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Recent Research Funding

Major Awards Funded FY '13

Igor Efimov, 4 yrs, $2,025.868, NIH, Title:  "Arrhythmogenic Remodeling in Human Heart Failure". 
Igor Efimov, 1 yr, $250,742, NIH, Title: "Low energy ventricular defibrillator".
Vitaly Klyachko, 5 yrs, $1,690,595, NINDS, Title: "Multiple Roles of RMRP in Synaptic Function and Plasticity".
Yoram Rudy, 4 yrs, $1,520,000, NIH, Title: "Inverse and Forward Problems in Electrocardiography".
Shelly Sakiyama-Elbert (with Richard Gelberman and Stavros Thomopoulos), $2,673,845, NIH, Title: "Enhanced Tendon Healing through Growth Factor and Cell Therapies".

Major Awards Funded FY ‘12

Igor Efimov, 2 yrs, $437,330, NIH, Title: "Opto-electric mapping of action potentials".
Dan Moran, 4 yrs, $1,992,456, NSF, Title: “Development of New Algorithmic Models and Tools to Enhance Neural Adaptation in Brain Computer Interface Systems”.
Rohit Pappu, 4 yrs, $847,075, NSF, Title: "Phase Behavior of Intrinsically Disordered Proteins".
Barani Raman, 3 yrs, $732,084, ONR, Title: "Neuromorphic Chemical Sensing Using Miniaturized Microsensor Arrays".
Shelly Sakiyama-Elbert (with Susan MacKinnon), 5 yrs, $2,359,656, NIH, Title: “The Effects of GDNF on Peripheral Nerve Regeneration”.
Shelly Sakiyama-Elbert/Donald Elbert, 2 yrs, $418,000, NIH, Title: "Self-assembling Growth Factor Gradients for Nerve Regeneration".

Major Awards Funded FY ‘11

Mark Anastasio, 1 yr, $172,000, NSF, Title: "Novel X-ray Imaging of Carotid Plaque Microstructure".
Igor Efimov, 2 yrs, $418,000, NIH, Title: "Implantable mouse pacemaker".
Rohit Pappu, 5 yrs, $1,662,500, NIH, Title: "Role of Chain Length and Sequence Contexts on Polyglutamine Aggregation".
Yoram Rudy, 3 yrs, $294,621, NSF, Title: "Modeling Spatial Organization of Cardiac Cell Function: Application to Calcium Waves and Arrhythmia".
Shelly Sakiyama-Elbert, 2 yrs, $418,000, NIH, Title: "Axon-Targeted Microdevices for CNS Axon Transport Studies".
Jin-Yu Shao, 2 yrs, $418,000, NIH, Title: "Biomechanics of Unfolding the A2 Domain of Von Willebrand's Factor".
Larry Taber, 5 yrs, $1,628,375, NINDS, Title: "Mechanics of Early Brain and Eye Development".
Lihong Wang, 5 yrs, $568,249, NIH, Title: "Photoacoustic Endoscopy of Barretts Esophagus".

Major Awards Funded FY ‘10

Mark Anastasio, 3 yrs, $1,232,149, NIH, Title: "Development of Thermoacoustic Brain Imaging".
Mark Anastasio, 3 yrs, $1,108,443, NIH, Title: "Design Studies and Optimization of Phase Contrast Mammography".
Jianmin Cui, 4 yrs, $1,330,000, NIH, Title: "Subunits Interaction in the Function of BK Channels".
Shelly Sakiyama-Elbert, 4 yrs, $1,330,000, NIH, Title: "Fibrin Based Scaffolds for Spinal Cord Injury".
Lihong Wang, 1 yr, $1,198,524, NIH, Title: "Integrated Two-Photon/Confocal/Photoacoustic Microscope".

Major Awards Funded FY ‘09

Dennis Barbour, 2 yrs, $750,769, NIH, Title: “Neural Encoding of Complex Sounds”.

Igor Efimov, 4 yrs, $1,518,140, NIH, Title: “Structure/function of the Pacemaking and Conduction Systems of the Heart”.
Don Elbert, 2 yrs, $380,000, NIH, Title: “Quantitative Mass Spect to Probe Fibrinogen Conformations on Biomaterials”.
Dan Moran, 5 yrs, $1,218,905, NIH, Title: “General Purpose Brain-Computer Interface (BCI) System”.
Dan Moran, 4 yrs, $2,035,537, NIH, Title: Development of a Thin-Film Micro-ECoG, Electrode for Chronic Cortical Recordings”.
Yoram Rudy, 4 yrs, (yrs 25-28), $1,362,285, NIH, Title: “Inverse and Forward Problems in Electrocardiography”.
Yoram Rudy, 4 yrs, (yrs. 17-20), $1,520,000, NIH, Title: “Cardiac Excitation and Arrhythmias”.
Yoram Rudy, 1.3 yrs, $$294,621, Fondation Leducq, Title: “Alliance for Calmodulin Kinase II Signaling in Heart Disease”.
Lihong Wang, 4 yrs, $2, 427,071, NIH, Title: “Confocal Photoacoustic Microscopy: Technique Development”.
Lihong Wang, 5 yrs, $3,063,610, NIH, Title: “Monitoring of Breast Neoadjuvant Therapy by Thermoacoustic Microscopy”.
Lihong Wang, 5 yrs, $5,850,000, NIH, Title: “Photoacoustic/Optical/Ultrasonic Imaging of Sentinel Lymph Nodes”.
Lihong Wang, 4 yrs, $2,487,784, NIH, Title: “Recovery of Optical Absorption Coefficient in Quantitative Photoacoustic Imaging”.

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