2010 Class Hartwell Individual Biomedical
Research Awards
Memphis, TN, April 01, 2011 --
The Hartwell Foundation today officially announced its
2010
Hartwell Individual Biomedical Research Awards,
which offer support for three years at $100,000 direct
cost per year. Twelve individuals, representing ten
institutions, were selected as Hartwell Investigators:
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Jack Bui, MD, Ph.D., Assistant Professor,
Department of Pathology, University of California,
San Diego, for "Using Regressor Tumors to Treat
Childhood Sarcomas"
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Cristina E. Davis, Ph.D., Assistant Professor,
Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering,
University of California, Davis, for "Point-Of-Care
Breath Sensor to Improve Childhood Asthma Control"
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Marie E. Egan, MD, Associate Professor,
Department of Pediatrics, Yale University, for
"Synthetic Nanoparticles for Gene Correction of
Cystic Fibrosis"
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Nan E. Hatch, DMD, Ph.D., Assistant Professor,
Department of Orthodontics and Pediatric Dentistry,
The University of Michigan, for "In Vivo
Manipulation of Tissue Nonspecific Alkaline
Phophatase Enzyme Expression: A Biomedical Strategy
for the Prevention and Treatment of
Craniosynostosis"
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Pamela Itkin-Ansari, Ph.D., Adjunct Assistant
Professor, Department of Pediatrics, University of
California, San Diego, for "Novel Approaches to
Improving Survival of Encapsulated Islets for the
Treatment of Juvenile Diabetes"
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Xingde Li, Ph.D., Associate Professor,
Department of Biomedical Engineering, The Johns
Hopkins University, for "Ultracompact Nonlinear
Optical Endomicroscope for Predicting Preterm Birth"
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Joshua E. Medow, MD, Assistant Professor,
Department of Neurosurgery, The University of
Wisconsin Madison, for "Implantable Intracranial
Pressure Monitor"
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Stacey Schultz-Cherry, Ph.D., Associate Member,
Department of Infectious Diseases, St. Jude
Children’s Research Hospital, for "Regulation of
Intestinal Epithelial Tight Junctions by a Novel
Viral Enterotoxin"
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Patrick Seed, MD, Ph.D., Assistant Professor,
Department of Pediatrics, Duke University, for
"Interactions Between the Environment and Microbiome
in Extremely Preterm Infants"
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Randi B. Silver, Ph.D., Professor, Department of
Physiology and Biophysics, Cornell University, for "Mast Cells in Chronic Lung
Disease in Premature Birth Infants"
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Gurol M. Suel, Ph.D., Assistant Professor,
Department of Pharmacology, University of Texas
Southwestern Medical Center, for "Treatment of
Inflammatory Bowel Disease with Engineered Microbial
Nano-Devices"
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Adriana Tremoulet, MD, Assistant Professor,
Department of Pediatrics, University of California,
San Diego, for "Biomarker Panel for Diagnosing
Kawasaki Disease"
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 2010 represent innovative
and cutting edge technology from disciplines that
include medical devices, diagnostic devices, imaging,
molecular biology, infectious disease, 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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2010 Hartwell
Investigator Gurol Suel, Ph.D.,
University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
2010 Hartwell Investigator Nan
Hatch, DMD, Ph.D., The University of Michigan
2010 Hartwell Investigator
Xingde Li, Ph.D., Johns Hopkins University
2010 Hartwell Investigator
Pamela Itkin-Ansari, Ph.D., University of California,
San Diego
2010 Hartwell Investigator
Patrick Seed, MD, Ph.D., Duke University
2010 Hartwell Investigator
Adriana Tremoulet, MD, The University of California, San
Diego
2010 Hartwell Investigator
Josh Medow, MD, The University of Wisconsin Madison
2010 Hartwell Investigator
Stacey Schultz-Cherry, Ph.D., St Jude Children's
Research Hospital
2010 Hartwell Investigator
Cristina Davis, Ph.D., University of California, Davis
2010 Hartwell Investigator
Marie Egan, MD, Yale University
2010 Hartwell Investigator
Jack Bui, MD, Ph.D., University of California, San Diego
2010 Hartwell Investigator
Randi Silver, Ph.D., Cornell University
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