Round 5 Awardees

Bio-Mechanical Force Sensing and Remodeling by Cell-Cell Junctions in Multicellular Tissues                            
Pruitt, Beth (Mechanical Engineering)           
Nelson, W. James (Biology)
Weis, Bill (Molecular and Cellular Physiology)          
                                                           
Computational Analysis of Tumor Morphology to Build Prognostic Models and Discover Biological Networks in Breast Cancer                                    
Koller, Daphne (Computer Science) 
Van de Rijn, Matt (Pathology)           
                                   
Environmental control of cell and genome size: A case study of Foraminifera        Skotheim, Jan (Biology)        
Payne, Jonathan (Geological & Environmental Sciences)               
                                                           
Protection of mitochondrial functions in neurons from patients with Huntington’s diseases            
Mochly-Rosen, Daria  (Chemical and Systems Biology)
Bronte-Stewart, H. (Neurology and Neurological Sciences)            
Dolmetsch, Ricardo (Neurobiology)  
                                                           
Computerized Quantitative Imaging Assessment of Age-Related Acute Macular Degeneration                
Rubin, Daniel (Radiology)
Blumenkranz, Mark (Ophthalmology)           
                                               
Elucidating on the mechanism of protein-protein interactions in epigenetic events from electronic spectroscopy measurements                                               
Gozani, Or (Biology)
Howe, Roger (Electrical Engineering)
                                                           
Oxytocin delivery during pup ultrasonic vocalizations to rescue maternal behavior
Santiago, Juan( Mechanical Engineering)    
Sapolsky, Robert (Neurology & Neurological Sciences)      
Blau, Helen (Microbiology & Immunology)
                                                           
Examining the threshold of T cell memory by AFM-based receptor mapping
Butte, Manish (Pediatrics)
Melosh, Nicholas (Materials Science and Engineering)        
                                                           
Measurement and modeling of the persistence length of native and reconstituted chromatin
Straight, Aaron (Biochemistry)
Spakowitz, Andrew (Chemical Engineering)
Mabuchi, Hideo (Applied Physics)
                                                           
Founding the Bio-X.Game Center for Education and Large Scale Science
Ingmar Riedel-Kruse (Bioengineering)
Das, Rhiju (Biochemistry)
Schwartz, Daniel (School of Education)       
                                                           
Imaging the Ovarian Cancer-Associated Protein AXL to Stage Disease and Monitor Therapy
Graves, Edward (Radiation Oncology)
Giaccia, Amato (Radiation Oncology)
Cochran, Jennifer (Bioengineering)
                                                           
Novel Molecular Force Probes to Investigate the Mechanism of Touch Sensation
Dunn, Alexander (Chemical Engineering)
Goodman, Miriam (Molecular and Cellular Physiology)
                                               
Matrix-induced alignment: effects on endothelial biology
Cooke, John (Cardiovascular Medicine)                   
Fuller, Gerald (Chemical Engineering)          
                                                           
Tele-robotic system for real-time soft-tissue image guidance of stereotactic body radiation therapy
Hristov, Dimitre (Radiation Oncology)
Salisbury, Kenneth (Computer Science)                   
Chang, Daniel (Radiation Oncology) 

Generation of neurons from fibroblasts with direct gene delivery
Wernig, Marius (Pathology)
Meyer, Tobias (Chemical & Systems Biology)         
                                   
Bioactive and Biodegradable Gene Delivery Depot for Treating Osteonecrosis
Yang, Fan (Bioengineering)
Goodman, Stuart (Orthopaedic Surgery)                  
Biswal, Sandip (Radiology)
                                                           
Optical Imaging with Radiation-Activatable Phosphor Nanoparticles for Real-Time Monitoring of Axon Transport Activities
Yang, Yanmin (Neurology)    
Xing, Lei (Radiation Oncology)
                                                           
PET-CT Evaluation of NK1 Receptor Using [18F]SPA-RQ in Gastroparesis
Biswal, Sandip (Radiology)
Pasricha, Pankaj Jay (Gastroenterology and Hepatology)  
Chin, Frederick T. (Radiology)
                                                           
Magnetic Nanosensors for the Validation of Protein Biomarkers of Inflammatory Neonatal Disease
Sylvester, Karl (Surgery)       
Wang, Shan (Materials Science and Engineering)
                                                           
Novel Silk Scaffolds for Pancreatic Islet Encapsulation
Fontaine, Magali (Pathology)             
Barron, Annelise (Bioengineering)     
Michie, Sara (Pathology)
                                               
Biophysical control of adult stem cell fate
Helms, Jill A. (Surgery)
Heilshorn, Sarah (Materials Science and Engineering)        
Brunski, John (Surgery)
                                                           
High-Throughput Mutagenesis of Neuropilins to Elucidate Domains Required for Hedgehog Signaling
Scott, Matthew (Developmental Biology)
Cochran, Jennifer (Bioengineering)
                                                           
Rationally engineered sensors of millisecond neuronal activity
Lin, Michael (Pediatrics)                    
Schnitzer, Mark (Applied Physics)    
                                               
Quantitative analysis of virus spead with and without cell lysis
Kirkegaard, Karla (Microbiology & Immunology)
Covert, Markus (Bioengineering)

Precise design of synthetic multicellular communities using optical control
Huang, Kerwyn Casey (Bioengineering)
Bhaya, Devaki (Plant Biology)

Rapid Laser-based Diagnostic Tool for Pulmonary Tuberculosis
Byer, Robert (Applied Physics)
Vodopyanov, Konstantin (Applied Physics)
Banaei, Niaz (Pathology)

A compact optical sensor for parallel analysis of blood components
Harris, James (Electrical Engineering)
Zehnder, James (Pathology)