2011 Class Hartwell Individual Biomedical
Research Awards
Memphis, TN, April 01, 2012 --
The Hartwell Foundation today officially announced the
winners of 2011
Hartwell Individual Biomedical Research Awards,
which offer support for three years at $100,000 direct
cost per year. Twelve individuals, representing
nine
institutions, were selected as Hartwell Investigators;
three institutions each received two awards:
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Anjelica L. Gonzalez, Ph.D., Assistant Professor,
Department of Biomedical Engineering , Yale University, for "Artificial
Amniotic Membrane Scaffolds for Scarless Wound
Healing"
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Christopher Deppmann,
Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Departments of
Biology and Biomedical Engineering,
University of Virginia, for "Childhood Metabolic
Disorders: Targeting the Peripheral Nervous System
to Reverse Obesity"
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Elizabeth A. Hunt, MD, Ph.D., Assistant Professor,
Departments of Anesthesiology & Critical Care
Medicine and Pediatrics, The Johns Hopkins University, for
"Advancing and Optimizing Quality of Resuscitation in
Children with Cardiac Arrest"
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Frederic L. Chedin, Ph.D., Associate Professor,
Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, University of
California, Davis, for "Genetic and Epigenetic
Abnormalities in Childhood Auto-immune Disease: Role
of DNA Methylation and Excessive R-loop Formation"
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G. Praveen Raju, MD, Ph.D., Assistant
Professor, Department of Pediatrics, Weill Cornell
Medical College of Cornell University, for "Identifying
Treatment Resistance Mechanisms for Brain Tumors in
Children Using a Novel Approach for Preclinical Drug
Testing"
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Jennell C. Vick, Ph.D., Assistant Professor,
Departments of Psychological Sciences, Biomedical
Engineering and Pediatrics, Case Western Reserve
University, for "Treatment for Severe Speech
Disorders in Children: Identifying Target Consonant
Movements for Use with Animated 3D Visual Feedback
Software"
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Jing Yang, Ph.D., Assistant Professor,
Department of Pharmacology and Pediatrics, University of
California, San Diego, for "Targeting Neural Crest
Migration Program to Treat Ewing's Sarcoma
Metastasis"
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Jonathan E. Sears, MD, Associate Professor,
Departments of Ophthalmology and Cell Biology, Case
Western Reserve University, for "Preventing
Retinopathy of Prematurity"
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Mary Louise Markert, MD, Ph.D., Professor,
Departments of Pediatrics and Immunology, Duke University, for
" Use of Thymus Transplantation to Induce Tolerance to
liver Transplants"
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Neal M. Alto, Ph.D., Assistant Professor,
Department of Microbiology, University of Texas
Southwestern Medical Center, for "Discovery of Cancer Inhibition
Pathways by Novel Bacterial Toxins and Effector
Proteins"
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Noriko Satake, MD, Assistant Professor,
Department of Pediatrics, University of California,
Davis, for "Targeted Therapy for Childhood Acute
Lymphoblastic Leukemia: Silencing the Mxd3 Gene
Using Small Interfering RNA"
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Silvia Salinas Blemker, Ph.D., Associate
Professor, Departments of Mechanical and Aerospace
Engineering, Biomedical Engineering and Orthopedic
Surgery, University of Virginia, for "Improving the
Outcomes of Cleft Palate Repair Surgery Through
Advanced Physics-Based Computer Simulation"
The Hartwell Foundation is pleased to
provide financial support to these exceptional
scientists and engineers who are pursuing biomedical
research to advance children’s health. The
twelve award
winning research proposals in 2011 represent innovative
and cutting edge technology from research areas that
include neurobiology, molecular
biology, tissue engineering, diagnostic and medical
devices, and cancer.
Each year The Hartwell Foundation announces it’s
Top Ten
Centers of Biomedical Research in the United States,
inviting participating institutions to hold an internal
open competition to identify four nominees from their
faculty based upon early-stage, innovative, and
cutting-edge biomedical research that has not yet
qualified for significant funding from outside sources.
The Hartwell Foundation seeks to inspire innovation and
achievement by funding research with the potential to
benefit children of the United States. In the Hartwell
competition all nominees submit a detailed research
proposal, make a formal presentation and are personally
interviewed.
In selecting awardees, The Hartwell Foundation takes into
account the transformative nature of the proposed
innovation, the extent to which a strategic or
translational approach might accelerate the clinical
application of research results to benefit children, the
extent of collaboration in the proposed research, the
institutional commitment to provide encouragement and
technical support to the investigator, and the extent to
which funding the investigator will make a difference.
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2011 Hartwell
Investigator Silvia Salinas Blemker, Ph.D.,
University of Virginia
2011 Hartwell Investigator Praveen Raju, MD, Ph.D.,
Weill Cornell Medical College of Cornell
University
2011 Hartwell Investigator Chris
Deppmann, Ph.D.,
University of Virginia
2011 Hartwell Investigator
Neal Alto, Ph.D., University of Texas Southwestern
Medical Center
2011 Hartwell Investigator
Frederic Chedin, Ph.D., University California, Davis
2011 Hartwell Investigator
Louise Markert, MD, Ph.D., Duke University
2011 Hartwell Investigator
Noriko Satake, MD, University California, Davis
2011 Hartwell Investigator
Anjelica Gonzales, Ph.D., Yale University
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