Round 3 Awardees

High-Resolution MRI of Prostate Cancer
James Brooks (Urology)
Dwight Nishimura (Electrical Engineering)
Bob S. Hu (Electrical Engineering)
John Higgins (Pathology)

Enhancement of neuron: device interactions by surface presentation of small molecule neurotrophin receptor agonists
Stefan Heller (Otolaryngology)
Frank Longo (Neurology & Neurological Sciences)
Gerald Fuller (Chemical Engineering)

Novel nanoparticles for delivery of small molecules in cancer therapy
Chris Contag (Pediatrics)
Richard Zare (Chemistry)

Molecular and Functional Characterization of Colon Tumor Cancer Stem Cells and Stroma
Michael F. Clarke (Internal Medicine)
Patrick Brown (Biochemistry)
Steven Quake (Bioengineering)

Inventing a Microendoscope to Measure Sarcomere Lengths in Humans
Scott Delp (Bioengineering)
Terry Sanger (Neurology and Neuroscience)
Mark Schnitzer (Biological Sciences)
Stephen Smith (Molecular and Cellular Physiology)

Interferometric Analysis of Membrane Protein Conformation
Steven Boxer (Chemistry)
Nick Melosh (Materials Science & Engineering)

Determination of Muscle Stem Cell Fate in Bioengineered Artificial Niches
Helen Blau (Microbiology and Immunology)
Curtis Frank (Chemical Engineering)

Wound Management with Intelligent Materials
Curtis Frank (Chemical Engineering)
Jennifer Cochran (Bioengineering)
George Yang (Surgery)
Michael Longaker (Medicine)

Engineering Fluorophore-Binding Protein Tags for In Vivo Molecular Imaging
Jennifer Cochran (Bioengineering)
Sanjiv Sam Gambhir (Radiology)
JiangHong Rao (Radiology)

Construction of a Conditional Stem Cell Niche
Gerald Crabtree (Pathology)
Tom Wandless (Chemistry)
Tobias Meyer (Molecular Pharmacology)
Steven Quake (Bioengineering)

Gating Mechanisms of Metazoan Sensory Mechanotransduction Channels
Miriam Goodman (Molecular and Cellular Physiology)
Eric Darve (Mechanical Engineering)

High-speed transcranial magnetic force pulses to drive stem cell migration
Karl Deisseroth (Bioengineering)
Bret Schneider (Psychiatry)

Carbon Nanotube Mediated Therapy for Lymphoma
Hongjie Dai (Chemistry)
Dean Felsher (Medicine-Oncology)

Understanding Pterosaur Flight An Interdisciplinary Study of Flight and Wing Dynamics
Margot Gerritsen (Energy Resources Engineering)
Scott Delp (Bionegineering)
Ilan Kroo (Aeronautics and Astronautics)
Jonathan Payne (Geological and Environmental Sciences)

Vascular Anastomosis Using Thermoreversible Gels
Gerald Fuller (Chemical Engineering)
Geoffrey Gurtner (Surgery)

Nanoreservoir Arrays to Study Neuronal Signaling
Ricardo Dolmetsch (Neurobiology)
Nicholas Melosh (Materials Science & Engineering)

A Novel Transducer Array and Intelligent Softwarefor Automated Detection of Asymptomatic Carotid Artery Stenosis
Sandy Napel (Radiology)
T. Khuri-Yakub (Electrical Engineering)
R. Brooke Jeffrey (Radiology)

Development of Novel Nanocrystal-Based MRI Contrast Agents for In-Vivo Cellular and Vascular Imaging
Dwight Nishimura (Electrical Engineering)
Hongjie Dai (Chemistry)
Phillip Yang (Medicine-Cardiovascular)
Michael McConnell (Medicine-Cardiovascular)
Bruce Daniel (Radiology)

Mapping the functional surface of the ribosome exit tunnel with novel antibiotics: a combined approach using computational design, chemo-biosynthesis, and experimental characterization
Chaitan Khosla (Chemistry)
Vijay Pande (Chemistry)
Jody Puglisi (Structural Biology)

A novel approach to study the neural circuitry of learning
Jennifer Raymond (Neurobioogy)
Mark Schnitzer (Biological Sciences)
Gregory Barsh (Genetics)

How are synapses eliminated to generate a functional neural circuit?
Mark Schnitzer (Biological Sciences)
Ben Barres (Neurobiology)

Development of integrated semiconductor optical imaging sensors
Stephen Smith (Molecular and Cellular Physiology)
Krishna Shenoy (Electrical Engineering)
James Harris (Electrical Engineering)

An FPGA-Based Bioinformatics Accelerator and Application to Ultra-High-Throughput Sequencing
William Dally (Computer Science)
Arend Sidow (Genetics)
Serafim Batzoglou (Computer Science)

Investigation of Directed Cell Migration Using Microfluidic Electrokinetic Systems
Eugene Butcher (Pathology)
Juan Santiago (Mechanical Engineering

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