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Major Starter Grant Award Recipients

Recipients Yr 11-12

PI Univ. Title Mentor
Revathi Govind, Ph.D. KSU Toxin secretion in Clostridium difficile Roman Ganta, Ph.D.
Vargheese Chennathukuzhi , Ph.D. KUMC The role of aberrantly expressed GPR10 in uterine fibroid growth
 William Kinsey, Ph.D. & Gregory Kopf, Ph.D.
Mizuki Azuma, Ph.D. KU-L Functional analysis of Ewing sarcoma proteins EWS/FLI1 and EWS Berl Oakley, Ph.D.
Stephen Parnell, Ph.D. KUMC The Role of a Polycystin-1/Protein Phosphatase-1 Complex in Polycystic Kidney Disease Darren Wallace, Ph.D.

Recipients Yr 10-11

PI Univ. Title Mentor
Brian Ackley, Ph.D. KU-L How moleculesin the extracellular matrix and on the cell surface cooperate to influencethe organization of the nervous system Erik Lundquist, Ph.D.
Mizuki Azuma KU-L Functional analysis of Ewing Sarcoma EWS/FLI1 protein Berl Oakley, Ph.D.
Paige Geiger, Ph.D. KUMC Protectiverole of heat shock proteins in insulin resistance Norberto Gonzalez, Ph.D.
Richard Todd KSU The mechanism of action of the transcriptional repressor NmrA Barbara Valent, Ph.D.

Recipients Yr 9-10

PI Univ. Title Mentor
Brian Ackley, Ph.D. KU-L How moleculesin the extracellular matrix and on the cell surface cooperate to influencethe organization of the nervous system Erik Lundquist, Ph.D.
Paige Geiger, Ph.D. KUMC Protectiverole of heat shock proteins in insulin resistance Norberto Gonzalez, Ph.D.

Recipients Yr 7-8

PI Univ. Title Mentor
Gaurav Chaturvedi, Ph.D. KUMC DirectedDifferentiation of Human Embryonic Stem Cells Towards Renal Lineage Michael Fox, Ph.D.
Ok J. Jean Kim, Ph.D. KU-L Cellular& Functional Characterization of Dopamine Receptor Interacting Proteins Rick T. Dobrowsky, Ph.D.
Dingbo Lin, Ph.D. KSU TheRole of Gap Junctions in Oxidative Neurodegeneration in Cerebellum Dolores Takemoto, Ph.D.
Bin Shuai, Ph.D. WSU Understandingthe Role of Small RNAs in Arabidopsis Pollen Development William Hendry, Ph.D.
Chris Thorpe, Ph.D. KSU TailMorphogenesis in Zebrafish Mike Herman, Ph.D.

Recipients Yr 6-7

PI Univ. Title Mentor
David Davido, Ph.D.  KU-L Viraland Host Responses to Herpes Simplex Virus Infection William Picking, Ph.D.
Mike Johnson,Ph.D. KU-L TheImpact of Dopamine Signaling on Fragile X Syndrome Behaviors StephenC. Fowler, Ph.D.
Hiroshi Nishimune, Ph.D. KUMC VoltageGated Calcium Channels as Scaffolding Proteins for Synapse Formation Dale Abrahamson, Ph.D.
Chris Thorpe, Ph.D. KSU TailMorphogenesis in Zebrafish Mike Herman, Ph.D.

Recipients Yr 4-6

PI Univ. Title Mentor
Rebecca Hays, Ph.D. KU-L Regulationof Apoptosis in the Drosophila Retina Robert Cohen, Ph.D.
John Robertson, Ph.D. KUMC Roleof Caspase-2 in Skin Cancer Prevention Curtis Klaassen, Ph.D.
Lisa Timmons, Ph.D. KU-L Partitionof DSRNAs to Daughter Cells Following Mitosis/Meiosis Gunda Georg, Ph.D.
Tonia VonOhlen, Ph.D. KSU Mechanisms of Dorsoventral Patterning During Neural Development Sue Brown, Ph.D.