Science Grants

SCIENCE GRANTS (The Scientist, Vol:5, #2, pg.22,January 21, 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. NEUROSCIENCE Establishment of new W.M. Keck Foundation Center for Integrative Neuroscience, to study the brain and behavior. $3 million from W.M. Keck Foundation, Los Angeles, to University of California, San Francisco; S.G. Lisberger. Award for Distinguished Achievement in Pain Research. $50,000 unrestricted medical research grant from Bristol-Myers Squibb Co., New York, to Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Medicale, Paris; J.-M. Besson. BIOLOGY Recipients of three Scholarships in the Biology of Developmental Disabilities in Children. $240,000 each from John Merck Fund, New York, to D.N. Hammond, University of Chicago; T.P. Tully, Brandeis University, Waltham, Mass.; R.N. Boustany, Duke University, Durham, N.C. GEOSCIENCE Support for Earthquake Research Affiliates (ERA) Program. $25,000 from Metropolitan Water District of Southern California, Los Angeles, to California Institute of Technology, Pasadena. Establishment of Institute for Rock Magnetism. $300,000 from W.M. Keck Foundation, Los Angeles, $750,000 from National Science Foundation, and $266,000 from university's Institute of Technology to University of Minnesota, Minneapolis; S.K. Banerjee. To establish John and Jane Wold Centennial Chair in Energy. $500,000 from John and Jane Wold, Casper, Wyo., and $500,000 in matching funds from state of Wyoming to University of Wyoming, Laramie; R.E. Ewing. Seismic studies of mountain building in West Antarctica and its consequences of continental drift. $2.1 million from NSF to University of Texas, Austin; J.A. Austin, Jr. OPTICS For development of analytical microprobe instruments for life sciences application. $250,466 over three years from NSF to University of Wyoming, Laramie; T.C. Vogelmann. MEDICAL RESEARCH Grants for basic medical research. Total of $10.7 million from Lucille P. Markey Charitable Trust, Miami, to: * Harvard School of Public Health, Cambridge, Mass.; A.H. Tashjian, Jr.; $3 million for fundamental research in Laboratory of Toxicology. * Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York;$2.7 million for interdisciplinary basic research program in developmental biology. * Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, Tenn.; S. Cohen; $5 million for study of molecular mechanisms of growth regulation. Medical grants from Wesley Foundation, Wichita, Kans., to: * University of Kansas, Lawrence; C. Wood; $197,735 for study of the immune system at different stages of HIV infection. * Kansas State University, Manhattan; $190,150 for study of genes involved with cell growth and cancer. * Wichita State University, Kans.; $161,869 for research on lung disease and adult respiratory distress syndrome. Funds to increase supercomputing in biomedical research. $6.1 million from National Institutes of Health to Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center. ECOLOGY/ENVIRONMENT Research into ozone pollution problems in the southern U.S. $3.5 million from U.S. Senate to consortium of 25 universities, Southern Oxidants Study; C.S. Kiang. For establishment of Anthracite Institute, for research into coal technology. $108,900 from Pennsylvania Energy Development Authority, Harrisburg, and matching funds from industry sources to Pennsylvania State University, University Park; P.L. Rozelle. PLANT PATHOLOGY Search for methods of controlling tomato spotted wilt virus. $49,000 from Walt Disney World Co., Lake Buena Vista, Fla., to University of Florida, Gainesville; G. Simone, R. Christie. GENETICS Study of genetic mapping with DNA polymorphism. $257,630 from the National Institutes of Health to California Institute of Technology, Pasadena; L.E. Hood. SCIENCE EDUCATION For SEED (Science for Early Educational Development) project encouraging elementary school science classes to use hands-on materials in teaching. $653,197 from NSF to Caltech, Pasadena; J. Pine, J. Bower. For teacher training courses to amplify aerospace topics in the classroom. $75,000 each in matching funds grants over two years from NASA to Bethune-Cookman College, Daytona Beach, Fla., and Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, N.Y. Establishment of national Center for Science Teaching and Learning. $6.93 million from U.S. Department of Education to Ohio State University, Columbus; A.L. White, M.H. Klapper. Funds to help train minority youth, leading to careers as scientists and engineers. $275,000 from General Electric Foundation, Fairfield, Conn., to National Action Council for Minorities in Engineering, New York; G. Campbell, Jr. BIOETHICS Funds to study organ and tissue donation. $1.6 million from U.S. Department of Health and Human Services to University of Minnesota Center for Biomedical Ethics, Minneapolis, and University of Pittsburgh Center for Medical Ethics; L. Siminoff, R. Arnold, A. Caplan, B. Virnig, V. Butterworth. SPACE SCIENCES Phase II Small Business Innovation Research funding for research on artificial neural networks, specifically the Parametric Avalanche (used to control space objects), for speech recognition, monitoring of medical and mechanical systems, and robotics and vehicles. $499,884 from NASA to Martingale Research Corp., Allen, Texas. GEOGRAPHY/AIDS CONTROL For computer modeling system, mapping AIDS at the county level across the U.S., and mathematical computer models used in predicting the geographic spread of the disease. $83,000 from Louisiana Education Quality Support Fund, Baton Rouge, to Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge; N. Lam, K. Liu.

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