Matthew Carpenter, Ph.D. Assistant Professor, Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences Grant Title: “Translating advances in smoking cessation into public health impact: Identification of individual-level barriers to NRT.” Amanda LaRue, Ph.D. Assistant Professor, Department of Medicine Grant Title: “Chemokine regulation of hematopoietic stem cell-derived peripheral blood fibrocytes and fibroblasts in the establishment of melanoma stroma.” W. Jim Zheng, Ph.D., M.S. Assistant Professor, Department of Biostatistics, Bioinformatics & Epidemiology Grant Title: “Computational analysis of gene regulation in cancer specific gene modules.” Lauren Ball, Ph.D. Assistant Professor, Department of Cell & Molecular Pharmacology Grant Title: “Regulation of growth factor signaling by O-GlcNAc glycosylation: Characterization of O-GlcNAc modification of insulin receptor substrate-1 (IRS-1) and ?-catenin.” Chiara Luberto, Ph.D. Assistant Professor, Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology Grant Title: “Role of mammalian sphingomyelin synthase in the regulation of NF-kB and cell transformation.” |