Funded Projects - Biotechnology

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Funded Projects

•	biotechnology
•	communications and networking
•	digital media
•	electronics mfg. & new materials
•	IT for life sciences
•	microelectronics
•	pilot project for multidisciplinary research
•	economic impact

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Participating Institutions

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Fragile X and Ampakines
PI Name: Julie Lauterborn
E-mail: jclauter@uci.edu
Campus: UCI
Award Total: $252,564
Project Period: 9/1/2006 - 8/31/2008

Heart failure and improvement in calcium flux
PI Name: Wolfgang Dillmann
E-mail: wdoffice@ucsd.edu
Campus: UCSD
Award Total: $139,304
Project Period: 9/1/2006 - 8/31/2008

Human Embryonic Stem Cells for the Treatment of Spinal Cord Injury
PI Name: Hans Keirstead
E-mail: hansk@uci.edu
Campus: UCI
Award Total: $366,797
Project Period: 9/1/2006 - 8/31/2007

Microbial Biopolymer Factories
PI Name: Christopher Voigt
E-mail: cavoigt@picasso.ucsf.edu
Campus: UCSF
Award Total: $285,566
Project Period: 9/1/2006 - 8/31/2009

Directed Evolution of Novel Platforms for Enhanced Gene Delivery
PI Name: David Schaffer
E-mail: schaffer@cchem.berkeley.edu
Campus: UCB
Award Total: $512,520
Project Period: 9/1/2006 - 8/31/2007

Molecular tools to engineer California wheat varieties resistant to stripe rust (Puccinia striiformis)
PI Name: Jorge Dubcovsky
E-mail: jdubcovsky@ucdavis.edu
Campus: UCD
Award Total: $500,800
Project Period: 9/1/2006 - 8/31/2010

Technology for Precision Isotopic Labeling of Proteins and NMR Structure and Characterization
PI Name: Athan Shaka
E-mail: ajshaka@uci.edu
Campus: UCI
Award Total: $271,259
Project Period: 4/25/2006 - 4/24/2008

Understanding Substrate Specificity Through Therapeutically Targeted, Specific Serine Proteases
PI Name: Robert Fletterick
E-mail: flett@msg.ucsf.edu
Campus: UCSF
Award Total: $169,639
Project Period: 4/25/2006 - 4/24/2008

3-D assembly of proteorhodopsin composite membranes for the development of highly efficent, low cost, bioinspired photovoltaics
PI Name: Galen Stucky
E-mail: stucky@chem.ucsb.edu
Campus: UCSB
Award Total: $269,591
Project Period: 4/25/2006 - 4/24/2007

Rapid detection of HPV in clinical samples
PI Name: Norbert Reich
E-mail: reich@chem.ucsb.edu
Campus: UCSB
Award Total: $64,788
Project Period: 4/25/2006 - 4/24/2007

Genetic modification of alfalfa to improve protein utilization efficiency and to reduce N impact on the environment
PI Name: Abhaya Dandekar
E-mail: amdandekar@ucdavis.edu
Campus: UCD
Award Total: $385,579
Project Period: 4/25/2006 - 4/24/2008

Peach, almond, and related species as mutual sources of useful genetic variation for fruit and nut quality
PI Name: Carlos Crisosto
E-mail: carlos@uckac.edu
Campus: UCD
Award Total: $1,057,200
Project Period: 4/25/2006 - 4/24/2009

Improving the Effectiveness of Anti-tumor Agents Cisplatin and Methotrexate
PI Name: W. Todd Wipke
E-mail: wipke@chemistry.ucsc.edu
Campus: UCSC
Award Total: $668,966
Project Period: 4/25/2006 - 4/24/2009

An On-Chip Protein Array with Multiplexed Electrical Detection.
PI Name: Abraham Lee
E-mail: aplee@uci.edu
Campus: UCI
Award Total: $87,104
Project Period: 4/25/2006 - 4/24/2008

Integrated microfluidics for performing quantitative in vivo imaging of biological and pharmacologic processes in mice with microPET
PI Name: Christine Wu
E-mail: cwu@mednet.ucla.edu
Campus: UCLA
Award Total: $513,343
Project Period: 1/31/2006 - 1/30/2008

The therapeutic implications of a new MCH inhibitor
PI Name: Olivier Civelli
E-mail: ocivelli@uci.edu
Campus: UCI
Award Total: $827,282
Project Period: 1/31/2006 - 1/30/2010

Use of a Novel Growth Factor Nell-1 for Spinal Fusion
PI Name: Jeffrey Wang
E-mail: jwang@mednet.ucla.edu
Campus: UCLA
Award Total: $414,294
Project Period: 1/31/2006 - 1/30/2008

Bacillus megaterium host and vector system development
PI Name: Joe Pogliano
E-mail: jpogliano@ucsd.edu
Campus: UCSD
Award Total: $329,054
Project Period: 1/31/2006 - 1/30/2008

Selection and assessment of Polygalacturonase Inhibiting Proteins to Control Lygus in Alfalfa
PI Name: Ann Powell
E-mail: alpowell@ucdavis.edu
Campus: UCD
Award Total: $40,000
Project Period: 1/31/2006 - 1/30/2007

Structure-based Discovery of Stable Env Protein-Trimers to Present HIV Common Protective Immuno-determinants
PI Name: Holland Cheng
E-mail: rhch@ucdavis.edu
Campus: UCD
Award Total: $333,551
Project Period: 1/31/2006 - 1/30/2008

Molecular Characterization of Malignant Glioma
PI Name: Michael Prados
E-mail: pradosm@neurosurg.ucsf.edu
Campus: UCSF
Award Total: $1,800,281
Project Period: 1/31/2006 - 1/30/2009

Identification of Particulates in Human Urine Samples
PI Name: James Gimzewski
E-mail: gim@chem.ucla.edu
Campus: UCLA
Award Total: $219,434
Project Period: 1/31/2006 - 1/30/2008

STUDIES OF SELECTIVE PPARg MODULATOR BIOLOGY
PI Name: Jerrold Olefsky
E-mail: jolefsky@ucsd.edu
Campus: UCSD
Award Total: $782,861
Project Period: 1/31/2006 - 1/30/2007

A mouse model of BRAF-V6000E induced malignant melanoma
PI Name: Martin McMahon
E-mail: mcmahon@cc.ucsf.edu
Campus: UCSF
Award Total: $1,295,396
Project Period: 1/31/2006 - 1/30/2010

Functional genomic analysis of walnut-nematode interactions
PI Name: Abhaya Dandekar
E-mail: amdandekar@ucdavis.edu
Campus: UCD
Award Total: $280,000
Project Period: 1/31/2006 - 1/30/2010

Engineering Synthetic Environments that Control hESC Self-Renewal
PI Name: Kevin Healy
E-mail: kehealy@socrates.berkeley.edu
Campus: UCB
Award Total: $216,976
Project Period: 1/31/2006 - 1/30/2007

The Biological Basis of Genetic Risk for Heart Disease
PI Name: John Kane
E-mail: john.kane@ucsf.edu
Campus: UCSF
Award Total: $134,886
Project Period: 8/16/2005 - 8/15/2006

Optimization of selective alpha7 nicotinic receptor modulators
PI Name: Kelvin Gee
E-mail: kwgee@uci.edu
Campus: UCI
Award Total: $934,863
Project Period: 8/16/2005 - 8/15/2007

A whole-genome approach to marker discovery in lettuce
PI Name: Allen Van Deynze
E-mail: avandeynze@ucdavis.edu
Campus: UCD
Award Total: $879,741
Project Period: 8/16/2005 - 8/15/2008

Directed Evolution of Novel Gene Delivery Platforms for Stem Cells
PI Name: David Schaffer
E-mail: schaffer@cchem.berkeley.edu
Campus: UCB
Award Total: $510,232
Project Period: 8/16/2005 - 8/15/2006

Human Embryonic Stem Cells for the Treatment of Spinal Cord Injury
PI Name: Hans Keirstead
E-mail: hansk@uci.edu
Campus: UCI
Award Total: $385,483
Project Period: 8/16/2005 - 8/15/2006

Molecular mechanism of post-myocardial infarction cardiac regeneration by novel therapeutic peptides
PI Name: Matthew Springer
E-mail: matt.springer@medicine.ucsf.edu
Campus: UCSF
Award Total: $122,403
Project Period: 8/16/2005 - 8/15/2006

3-D assembly of proteorhodopsin composite membranes for the development of highly efficient, low-cost, bioinspired photovoltaics
PI Name: Galen Stucky
E-mail: stucky@chem.ucsb.edu
Campus: UCSB
Award Total: $269,049
Project Period: 5/3/2005 - 5/2/2007

The Role of Placental Fibroblasts in Regulating Stem Cell Differentiation
PI Name: Susan Fisher
E-mail: sfisher@cgl.ucsf.edu
Campus: UCSF
Award Total: $866,809
Project Period: 5/3/2005 - 5/2/2007

The functional deconstruction of milk oligosaccharides
PI Name: Bruce German
E-mail: jbgerman@ucdavis.edu
Campus: UCD
Award Total: $893,535
Project Period: 5/3/2005 - 5/2/2008

Stromal Stem Cell Therapy for the Heart
PI Name: Randall Lee
E-mail: lee@medicine.ucsf.edu
Campus: UCSF
Award Total: $673,492
Project Period: 5/3/2005 - 5/2/2007

Elucidation of interferon-mediated antiviral defense mechanisms within adult cardiac myocytes: the role in viral myocarditis.
PI Name: Kirk Knowlton
E-mail: kknowlton@ucsd.edu
Campus: UCSD
Award Total: $494,591
Project Period: 5/3/2005 - 5/2/2007

Sensing for Tight Glucose Control in the ICU
PI Name: Bakthan Singaram
E-mail: singaram@chemistry.ucsc.edu
Campus: UCSC
Award Total: $1,037,337
Project Period: 5/3/2005 - 5/2/2009

Characterization of Prostate Cancer Biomarkers in Skin
PI Name: William Wachsman
E-mail: wwachsman@ucsd.edu
Campus: UCSD
Award Total: $1,857,787
Project Period: 5/3/2005 - 5/2/2008

Control of fruit development in legumes
PI Name: Martin Yanofsky
E-mail: marty@ucsd.edu
Campus: UCSD
Award Total: $41,210
Project Period: 5/3/2005 - 5/2/2006

Immune Profiling and Integration of Biomarkers into the Context of Clinical Decisions
PI Name: Laura Esserman
E-mail: laura.esserman@ucsfmedctr.org
Campus: UCSF
Award Total: $542,121
Project Period: 5/3/2005 - 5/2/2007

Early Diagnosis of Melanoma with Noninvasive Sampling and DNA Microarrays
PI Name: G. Wesley Hatfield
E-mail: gwhatfie@uci.edu
Campus: UCI
Award Total: $176,322
Project Period: 5/3/2005 - 11/2/2006

Controlling Citrus tristeza virus by rootstock delivery of a CTV RNA silencing signal
PI Name: Bryce Falk
E-mail: bwfalk@ucdavis.edu
Campus: UCD, UCR
Award Total: $202,000
Project Period: 1/19/2005 - 1/18/2006

Development of engineered probiotics for reduction of pathogens in livestock
PI Name: David Mills
E-mail: damills@ucdavis.edu
Campus: UCD
Award Total: $240,606
Project Period: 1/19/2005 - 1/18/2007

Targeted SNP Discovery in Cotton
PI Name: Allen Van Deynze
E-mail: avandeynze@ucdavis.edu
Campus: UCD
Award Total: $224,353
Project Period: 1/19/2005 - 1/18/2007

Discovery of new biomarkers for prostate cancer.
PI Name: Carlito Lebrilla
E-mail: cblebrilla@ucdavis.edu
Campus: UCD
Award Total: $57,373
Project Period: 1/19/2005 - 1/18/2006

“Diversity-Generating Retroelements and the Development of Phage-Based Antimicrobial Agents”
PI Name: Jeffery Miller
E-mail: jfmiller@ucla.edu
Campus: UCLA
Award Total: $500,641
Project Period: 1/19/2005 - 1/18/2007

Kinetic biomarkers for drug developement in metabolism and neurobiology
PI Name: Marc Hellerstein
E-mail: march@nature.berkeley .edu
Campus: UCB
Award Total: $911,728
Project Period: 1/19/2005 - 1/18/2007

Increasing the Efficiency of Homologous Recombination in Somatic Cells
PI Name: Elizabeth Maga
E-mail: eamaga@ucdavis.edu
Campus: UCD
Award Total: $239,011
Project Period: 8/17/2004 - 8/16/2006

Development of diagnostic reagents for neurodegenerative diseases
PI Name: Anthony Fink
E-mail: enzyme@cats.ucsc.edu
Campus: UCSC
Award Total: $61,354
Project Period: 8/17/2004 - 5/16/2005

Fragile X and Ampakines
PI Name: Julie Lauterborn
E-mail: jclauter@uci.edu
Campus: UCI
Award Total: $239,148
Project Period: 8/17/2004 - 8/16/2006

Human Genetics of Vitamin Remediation
PI Name: Jasper Rine
E-mail: jrine@uclink.berkeley.edu
Campus: UCB
Award Total: $502,724
Project Period: 8/17/2004 - 8/16/2006

Myelin and Axonal Regeneration Analyses Using Human Embryonic Stem Cell Derivatives
PI Name: Hans Keirstead
E-mail: hansk@uci.edu
Campus: UCI
Award Total: $493,524
Project Period: 8/17/2004 - 8/16/2005

The translation of genes involved in plant nutrition and abiotic stress from model species to tomato
PI Name: Allen Van Deynze
E-mail: avandeynze@ucdavis.edu
Campus: UCD
Award Total: $357,392
Project Period: 8/17/2004 - 8/16/2007

Molecular Genotyping of a Lettuce Recombinant Inbred Population
PI Name: Kent Bradford
E-mail: kjbradford@ucdavis.edu
Campus: UCD
Award Total: $60,360
Project Period: 8/17/2004 - 7/18/2005

Structure-based discovery of Hsp90 inhibitors
PI Name: David Agard
E-mail: agard@msg.ucsf.edu
Campus: UCSF
Award Total: $305,086
Project Period: 8/17/2004 - 8/16/2005

Aneuploidy in early human embryonic development
PI Name: Jingly Weier
E-mail: jlfung@itsa.ucsf.edu
Campus: UCSF
Award Total: $195,814
Project Period: 8/17/2004 - 8/16/2006

Quantum dots as probes of dendritic cell exosomes
PI Name: Michael Cahalan
E-mail: mcahalan@uci.edu
Campus: UCI
Award Total: $31,502
Project Period: 8/17/2004 - 8/16/2006

Mechanism and Kinetics of Enzyme Action in Laundry and Dishwasher Applications
PI Name: Clayton Radke
E-mail: radke@cchem.berkeley.edu
Campus: UCB
Award Total: $416,775
Project Period: 6/15/2004 - 8/16/2006

Diagnostic testing and management schemes for the control of the Johne`s agent in milk
PI Name: James Cullor
E-mail: jscullor@ucdavis.edu
Campus: UCD
Award Total: $106,470
Project Period: 5/4/2004 - 5/3/2005

Large scale field evaluation of transcription factors regulating fruit development
PI Name: Ann Powell
E-mail: alpowell@ucdavis.edu
Campus: UCD
Award Total: $123,913
Project Period: 5/4/2004 - 11/3/2005

Effects of prokineticins on the neurogenesis of adult mammalian brains
PI Name: Qun-Yong Zhou
E-mail: qzhou@uci.edu
Campus: UCI
Award Total: $569,840
Project Period: 5/4/2004 - 5/3/2007

High-Density Electrodes for Retinal Prostheses
PI Name: Jack Judy
E-mail: jjudy@ee.ucla.edu
Campus: UCLA
Award Total: $63,059
Project Period: 5/4/2004 - 5/5/2004

Genetic Control of Fruit Organoleptic Traits in Peach
PI Name: Carlos Crisosto
E-mail: carlos@uckac.edu
Campus: UCD
Award Total: $370,400
Project Period: 5/4/2004 - 5/3/2006

Development of Disease Resistant Walnut Rootstocks
PI Name: Abhaya Dandekar
E-mail: amdandekar@ucdavis.edu
Campus: UCD
Award Total: $240,000
Project Period: 1/21/2004 - 1/20/2007

Studies of Selective PPARg Modulator Biology
PI Name: Jerrold Olefsky
E-mail: jolefsky@ucsd.edu
Campus: UCSD
Award Total: $1,160,530
Project Period: 1/21/2004 - 1/20/2006

Bioactive Compound Incorporation in Protein Films and Coatings
PI Name: John Krochta
E-mail: jmkrochta@ucdavis.edu
Campus: UCD
Award Total: $240,000
Project Period: 1/21/2004 - 1/20/2007

Alzheimer`s vaccine that avoids inflammatory side effects
PI Name: Charles Glabe
E-mail: cglabe@uci.edu
Campus: UCI
Award Total: $262,905
Project Period: 1/21/2004 - 6/30/2006

The role of HIF-1 in tumor sensitization to metabolic inhibitors
PI Name: Randall Johnson
E-mail: rjohnson@biomail.ucsd.edu
Campus: UCSD
Award Total: $188,344
Project Period: 1/21/2004 - 1/20/2006

Structural Studies of Chemokine Receptors to Aid the Development of Small Molecule Receptor Antagonists
PI Name: Tracy Handel
E-mail: handel@paradise1.berkeley.edu
Campus: UCB
Award Total: $207,964
Project Period: 1/21/2004 - 7/20/2006

Engineering Salt Tolerant Crops
PI Name: Eduardo Blumwald
E-mail: eblumwald@ucdavis.edu
Campus: UCD
Award Total: $954,792
Project Period: 1/21/2004 - 1/20/2008

Improved Crystallization of Membrane Proteins
PI Name: Robert Glaeser
E-mail: rmglaeser@lbl.gov
Campus: UCB
Award Total: $715,054
Project Period: 1/21/2004 - 1/20/2006

Controlling Oomycete Plant Pathogens Devastating California Agriculture: a Reverse Genetics Approach
PI Name: Howard Judelson
E-mail: howard.judelson@ucr.edu
Campus: UCR
Award Total: $552,965
Project Period: 1/21/2004 - 1/20/2007

RAPID AND LOW-COST BIOMOLECULE DETECTION ON ADJACENT IMPEDANCE PROBING (AIP) ELECTRODE WITH IMPEDANCE AMPLIFYING LABELS
PI Name: Marc Madou
E-mail: mmadou@uci.edu
Campus: UCI
Award Total: $79,447
Project Period: 1/21/2004 - 1/20/2006

Bioinformatics for Citrus Microarrays Applied to Gene Expression Profiling and Genome Mapping
PI Name: Mikeal Roose
E-mail: mikeal.roose@ucr.edu
Campus: UCR
Award Total: $1,023,499
Project Period: 1/13/2004 - 1/12/2007

Selective inhibitors of endogenous cannabinoid inactivation as therapeutic agents
PI Name: Daniele Piomelli
E-mail: piomelli@uci.edu
Campus: UCI
Award Total: $2,571,783
Project Period: 8/19/2003 - 8/18/2007

Marine actinomycetes as a resource for drug discovery.
PI Name: William Fenical
E-mail: wfenical@ucsd.edu
Campus: UCSD
Award Total: $837,642
Project Period: 8/19/2003 - 8/18/2006

Myelin and Axonal Regeneration Analyses Using Human Embryonic Stem Cell Derivatives
PI Name: Hans Keirstead
E-mail: hansk@uci.edu
Campus: UCI
Award Total: $447,011
Project Period: 8/19/2003 - 8/18/2004

Enhancement of telomerase in human T cells: a novel approach to immunotherapy for AIDS and aging
PI Name: Rita Effros
E-mail: reffros@mednet.ucla.edu
Campus: UCLA
Award Total: $43,888
Project Period: 8/19/2003 - 8/18/2004

Piezoelectric microjet for transdermal drug delivery
PI Name: Daniel Fletcher
E-mail: fletch@uclink.berkeley.edu
Campus: UCB
Award Total: $15,413
Project Period: 8/19/2003 - 8/18/2004

Production and Dynamical Characterization of Protein Kinases
PI Name: David Wemmer
E-mail: dewemmer@lbl.gov
Campus: UCB
Award Total: $63,195
Project Period: 8/19/2003 - 1/1/2005

Validating breast cancer therapeutic targets
PI Name: Joe Gray
E-mail: jgray@cc.ucsf.edu
Campus: UCSF
Award Total: $1,131,750
Project Period: 8/19/2003 - 8/18/2006

Creating Polyketide Antibiotic Diversity by Engineering Cytochrome P450 Enzymes
PI Name: Paul Ortiz de Montellano
E-mail: ortiz@cgl.ucsf.edu
Campus: UCSF
Award Total: $76,875
Project Period: 8/19/2003 - 8/18/2004

Novel fluorescent probes for monitoring protein-surface interactions and oligonucleotide hybridization.
PI Name: Nathaniel Finney
E-mail: nfinney@chem.ucsd.edu
Campus: UCSD
Award Total: $64,264
Project Period: 8/19/2003 - 6/30/2004

Development of a Potent Drug for Pain and Inflammation
PI Name: Edward Dennis
E-mail: edennis@ucsd.edu
Campus: UCSD
Award Total: $882,000
Project Period: 5/27/2003 - 8/26/2005

Characterization of pleiotrophin induced myocardial angiogenesis
PI Name: Randall Lee
E-mail: lee@medicine.ucsf.edu
Campus: UCSF
Award Total: $283,492
Project Period: 5/27/2003 - 5/26/2004

Cell-Based Therapeutic Treatment of Parkinson`s Disease Using Human Retinal Pigmented Epithelial Cells
PI Name: Lincoln Johnson
E-mail: l_johnso@lifesci.ucsb.edu
Campus: UCSB
Award Total: $170,515
Project Period: 5/27/2003 - 5/26/2004

Discovery of Chemokine Receptors in Vascular Inflammation
PI Name: John Rutledge
E-mail: jcrutledge@ucdavis.edu
Campus: UCD
Award Total: $422,079
Project Period: 5/27/2003 - 5/26/2005

Design and synthesis of novel GABA-A receptor subtype selective modulators
PI Name: Kelvin Gee
E-mail: kwgee@uci.edu
Campus: UCI
Award Total: $1,770,175
Project Period: 5/27/2003 - 1/26/2006

An in vitro system to study B-RAF induced oncogenic transformation of human melanocytes
PI Name: Martin McMahon
E-mail: mcmahon@cc.ucsf.edu
Campus: UCSF
Award Total: $247,526
Project Period: 5/27/2003 - 5/26/2005

Evaluating a large-scale approach to identify novel factors regulating complex traits in tomato fruit development.
PI Name: Alan Bennett
E-mail: abbennett@ucdavis.edu
Campus: UCD
Award Total: $62,229
Project Period: 5/27/2003 - 5/26/2004

Functional analysis of genes that determine Citrus peel quality
PI Name: Abhaya Dandekar
E-mail: amdandekar@ucdavis.edu
Campus: UCD
Award Total: $540,000
Project Period: 5/27/2003 - 5/26/2007

Control of fruit development in legumes
PI Name: Martin Yanofsky
E-mail: marty@ucsd.edu
Campus: UCSD
Award Total: $132,633
Project Period: 5/27/2003 - 5/26/2005

Evaluation of plant development and fruit quality genes from model species in tomato
PI Name: Allen Van Deynze
E-mail: avandeynze@ucdavis.edu
Campus: UCD
Award Total: $429,383
Project Period: 5/27/2003 - 5/26/2006

High resolution imaging of small animals
PI Name: Bruce Hasegawa
E-mail: bruce.hasegawa@radiology.ucsf.edu
Campus: UCSF
Award Total: $617,012
Project Period: 5/27/2003 - 5/26/2006

Developing Protease Specific Antibodies for Defining the Role of Cancer-Associated Proteases
PI Name: Charles Craik
E-mail: craik@cgl.ucsf.edu
Campus: UCSF
Award Total: $435,878
Project Period: 5/27/2003 - 5/26/2005

Metabolic Profiling and Engineering of Oxylipins in Rice
PI Name: Katayoon Dehesh
E-mail: kdehesh@ucdavis.edu
Campus: UCD
Award Total: $368,475
Project Period: 5/27/2003 - 5/26/2005

Structural-functional imaging of prostate cancer
PI Name: Bruce Hasegawa
E-mail: bruce.hasegawa@radiology.ucsf.edu
Campus: UCSF
Award Total: $75,079
Project Period: 5/27/2003 - 5/26/2004

Molecular Classification , Diagnosis, and Therapy of Lymphomatous Involvement of the Central Nervous System
PI Name: James Rubenstein
E-mail: jamesr@medicine.ucsf.edu
Campus: UCSF
Award Total: $42,641
Project Period: 5/27/2003 - 5/26/2004

The Role of Placental Fibroblasts in Regulating Stem Cell Differentiation
PI Name: Susan Fisher
E-mail: sfisher@cgl.ucsf.edu
Campus: UCSF
Award Total: $999,429
Project Period: 5/27/2003 - 5/26/2005

Development of a genomic diagnostic tool for coronary heart disease.
PI Name: John Kane
E-mail: john.kane@ucsf.edu
Campus: UCSF
Award Total: $1,883,002
Project Period: 1/28/2003 - 7/31/2005

Development of EST resources and new genetic markers for California citrus improvement
PI Name: Mikeal Roose
E-mail: mikeal.roose@ucr.edu
Campus: UCR
Award Total: $138,100
Project Period: 1/28/2003 - 1/27/2004

DNA aptamer-based flourescence polarization bioassay for point-of-care lipoprotein profile
PI Name: Ashok Mulchandani
E-mail: adani@engr.ucr.edu
Campus: UCR
Award Total: $89,320
Project Period: 1/28/2003 - 1/27/2005

Diagnostic testing and management schemes for the control of the Johne`s agent in milk.
PI Name: James Cullor
E-mail: jscullor@ucdavis.edu
Campus: UCD
Award Total: $100,000
Project Period: 1/28/2003 - 1/27/2004

Metabolic engineering of Saccharomyces cerevisiae for terpene production
PI Name: Jay Keasling
E-mail: keasling@socrates.berkeley.edu
Campus: UCB
Award Total: $360,654
Project Period: 1/28/2003 - 1/27/2004

Metabolic engineering of Escherichia coli for polyketide production
PI Name: Jay Keasling
E-mail: keasling@socrates.berkeley.edu
Campus: UCB
Award Total: $433,839
Project Period: 1/28/2003 - 1/27/2005

A novel pre-clinical in vivo platform for rapid testing of anti-neoplastic agents
PI Name: Gerard Evan
E-mail: gevan@cc.ucsf.edu
Campus: UCSF
Award Total: $144,737
Project Period: 1/28/2003 - 1/27/2004

Isolation of unique epitopes reactive with antibodies from HIV and HCV patient sera using a novel phage-displayed random peptide library
PI Name: Martina Berger
E-mail: mberger@uci.edu
Campus: UCI
Award Total: $51,200
Project Period: 1/28/2003 - 4/27/2004

Efficacy of Anti-Angiogenic Molecules In A Rat Model Of Choroidal Neovascularization
PI Name: Sheldon Miller
E-mail: millers@nei.nih.gov
Campus: UCB
Award Total: $309,021
Project Period: 1/28/2003 - 7/26/2004

High-Throughput Kinetic Phenotype Screening Packages for Drug Discovery and Target Validation
PI Name: Marc Hellerstein
E-mail: march@nature.berkeley .edu
Campus: UCB
Award Total: $559,771
Project Period: 1/28/2003 - 1/27/2005

Generation of phospho-peptide specific high affinity rabbit monoclonal antibody by phage display.
PI Name: Bin Liu
E-mail: liub@anesthesia.ucsf.edu
Campus: UCSF
Award Total: $166,160
Project Period: 1/28/2003 - 1/26/2005

Sensing Aromatic Hydrocarbons with Molecular Receptors Grafted onto Carbon Nanotubes
PI Name: J. Fraser Stoddart
E-mail: stoddart@chem.ucla.edu
Campus: UCLA
Award Total: $155,574
Project Period: 1/28/2003 - 7/27/2005

Effects of prokineticins on the neurogenesis in adult mammalian brains
PI Name: Qun-Yong Zhou
E-mail: qzhou@uci.edu
Campus: UCI
Award Total: $169,661
Project Period: 1/28/2003 - 1/27/2004

Better Human Immunoglobulin Mice
PI Name: Matthias Wabl
E-mail: mutator@itsa.ucsf.edu
Campus: UCSF
Award Total: $502,580
Project Period: 1/28/2003 - 1/27/2005

Molecular Approaches to Improve ONYX-015`s Clinical Potential
PI Name: Frank McCormick
E-mail: mccormick@cc.ucsf.edu
Campus: UCSF
Award Total: $3,680,156
Project Period: 1/28/2003 - 1/27/2007

Sperm Fertilizing Potential and a Sperm Membrane Protein
PI Name: Trish Berger
E-mail: tberger@ucdavis.edu
Campus: UCD
Award Total: $31,536
Project Period: 1/28/2003 - 1/27/2004

A miniaturized system for protein production in baculovirus
PI Name: Joanna Albala
E-mail: albala1@llnl.gov
Campus: LLNL
Award Total: $184,194
Project Period: 1/28/2003 - 10/27/2003

Microfluidic Biochip for Rapid Generation and Screening of Bioactive Compounds
PI Name: Douglas Clark
E-mail: clark@cchem.berkeley.edu
Campus: UCB
Award Total: $379,018
Project Period: 1/28/2003 - 1/27/2006

Characterization of multimeric profilin as a panallergen
PI Name: Suzanne Teuber
E-mail: ssteuber@ucdavis.edu
Campus: UCD
Award Total: $199,696
Project Period: 1/28/2003 - 1/27/2005

Prediction of therapeutic response to lithium in bipolar disorder
PI Name: John Kelsoe
E-mail: jkelsoe@ucsd.edu
Campus: UCSD
Award Total: $264,845
Project Period: 9/3/2002 - 3/2/2004

Competitive renewal: Large-scale saline fermentation for the discovery and development of marine microbial drugs.
PI Name: William Fenical
E-mail: wfenical@ucsd.edu
Campus: UCSD
Award Total: $208,886
Project Period: 9/1/2002 - 8/31/2003

Design and Synthesis of Novel TNF-a Inhibitors
PI Name: Emmanuel Theodorakis
E-mail: etheodor@ucsd.edu
Campus: UCSD
Award Total: $68,999
Project Period: 8/13/2002 - 8/12/2003

Brain Machine Interface: Microfabricated Cell Membrane Electrophysiological Recording Arrays
PI Name: Luke Lee
E-mail: lplee@socrates.berkeley.edu
Campus: UCB, UCSB
Award Total: $304,674
Project Period: 8/13/2002 - 8/12/2003

Novel Peptides for Control of Phloem-Feeding Insects - A Genomics Approach
PI Name: Brian Federici
E-mail: brian.federici@ucr.edu
Campus: UCR
Award Total: $303,578
Project Period: 8/13/2002 - 8/12/2005

Targeting the estrogen receptor for proteolysis: A novel therapeutic approach to breast cancer
PI Name: Kathleen Sakamoto
E-mail: kms@ucla.edu
Campus: UCLA
Award Total: $22,132
Project Period: 8/13/2002 - 8/12/2003

Development of Temperature Responsive Molecularly Imprinted Polymer For Biosensing Microfluidic Devices
PI Name: Ying Chang
E-mail: ycchang@uci.edu
Campus: UCI
Award Total: $58,367
Project Period: 8/13/2002 - 8/12/2003

New and Efficient Methods in Nucleoside Synthesis
PI Name: Emmanuel Theodorakis
E-mail: etheodor@ucsd.edu
Campus: UCSD
Award Total: $135,975
Project Period: 8/13/2002 - 6/24/2003

Identification of wild-type yeast strains and genes active in the biodegradation of plant material biomass
PI Name: Kyria Boundy-mills
E-mail: klbmills@ucdavis.edu
Campus: UCD
Award Total: $27,101
Project Period: 8/13/2002 - 8/12/2003

Immunological functions of STLK-2
PI Name: Nigel Killeen
E-mail: nigel@itsa.ucsf.edu
Campus: UCSF
Award Total: $101,296
Project Period: 8/13/2002 - 8/12/2003

Characterization of LRP1 and APP mediated protein-protein interactions
PI Name: Peter Van der geer
E-mail: geer@ucsd.edu
Campus: UCSD
Award Total: $252,000
Project Period: 8/13/2002 - 8/12/2004

Gene Expression and Signal Transduction
PI Name: Julian Schroeder
E-mail: julian@biomail.ucsd.edu
Campus: UCSD
Award Total: $136,751
Project Period: 8/13/2002 - 8/12/2005

Genomic events in breast cancer
PI Name: Frederic Waldman
E-mail: waldman@cc.ucsf.edu
Campus: UCSF
Award Total: $795,563
Project Period: 8/13/2002 - 8/12/2005

Genetic Control of Fruit Organoleptic Traits in Peach
PI Name: Carlos Crisosto
E-mail: carlos@uckac.edu
Campus: UCD
Award Total: $105,930
Project Period: 8/13/2002 - 8/14/2003

Engineering Probiotic Microorganisms
PI Name: David Mills
E-mail: damills@ucdavis.edu
Campus: UCD
Award Total: $445,258
Project Period: 8/13/2002 - 1/23/2004

Myelin and Axonal Regeneration Using Human Embryonic Stem Cell Derivatives
PI Name: Hans Keirstead
E-mail: hansk@uci.edu
Campus: UCI
Award Total: $374,375
Project Period: 8/13/2002 - 8/12/2003

Visual Servoing Optical Microscopy for Quantification of Multidrug Resistance in Living Cells
PI Name: Daniel Callahan
E-mail: DECallahan@lbl.gov
Campus: LBNL
Award Total: $196,445
Project Period: 8/13/2002 - 8/12/2003

COX-2 Specific In Vivo Molecular Imaging Probes
PI Name: Jorge Barrio
E-mail: hpadgett@mednet.ucla.edu; jbarrio@mednet.ucla.edu
Campus: UCLA
Award Total: $1,187,294
Project Period: 8/13/2002 - 8/12/2004

Novel Strategy to Promote Plasticity and Recovery After Spinal Cord Injury
PI Name: Linda Noble
E-mail: noblelj@itsa.ucsf.edu
Campus: UCSF
Award Total: $79,233
Project Period: 8/13/2002 - 8/12/2003

Molecular Imaging Probes for the In Vivo Assessment of Signal Transduction Pathways
PI Name: Jorge Barrio
E-mail: hpadgett@mednet.ucla.edu; jbarrio@mednet.ucla.edu
Campus: UCLA
Award Total: $1,243,134
Project Period: 8/13/2002 - 8/12/2004

Pluripotent Stem Cells and Parkinson`s Disease
PI Name: Marie-Francoise Chesselet
E-mail: mchessel@ucla.edu
Campus: UCLA
Award Total: $34,411
Project Period: 8/13/2002 - 4/14/2003

Computer and Biological identification and analysis of secretory systems in Pseudomonas fluorescens.
PI Name: Milton Saier
E-mail: msaier@ucsd.edu
Campus: UCSD
Award Total: $102,650
Project Period: 8/13/2002 - 8/12/2003

Genetic and Molecular Characterization of Host-Plant Resistance in Cotton to Root-Knot Nematodes and Fusarium Wilt
PI Name: Philip Roberts
E-mail: philip.roberts@ucr.edu
Campus: UCR
Award Total: $286,133
Project Period: 8/13/2002 - 8/12/2006

RDA Technology Development for Gene Discovery
PI Name: Randolph Wall
E-mail: rwall@mbi.ucla.edu
Campus: UCLA
Award Total: $252,000
Project Period: 6/1/2002 - 5/31/2003

Optical Saccharide Sensor
PI Name: Bakthan Singaram
E-mail: singaram@chemistry.ucsc.edu
Campus: UCSC
Award Total: $736,502
Project Period: 5/17/2002 - 5/16/2005

High-throughput discovery and analysis of HIV genome polymorphism and recombination in long-term patient populations.
PI Name: Christopher Lee
E-mail: leec@mbi.ucla.edu
Campus: UCLA
Award Total: $78,692
Project Period: 5/17/2002 - 5/16/2004

Development of robust and resistant regression analysis for identification of differentially expressed genes in Ceriodaphnia (water flea) exposed to environmental toxins.
PI Name: Christopher Vulpe
E-mail: vulpe@uclink4.berkeley.edu
Campus: UCB
Award Total: $120,410
Project Period: 5/17/2002 - 5/16/2004

Side Wall Modification of Single Wall Nanotubes
PI Name: Fred Wudl
E-mail: wudl@chem.ucla.edu
Campus: UCLA
Award Total: $143,122
Project Period: 5/3/2002 - 5/2/2004

Ampakine modulation of brain neurotrophin expression: a novel therapeutic strategy
PI Name: Christine Gall
E-mail: cmgall@uci.edu
Campus: UCI
Award Total: $486,652
Project Period: 5/3/2002 - 5/2/2004

Nanowire-Based Sensors
PI Name: Reginald Penner
E-mail: rmpenner@uci.edu
Campus: UCI
Award Total: $52,740
Project Period: 5/3/2002 - 5/2/2003

Autologous adipose derived stem cells for the reconstruction of the atrophic female urethra: tissue-engineering techniques for the treatment of stress urinary incontinence.
PI Name: Larissa Rodriguez
E-mail: lrodriguez@mednet.ucla.edu
Campus: UCLA
Award Total: $272,634
Project Period: 5/3/2002 - 12/31/2004

Characterization of protease inhibitors as potential treatment for neurodegenerative diseases
PI Name: Michel Baudry
E-mail: mbaudry@uci
Campus: UCI
Award Total: $775,141
Project Period: 5/3/2002 - 5/2/2004

Targets of hypoxic response in epithelial tumors.
PI Name: Randall Johnson
E-mail: rjohnson@biomail.ucsd.edu
Campus: UCSD
Award Total: $1,585,891
Project Period: 5/3/2002 - 5/2/2005

Controlled Differentiation of Pluripotent Stem Cells
PI Name: Susan Fisher
E-mail: sfisher@cgl.ucsf.edu
Campus: UCSF
Award Total: $497,651
Project Period: 2/28/2002 - 5/27/2003

Molecular Basis of Insulin Aggregation
PI Name: Anthony Fink
E-mail: enzyme@cats.ucsc.edu
Campus: UCSC
Award Total: $124,500
Project Period: 2/1/2002 - 7/31/2003

Control of Fruit Shattering
PI Name: Martin Yanofsky
E-mail: marty@ucsd.edu
Campus: UCSD
Award Total: $100,159
Project Period: 2/1/2002 - 1/31/2003

Cell-Based Therapeutics: Treatment of Parkinson`s Disease Using Human Retinal Pigmented Epithelial Cells
PI Name: Lincoln Johnson
E-mail: l_johnso@lifesci.ucsb.edu
Campus: UCSB
Award Total: $318,433
Project Period: 2/1/2002 - 4/30/2003

Protein toxins and biocontrol of nematodes
PI Name: Raffi Aroian
E-mail: raroian@ucsd.edu
Campus: UCSD
Award Total: $232,888
Project Period: 2/1/2002 - 1/31/2003

Gene Expression Profiling of Human Epidermis using DNA Microarrays and Laser Capture Microdissection
PI Name: G. Wesley Hatfield
E-mail: gwhatfie@uci.edu
Campus: UCI
Award Total: $179,854
Project Period: 1/18/2002 - 1/17/2003

Human Cardiomyocyte Cell Lines for the Treatment of Cardiac Disease
PI Name: Fred Levine
E-mail: flevine@ucsd.edu
Campus: UCSD
Award Total: $219,781
Project Period: 1/18/2002 - 1/17/2003

Development of Cell-free Protein Expression Technologies for Structural Genomics
PI Name: Peter Beernink
E-mail: ptb@llnl.gov
Campus: LLNL
Award Total: $185,058
Project Period: 1/18/2002 - 12/31/2003

Biopolymer Surface Response to Protein Adsorption and Nature of Blood Compatibility - A Sum Frequence Generation Vibrational Spectroscopy and Atomic Force Microscopy Study.
PI Name: Gabor Somorjai
E-mail: somorjai@socrates.berkeley.edu
Campus: UCB
Award Total: $713,292
Project Period: 1/18/2002 - 1/17/2006

Novel methods for the treatment of dental caries
PI Name: Wenyuan Shi
E-mail: wenyuan@ucla.edu
Campus: UCLA
Award Total: $2,038,722
Project Period: 1/18/2002 - 2/26/2006

Controlling Citrus tristeza virus (CTV) by rootstock delivery of a CTV RNA silencing signal
PI Name: Bryce Falk
E-mail: bwfalk@ucdavis.edu
Campus: UCD, UCR
Award Total: $570,000
Project Period: 1/18/2002 - 1/17/2005

Mechanism of Truncated Galectin-3 Inhibition of Cancer Growth and Metastasis
PI Name: Gary Jarvis
E-mail: jarvis@itsa.ucsf.edu
Campus: UCSF
Award Total: $91,845
Project Period: 1/18/2002 - 1/17/2003

Novel Antisense Approaches to Eicosanoid Inhibition
PI Name: Edward Dennis
E-mail: edennis@ucsd.edu
Campus: UCSD
Award Total: $268,197
Project Period: 1/18/2002 - 1/17/2004

Investigation of deep marine sediment microbes for the development of crop protection products.
PI Name: William Fenical
E-mail: wfenical@ucsd.edu
Campus: UCSD
Award Total: $133,008
Project Period: 1/18/2002 - 1/17/2004

Immuno-therapy for human prostate cancer
PI Name: Gerald Cunha
E-mail: grcunha@itsa.ucsf.edu
Campus: UCSF
Award Total: $273,609
Project Period: 1/18/2002 - 1/17/2004

Effects of Nucleoplasty on Pathophysiology of Pain in an Animal Model of Disc Degeneration
PI Name: Jeffrey Lotz
E-mail: jlotz@itsa.ucsf.edu
Campus: UCSF
Award Total: $207,576
Project Period: 1/18/2002 - 1/17/2003

Virus-Cell Fusion Inhibitors
PI Name: Krishnan Nambiar
E-mail: nambiar@chem.ucdavis.edu
Campus: UCD
Award Total: $155,393
Project Period: 1/18/2002 - 9/30/2005

Capacitative calcium entry as a therapeutic target for Alzheimer`s disease
PI Name: Michael Cahalan
E-mail: mcahalan@uci.edu
Campus: UCI
Award Total: $281,838
Project Period: 1/18/2002 - 1/17/2004

The Cancer Preventive Property of a Chromatin-Binding Soybean Peptide
PI Name: Benito de Lumen
E-mail: nitto@nature.berkeley.edu
Campus: UCB
Award Total: $0
Project Period: 11/1/2001 - 10/31/2002

Detection Systems of Latent Fungal Spore Load and Latent Infection of Fresh Market Fruit and Nut Crops in California
PI Name: Themis Michailides
E-mail: themis@uckac.edu
Campus: UCD
Award Total: $113,360
Project Period: 9/1/2001 - 8/31/2002

Drug Discovery: Mitochondrial Protection Therapy for Osteoarthritis
PI Name: robert terkeltaub
E-mail: rterkeltaub@ucsd.edu
Campus: UCSD
Award Total: $180,395
Project Period: 9/1/2001 - 8/31/2003

Functional genomics of obesity and comorbidities in unique mouse models.
PI Name: Craig Warden
E-mail: chwarden@ucdavis.edu
Campus: UCD
Award Total: $112,490
Project Period: 8/10/2001 - 8/9/2002

Myelin and Axonal Regeneration Analyses Using huES Cells
PI Name: Hans Keirstead
E-mail: hansk@uci.edu
Campus: UCI
Award Total: $272,302
Project Period: 8/10/2001 - 8/9/2002

Laser Desorption Electron Attachment Time-of-Flight Mass Spectrometry of novel modified DNA: A new approach to epigenetic analysis
PI Name: Alec Wodtke
E-mail: wodtke@chem.ucsb.edu
Campus: UCSB
Award Total: $14,581
Project Period: 8/10/2001 - 8/9/2002

Molecular Genetic Analysis of Inflammatory, Immune, and Proliferative Pathways
PI Name: Stephen Wasserman
E-mail: stevenw@ucsd.edu
Campus: UCSD
Award Total: $246,120
Project Period: 8/10/2001 - 8/9/2003

Development of crown gall resistant walnut rootstock
PI Name: Abhaya Dandekar
E-mail: amdandekar@ucdavis.edu
Campus: UCD
Award Total: $140,000
Project Period: 8/10/2001 - 8/9/2003

Metabolic Engineering of Yeast for the Synthesis of Polyketide Precursors
PI Name: Nancy Da Silva
E-mail: ndasilva@uci.edu
Campus: UCI
Award Total: $174,718
Project Period: 8/10/2001 - 11/9/2003

Immunotherapy of Cancers Expressing Frizzled Receptors as Neoantigens
PI Name: Maripat Corr
E-mail: mcorr@ucsd.edu
Campus: UCSD
Award Total: $375,400
Project Period: 8/10/2001 - 8/9/2004

Distribution and accessibility of novel molecules on blood vessels and cancer cells in tumors of mice
PI Name: Donald McDonald
E-mail: dmcd@itsa.ucsf.edu
Campus: UCSF
Award Total: $378,225
Project Period: 8/10/2001 - 8/9/2003

Marine actinomycetes as a resource for drug discovery.
PI Name: William Fenical
E-mail: wfenical@ucsd.edu
Campus: UCSD
Award Total: $420,139
Project Period: 8/10/2001 - 8/9/2004

Is Lunasin an effective chemo-prevention agent for mammary carcinoma?
PI Name: Carol MacLeod
E-mail: cmacleod@ucsd.edu
Campus: UCSD
Award Total: $99,406
Project Period: 8/10/2001 - 12/30/2002

Antibiotic and Anticancer Agent Diversity Through Cytochrome P450 Inhibition
PI Name: Paul Ortiz de Montellano
E-mail: ortiz@cgl.ucsf.edu
Campus: UCSF
Award Total: $230,757
Project Period: 8/10/2001 - 8/9/2003

Search for three novel neuropeptides
PI Name: Olivier Civelli
E-mail: ocivelli@uci.edu
Campus: UCI
Award Total: $440,940
Project Period: 8/10/2001 - 10/23/2002

Vaccines Based on DNA Adenine Methylase Technology
PI Name: David Low
E-mail: low@lifesci.ucsb.edu
Campus: UCSB
Award Total: $278,197
Project Period: 8/10/2001 - 12/10/2002

Macrophage transcriptional programs in response to LXR activation
PI Name: Christopher Glass
E-mail: cglass@ucsd.edu
Campus: UCSD
Award Total: $180,091
Project Period: 8/10/2001 - 8/9/2003

Sporulation and stress responses in Phytophthora infestans: a functional genomics approach
PI Name: Howard Judelson
E-mail: howard.judelson@ucr.edu
Campus: UCR
Award Total: $314,431
Project Period: 7/1/2001 - 6/30/2002

Engineering disease resistance in plants via altered apoptosis
PI Name: David Gilchrist
E-mail: dggilchrist@ucdavis.edu
Campus: UCD
Award Total: $118,922
Project Period: 6/30/2001 - 7/1/2002

Biologic Repair of the Degenerated Intervertebral Disc
PI Name: Jeffrey Lotz
E-mail: jlotz@itsa.ucsf.edu
Campus: UCSF
Award Total: $250,349
Project Period: 6/30/2001 - 6/29/2002

Design and Synthesis of Novel TNF-a Inhibitors
PI Name: Emmanuel Theodorakis
E-mail: etheodor@ucsd.edu
Campus: UCSD
Award Total: $107,319
Project Period: 6/30/2001 - 6/29/2002

Leptin Aggregation and its Prevention
PI Name: Anthony Fink
E-mail: enzyme@cats.ucsc.edu
Campus: UCSC
Award Total: $118,869
Project Period: 6/1/2001 - 11/30/2002

RDA Technology Development for Gene Discovery
PI Name: Randolph Wall
E-mail: rwall@mbi.ucla.edu
Campus: UCLA
Award Total: $252,000
Project Period: 6/1/2001 - 5/31/2002

New and Efficient Methods in Nucleoside Synthesis
PI Name: Emmanuel Theodorakis
E-mail: etheodor@ucsd.edu
Campus: UCSD
Award Total: $57,464
Project Period: 5/4/2001 - 5/3/2002

In vitro brain aging models: rapid neurofibrillary tangle induction and inhibitions.
PI Name: Xiaoning Bi
E-mail: xbi@uci.edu
Campus: UCI
Award Total: $536,089
Project Period: 5/4/2001 - 5/3/2003

Pluripotent Stem Cells and Parkinson`s disease
PI Name: Marie-Francoise Chesselet
E-mail: mchessel@ucla.edu
Campus: UCLA
Award Total: $67,684
Project Period: 5/4/2001 - 5/3/2002

Biocontrol of Piercing-Sucking Insects Via a Phloem-Engineered Gene Silencing/RNA Interference Delivery System
PI Name: William Lucas
E-mail: wjlucas@ucdavis.edu
Campus: UCD
Award Total: $341,881
Project Period: 5/4/2001 - 5/3/2003

Anti-Inflammatory Actions of Peroxisome Proliferator-Activated Receptors in Vascular Disease
PI Name: John Rutledge
E-mail: jcrutledge@ucdavis.edu
Campus: UCD
Award Total: $420,139
Project Period: 5/4/2001 - 5/3/2003

Investigations of Gene Expression in the Early Stages of Nodule Development
PI Name: Ann Hirsch
E-mail: ahirsch@ucla.edu
Campus: UCLA
Award Total: $202,372
Project Period: 5/4/2001 - 5/3/2004

Integration of Genomics-Based Technologies into a Streamlined Discovery Process for Antibody Therapeutics to Treat Human Cancers
PI Name: Dennis Slamon
E-mail: dslamon@mednet.ucla.edu
Campus: UCLA
Award Total: $562,676
Project Period: 1/12/2001 - 1/11/2002

Enumeration of HIV Infected Cells Using Quantitative Image Analysis
PI Name: Kathie Ferbas
E-mail: kferbas@ucla.edu
Campus: UCLA
Award Total: $162,444
Project Period: 1/12/2001 - 1/11/2002

Repetitive, quantitative in-vivo imaging of oncolytic, conditionally-replicating adenovirus cancer therapy.
PI Name: Harvey Herschman
E-mail: hherschman@mednet.ucla.edu
Campus: UCLA
Award Total: $129,976
Project Period: 1/12/2001 - 1/11/2003

Encapsulated Islet Cell Transplantation in Pre-Clinical Diabetic Models
PI Name: Floyd Culler
E-mail: flculler@uci.edu
Campus: UCI
Award Total: $8,890
Project Period: 9/1/2000 - 8/31/2002

Improved Recombinant Bacterial Insecticides
PI Name: Brian Federici
E-mail: brian.federici@ucr.edu
Campus: UCR
Award Total: $244,166
Project Period: 9/1/2000 - 8/31/2002

Improving targeted transgene expression in cereals using transcription factors
PI Name: Robert Schmidt
E-mail: rschmidt@ucsd.edu
Campus: UCSD
Award Total: $79,242
Project Period: 9/1/2000 - 8/31/2002

Developing A High-Rate Anaerobic Digestion System for Biogasification of Organic Wastes
PI Name: Ruihong Zhang
E-mail: rhzhang@ucdavis.edu
Campus: UCD
Award Total: $101,353
Project Period: 9/1/2000 - 8/31/2002

Biochemical characterization of wild yeast isolates to reveal properties of interest to biotechnology industries
PI Name: David Ogrydziak
E-mail: dmogrydziak@ucdavis.edu
Campus: UCD
Award Total: $206,764
Project Period: 9/1/2000 - 8/31/2002