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Other Funded Projects
PI Name: Jeffrey M. Bumpous, MD
Title: Clinical skills for early detection of orapharyngeal carcinomas in high risk urban African American population: development of a novel educational intervention and educational assessment strategy.
Grant Sponsor: iHOP, University Health Care
Funding Period: 12/15/08-12/15/09
PI Name: Swapna Chandran, MD
Title: Nasolaryngoscope for evaluating and treating pediatric upper airway disorders
Grant Sponsor: WHAS Crusade for Children
Funding Period: 09/01/10-08/31/11
PI: William G. Cheadle, MD
Title: Surgical Peritonitis: Early Innate Peritoneal Host Defense
Grant Sponsor: Veterans Affairs Merit Review Grant
Funding Period: 2008-2012
Local Site PI: William G. Cheadle, M.D.
Title: Surgical Infection Society Multicenter Study of the Duration of Antibiotics for Intra-abdominal Infection
Grant Sponsor: National Institutes of Health (Rob Sawyer, M.D., PI)
Funding Period: 2008-2012
CO-PIs: William G. Cheadle, M.D. and Gerry Sonnenfeld, Ph.D
Title: The Effect of Active Hexose Correlated Compound (AHCC) on the Innate Host Immune Response to Chronic Murine Peritonitis.
Funding Period: 2008-2011
PI Name: Cynthia Downard, MD
Title: Control of intestinal microcirculation in NEC
Grant Sponsor: American Pediatric Association
Funding Period: 2010 Winner
PI Name: Mary E. Fallat, MD
Title: Use of ratio of serum leptin to adiponectin levels as an index of insulin resistance
Grant Sponsor: Kosair Charities
Funding Period: 10/01/08-11/30/09
Program Directors Name: Mary E. Fallat, MD
Title: EMSC State Partnership Grant for Kentucky. The focus of the Kentucky EMS for Children (KYEMSC) Project is to develop and sustain the Kentucky EMSC initiative within the state EMS system by working toward fulfillment of the HRSA performance measures.
Grant Sponsor: Department of Health & Human Services, Bureau of Maternal & Child Health Grant Funding Period: 2010-2013
Program Manager: Mary E. Fallat, MD
Title: Pediatric Surgery Research Program (Program Manager)
Norton Healthcare Community Trust Fund Grant
Funding Period: 2008-2012
PI Name: Susan Galandiuk, MD
Title: Method for the diagnosis of inflammatory bowel disease-associated cancer
Grant Sponsor: Commonwealth of Ky CTSPG--Advanced
Funding Period: 06/01/10-05/31/11
PI Name: Hongying Hao, MD, PhD
Title: Develop Gene Expression Signatures to Predict Prognosis in Melanoma Patients
Grant Sponsor: School of Medicine Collaborative Research Grant Program
Funding Period: 09/01/09-06/30/10
PI Name: James B. Hoying, PhD
Title: Wnt/planar cell plarity signaling in post-angiogenesis microvascular maturation
Grant Sponsor: American Heart Assn-Pacific
Funding Period: 07/01/09-06/30/10
PI Name: Suzanne T. Ildstad, MD
Title: Mixed chimerism-mediated reversal of diabetes
Grant Sponsor: American Diabetes Association
Funding Period: 07/01/09-06/30/11
Title: Research Program in Composite Tissue Allotransplantation
Grant Sponsor: Department of Defense Award No W81XWH-07-1-0185
Funding Period: 07/01/08-06/30/10
Title: Phase I/II Pilot Study of Mixed Chimerism To Treat Inherited Metabolic Disorders
Grant Sponsor: National Foundation to Support Cell Transplant Research
Funding Period: 05/01/09-04/03/13
PI Name: Yan Li, PhD
Title: Curcuma aromatica prevention against hepatocellular carcinoma
Grant Sponsor: School of Medicine Basic Grant Program
Funding Period: 05/15/09-05/14/10
Title: Light-absorbing nanoparticles to induce tumor tissue localized heating in esophageal cancer therapy
Grant Sponsor: Commonwealth of Ky CTSPGP--Basic
Funding Period: 06/01/10-05/31/11
PI Name: Robert Martin, MD, PhD
Title: Validated Animal Model to Identify Novel Predictors of Barrett's Progression into Cancer
Grant Sponsor: Commonwealth of Ky CTSPG--Innovative
Funding Period: 07/01/10-06/30/11
Title: Phase I/II evaluation of intraoperative autotransfusion filtration for major surgical oncology operations
Grant Sponsor: Norton Healthcare Community Trust
Funding Period: 08/08/06-08/07/10
PI Name: Kelly M. McMasters, MD, PhD
Title: Selectively inducing apoptosis
Grant Sponsor: Kentucky Lung Cancer Research Program
Funding Period: 11/01/08-10/31/10
Title: Develop a prognostic system incorporating gene signatures in melanoma patients with positive sentinel lymph nodes
Grant Sponsor: Commonwealth of Ky CTSPG--Innovative
Funding Period: 07/01/10-06/30/11
Title: Develop a prognostic scoring system in node-negative melanoma patients
Grant Sponsor: The Melanonoma Research Foundation
Funding Period: 01/01/10-12/31/11
PI Name: George Pantalos, PhD
Title: Evaluation of the Ension Rev 7 Pediatric Cardiopulmonary Assist System (pCAS)
Grant Sponsor: Ension, Inc.
Funding Period: 01/01/10-03/29/10
PI Name: Hiram C. Polk, Jr., MD
Title: Exportation of applied expertise: an intra-state mechanism to improve quality and safety in specialty surgery
Grant Sponsor: Physicians' Foundation for HSE
Funding Period: 03/01/07-06/30/10
PI Name: Jill Preminger, PhD
Title: Construction of an innovative scale to measure the effects of hearing loss on the non-hearing impaired spouse or companion
Grant Sponsor: The Oticon Foundation
Funding Period: 01/01/07-current
Title: Does executive control function, as measured by CLOX test, predict hearing related abilities in adults?
Grant Sponsor: Starkey Laboratories
Funding Period: 10/08/08-10/17/10
Title: Ear miles: A qualitative analysis of the patient's journey from hearing loss to audiologic rehabilitation
Grant Sponsor: Eriksholm Research Center
Funding Period: 05/01/09-12/31/10
PI Name: Mark Slaughter, MD
Title: Training session: specification under surgical training services agreement
Grant Sponsor: Industry, Thoratec Corporation
Funding Period: 2009-2010
PI Name: Jason Smith, MD
Title: Modulation of the inflammatory response after hemorrhagic shock
Grant Sponsor: Eastern Association for the Surgery of Trauma Research Scholarship
Funding Period: 2010
Title: Adjunctive direct peritoneal resuscitation increases rate of closure in damage control surgery patients in hemorrhagic shock
Grant Sponsor: School of Medicine Basic Grant
Funding Period: 05/15/09-05/14/10
PI Name: Stuart Williams, PhD
Title: Chronic ovine stent
Grant Sponsor: Bolton Medical
Funding Period: 08/01/09-04/30/10