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Orleans County, La., funds by Health and Human Services, Department of

Listing $75,257,757.22 in stimulus funds from Health and Human Services, Department of for Orleans

Note: For some programs where states do not report where money will be distributed across the state, we do not have the allocation for individual counties. Those programs include: Medicaid, unemployment benefits and food stamps. Those amounts are included in the totals for where the state agency receiving that money is located.

Amount refers to both the amount of stimulus funding going toward the project and the face value of the loan.

Recipient Amount Description Federal Dept./Agency Date
ADMINISTRATORS OF THE TULANE EDUCATIONAL FUND, THE $13,533,254 National Center for Research Resources, Recovery Act Construction Support This proposal by Tulane University is a request for funds to remodel select biomedical research laboratories in the J. Bennett Johnston Health and Environmental Research Building (JBJ building) on our Health Science Center camp... Show more National Institutes of Health 3/25/2010
LOUISIANA PUBLIC HEALTH INSTITUTE $11,862,701 ARRA - Health Information Technology - Beacon Communities The purpose of the Beacon Community Cooperative Agreement Program is to provide funding to communities to build and strengthen their Health Information Technology (Health IT)infrastructure and exchange capabilities to demonstrate the vision of... Show more
This spending item is part of a $13,525,434 allocation. See details
Health and Human Services, Department of 5/04/2010
DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION $3,590,998 ARRA - Early Head Start Early Head Start Expansion (ARRA) Administration for Children and Families 4/01/2010
TOTAL COMMUNITY ACTION, INC. $3,182,457 ARRA - Community Services Block Grant ARRA Funding for the Community Services Block Grant (CSBG) Program: This award was allocated funds to a network of eligible Community Action agencies to support employment and educational related activities and services. Funding from this award increased
This spending item is part of a $23,473,377 allocation. See details
Administration for Children and Families 4/10/2009
TOTAL COMMUNITY ACTION, INC. $2,596,783 ARRA - Early Head Start Total Community Action, Inc. Head Start of New Orleans, Louisiana received 2009 Supplemental Funds for Early Head Start Expansion and Quality Improvements (QI). All funding is consistent with the provision section 640 (a) (5) of the Head Start Act. The Administration for Children and Families 11/18/2009
ADMINISTRATORS OF THE TULANE EDUCATIONAL FUND, THE $2,385,309 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support Vaccination represents one of the major successes of medicine as it has spared countless people from polio, tetanus and other acute infections. Yet, improved immunization strategies are needed to make vaccines for microbes that cause considerable morbidit
This spending item is part of a $5,292,047 allocation. See details
National Institutes of Health 9/21/2009
ADMINISTRATORS OF THE TULANE EDUCATIONAL FUND, THE $2,275,749 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support Vaccination represents one of the major successes of medicine as it has spared countless people from polio, tetanus and other acute infections. Yet, improved immunization strategies are needed to make vaccines for microbes that cause considerable morbidit National Institutes of Health 9/16/2009
ADMINISTRATORS OF THE TULANE EDUCATIONAL FUND, THE $1,793,585 ARRA - Head Start The award provides for ARRA funding to states for their Early Childhood Advisory Councils (ECAC) to facilitate the development and enhancement of an early childhood system designed to improve the quality, availability, and coordination of services for chi
This spending item is part of a $2,164,300 allocation. See details
Administration for Children and Families 9/14/2010
LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY SYSTEM $1,520,422 The purpose of this award is to conduct activities to establish Specialized Cancer Registries by enhancing data collected through a subset of NPCR central cancer registries for comparative effectiveness research. Activities include additional data collect
This spending item is part of a $20,000,000 allocation. See details
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention 5/03/2010
TOTAL COMMUNITY ACTION, INC. $1,495,153 ARRA - Head Start Through the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, Total Community Action, Inc. Head Start was awarded Supplemental Funds for Cost of Living (COLA) and Quality Improvements (QI). Total Community Action, Inc. Head Start services over 1,500 children and f Administration for Children and Families 7/16/2009
ADMINISTRATORS OF THE TULANE EDUCATIONAL FUND, THE $1,300,399 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support The mission of the Tulane Hypertension and Renal Center of Excellence (THRCE) is to stimulate research activities related to cardiovascular, kidney, and hypertension related diseases and is a multidisciplinary Center with members from clinical and basic s National Institutes of Health 9/30/2009
ST. THOMAS COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTER, INC. $1,300,000 ARRA Health Center Integrated Services Development Initiative[g1] The overall purpose of the New Start Award is to increase medical services and access available to the low income, medically underserved population, those having <200% of poverty within and surrounding the areas of the City of New Orle... Show more Health Resources and Services Administration 2/26/2009
LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY SYSTEM $1,074,203 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support This program addresses the synergistic interactions of combustion-generated organic pollutants and particles that increase their chemical and biological activity. Program goals include: 1) understand the relationships between the origin, mechanisms of for
This spending item is part of a $3,600,000 allocation. See details
National Institutes of Health 8/11/2009
LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY SYSTEM $1,049,181 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support Over the past several years, there has been a dramatic increase in the scientific scrutiny of omega-3 fatty acids and their impact on health. Results indicate that omega-3 fatty acids have potent anti-inflammatory actions. Inflammation is at the root of m
This spending item is part of a $2,824,336 allocation. See details
National Institutes of Health 9/16/2009
ADMINISTRATORS OF THE TULANE EDUCATIONAL FUND, THE $926,632 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support This application addresses Broad Challenge Area '(04): Clinical Research' and Specific Challenge Topic '04-MH-103: Interventions That Target Symptom Dimensions of Childhood-Onset Mental Disorders.' The family of cognitive-behavioral therapies (CBT) is a r National Institutes of Health 9/25/2009
LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY SYSTEM $828,841 Recovery Act Comparative Effectiveness Research - AHRQ Prostate cancer is the most common solid tumor and the second leading cause of cancer death among American men. While surgery, radiation and observation have all been deemed appropriate for newly diagnosed men, tremendous uncertainty remains rega... Show more
This spending item is part of a $7,572,695 allocation. See details
Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality 8/12/2010
CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL $752,875 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support Atypical G Protein signaling in Cryptococcus neoformans The heterotrimeric G protein plays an important regulatory role in the human pathogenic fungus Cryptococcus neoformans. The G1 subunit Gpa1 governs a conserved cAMP-dependent signaling pathway that National Institutes of Health 9/11/2009
ADMINISTRATORS OF THE TULANE EDUCATIONAL FUND, THE $745,000 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support CD4+ helper T cells specific for human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) are associated with control of viremia. Nevertheless, vaccines have not been effective thus far, at least partly because sequence variability and other structural features of the National Institutes of Health 6/18/2009
LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY SYSTEM $709,999 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support Inflammation is a component of the corneal wound healing process. This proposal under the two-year support provided by the National Institutes of Health under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 will continue to test novel hypotheses about National Institutes of Health 6/05/2009
EXCELTH, INCORPORATED $687,710 ARRA Health Center Integrated Services Development Initiative[g1] Several communities continue to struggle for basic health services following the destruction of Hurricane Katrina in 2005. Over this period, the EXCELth Primary Care Network has created primary care access in three of these communitie... Show more Health Resources and Services Administration 6/25/2009
ADMINISTRATORS OF THE TULANE EDUCATIONAL FUND, THE $669,514 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support Mounting evidence indicates that alterations in chromatin structure and function induce specific and significant changes in gene expression. Histone deacetylases (HDACs) are an evolutionarily conserved class of enzymes which remove acetyl groups from hist National Institutes of Health 9/25/2009
LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY SYSTEM $667,628 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support The study's goal is to compare the effectiveness of a city level policy in New Orleans to control problem alcohol outlets that contribute to health inequalities among poor and minority populations. In 1997 the City of New Orleans adopted a series of polic National Institutes of Health 9/22/2009
HEALTH AND HOSPITALS, LOUISIANA DEPARTMENT OF $647,083 ARRA - Preventing Healthcare-Associated Infections Louisiana's Healthcare-Associated Infections (HAI) initiative was funded to target three specific areas of surveillance and prevention to move our state toward the national goal of HAI elimination: a) increase basic staffing and coordination to estab... Show more Centers for Disease Control and Prevention 8/28/2009
ADMINISTRATORS OF THE TULANE EDUCATIONAL FUND, THE $640,184 ARRA - Preventive Medicine Residency Program ARRA - Preventive Medicine Residency Program 1. Enhance residency curriculum to address issues critical to Louisiana & the Gulf South including rural public health and health care quality 1.1 Involve residents as mentors in the Tulane ... Show more Health Resources and Services Administration 7/02/2010
ADMINISTRATORS OF THE TULANE EDUCATIONAL FUND, THE $637,843 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support The viral hemorrhagic fevers (VHFs) pose a threat as possible bioterrorist agents as well as to populations in sub-Saharan Africa where many VHFs are endemic. The non-specific clinical presentation of the VHF, makes them extremely difficult to diagnose cl
This spending item is part of a $887,796 allocation. See details
National Institutes of Health 9/11/2009
ADMINISTRATORS OF THE TULANE EDUCATIONAL FUND, THE $599,393 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support The objective of this COBRE renewal application is to continue to develop the research careers of promising junior investigators In Cancer Genetics and to build core Programmatic strength in this area. Career development will utilize a strong core of rese National Institutes of Health 9/24/2009
ADMINISTRATORS OF THE TULANE EDUCATIONAL FUND, THE $555,980 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support The Gulf Coast Transdisciplinary Research Recovery Center for Community Health brings together outstanding academic and public health institutions and centers as a Consortium. The Consortium will coordinate new research studies and projects with existing
This spending item is part of a $4,000,000 allocation. See details
National Institutes of Health 9/30/2009
XAVIER UNIVERSITY OF LOUISIANA $520,000 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support Xavier's RCMI Cancer Research Program. The purpose of this supplement is to consolidate the three research cores of Xavier University's Research Centers in Minority Institutions (RCMI) program into one centralized location. As part of an ongoing universit National Institutes of Health 8/05/2010
ADMINISTRATORS OF THE TULANE EDUCATIONAL FUND, THE $504,520 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support The experiments in this project are designed to generate improved vaccines against HIV-1 based on recombinant vesicular stomatitis viruses. The vaccine vectors developed in this project will be compared with recombinant RV and NDV vectors generated in pro
This spending item is part of a $2,676,279 allocation. See details
National Institutes of Health 9/01/2009
DELGADO COMMUNITY COLLEGE $480,621 ARRA - Health Information Technology Professionals in Health Care Pitt Community College Region D Consortium - will seek to rapidly create HIT academic programs at Community Colleges or expand existing ones. Community Colleges are G?institutions of higher educationG? as defined by section 101 of the ... Show more
This spending item is part of a $20,817,547 allocation. See details
Health and Human Services, Department of 4/02/2010
UNIVERSITY OF NEW ORLEANS $409,531 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support To support research and other projects that will support fundamental biomedical discovery and translation of that knowledge into effective prevention strategies and new treatments while also providing economic stimulus to the nation. National Institutes of Health 8/20/2009
DILLARD UNIVERSITY $400,000 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support The Historically Black Colleges and Univeristy(HBCU) Consortium consists of Dillard University's Deep South Center for Environmental Justice(New Orleans) in partnership with Clark Atlanta Univeristy Environmental Justice Resource Center(Atlanta, GA) The m National Institutes of Health 9/06/2009
ADMINISTRATORS OF THE TULANE EDUCATIONAL FUND, THE $384,336 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support The long-term objective of our parent grant is to determine the molecular mechanisms through which chronic inflammation promotes lung cancer. The asbestos model of lung injury is well established in our laboratory and it serves as a paradigm for inducing National Institutes of Health 8/31/2009
LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY SYSTEM $383,156 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support Human papillomavirus (HPV) infection of anogenital tissues has been implicated as a requisite step in the progression to neoplastic transformation. The role of HPV in cervical cancer has been well elucidated; however, most infections with HPV do not lead
This spending item is part of a $443,635 allocation. See details
National Institutes of Health 9/28/2009
LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY SYSTEM $374,573 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support The Quality of Life Prostate Cancer Project (Q-PCaP) is a prospective follow-up study of the Louisiana cohort assembled for the the North Carolina-Louisiana Prostate Cancer Project (PCaP), a population-based study conducted from July 2004 through August 2 National Institutes of Health 8/26/2010
ADMINISTRATORS OF THE TULANE EDUCATIONAL FUND, THE $350,535 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support After the Hurricane Katrina disaster in August, 2005 a massive influx of Latinos from Mexico and Central America, mostly undocumented and unaccompanied by their families, came seeking construction work. Post-disaster New Orleans is not only a new receivi
This spending item is part of a $421,530 allocation. See details
National Institutes of Health 5/14/2009
EXCELTH, INCORPORATED $347,264 ARRA Health Center Integrated Services Development Initiative[g1] EXCELth's Behavioral Health program provides an on-site Primary Mental Health Model. Services for health center children and adolescents from ages 6 to 21 years and their families who are experiencing maladaptive coping and adjustment... Show more Health Resources and Services Administration 3/27/2009
LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY SYSTEM $343,122 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support T cell?based therapies for cancer in the form of adoptive T cell transfer (ACT) or cancer vaccines can kill tumors expressing immunodominant tumor antigens. However, this process allows the escape of tumor cells expressing poorly immunogenic or subdomina National Institutes of Health 9/15/2010
XAVIER UNIVERSITY OF LOUISIANA $341,660 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support Research is focused on drug development against potentially blinding human eye disease herpetic stromal keratitis. During this period, I have published a patent application WO/2012/027524 A METHOD OF INHIBITING ANGIOGENESIS including the inhibition of abn National Institutes of Health 9/30/2009
LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY SYSTEM $337,824 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support This supplement will allow us to greatly enhance the pace of the work on the specific aims supported by the parent grant. Specifically, we will complete the transcriptome and proteome, and develop an initial interactome of neuroprotectin D1 (NPD1); define National Institutes of Health 8/04/2009
ADMINISTRATORS OF THE TULANE EDUCATIONAL FUND, THE $327,900 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support Disorders of the central nervous system are often associated with little or no recovery due to in part to poor neural regenerative capacity, damaging mechanisms that persist after initial neuronal injury, and inhibitory properties intrinsic to myelin. Reg National Institutes of Health 6/01/2009
NEW ORLEANS, CITY OF $326,545 ARRA Health Center Integrated Services Development Initiative[g1] This award will allow HCHP to expand services by renovating and reconfiguring the existing dental area and adding 3 new dental operatories. Our current wait time to the dentist is about 3 months and this will cut our wait time to only... Show more Health Resources and Services Administration 6/25/2009
ADMINISTRATORS OF THE TULANE EDUCATIONAL FUND, THE $318,804 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support The current application is submitted in response to the notice number NOT-OD-058 entitled 'Enabling RPGs to Leverage NCRR Center and Centers-like Programs'. The research focus of the parent grant RO1AI0470889 is to develop a vaccine targeting human malari National Institutes of Health 9/13/2010
LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY SYSTEM $310,286 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support T cell based therapies for cancer in the form of adoptive T cell transfer (ACT) or cancer vaccines can kill tumors expressing immunodominant tumor antigens. However, this process allows the escape of tumor cells expressing poorly immunogenic or subdomina
This spending item is part of a $344,630 allocation. See details
National Institutes of Health 9/17/2009
ADMINISTRATORS OF THE TULANE EDUCATIONAL FUND, THE $300,717 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): We have developed an intracellular immunization strategy with a genetically engineered human antibody clone as a novel antiviral therapy against the hepatitis C virus. This antibody clone targets the HCV NS3 protein,
This spending item is part of a $343,089 allocation. See details
National Institutes of Health 5/21/2009
LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY SYSTEM $298,569 ARRA ? Equipment to Enhance Training for Health Professionals This award is specific for the purchase of equipment to be used in Advanced Education Nursing Programs. The LSUHSC School of Nursing Nurse Anesthesia Program and Family Nurse Practitioner Program seeks funding under this application to pu... Show more Health Resources and Services Administration 8/31/2010
LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY SYSTEM $294,650 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support Toll-like receptor (TLR) agonists have been shown to help generate potent antitumor T cell responses. Engagement of TLRs on antigen presenting cells (APCs), such as dendritic cells, induces the production of inflammatory cytokines, chemokines, as well as, National Institutes of Health 5/21/2009
ADMINISTRATORS OF THE TULANE EDUCATIONAL FUND, THE $287,417 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support Hypertension is a leading cause of death and disability affecting over 50 million people in the United States and responsible for 200,000 deaths annually. Because hypertension and associated cardiovascular diseases are prevalent in Louisiana, Tulane Healt National Institutes of Health 9/17/2009
ADMINISTRATORS OF THE TULANE EDUCATIONAL FUND, THE $286,984 ARRA ? Equipment to Enhance Training for Health Professionals ARRA - Equipment to Enhance Training for Health Professionals. Supports the purchase of equipment through a grant program that will enhance infrastructure supporting health professions training programs. The ETHP program provides funding ... Show more Health Resources and Services Administration 9/02/2010
LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY SYSTEM $285,712 ARRA ? Equipment to Enhance Training for Health Professionals The LSUHSC School of Nursing Program under this grant award will purchase the following equipment: Total :$285,712 METI Pediatric Patient High Fidelity Simulator Voice Machine Simulator Motion C5 mobile computing units Carefusion Vela ... Show more Health Resources and Services Administration 9/03/2010
ADMINISTRATORS OF THE TULANE EDUCATIONAL FUND, THE $284,342 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support The objective of this study is to identify mosquito genes critical for arbovirus replication. In particular, antiviral genes that antagonize viral replication in mosquitoes are of interest since these genes can be targeted for control of virus transmissio National Institutes of Health 9/01/2009
ADMINISTRATORS OF THE TULANE EDUCATIONAL FUND, THE $283,960 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support Hypertension is a leading cause of death and disability affecting over 50 million people in the United States and responsible for 200,000 deaths annually. Because hypertension and associated cardiovascular diseases are prevalent in Louisiana, Tulane Healt National Institutes of Health 8/19/2009
LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY SYSTEM $270,382 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support Successful eradication of solid tumors and metastatic disease by immunotherapy requires systemic and persistent functional anti-tumor cytotoxic T lymphocytes (CTL). Dendritic cells (DC), as the pivotal initiator and regulator of immune responses, have bec National Institutes of Health 8/31/2009
XAVIER UNIVERSITY OF LOUISIANA $255,495 ARRA - Scholarships for Disadvantaged Students Xavier's goal through the ARRA-Scholarship for Disadvantaged Students is to provide more eligible students the opportunity to continue their education in the College of Pharmacy with less financial burdens. Health Resources and Services Administration 6/14/2010
ADMINISTRATORS OF THE TULANE EDUCATIONAL FUND, THE $254,201 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support The gammaretroviruses represent a group of mammalian oncogenic retroviruses typically associated with the long-latency induction of leukemia and lymphoma in the natural host. Feline leukemia virus (FeLV), a naturally occurring gammaretrovirus, is found in National Institutes of Health 9/01/2009
ST. THOMAS COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTER, INC. $250,000 ARRA Health Center Integrated Services Development Initiative[g1] The overall purpose of the CIP Award is to address health disparities and improve access to timely screening, preventive, and primary care services for our low-income users who would not otherwise have access to certain services regard... Show more Health Resources and Services Administration 6/29/2009
DILLARD UNIVERSITY $234,498 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support The supplement allows three collaborating units to increase accruals of minority and underserved populations into cancer clinical trials by 1) Enabling two community clinical oncology programs (CCOPs) to hire new staff to increase recruitment into trials,
This spending item is part of a $751,419 allocation. See details
National Institutes of Health 9/08/2009
XAVIER UNIVERSITY OF LOUISIANA $230,868 ARRA - Scholarships for Disadvantaged Students Scholarships for Disadvantaged Students Health Resources and Services Administration 9/03/2009
LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY SYSTEM $212,534 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support The supplement allows three collaborating units to increase accruals of minority and underserved populations into cancer clinical trials by 1) Enabling two community clinical oncology programs (CCOPs) to hire new staff to increase recruitment into trials,
This spending item is part of a $751,419 allocation. See details
National Institutes of Health 9/08/2009
LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY SYSTEM $202,875 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support Support for a postdoctoral associate is requested to accelerate the pace of this study, which is testing the hypothesis that rare or common genetic variants in the DNA damage-response pathway genes, either individually or in combination, are risk factors National Institutes of Health 9/17/2009
LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY SYSTEM $200,000 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support The LSU School of Dentistry is currently completing the Phase I CoBRE and is poised to pursue phase II in a competitive renewal. The renewal application continues with the theme of ?oral infectious diseases.? Two of the six new specific aims include: (1) National Institutes of Health 9/07/2009
MEDICAL CENTER OF LOUISIANA AT NEW ORLEANS $200,000 ARRA - Health Information Technology - Beacon Communities The purpose of the Beacon Community Cooperative Agreement Program is to provide funding to communities to build and strengthen their Health Information Technology (Health IT)infrastructure and exchange capabilities to demonstrate the vision of... Show more
This spending item is part of a $13,525,434 allocation. See details
Health and Human Services, Department of 5/04/2010
ADMINISTRATORS OF THE TULANE EDUCATIONAL FUND, THE $199,692 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support Facioscapulohumeral muscular dystrophy (FSHD) is a unique disorder involving shortening of an array of tandem 3.3-kb repeats. Unaffected individuals have 11-100 copies of this repeat, D4Z4, at both allelic subtelomeric regions on the long arm of chromosom National Institutes of Health 9/30/2009
ADMINISTRATORS OF THE TULANE EDUCATIONAL FUND, THE $195,858 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support Hypertension affects nearly one-third of adults over age 20 in the United States. While hypertension is found in <10% in adults 20 - 34 years of age, it develops over a period of years, and blood pressure levels in children and adolescents are correlated
This spending item is part of a $860,260 allocation. See details
National Institutes of Health 9/14/2009
LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY SYSTEM $190,848 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support We propose to develop an eight-week long summer program in the neurosciences, called the Summer Undergraduate Neuroscience (SUN) Program, based at the Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center, Neurosciene Center of Excellence. This program will o National Institutes of Health 7/13/2009
ADMINISTRATORS OF THE TULANE EDUCATIONAL FUND, THE $186,306 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support A decade ago when microarray was first invented, it was hailed as 'an array of hope' in Nature Genetics and has received a considerable amount of attention in biomedicine. Subsequently it has been called 'an array of problems' in Nature Review. An inheren National Institutes of Health 8/09/2010
LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY SYSTEM $177,500 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support The first goal of the Recovery Act Supplement is to retain a skilled Research Associage and a very talented Postdoctoral Fellow/Instructor who are essential to my research program. The second is to provide the time and resources necessary to submit a stre National Institutes of Health 7/15/2009
LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY SYSTEM $168,107 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support The parent grant originally planned to perform brain microdialysis experiments in collaboration with the Neurosciences Center at LSUHSC in New Orleans and therefore this equipment and the associated supplies were not budgeted in the application. However, National Institutes of Health 7/16/2009
LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY SYSTEM $166,638 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support There are more persons who die from lung cancer than from breast, colon, and prostate cancer combined. The objective of the Genetic Epidemiology of Lung Cancer Consortium (GELCC) is to conduct family-based studies to identify susceptibility genes in famil
This spending item is part of a $880,446 allocation. See details
National Institutes of Health 9/17/2009
LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY SYSTEM $150,000 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support Diabetes affects 24 million Americans, 220 million people worldwide, and is the 6th leading cause of death in the US. Diabetic nephropathy (DN) is the most common cause of kidney failure in the US. This chronic and debilitating disease is characterized by National Institutes of Health 7/17/2009
ADMINISTRATORS OF THE TULANE EDUCATIONAL FUND, THE $149,000 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support Idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF) is a progressive interstitial lung disease of unknown etiology, characterized by scaring in the lung and impaired pulmonary function. The pathogenetic mechanisms leading to IPF are poorly understood, and there are curre National Institutes of Health 5/11/2009
NEW ORLEANS, CITY OF $144,351 ARRA Health Center Integrated Services Development Initiative[g1] The overall goal of HCHP is to improve the health care status of homeless persons in the New Orleans area by providing a holistic, multi-disciplinary team approach to problems facing homeless individuals and their families. The New Or... Show more Health Resources and Services Administration 3/27/2009
LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY SYSTEM $142,000 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support During this last funding period, the ARC Laboratory Core has developed a state-of-the-art FACS facility. In addition to our previously existing FACSCalibur flow cytometer, the Core acquired 3 top model FACS pieces of equipment. These new additions of th National Institutes of Health 9/30/2009
UNIVERSITY OF NEW ORLEANS $137,638 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support The Epstein Barr virus is an oncogenic herpesvirus that is intimately involved in a number of malignancies in humans. The genetic basis of EBV associated oncogenesis is the concerted action of EBV latency associated genes and varying cellular genetic alte
This spending item is part of a $219,187 allocation. See details
National Institutes of Health 6/01/2009
ADMINISTRATORS OF THE TULANE EDUCATIONAL FUND, THE $134,569 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support Primary liver cancers are highly malignant tumors in human and their incidences are rising in the United States. The overall survival of patients with liver cancer is grim and currently no efficient chemoprevention is available. On the basis of our publis National Institutes of Health 5/27/2010
LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY SYSTEM $128,280 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support This project supports: 1) research employment opportunities and create opportunities for Postdoctoral Fellow and Research Associate positions; 2) to purchase equipment with fluorescence microscopy that is necessary for our project. National Institutes of Health 5/10/2010
LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY SYSTEM $121,511 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support Project proposed the following additional experiments that are closely related to the original Specific Aims of the original grant in order to expedite this work as follows: 1) To confirm the immunogenicity and protective efficacy of mucosal prime-boost National Institutes of Health 7/12/2010
LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY SYSTEM $115,398 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support The proposed supplement extends current research efforts of the parent grant to address a current policy issue of critical importance. The goal of the parent grant was to develop a systems model of college drinking (i.e., SimHED) that could be used to sim National Institutes of Health 9/01/2009
ADMINISTRATORS OF THE TULANE EDUCATIONAL FUND, THE $106,908 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support Via this supplement, we will increase incorporation of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) in our Framework activities to reinforce our global health educational network, with an emphasis on implementation sciences. Specific activities will i National Institutes of Health 9/01/2009
ADMINISTRATORS OF THE TULANE EDUCATIONAL FUND, THE $106,246 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support Chronic kidney disease (CKD) has become an important public health challenge in the United States. CKD is a major risk factor for end-stage renal disease (ESRD), cardiovascular disease (CVD), and premature death. Understanding novel risk factors for the p National Institutes of Health 9/02/2009
ADMINISTRATORS OF THE TULANE EDUCATIONAL FUND, THE $101,463 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support The overall goal of this Exploratory/Developmental Research Grant is to discover the effects of endocannabinoids (eCB) in rostral ventrolateral medulla (RVLM) circuits that regulate cardiovascular function. The central nervous system is directly involved National Institutes of Health 9/01/2009
ST. THOMAS COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTER, INC. $101,000 ARRA Health Center Integrated Services Development Initiative[g1] The overall purpose of the Increased Demand for Services Award is to increase primary care services and access available to the low income, medically underserved population, those having <200% of poverty within and surrounding the area... Show more Health Resources and Services Administration 3/27/2009
MQVN COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORP $100,000 ARRA - Health Information Technology - Beacon Communities The purpose of the Beacon Community Cooperative Agreement Program is to provide funding to communities to build and strengthen their Health Information Technology (Health IT)infrastructure and exchange capabilities to demonstrate the vision of... Show more
This spending item is part of a $13,525,434 allocation. See details
Health and Human Services, Department of 5/04/2010
NEW ORLEANS AIDS TASK FORCE $100,000 ARRA - Health Information Technology - Beacon Communities The purpose of the Beacon Community Cooperative Agreement Program is to provide funding to communities to build and strengthen their Health Information Technology (Health IT)infrastructure and exchange capabilities to demonstrate the vision of... Show more
This spending item is part of a $13,525,434 allocation. See details
Health and Human Services, Department of 5/04/2010
DAUGHTERS OF CHARITY SERVICES OF NEW ORLEANS $100,000 ARRA - Health Information Technology - Beacon Communities The purpose of the Beacon Community Cooperative Agreement Program is to provide funding to communities to build and strengthen their Health Information Technology (Health IT)infrastructure and exchange capabilities to demonstrate the vision of... Show more
This spending item is part of a $13,525,434 allocation. See details
Health and Human Services, Department of 5/04/2010
NEW ORLEANS MUSICIANS ASSISTANCE FOUNDATION $100,000 ARRA - Health Information Technology - Beacon Communities The purpose of the Beacon Community Cooperative Agreement Program is to provide funding to communities to build and strengthen their Health Information Technology (Health IT)infrastructure and exchange capabilities to demonstrate the vision of... Show more
This spending item is part of a $13,525,434 allocation. See details
Health and Human Services, Department of 5/04/2010
ADMINISTRATORS OF THE TULANE EDUCATIONAL FUND, THE $100,000 ARRA - Health Information Technology - Beacon Communities The purpose of the Beacon Community Cooperative Agreement Program is to provide funding to communities to build and strengthen their Health Information Technology (Health IT)infrastructure and exchange capabilities to demonstrate the vision of... Show more
This spending item is part of a $13,525,434 allocation. See details
Health and Human Services, Department of 5/04/2010
ADMINISTRATORS OF THE TULANE EDUCATIONAL FUND, THE $100,000 ARRA - Health Information Technology - Beacon Communities The purpose of the Beacon Community Cooperative Agreement Program is to provide funding to communities to build and strengthen their Health Information Technology (Health IT)infrastructure and exchange capabilities to demonstrate the vision of... Show more
This spending item is part of a $13,525,434 allocation. See details
Health and Human Services, Department of 5/04/2010
MEDICAL CENTER OF LOUISIANA AT NEW ORLEANS $100,000 ARRA - Health Information Technology - Beacon Communities The purpose of the Beacon Community Cooperative Agreement Program is to provide funding to communities to build and strengthen their Health Information Technology (Health IT)infrastructure and exchange capabilities to demonstrate the vision of... Show more
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Health and Human Services, Department of 5/04/2010
ODYSSEY HOUSE LOUISIANA, INC. $100,000 ARRA - Health Information Technology - Beacon Communities The purpose of the Beacon Community Cooperative Agreement Program is to provide funding to communities to build and strengthen their Health Information Technology (Health IT)infrastructure and exchange capabilities to demonstrate the vision of... Show more
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Health and Human Services, Department of 5/04/2010
COMMON GROUND HEALTH CLINIC $99,985 ARRA - Health Information Technology - Beacon Communities The purpose of the Beacon Community Cooperative Agreement Program is to provide funding to communities to build and strengthen their Health Information Technology (Health IT)infrastructure and exchange capabilities to demonstrate the vision of... Show more
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Health and Human Services, Department of 5/04/2010
ADMINISTRATORS OF THE TULANE EDUCATIONAL FUND, THE $97,667 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support Cancer prevention is the most effective strategy to reduce cancer morbidity and mortality. Therefore, it is imperative to develop new investigators in this area of research. Yan Dong, a junior investigator in the field of cancer chemoprevention, has exten National Institutes of Health 9/15/2009
ADMINISTRATORS OF THE TULANE EDUCATIONAL FUND, THE $94,162 ARRA - Health Information Technology - Beacon Communities The purpose of the Beacon Community Cooperative Agreement Program is to provide funding to communities to build and strengthen their Health Information Technology (Health IT)infrastructure and exchange capabilities to demonstrate the vision of... Show more
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Health and Human Services, Department of 5/04/2010
THE ADMINISTRATORS OF THE TULANE EDUCATIONAL FUND $93,554 ARRA - Scholarships for Disadvantaged Students Award Scholarships for Disadvantaged Students to assist students from socially and/or economically disadvantaged backgrounds. Health Resources and Services Administration 9/03/2009
UNIVERSITY OF NEW ORLEANS $90,292 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support The parent grant to this supplemental award was two interconnected research aied to reconstruct signaling pathways from integrated gene expression data. Through this award, we are accelerating the research progress. Specifically, we will implement the National Institutes of Health 6/01/2010
ADMINISTRATORS OF THE TULANE EDUCATIONAL FUND, THE $87,594 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support The purpose of this project is to accelerate the development of the betamethasone Uniject device, an innovative technology that simplifies the administration of intra-muscular drugs. The betamethasone Uniject device will be used as part of a multi-compone
This spending item is part of a $227,835 allocation. See details
National Institutes of Health 9/30/2009
NEW ORLEANS AIDS TASK FORCE $85,978 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support The supplement allows three collaborating units to increase accruals of minority and underserved populations into cancer clinical trials by 1) Enabling two community clinical oncology programs (CCOPs) to hire new staff to increase recruitment into trials,
This spending item is part of a $751,419 allocation. See details
National Institutes of Health 9/08/2009
LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY SYSTEM $84,914 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support Short Research Experiences in Cancer at Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center (LSUHSC) was launched in 1988 as a way to give talented high school, undergraduate, and medical students, an in-depth exposure to cancer research. In twenty years, 3 National Institutes of Health 5/29/2009
ADMINISTRATORS OF THE TULANE EDUCATIONAL FUND, THE $84,910 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support This study seeks to elucidate the mechanistic basis of immune responses to factor VIII (FVIII) in some but not all hemophilia A (HA) patients and the increased risk of HA patients with black African ancestry for developing that complication following ther
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National Institutes of Health 9/24/2009
LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY SYSTEM $82,360 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support G protein-coupled receptors (GPCRs) constitute a superfamily of cell surface receptors that regulate a variety of cell functions. The function of GPCRs is dictated by their intracellular trafficking and the positioning at the cell membrane. Indeed, defect National Institutes of Health 9/25/2009
LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY SYSTEM $82,143 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support This proposal for Recovery Act Administrative Supplement Funds has two important goals: 1) A Recovery Act Supplement will be used to purchase equipment that will accelerate our progress on the Specific Aims of the parent grant. We will upgrade an existin National Institutes of Health 9/22/2009
ADMINISTRATORS OF THE TULANE EDUCATIONAL FUND, THE $73,618 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support The molecular basis of terminal nephron differentiation, the process by which immature renal epithelial cells exit the cell cycle and express physiological functions, remains obscure. Failure of terminal nephron differentiation results in renal dysplasia, National Institutes of Health 9/25/2009
ADMINISTRATORS OF THE TULANE EDUCATIONAL FUND, THE $73,305 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support Congenital abnormalities of the kidney and urinary tract (CAKUT) are the major cause of renal failure in childhood. In order to develop more effective preventive and therapeutic interventions, it is important to better understand the molecular pathogenesi National Institutes of Health 11/23/2009
THE ADMINISTRATORS OF THE TULANE EDUCATIONAL FUND $70,043 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support Obesity is the most pressing nutritional problem in the United States. Neighborhood environments may contribute to this problem by providing excess availability of calorie-dense snack foods and insufficient availability of low-calorie nutritious foods suc National Institutes of Health 8/28/2009
ADMINISTRATORS OF THE TULANE EDUCATIONAL FUND, THE $69,956 ARRA - Scholarships for Disadvantaged Students ARRA-Scholarships for Disadvantaged Students 2010-11. Promotes diversity among health professions, students and practitioners by providing scholarships for students from disadvantaged backgrounds. Funds provide scholarships to students from disadvantag... Show more Health Resources and Services Administration 6/14/2010
ADMINISTRATORS OF THE TULANE EDUCATIONAL FUND, THE $68,947 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support The goal of the original application is to define and characterize the mechanisms responsible for the intrarenal augmentation of angiotensinogen (AGT) expression by angiotensin II (Ang II). The central hypothesis of the original application is that the a National Institutes of Health 9/24/2009
LOYOLA UNIVERSITY NEW ORLEANS $66,670 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support Synovial joints such as those that comprise the elbow, knee, and hip are extremely important for functioning in everday life. Cogenital defects, disease, and trauma to synovial joints, in particular to the articular cartilage that comprises a joint, are National Institutes of Health 7/01/2010
NEW ORLEANS COUNCIL ON AGING INC $65,936 Aging Congregate Nutrition Services for States ARRA provided funding for Congregate Nutrition Services. Established in 1972 under the Older Americans Act, the program provides meals to older Americans in congregate facilities such as senior centers, adult day care centers, and faith based settings.... Show more
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Administration on Aging 3/17/2009
LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY SYSTEM $64,444 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support Stroke is the third leading cause of death and the leading cause of adult disability in the United States. It especially targets the elderly population which experiences a higher overall incidence and neurological detriment as a result of stroke. As of National Institutes of Health 5/21/2009
LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY SYSTEM $61,027 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support The specific aims of this study are to 1) identify reliable landmarks and methodology for the measurement of pediatric waist circumference that are associated with intra-abdominal visceral adipose tissue and total body fat across the pediatric age (5 to 1
This spending item is part of a $997,261 allocation. See details
National Institutes of Health 9/29/2009
LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY SYSTEM $57,413 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support This supplemental is for a fluorescence plate reader/spectrofluorimeter combined instrument and a stereology upgrade to an existing microscope. The spectrofluorimeter will greatly speed the NAD+ and FBP/DHAP measurements proposed in Aims 1.2 and 2.2. National Institutes of Health 1/20/2010
XAVIER UNIVERSITY OF LOUISIANA $57,049 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support The Epstein Barr virus is an oncogenic herpesvirus that is intimately involved in a number of malignancies in humans. The genetic basis of EBV associated oncogenesis is the concerted action of EBV latency associated genes and varying cellular genetic alte
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National Institutes of Health 6/01/2009
ADMINISTRATORS OF THE TULANE EDUCATIONAL FUND, THE $54,755 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support Argatroban, a thrombin inhibitor, has been studied in the setting of both coronary perfusion as well as acute ischemic stroke. Since the majority of ischemic stroke patients may not benefit from rt-PA alone, the combination of thrombolytics with anticoagu
This spending item is part of a $1,096,944 allocation. See details
National Institutes of Health 9/22/2009
LOYOLA UNIVERSITY NEW ORLEANS $52,521 ARRA - Nurse Faculty Loan Program The Nurse Faculty Loan Program (NFLP) at Loyola University New Orleans utilizes ARRA funds to support the graduate education of nurses who agree to accept jobs as a faculty member upon graduation. Thus the University seeks to increase the number of gradu Health Resources and Services Administration 8/10/2009
LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY SYSTEM $50,000 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support The objective is to provide students, educators and researchers accurate, inexpensive and easily accessible visual data on human embryonic development. Aligned digital images of the serial sections of the best normal human embryos in the Carnegie collecti National Institutes of Health 9/14/2009
LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY SYSTEM $45,999 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support This supplemental award supports the Accelerating Clinical Trials of Novel Oncologic Path Ways (ACTNOW) program for Protocol ANBL0931, which is a Phase III Study of Chimeric Antibody 14.18 in High-Risk Neuroblastoma. The primary objective of study ANBL09
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National Institutes of Health 8/07/2009
XAVIER UNIVERSITY OF LOUISIANA $42,372 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): We have developed an intracellular immunization strategy with a genetically engineered human antibody clone as a novel antiviral therapy against the hepatitis C virus. This antibody clone targets the HCV NS3 protein,
This spending item is part of a $343,089 allocation. See details
National Institutes of Health 5/21/2009
ADMINISTRATORS OF THE TULANE EDUCATIONAL FUND, THE $42,241 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support In an effort to enhance information and communication technologies for our ongoing ICOHRTA research training program, Training for Evidence-Based Health Care Research, Argentina, we will develop and implement a distance-learning course on the complementar National Institutes of Health 9/01/2009
ADMINISTRATORS OF THE TULANE EDUCATIONAL FUND, THE $40,732 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support The supplement allows three collaborating units to increase accruals of minority and underserved populations into cancer clinical trials by 1) Enabling two community clinical oncology programs (CCOPs) to hire new staff to increase recruitment into trials,
This spending item is part of a $751,419 allocation. See details
National Institutes of Health 9/08/2009
CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL $39,625 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support The diffuse neuroendocrine system includes pancreatic islets, gastrointestinal and respiratory neuroendocrine cells, thyroid C cells, adrenal medulla cells, and pituitary cells. They share common phenotypes and signaling pathways with neuronal cells. A se National Institutes of Health 9/24/2009
UNIVERSITY OF NEW ORLEANS $33,408 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support This supplement supports two undergradute students to work in the lab. It will expose these students to ongoing NIDA funded research and will encourge students to pursue seriously reasearch careers in drug abuse. National Institutes of Health 6/20/2009
NEW ORLEANS COUNCIL ON AGING INC $32,461 Aging Home-Delivered Nutrition Services for States ARRA provided funding for Home Delivered Nutrition Services. Established in 1972 under the Older American Act, the program provides home-delivered meals to vulnerable older Americans.
This spending item is part of a $423,960 allocation. See details
Administration on Aging 3/01/2011
LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY SYSTEM $28,802 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support We propose to hire one half-time coordinator who has recently completed a Bachelors of Science degree to promote increased enrollment. He/she will coordinate activities of additional study participants and assist with the analysis of the new biomarker of National Institutes of Health 9/29/2009
LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY SYSTEM $28,802 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support We propose to hire one half-time coordinator who has recently completed a Bachelors of Science degree to promote increased enrollment. He/she will coordinate activities of additional study participants and assist with the analysis of the new biomarker of National Institutes of Health 9/29/2009
LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY SYSTEM $28,500 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support This grant provided an equipment purchase to improve slice visualization and allow more stable long-term electrophsiolocal recordings for the project, Neuropeptide Y and the Control of Catecholamine Secretion from the Adrenal Gland. National Institutes of Health 4/09/2010
LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY SYSTEM $25,986 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support The parental R21 grant, which is under no cost extension, was proposed to investigate alcohol effects on gene and cytokine expression in human airway epithelial cells. The primary airway cells are cultured at an air-liquid interface to closely mimic in v National Institutes of Health 6/22/2009
ADMINISTRATORS OF THE TULANE EDUCATIONAL FUND, THE $25,250 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support The Pediatric HIV AIDS Cohort Study addresses two critical research questions: (1) the consequences of fetal and infant exposure to antiretroviral therapy (ART) when used to prevent mother-to-child transmission of HIV-1, and (2) the clinical course of per
This spending item is part of a $1,089,382 allocation. See details
National Institutes of Health 9/01/2010
LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY SYSTEM $25,000 ARRA - Communities Putting Prevention to Work: Chronic Disease Self-Manage In collaboration with the ARRA funded Communities Putting Prevention to Work (CPPW) program, this ARRA funding will support the deployment of evidence-based chronic disease self-management programs (CDSMP) that empower older p... Show more
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Administration on Aging 3/31/2010
ADMINISTRATORS OF THE TULANE EDUCATIONAL FUND, THE $24,500 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support The Epstein Barr virus is an oncogenic herpesvirus that is intimately involved in a number of malignancies in humans. The genetic basis of EBV associated oncogenesis is the concerted action of EBV latency associated genes and varying cellular genetic alte
This spending item is part of a $219,187 allocation. See details
National Institutes of Health 6/01/2009
ADMINISTRATORS OF THE TULANE EDUCATIONAL FUND, THE $17,308 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support This application is submitted in response to an RFA-OD-09-004 entitled 'Recovery Act Limited Competition for NIH Grants: Research and Research Infrastructure 'Grand Opportunities' (RC2)' and addresses the NIDCR Area of Scientific Priority 'Genome-wide Stu National Institutes of Health 12/21/2011
LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY SYSTEM $14,200 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support Accidental falls are among the most common reported adverse events which occur during hospitallization. Beginning Oct.1, 2008 the CMS no longer reimburses hospitals for the treatment of injuries resulting from falls which occur during hospitalization. The
This spending item is part of a $1,573,741 allocation. See details
National Institutes of Health 9/21/2009
THE ADMINISTRATORS OF THE TULANE EDUCATIONAL FUND $13,772 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support Administrative supplemental funds were requested to support the summer employment of Anna Iosipiv, who was an upcoming high school senior, and Andrew Pridjian, a recent college graduate who entered medical school this fall. Both individuals are dedicated National Institutes of Health 6/02/2009
LOYOLA UNIVERSITY NEW ORLEANS $13,618 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support Chagas disease is the most serious parasitic disease and a leading cause of heart disease in Latin America. It has been difficult to control in Central America and Mexico since the main species of insect that spreads the parasite, Triatoma dimidiata, is f National Institutes of Health 9/18/2009
DILLARD UNIVERSITY $9,859 ARRA - Scholarships for Disadvantaged Students The purpose of the grant is to provide financial assistance to disadvantaged nursing students. This includes students from environments that may have inhibited individuals from obtaining the knowledge, skill, and abilities required to enroll in school a... Show more Health Resources and Services Administration 9/01/2009
LOYOLA UNIVERSITY NEW ORLEANS $5,013 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support Synovial joints such as those that comprise the elbow, knee, and hip are extremely important for functioning in everyday life. Congenital defects, disease, and trauma to synovial joints, in particular to the articular cartilage that comprises a joint, are National Institutes of Health 7/10/2009
ADMINISTRATORS OF THE TULANE EDUCATIONAL FUND, THE $4,996 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support This project will take advantage of the existing infrastructure of the PHACS Study which began protocol development in 2005 after successfully competing for funding by the NICHD. This is a multicenter, multidisciplinary and collaborative study. The PHACS
This spending item is part of a $1,012,474 allocation. See details
National Institutes of Health 9/29/2009