OTL Research Incentive
Fund Awards for 1999-2000
With funds gained from the
royalties on Stanford licenses and patents, seed grants
totaling $554,933 have been awarded to 25 Stanford
researchers or research teams, Dean of Research Charles
Kruger announced last month.
Projects winning OTL
(Office of Technology Licensing) Research Incentive Fund
awards were chosen from a field of 95 grant proposals by
a committee of faculty nominated by the deans of the
schools and previous awardees. Most of the grants were to
promising projects in the startup phase -- in which
researchers test ideas that may later qualify for major
grants from government or industry -- not necessarily for
patenting purposes.
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This year proposals also
were solicited from teams of faculty who were interested
in initiating interdisciplinary research projects, which
were eligible for a higher level of funding.
Announcements for the
annual award program usually are mailed in October, with
an application deadline in November.
The following projects
were selected for Reseach Incentive Fund seed grants
ranging from $5,000 to $39,000:
David Bloom,
professor of electrical engineering: "Membrane
Proteins in Microfabricated Silicon Structures."
Brendan Bohannan,
assistant professor of biological sciences:
"Response of Bacterial Communities to Elevated
Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide."
Paulla Ebron,
assistant professor of cultural and social anthropology:
"Making Tropical Africa in the Georgia Sea
Islands."
R. S. Feigelson,
professor of materials science and engineering:
"Study of the Growth of Single Crystal Ribbons of
Gallium Nitride."
Dean Felsher,
assistant professor of oncology: "Determining How
MYC Maintains Turmorigenic Phenotype."
Deborah Gordon,
associate professor of biological sciences: "Genetic
Analysis of Colony Relatedness in Harvester Ants."
Umran Inan,
professor of electrical engineering: "Design of a
Color Plasma Display Panel with Optimal Luminous
Efficiency."
Simon Jackman,
assistant professor of political science: "The New
Political Methodology."
Daniel Kim,
assistant professor of neurosurgery: "Development of
a Computerized 3D Image Guided Endoscopic Prototype for
Use in Spinal Neurosurgery."
Matthew Kohrman,
assistant professor of cultural and social anthropology:
"Modernity and the Chinese Male Life Course:
Consuming Cigarettes and Oncological Services."
Eric Kool,
professor of chemistry, "Expanded DNA."
Jan Krawitz,
professor of communication, "Fast Forward"
(working title of proposed 16mm documentary film).
Peter Lee,
assistant professor of hematology, "Analysis and
Manipulation of the T Cell Response to Cancer."
Laura Lowes,
assistant professor of civil and environmental
engineering, "Fiber Optic Sensors for Model-Based
Simulation and Health Monitoring of Civil
Structures."
Kathryn Moler,
assistant professor of applied physics, and co-principal
investigator Thomas Kenny, assistant professor of
mechanical engineering, "GaAs Sensors for
Simultaneous Atomic Force and Hall Microscopy"
(interdisciplinary research project).
David McKay,
professor of structural biology, "Initiative in
Structural Genomics."
Adina Paytan,
assistant professor of geological and environmental
sciences, "Calcium Isotopes in Corals: Investigating
a New Paleo-Thermometer."
Tobias Plebuch,
assistant professor of music, "Data Mapping of Music
Subscribers of the Late 18th Century in Europe."
Balaji Prabhakar,
assistant professor of electrical engineering, "Some
Key Algorithmic and Architectural Issues in the
Internet."
Mary Roberts,
associate professor of history, "Great Performers:
The New Woman, Journalism and Theater in Fin-de-siècle
France."
Gary Schoolnik,
professor of infectious diseases, and co-principal
investigators Alfred Spormann, assistant professor of
civil and environmental engineering; Craig Criddle,
associate professor of civil and environmental
engineering; and Peter Karp, consulting assistant
professor of medical informatics, "Microarray
Transcription Profiling of Vibrio Cholerae O1 Biofilm
Development and Adaptation" (interdisciplinary
research project).
Olav Solgaard,
assistant professor of electrical engineering,
"Micromechanical Diffractive Optical Elements for
Correlation Spectroscopy in Biomedical
Applications."
Charles Taylor,
assistant professor of surgery, "Quantitative
Assessment of Angiogenesis on Coronary Artery Blood
Flow."
Paul Utz,
assistant professor of immunology and rheumatology,
"Alternative RNA Splicing of Apoptosis Regulatory
Molecules Governs Cell Death."
Ronald Weigel,
associate professor of surgery,
"Estradiol-Responsive Genes as Tumor Markers to
Predict Hormone Responsiveness of Breast Tumors."
The review committee was
chaired by Edward S. Mocarski, associate dean of
research, and included the following members: Dan Boneh,
computer science; Michael Cleary, pathology; Reiner
Dauskardt, materials science and engineering; John Eaton,
mechanical engineering; Penelope Eckert, linguistics;
James Ferrell, molecular pharmacology; Andy Hoffman,
endocrinology/gerontology; Aaron Hsueh, gynecology and
obstetrics; Charles Kruger, mechanical engineering; Don
Lowe, geological and environmental sciences; Stephen
Monismith, civil and environmental engineering; Krishna
Saraswat, electrical engineering; Ramin Shahidi,
neurosurgery; Paul Sniderman, political science; Frank
Stockdale, oncology; Ravi Tolwani, comparative medicine;
Brian Wandell, psychology; Tom Wasow, linguistics; Paul
Wender, chemistry; and Charles Yanofsky, biological
sciences. SR
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