printable version25 junior faculty members get research-incentive grants for promising projects
With funds gained from the royalties on Stanford University licenses and patents, seed grants totaling $528,217 have been awarded to 25 Stanford faculty members, Dean of Research Arthur Bienenstock has announced.
The 22 projects receiving this year's Office of Technology Licensing (OTL) Research Incentive Fund awards were chosen from among 57 proposals. Each proposal was evaluated independently by two members of the faculty, most of whom were prior OTL recipients. Proposals were limited to junior faculty—that is, assistant professors or associate professors within their first three years at Stanford. Most of the grants went to promising projects in an early phase during which researchers test ideas that may later qualify for major grants from other sponsors.
The following projects were selected for seed grants ranging from $11,200 to $40,000:
Stephen Baccus, assistant professor of neurobiology: Simultaneous Multielectrode Recording and Two-Photon Imaging in the Vertebrate Retina
Rebecca Bliege Bird, Douglas Bird and Jamie Jones, assistant professors of anthropological sciences: Anthropogenic Burning as a Resource Management Strategy Among Australian Hunter-Gatherers
Ching-Pin Chang, assistant professor of medicine (cardiovascular medicine): Real-time Imaging of Heart Valve Development
Jennifer R. Cochran, assistant professor of bioengineering: Engineering Neurotrophin Proteins for Diagnostic and Therapeutic Applications
Karl Deisseroth, assistant professor of bioengineering, and Theo Palmer, assistant professor of neurosurgery: Pulsed Magnetic Neural Excitation to Drive Stem Cell Differentiation
Sean Hanretta, assistant professor of history: Reconceptualizing Islamization: The Colonial Gold Coast
Jill A. Helms, associate professor of surgery: A Biophysical Approach to Skeletal Tissue Regeneration
George E. Hilley, assistant professor of geological and environmental sciences: Determining the Timing and Magnitude of the Uplift Earth's Surface Using Cosmogenic Isotopes
Henning Hillmann, assistant professor of sociology: Illegal Markets and the State: Evidence from Eighteenth Century Privateering
Seung K. Kim, assistant professor of developmental biology: Discovering Factors that Control Growth and Specialization of Cells that Regulate Drosophila Metabolism
Scott Klemmer, assistant professor of computer science: Rapid Interaction Prototyping for Information Appliances
Jennifer Kohler, assistant professor of chemistry: Development Of A Secretome Protein-Protein Interaction Assay
Steven Lindley, assistant professor of psychiatry: Mifepristone Augmentation
Aprajit Mahajan, assistant professor of economics: Logistical Arrangements and Pilot Study of the Effects of Community Provision of Public Goods on Household Welfare
Barbaro Martinez-Ruiz: assistant professor of art and art history, Central African Graphic Writing Systems
James Victor Quinn, associate professor of surgery: Death Rates ED Patients with Syncope: Can the San Francisco Syncope Rule Predict Long Term Mortality?
William Hewitt Robinson: assistant professor of medicine (immunology and rheumatology), Deimination in Rheumatoid Arthritis
Rebecca Sandefur, assistant professor of sociology: Social Class and the Use of Law
Steven Skirboll, assistant professor of neurosurgery: Soft Agar Antibody Array: A Novel Technique to screen for Cancer Stem Cells
Karl G. Sylvester, assistant professor of surgery: Mechanisms of Hematopoietic Stem Cell Therapy for Liver Disease
Christopher Ta, assistant professor of ophthalmology: Photopatterned, Biomimetic Hydrogels for a New Artificial Cornea
George P. Yang, assistant professor of surgery: Non-Migrating Fiducial Seed for Image Guided Radiotherapy (IGRT)