New Investigator Grants
The New Investigator Grant seeks to spur innovative new research and advance the careers of new investigators who are working on cutting-edge life sciences research at Massachusetts research institutions.
New Investigator Awards – 2009 |
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Institution |
Researcher |
Title of Research |
Award |
Boston University Medical Center |
Dr. Christopher Gabel |
The study of neural regeneration in C. Elegans using femtosecond laser surgery and advanced optical neurophysiology |
$200,000 over two years |
Brandeis University |
Dr. Satoshi Yashida |
How cells respond to stress? |
$200,000 over two years |
Immune Disease Institute, Children’s Hospital |
Dr. Sun Hur |
Structural and kinetic investigations of the mechanism for self vs non-self RNA discrimination by RIG-I |
$200,000 over two years |
Harvard College |
Dr. Tobias Ritter |
New pharmaceuticals and diagnostics by late-stage fluorination |
$200,000 over two years |
Harvard University |
Dr. Briana Burton |
Mechanisms of nucleic acid transport across membranes |
$200,000 over two years |
Harvard School of Public Health |
Dr. Matthias Marti |
Establishment of a high throughput screen focused on preventing the development of gametocytes, the form of malaria that mediates transmission |
$200,000 over two years |
Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary |
Dr. Konstantina Stankovic |
Functional role and therapeutic implications of osteprotegerin secretion by the auditory nerve |
$200,000 over two years |
Massachusetts General Hospital |
Dr. Raul Mostolavsky |
The chromatin factor SIRT6 is a master regulator of glucose homeostasis |
$200,000 over two years |
Northeastern University |
Dr. Mark Niedre |
Optical tomographic sensing and enumeration of rare circulating cells in vivo |
$180,256 over two years |
University of Massachusetts Medical School |
Dr. Jeffrey Bailey |
Dissecting the role of human copy number variation in severe malaria |
$200,000 over two years |
New Investigator Awards – 2008 |
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Institution |
Researcher |
Title of Research |
Award |
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center |
Dr. Wenyi Wei |
Dissection of the signaling pathways controlling the destruction of the Mdm2 oncoprotein |
$300,000 over three years |
Boston University |
Dr. Hatice Altug |
Development of multiplexed, ultra-sensitive, label-free and rapid biosensing technologies for proteomics and virus detection applications |
$276,187 over three years |
Broad Institute |
Dr. Alexander Meissner |
Characterizing the pluripotent state through integrative genomic analysis |
$300,000 over three years |
Harvard Medical School |
Dr. Thomas Bernhardt |
New strategies for identifying antibiotic targets |
$300,000 over three years |
Massachusetts General Hospital |
Dr. Jorge Mora |
Teaching lymphocytes where to go: Implications for intestinal immunity and inflammation |
$300,000 over three years |
Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
Dr. Laurie Boyer |
Investigating how chromatin organization in embryonic stem cells influences cell fate specification |
$300,000 over three years |
Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
Dr. Jeroen Saeij |
Molecular characterization of toxoplasma kinases involved virulence |
$300,000 over three years |
Tufts Veterinary School |
Dr. Christopher Schonhoff |
Role of S-nitrosylation in hepatic bile acid transport |
$196,525 over three years |
University of Massachusetts Amherst |
Dr. Jesse Mager |
Functional assessment of epigenetic regulatory genes in vivo |
$295.732 over three years |
University of Massachusetts Lowell |
Dr. Xingwei Wang |
Miniature label-free biosensing probes for rapid detection of virus, bacteria, and cells |
$299,934 over three years |
Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research |
Dr. Iain Cheeseman |
A molecular toolkit for analysis of the human kinetochore |
$300,000 over three years |
