Complete List of 2008 Seed Grants
In February 2008, seed grant awards went to eight broad interdisciplinary research teams:
- Nuclear reprogramming for Vascular Regeneration in Critical Limb Ischemia
John Cooke, CV Medicine, James Byrne, Genetic Pharmacology, Ron Dalman, Vascular Surgery, James Swartz, Chem Eng/Bioengineering, Paul Wender, Chemistry/Chem&Sys Biol, Joseph Wu, Radiology, Phillip Yang, CV Medicine - The role of PKC isozymes βII and ε in mast cell activity and in hypertension induced heart failure Daria Mochly-Rosen, Stephen Galli, Euan Ashley, Suresh Palanayandi, Cell & Systems Biology, Pathology/Microbiology & Immunology, Cardiovascular Medicine
- Induced Pluripotent Stem Cell Derived Cardiomyocytes for Cardiac Therapy Joe Wu, Irv Weissman, Sam Gambhir, Robert Robbins, Tom Quertermous, Mark Kay, Andrew Connolly; Cardiovascular Medicine, Stem Cell Institute, Molelcular Imaging Program at Stanford (MIPS), Genetics, Pathology
- Genome Wide Association Study of Variation in Insulin Mediated Glucose Uptake Josh Knowles, Phil Tsao, Fahim Abbasi, Tim Assimes, Tom Quertermous, Gerald Reaven; Cardiovascular Medicine, Vascular Biology, Endocrinology, Genetics and Biostatistics
- Effect of Statin Therapy upon AAA Disease: Role of Heme Oxygenase Phil Tsao, Ron Dalman, David Stevenson, Ronald Wong, Junya Azuma, Cardiovascular Medicine, Vascular Surgery, and Pediatrics
- Noninvasive MRI-Guided Myocardial Ablation of Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy Michael V. McConnell, Aravind Swaminathan, Kim Butts Pauly, John M. Pauly, David H. Liang, Euan A. Ashley, Viola Rieke, Cardiovascular Medicine, Radiology, Electrical Engineering
- Computationally Guided Design of Biodegradable Drug Eluting Stents for the Treatment and Reversal of Vascular Stenoses in Children with Congenital Heart Defects Marlene Rabinovitch, V. Mohan Reddy, Jeffrey A. Feinstein, Ellen Kuhl, William F. Fearon, Curtis W. Frank, Thomas Kleisli, Serdar Goktepe, PhD, Pediatric Cardiology, Interventional Cardiology, Pediatric Cardiothoracic Surgery, Mechanical Engineering (& Bioengineering), Computational Biomechanics Chemical Engineering, Chemistry, Material Science Engineering
- Predicting Outcomes of Treatments for Coronary Artery Disease Charles A.Taylor, Bioengineering, Pediatrics, Radiology, Mechanical Engineering, William F. Fearon, Geoffrey D Rubin, Radiology and Medicine
In October 2008, unprecedented second-round funding was awarded to two of the 2008 seed grant teams headed by Dr. Mochly-Rosen and Dr. Wu.
