Round 4 Awardees

Optoelectronic Retinal Prosthesis
Palanker, Daniel (Opthalmology)
Peumans, Peter (Electrical Engineering)
Baccus, Stephen (Neurobiology)

A New Approach to Scintigraphic Biomedical Imaging
Kool, Eric (Chemistry)
Gratta, Giorgio (Physics)

Neuron Identity and Neural Codes
Scott, Matthew (Developmental Biology)
Wong, Wing (Statistics)
Liqun Luo (Biological Sciences)
Thomas Baer (Applied Physics)

Functional Assessment of Primary and Embryonic Stem Cell-Derived Cardiomyocytes
Bernstein, David (Pediatrics)
Pruitt, Beth (Mechanical Engineering)
Yang, Phil (Cardiovascular Medicine)

An Integrated Approach to Cardiac Repair: Predictive Computational Models, Engineered Biomaterials, and Stem Cells
Heilshorn, Sarah (Materials Science and Engineering)
Kuhl, Ellen (Mechanical Engineering)
Zarins, Chris (Vascular Surgery)

Investigating the Impact of Audiovisual Biofeedback in Anatomic and Functional Imaging
Keall, Paul (Radiation Oncology)
Loo, Bill  ( Radiation Oncology)
Berger, Jonathan (Music)

Functional Understanding of the Intestinal Microbiome
Pasricha, PJ (Gastroenterology and Hepatology)
Spormann, Alfred (Civil & Environmental Engineering)
Sonnenburg, Justin (Microbiology & Immunology)

Development of a Saxitoxin-Based Image-Guided Approach for the Management of Chronic Pain
Biswal, Sandip (Radiology)
Dubois, Justin (Chemistry)
Yeomans, David (Anesthesia)
Pasricha, Panjay (Gastroenterology)

Multicolor Optical Control of Skeletal Muscle
Delp, Scott (Bioengineering)
Deisseroth, Karl (Bioengineering)
Vincent Hentz (Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery)

Development and Applications of Real time fMRI Technology
Mackey, Sean (Anesthesia)
Glover, Gary (Radiology)
Gotlib, Ian (Psychology)
Reiss, Allan (Psychiatry)
Knutson, Brian (Psychology)

Optical Stimulation of Neural Stem Cell Grafts and Modulation of Existing Neural Circuit Deficits
Steinberg, Gary (Neurosurgery)
Deisseroth, Karl (Bioengineering)

A Novel Approach for the Structural Determination of Oligomeric Complexes by in-silico Prediction Methods and Mass Spectrometry: Application to the chaperonin TRiC
Frydman, Judith (Biology)
Levitt, Michael (Structural Biology)

Nano-Candle to Illuminate Tyrosine Kinase Activity in Living Cells
Cui, Bianxiao (Chemistry)
Cui, Yii (Materials Science and Engineering)

Novel Imaging for Non-invasive Monitoring of Radiation Induced Neuroinflammation and Reponse to Treatment
Loo, Billy (Radiation Oncology)
Graves, Edward (Radiation Oncology)
Palmer, Theo (Neurosurgery)

Connective Tissue Elasticity: Bridging the Scales between Chemical Morphology and Engineering Models
Pinsky, Peter (Mechanical Engineering)
Puria, Sunil (Mechanical Engineering)
Dauskardt, Reiner (Materials Science and Engineering)
Levenston, Marc (Mechanical Engineering)
Ta, Christopher (Ophthalmology)
Smith, Lane (Orthopaedic Surgery)

A Combined Chemical Biological and Computational Approach for the Development of a New Class of Therapeutics for Protein Aggregation Diseases
Pande, Vijay (Chemistry)
Graef, Isabella (Pathology)

Using Translational Bioinformatics to Identify Early Onset of, and Populations Resistant to, Physiological Stress from Global Climate Change on Coral Reefs
Palumbi, Stephen (Biology)
Butte, Atul  ( Medicine/SMI)
Grossman, Arthur (Carnegie Institute)
Pringle, John (Genetics)

Integrative Proteo-Genomics to Develop Common Non-invasive Diagnostic Assays for Graft Injury
Sarwal, Minnie (Pediatrics)
Butte, Atul (Medicine/SMI)
Cooke, John (Cardiovascular Medicine)

Trophoblast Evolution and Implications for Human Pregnancy
Baker, Julie (Genetics)
Penn, Anna (Pediatrics)
Berjerano, Gill (Developmental Biology)

Carbon Nanotube-mediated Systemic SiRNA Delivery for Cancer Therapy
Kuo, Calvin (Hematology)
Dai, Hongjie (Chemistry)

Functional Neuroimaging of Attention Networks
Moore, Tirin (Neurobiology)
Grill-Spector, Kalanit (Psychology)

High-Affinity, Highly Specific Peptoid Antagonists for G-Protein Coupled Receptors
Kobilka, Brian (Molecular and Cellular Physiology)
Barron, Annelise (Bioengineering)

Structure-inspired Design of Biostable Inhibitors of hRSV Entry: Designing Peptoid-based Viral Inhibitors Based on Minimal Peptides that Block hRSV Fusion
Barron, Annelise (Bioengineering)
Jardetzky, Theodore (Structural Biology)

The Colony-Forming Antibody Cell Array:  A Novel Screening Strategy to Identify Cancer Stem Cells in Human Malignant Gliomas and Other Cancers
Skirboll, Stephen (Neurosurgery)
Brown, Patrick (Biochemistry)