DNA-NY | Grants Received

September 2006 ITHACA — NYSTAR Watson award winner Matthew P. DeLisa of Cornell University, along with Abraham D. Stroock and Mingming Wu, are the recipients of a $340,000 NSF grant for development of a 4D micro/nano-scale defocused particle tracking (DPT) imaging technique and its applications in nanobiotechnology. Detail TOP September 2006 TROY — Jan Stegemann of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, a NYSTAR Watson award winner, is the recipient of a $322,100 NIH grant to research directed differentiation of human mesenchymal stem cells for bone repair. Detail TOP September 2006 NEW YORK — Derek Tan of the Sloan-Kettering Institute for Cancer Research is the recipient of a $365,600 NIH grant to research siderophore biosynthesis inhibitors as new antibiotics for biodefense. Detail TOP July 2006 NEW YORK — Matthew P. Delisa, a NYSTAR James D. Watson Investigator Program award winner from Cornell University is the recipient of a $197,500 NIH grant to develop a cell-based screen for inhibitors of intracellular abeta aggregation. Detail TOP October 2005 NEW YORK — NYSTAR-award winning scientist Derek Tan of the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center is the recipient of a $386,550 NIH grant to research the diversity-oriented synthesis of natural product-based L. Detail TOP May 2005 NEW YORK — Craig B. Laramee, a recent NYSTAR Watson award winner at Binghamton University, and Eileen C. Way, Roy T. McGrann, Harold W. Lewis, and Robert Woods, are the recipients of a $99,358 NSF grant for developing undergraduate bioengineering laboratory modules that use small, inexpensive, easy-to-build and programmable autonomous robots. Detail TOP April 2005 NEW YORK — Paramjit Arora of New York University is the recipient of a $1,283,270 NIH grant to research biomolecular recognition with artificial alpha helices. Detail TOP April 2005 ITHACA — Matthew P. DeLisa of Cornell University is the recipient of an $500,000 NSF CAREER award to develop techniques for analyzing and engineering a model complex protein machine, namely the bacterial twin-arginine translocation (Tat) machinery. Detail TOP April 2005 ROCHESTER — Michael R. King of the University of Rochester is the recipient of an $80,388 NSF CAREER award to research multiparticle cell deposition in realistic geometries. Detail TOP March 2005 NEW YORK — Yingkai Zhang of New York University is the recipient of a $135,341 NSF CAREER award for a theoretical investigation of metalloenzymes. Detail TOP February 2005 ITHACA — Matthew DeLisa of the Viral Therapeutics, Inc., a NYSTAR-supported researcher, is the recipient of a $100,000 NIH SBIR/STTR grant to research a novel biotherapeutic expression platform in bacteria. Detail TOP December 2004 TROY — Jan Stegemann, a NYSTAR-supported researcher at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, received a $260,000 grant from the American Heart Association for his research related to vascular smooth muscle cell phenotype and function in three-dimensional collagen matrices. TOP October 2004 ITHACA — Carl A. Batt, with a NYSTAR-supported nanotechtechnology center at Cornell University, along with Xin Yang, Anna Waldron, Esther R. Angert, and D. Tyler McQuade were the recipients of a $1.2 million NSF grant to explore biological nanoarchitecture and apply this knowledge to create ordered arrays of quantum dots and semiconductor nanowires. Detail TOP September 2004 NEW YORK — Mark E. Tuckerman, John Z. Zhang, Zlatko Bacic, Tamar Schlick, and Yingkai Zhang of New York University are the recipients of a $374,609 award for the acquisition of large-scale parallel computational resources for biological and materials modeling. Detail TOP September 2004 ALBANY — Thomas Begley of the State University of New York at Albany, a winner of a NYSTAR Watson award, is the recipient of a $104,976 NIH grant to research protein interaction networks in DNA repair. Detail TOP August 2004 TROY — NYSTAR Watston award winner Jan Stegemann of the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute is the recipient of a $199,682 NIH grant to research composite scaffolds for vascular tissue engineering. Detail TOP June 2004 NEW YORK — Nina C. Shapley of Columbia University is the recipient of a $49,999 NSF award to probe the behavior of dispersed particulates in complex flows that are relevant to industrial and biological systems. Detail TOP April 2004 BINGHAMTON — Lijun Yin of SUNY Binghamton is the recipient of a $100,000 NSF award to research develop a novel technique for analysis and synthesis of the human face. Detail TOP March 2004 NEW YORK — NYSTAR-supported researcher Colin Nuckolls and Graciela B. Blanchet of Columbia University were awarded a $60,001 NSF grant to design high performance printable organic semiconductors. Detail TOP February 2004 NEW YORK — Derek S. Tan of the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center was awarded a $151,650 NIH grant to research new molecular targets for refractory prostate cancer. Detail TOP December 2003 ITHACA — D. Tyler McQuade of Cornell University, winner of a NYSTAR 2002 James D. Watson Investigator award, was awarded a $331,784 NSF grant for research to advance basic recognition science and to develop unique sensors for nerve agent detection. Detail TOP September 2003 NEW YORK — Chunyu Wang of Columbia University was awarded a $46,420 NIH grant to study ATP-binding cassette function using a wide array of powerful solution nuclear magnetic resonance techniques. Detail TOP September 2003 NEW YORK — To address the threat of engineered bacterial bioweapons that are resistant to current antibiotic treatments, Vincent A. Fischetti of The Rockefeller University was awarded a $731,685 NIH grant for a concerted research effort of three complementary groups at the Rockefeller University. The groups, headed by Fischetti, Alexander Tomasz, and NYSTAR James D. Watson Investigator Award winner C. Erec Stebbins, will focus their research on identifying novel inhibitors of central virulence factors in critical biowarfare pathogens, B. anthracis and Y. pestis. Detail TOP September 2003 ROCHESTER — Todd D. Krauss of the University of Rochester, winner of a NYSTAR James D. Watson Investigator Award, received a $289,000 NSF grant funded by the Experimental Physical Chemistry Program within the Division of Materials Research. Krauss will investigate the effect of charges on the optical properties of single colloidal nanocrystals and nanorods to obtain a better understanding of the most fundamental properties of these highly promising materials, which have potentially great technological impacts that can be realized only if the relationship between electric charges and optical and electronic properties are fully understood and the harmful effects of electric charges minimized or removed. Detail TOP July 2003 ROCHESTER — Todd D. Krauss of the University of Rochester was awarded a $289,000 NSF grant to investigate the effect of charges on the optical properties of single colloidal CdSe nanocrystals (NCs) and nanorods (NRs) in order to obtain a better understanding of the most fundamental properties of these materials. Detail TOP June 2003 NEW YORK — Leonard W. Fine, Colin Nuckolls, and Bhawani Venkataraman of Columbia University were awarded a $100,000 NSF grant to develop teaching modules focused on nanoscience and nanotechnology that will enable instructors and students to relate and connect fundamental concepts with issues of current science, technological, and societal interests. Detail TOP March 2003 BUFFALO — Jeffrey R. Errington of SUNY Buffalo was awarded a $406,555 NSF CAREER grant to study the relationship between the macroscopic thermodynamic and kinetic properties of aqueous solutions and their underlying microscopic structures. Detail TOP March 2003 NEW YORK — Colin Nuckolls of Columbia University, a recipient of a 2002 Watson Investigator award from NYSTAR, was awarded a $550,000 NSF CAREER grant to design new types of monodisperse oligomers of overcrowded aromatics that can fold themselves into well-defined conformations. The synthesis of these multimers will be expanded to create monodisperse oligomers from 8 to 20 subunits long, which, due to their unique structure, could provide new motifs for self-assembly in lipid bilayers and in bulk. Detail TOP February 2003 NEW YORK — C. Erec Stebbins of The Rockefeller University, one of NYSTAR's James D. Watson Investigator Program award winners, was awarded a $250,500 NIH grant for a pilot test of the efficacy of using phage display peptide technologies to identify novel drugs that impair the virulence mechanisms of plague bacteria, with a goal of eventually discovering novel classes of antimicrobial compounds to combat emerging biological weapon threats. Detail TOP July 2002 ITHACA — D. Tyler McQuade, assistant professor of chemistry and chemical biology at Cornell University, has won a Nontenured Faculty Award from 3M Co., including a check for $15,000. McQuade's research group is investigating a biomimetic approach to materials research. Detail TOP