. For characterization of proteins bound to novel cell culture plate surfaces. $97,312 from NCBC to Flexcell Corp., Hillsborough, N.C.; A.J. Barnes. Recipient of 1990 Lyndon Baines Johnson Research Award; funds will support work in RNA editing. $54,000 from American Heart Association, Texas Affiliate, Dallas, to Southwest Foundation for Biomedical Research, San Antonio, Texas; D.M. Driscoll. CANCER RESEARCH For research on colon cancer, including the assessment of family histories and effects of lifestyles. $55,000 from American Cancer Society, Atlanta, to Arizona Cancer Center, Tucson; T. Bassford. For scientific equipment used in cancer research. $83,250 from Fannie P. Rippel Foundation, Annandale, N.J., to Rider College, Lawrenceville, N.J. CARDIOLOGY For study of early development of cardiovascular disease, using children from the United States and Japan, ages eight to 11, as models. $4.9 million for the first five years of the study from National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute to University of Texas School of Public Health, Houston; D. Labarthe. PEDIATRICS Designation of seven medical centers as Child Health Research Centers, to fund young pediatricians' research. First-year funds from National Institute of Child Health and Human Development to: * Yale University, New Haven, Conn.; J. Warshaw; $305,921. * Consortium of University of Utah, Salt Lake City; University of Colorado, Denver; and University of New Mexico, Albuquerque; M.A. Simmons, G. Merenstein, J.D. Johnson (respectively); $298,420. * Boston Children's Hospital; D.G. Nathan; $294,797. * Johns Hopkins Children's Center, Baltimore; F.A. Oski; $236,991. * University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston; C.J. Richardson; $300,926. * University of Iowa, Iowa City; F.H. Morriss, Jr.; $329,645. * Baylor University, Waco, Texas; R.D. Feigin; $333,300. TROPICAL DISEASES Awards from Program for Tropical Disease Research to support immunology research in trachoma, onchocerciasis, and schistosomiasis. Funds over three years from Edna McConnell Clark Foundation, New York, to: * University of California, San Francisco; R.S. Stephens; $353,000. * University of Rochester, New York; P. Bavoil; $350,000. * University of California, San Francisco; C.G. Davis; $45,000. * Trustees of Health and Hospitals of the City of Boston Inc.; Y. Zhang; $240,000. * London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine; D.C.W. Mabey; $275,000. * University of Manitoba, Winnipeg; R. Brunham; $170,000. * University of Southampton, England; M.E. Ward; $325,000. * University of Wisconsin, Madison; G.I. Byrne; $150,000. * Wayne State University, Detroit; P.C. Montgomery; $210,000. * University of Washington, Seattle; D.L. Patton; $50,000. * Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore; J. Whittum-Hudson; $178,000. * Medical College of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia; A.P. Hudson; $48,000. SCIENCE EDUCATION For expansion of Reuben H. Fleet Space and Science Center, San Diego, featuring permanent, hands-on science exhibits. $50,000 per year for three years from American Honda Foundation, Torrance, Calif., to San Diego Space and Science Foundation. To create Education for Tomorrow Alliance (ETA), joining Houston Advanced Research Center, The Woodlands, Texas; Conroe Independent School District, Texas; and South Montgomery County Woodlands Chamber of Commerce, Texas, to improve and promote science, math, and technology education in Montgomery County, Texas, schools. $119,880 from U.S. Dept. of Education to ETA; G. Plishker. Funds to support a visitors' program for Soviet mathematicians and theoretical physicists. $300,000 each from Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, New York, to Harvard University and Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge. For program using NovaNET, a satellite-linked computer network, to increase interest in mathematics, science, and English studies at inner-city schools. $25,000 from Illinois Bell, Champaign, to one elementary school and five secondary schools in the Champaign-Urbana area. AGRICULTURE Funds to map part of cow's genome; purpose is improved milk production. $210,000 over three years from U.S. Department of Agriculture to University of Massachusetts, Amherst; F.A. Ponce de Leon, J.M. Robl. Funds for Chesapeake Bay Aquaculture Project; goal is to increase aquaculture production, particularly through study of fish nutrition, disease, and reproductive biology. $350,760 from U.S. Department of Agriculture to Maryland Agricultural Experiment Station, University of Maryland, College Park, Md.; R.A. Kennedy.

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