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Davidson County, Tenn., funds by Health and Human Services, Department of

Listing $2,354,981,833.02 in stimulus funds from Health and Human Services, Department of for Davidson

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
TN ST TENNCARE/MEDICAID DIV $342,409,559 Medical Assistance Program MEDICAID ENTITLEMENT FOR TENNESSEE - FY 2010 QUARTER 4 - T19 Health Care Financing Admin. (was Medicare and Medicaid Serv.) 9/21/2010
TN ST TENNCARE/MEDICAID DIV $279,768,602 Medical Assistance Program MEDICAID ENTITLEMENT FOR TENNESSEE - FY 2011 QUARTER 1 - T19 Health Care Financing Admin. (was Medicare and Medicaid Serv.) 3/29/2011
TN ST TENNCARE/MEDICAID DIV $212,947,002 Medical Assistance Program MEDICAID ENTITLEMENT FOR TENNESSEE - FY 2009 QUARTER 3 - T19 Health Care Financing Admin. (was Medicare and Medicaid Serv.) 7/15/2009
TN ST TENNCARE/MEDICAID DIV $200,962,011 Medical Assistance Program MEDICAID ENTITLEMENT FOR TENNESSEE - FY 2009 QUARTER 4 - T19 Health Care Financing Admin. (was Medicare and Medicaid Serv.) 8/05/2009
TN ST TENNCARE/MEDICAID DIV $174,710,630 Medical Assistance Program MEDICAID ENTITLEMENT FOR TENNESSEE - FY 2009 QUARTER 1 - T19 Health Care Financing Admin. (was Medicare and Medicaid Serv.) 2/24/2009
TN ST TENNCARE/MEDICAID DIV $174,616,764 Medical Assistance Program MEDICAID ENTITLEMENT FOR TENNESSEE - FY 2010 QUARTER 3 - T19 Health Care Financing Admin. (was Medicare and Medicaid Serv.) 6/24/2010
TN ST TENNCARE/MEDICAID DIV $168,220,414 Medical Assistance Program MEDICAID ENTITLEMENT FOR TENNESSEE - FY 2009 QUARTER 2 - T19 Health Care Financing Admin. (was Medicare and Medicaid Serv.) 3/27/2009
TN ST TENNCARE/MEDICAID DIV $145,786,879 Medical Assistance Program MEDICAID ENTITLEMENT FOR TENNESSEE - FY 2010 QUARTER 2 - T19 Health Care Financing Admin. (was Medicare and Medicaid Serv.) 2/24/2010
TN ST TENNCARE/MEDICAID DIV $114,832,098 Medical Assistance Program MEDICAID ENTITLEMENT FOR TENNESSEE - FY 2011 QUARTER 2 - T19 Health Care Financing Admin. (was Medicare and Medicaid Serv.) 3/25/2011
TN ST TENNCARE/MEDICAID DIV $110,732,315 Medical Assistance Program MEDICAID ENTITLEMENT FOR TENNESSEE - FY 2011 QUARTER 3 - T19 Health Care Financing Admin. (was Medicare and Medicaid Serv.) 6/14/2011
TN ST TENNCARE/MEDICAID DIV $81,285,969 Medical Assistance Program MEDICAID ENTITLEMENT FOR TENNESSEE - FY 2010 QUARTER 1 - T19 Health Care Financing Admin. (was Medicare and Medicaid Serv.) 12/16/2009
HUMAN SERVICES, TENNESSEE DEPARTMENT OF $41,932,510 ARRA Child Care and Development Block Grant The CCDF ARRA funds were used to provide child care financial assistance to low-income families. Administration for Children and Families 4/09/2009
TN ST DEPARTMENT OF HUMAN SERVICES $37,271,155 ARRA -+ Emergency Contingency Fund for Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) State Program 2010 TANFS Administration for Children and Families 6/14/2010
TN ST DEPARTMENT OF HUMAN SERVICES $31,194,030 Child Support Enforcement 2010 OCSE Administration for Children and Families 11/23/2009
TN ST DEPARTMENT OF HUMAN SERVICES $21,565,141 ARRA -+ Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) Supplemental Grants 2010 TANFC Administration for Children and Families 7/01/2010
TN ST TENNCARE/MEDICAID DIV $18,870,000 Medical Assistance Program MEDICAID ENTITLEMENT FOR TENNESSEE - FY 2012 QUARTER 2 - T19 Health Care Financing Admin. (was Medicare and Medicaid Serv.) 1/01/2012
TN ST DEPARTMENT OF HUMAN SERVICES $13,029,166 ARRA -+ Emergency Contingency Fund for Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) State Program 2009 TANFS Administration for Children and Families 8/12/2009
TN ST DEPARTMENT OF HUMAN SERVICES $11,220,000 Child Support Enforcement 2009 OCSE Administration for Children and Families 7/01/2009
THE VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY $8,675,794 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support VANTAGE (VANderbilt Technologies for Advanced Genomics) represents a logical next step in advancing a highly successful institutional policy of shared resource management coupled to an increasingly robust scientific capability for translational research a National Institutes of Health 3/25/2010
QSOURCE $8,364,854 ARRA - Health Information Technology Extension Program Regional Extension Center (REC) Grant Award in the amount of $ 7,256,155 to QSource (tnREC) on February 12, 2010: to provide assistance to 1,343 priority primary health care providers (PPCPs) throughout the state of Tennessee as they transition t... Show more
This spending item is part of a $9,171,540 allocation. See details
Health and Human Services, Department of 2/08/2010
TN ST DEPARTMENT OF HUMAN SERVICES $7,321,182 Child Support Enforcement 2011 OCSE Administration for Children and Families 4/26/2011
THE VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY $6,406,203 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support An important potential enabling resource for Personalized Medicine is the combination of a DNA repository with Electronic Medical Record (EMR) systems sufficiently robust to provide excellence in clinical care and to serve as resources for analysis of dis National Institutes of Health 9/29/2009
THE VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY $5,970,037 The purpose of this Task Order is to create a core group of Evidence-based Practice Centers (EPCs) to focus on a comprehensive approach to comparative effectiveness review (CER) and evidence synthesis. The CER process can be outlined as having three step Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality 10/26/2009
NASHVILLE & DAVIDSON COUNTY, METROPOLITAN GOVERNMENT OF $5,922,242 ARRA - Prevention and Wellness--Communities Putting Prevention to Work The Communities Putting Prevention to Work award is utilized for a community-wide initiative to reduce obesity. By increasing consumption of fruits and vegetables and decreasing intake of transfats, salt and sugary beverages, The ... Show more
This spending item is part of a $7,527,527 allocation. See details
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention 3/19/2010
THE VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY $4,737,181 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support Research over the past 20 years has produced an explosion of new information on the genetic changes that lead to malignancy. Yet this vast trove of knowledge has not led to a corresponding increase in new modalities for cancer therapy. This is, in part, a National Institutes of Health 9/29/2009
FINANCE AND ADMINISTRATION, TENNESSEE DEPARTMENT OF $4,503,883 ARRA - State Grants to Promote Health Information Technology Facilitate and expand the secure electronic movement and use of health information according to nationally recognized standards through setting up a statewide network of Core and Enterprise Services, and assisting with the set-up of a coord... Show more
This spending item is part of a $10,548,538 allocation. See details
Health and Human Services, Department of 6/05/2012
UNITED SOUTH AND EASTERN TRIBES, INC. $3,617,394 ARRA - Health Information Technology Extension Program The National Indian Health Board will support tribal and tribal organizations in their effort to obtain electronic health records and achieve meaningful use. The National Indian Health Board serves on behalf of all federally recognized Tribes. ... Show more
This spending item is part of a $15,842,318 allocation. See details
Health and Human Services, Department of 3/31/2010
THE VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY $3,450,000 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support This is an application for funding for an advanced 15 Tesla magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and spectroscopy (MRS) system for studies of mice and other small animals, to be housed at Vanderbilt University. This device will be used by over 25 established National Institutes of Health 5/20/2010
TN ST DEPARTMENT OF CHILDREN SERVICES $3,149,042 Adoption Assistance FY 2010 ADOPTION ASSISTANCE Administration for Children and Families 1/15/2010
TN ST DEPARTMENT OF CHILDREN SERVICES $3,084,890 Adoption Assistance FY 2009 ADOPTION ASSISTANCE Administration for Children and Families 7/22/2009
MEHARRY MEDICAL COLLEGE $2,693,442 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support The objective of this grant and the animal resources program at Meharry Medical College is to provide research investigators with a modern facility that serves their research needs in cardiovascular diseases, HIV AIDS research, women's health, brain and b National Institutes of Health 3/31/2010
EDUCATION, TENNESSEE DEPARTMENT OF $2,343,400 ARRA - Head Start The grant will be used to improve coordination and collaboration among early childhood education and care programs and services. History, Description and Purpose of Award: The State of Tennessee applied for the State Advisory Council (SAC) funding in Ju
This spending item is part of a $2,418,400 allocation. See details
Administration for Children and Families 9/16/2010
THE VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY $2,290,225 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support The Fogarty International Clinical Research Scholars & Fellows Support Center @ Vanderbilt University G?? Association of American Medical Colleges (FICRS?F) requests an administrative increase for the Fogarty International Clinical Research Scholars Suppo
This spending item is part of a $3,000,000 allocation. See details
National Institutes of Health 6/20/2009
THE VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY $2,182,296 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support Drugs of abuse are metabolized by the cells of the body including macrophages and leukocytes. Macrophages are primarily responsible for the detection, phagocytosis and digestion of toxins in the bloodstream and peripheral tissues. Normal cellular metabol
This spending item is part of a $2,661,005 allocation. See details
National Institutes of Health 9/30/2009
THE VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY $2,140,956 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
THE VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY $1,956,207 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support Supplemental funds are requested to enable the collection of additional information and biospecimens to enhance the Southern Community Cohort Study (SCCS) as a unique national resource for investigating cancer disparities. Nearly 90,000 adults age 40-79,
This spending item is part of a $4,721,145 allocation. See details
National Institutes of Health 9/30/2009
NASHVILLE & DAVIDSON COUNTY, METROPOLITAN GOVERNMENT OF $1,952,040 ARRA - Early Head Start The purpose and outcomes of the EHS FY09 ARRA Expansion is to provide quality services to children 0-3 years of age and pregnant mothers in Davidson County, Nashville, TN. The program offers a center based option to 56 infants and toddlers with a strong Administration for Children and Families 12/03/2009
TN ST DEPARTMENT OF CHILDREN SERVICES $1,845,412 Foster Care_Title IV-E FY 2010 FOSTER CARE Administration for Children and Families 1/03/2010
NASHVILLE & DAVIDSON COUNTY, METROPOLITAN GOVERNMENT OF $1,829,860 ARRA - Community Services Block Grant The CSBG ARRA funds were used to provide services and activities addressing employment, education, housing, nutrition, health, and emergency services.
This spending item is part of a $19,697,805 allocation. See details
Administration for Children and Families 4/10/2009
TN ST DEPARTMENT OF CHILDREN SERVICES $1,825,267 Foster Care_Title IV-E FY 2009 FOSTER CARE Administration for Children and Families 7/06/2009
HEALTH, TENNESSEE DEPT OF $1,746,164 ARRA - Preventing Healthcare-Associated Infections The federal Epidemiology and Laboratory Capacity (ELC) program assists states with building surveillance, epidemiology, laboratory, and public health informatics capacity. This American Recovery and Reinvestment (ARRA) Healthcare-Associated Infectio... Show more Centers for Disease Control and Prevention 8/28/2009
THE VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY $1,515,506 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support The overall purpose of the proposed research is to examine the influence of adverse interpersonal experiences on the construction of mood-activated negative self-schemas. Our theory is that such events constitute learning trials for the paired association National Institutes of Health 9/29/2009
THE VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY $1,514,658 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support Abstract The Omega-3 Fatty Acids for Prevention of Post-Operative Atrial Fibrillation (OPERA) Trial is a funded, double-blind, placebo-controlled, multicenter, randomized clinical trial testing the hypothesis that peri-op fish oil will reduce occurrence o
This spending item is part of a $4,397,108 allocation. See details
National Institutes of Health 9/28/2009
THE VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY $1,440,717 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support The Vanderbilt Program in Drug Discovery (VPDD) is a world class effort fully focused on discovery and characterization of novel molecules to evaluate new potential treatment strategies for CNS disorders. The VPDD has had tremendous success in discovery o National Institutes of Health 9/28/2009
VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY, THE $1,378,067 ARRA - Strategic Health IT Advanced Research Projects (SHARP) The Strategic Healthcare IT Advanced Research Projects on Security (SHARPS) project will advance the sophistication, development, and deployment of security and privacy for Health Information Technology (HIT) through long-term research tha... Show more
This spending item is part of a $15,000,000 allocation. See details
Health and Human Services, Department of 3/19/2010
THE VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY $1,374,284 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support Acute kidney injury (AKI) has a high mortality and morbidity that has not decreased over the last twenty years. Since innate renal tubular regeneration occurs after tissue injury, there has been considerable interest in the development of treatments that
This spending item is part of a $2,788,277 allocation. See details
National Institutes of Health 9/29/2010
THE VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY $1,373,914 Recovery Act Comparative Effectiveness Research - AHRQ The project team will adapt the AHRQ Comparative Effectiveness Research Summary Guide, 'Comparative Effectiveness and Safety of Oral Diabetes Medications for Adults With Type 2 Diabetes' to be literacy level appropriate, concise, targeted, and a... Show more Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality 8/26/2010
MEHARRY MEDICAL COLLEGE $1,358,297 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support This supplement to Meharry Medical College's cancer research center grant provides support to hire a physician scientist such as a surgical oncologist with experience in breast, prostate, or colon cancer research. National Institutes of Health 9/17/2009
THE VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY $1,325,683 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support The overarching goal of this proposal is to develop, validate and disseminate a set of generalizable methods for non-invasive mapping of the spatio-temporal dynamics of functional and structural plastic changes in the primate CNS using MRI. It outlines a National Institutes of Health 8/14/2009
TN ST DEPARTMENT OF CHILDREN SERVICES $1,251,624 Adoption Assistance FY 2011 ADOPTION ASSISTANCE Administration for Children and Families 3/25/2011
THE VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY $1,249,351 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support Herein we request an Administrative Supplement to the Cancer Center Support Grant (CCSG), which will greatly enhance and accelerate translational, bench-to-bedside research for the members of the Vanderbilt Ingram Cancer Center (VICC). The funds will supp National Institutes of Health 9/15/2010
THE VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY $1,247,471 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support Multiple sclerosis (MS) is a debilitating neuroimmunological and neurodegenerative disorder affecting more than 400,000 individuals in the United States. Epidemiological and genetic studies have produced overwhelming evidence for a genetic influence on th
This spending item is part of a $2,391,446 allocation. See details
National Institutes of Health 9/28/2009
MATTHEW WALKER HEALTH CENTER (INC) $1,241,235 ARRA Health Center Integrated Services Development Initiative[g1] Alteration/renovation of Nashville and Clarksville clinic sites. Health Resources and Services Administration 6/25/2009
MATTHEW WALKER COMPREHENSIVE HEALTH CENTER, INC. $1,241,235 ARRA Health Center Integrated Services Development Initiative[g1] MWCHC CIP was used to complete 4 separate projects: 1) renovate 4,415 square feet of unused space to add behavioral health services and expand health education and outreach programs, 2) enhance radiology technology by digitizing the pl... Show more Health Resources and Services Administration 6/25/2009
THE VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY $1,220,082 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support Ultimately, we want to know what factors are important to provide superior prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of human disease. Unfortunately, interpretation of statistical models in a meaningful way for biomedical research has been lacking due to the National Institutes of Health 6/08/2009
THE VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY $1,197,003 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support The root causes of autism remain unknown, limiting efforts to understand disease heterogeneity, diagnose cases, and prevent and treat disease. Epidemiological findings have repeatedly and unequivocally determined that heritable variation in DNA plays a su
This spending item is part of a $5,196,989 allocation. See details
National Institutes of Health 9/23/2009
TENNESSEE STATE UNIVERSITY $1,122,437 ARRA - Early Head Start TN CAREs EHS Program serves 108 children and their families in the rural western region of Tennessee, which includes Henry, Weakley, and Gibson counties, with nine classrooms in five centers. The program provides center and home based options; 72 are cen Administration for Children and Families 11/23/2009
THE VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY $1,076,797 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support Fragile X Syndrome (FraX) is a developmental brain disorder with abnormal neuron architecture development and functional plasticity of the developing brain, causing mental retardation, learning disabilities and autism. My lab established the Drosophila F National Institutes of Health 8/14/2009
UNITED NEIGHBORHOOD HEALTH SERVICES, INC. $1,053,180 ARRA Health Center Integrated Services Development Initiative[g1] Grant Name: Capital Improvement Project for Nashville/Davidson County. Purpose: The purpose of this capital improvement grant project is to renovate two clinics in Nashville, Tennessee. It will enable UNHS to expand the Main Street... Show more Health Resources and Services Administration 6/25/2009
THE VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY $1,019,778 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support Heart disease continues to be the leading cause of death in the United States and is associated with a variety of clinical abnormalities, including congestive heart failure, ventricular remodeling, ischemia, ion homeostasis, arrhythmias, and sudden cardia
This spending item is part of a $1,106,413 allocation. See details
National Institutes of Health 6/04/2009
THE VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY $998,778 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support A full 1 in 5 children in the US has a developmental disability, and the prevalence rate for autism spectrum disorders (ASD) is especially high (1 in 150 children). As many as 20% of US families are raising children with developmental disabilities, and th National Institutes of Health 9/16/2009
THE VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY $998,268 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support This integrated laboratory and clinical proposal seeks to validate molecular determinants affecting [18F]-FLT PET imaging as a biomarker of response to targeted therapeutics in colorectal cancer (CRC). The introduction of molecularly targeted therapies to National Institutes of Health 9/29/2009
THE VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY $977,250 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support Human genetic research has made remarkable progress in understanding the underlying genetic architecture of numerous human genetic traits. The underlying genetic lesions for thousands of Mendelian traits have now been identified and hundreds of associati National Institutes of Health 9/21/2009
UNITED NEIGHBORHOOD HEALTH SERVICES, INC. $973,593 ARRA Health Center Integrated Services Development Initiative[g1] Grant Name: New Access Points in Nashville/Davidson County, TN. Purpose: The purpose of this grant was to expand service sites in Nashville/Davidson County TN in some of the most underserved neighborhoods in the County. The goals o... Show more Health Resources and Services Administration 2/26/2009
THE VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY $949,776 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support This application addresses broad Challenge Area (03) Biomarker Discovery and Validation and specific Challenge Topic, 03-HL-101: Identify and Validate Clinically Relevant, Quantifiable Biomarkers of Diagnostic and Therapeutic Responses for Blood, Vascular National Institutes of Health 9/21/2009
THE VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY $923,331 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support The principal determinant of synaptic serotonin (5-hydroxytryptamine; 5-HT) inactivation is the antidepressant-sensitive 5-HT transporter (SERT, SLC6A4). Common polymorphisms in the SERT promoter impact SERT expression and have been associated with anxiet National Institutes of Health 9/28/2009
THE VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY $887,453 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support This proposalG??s primary objective is to (develop intervention and assessment) strategies that nursing homes (NHs) can use to improve how their staff members provide choice to residents about important activities of daily living. Providing choice to resi National Institutes of Health 9/04/2009
THE VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY $882,141 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support A subset of HIV-specific antibodies can neutralize virus, including primary virus isolates in some cases. A handful of interesting and unusual human monoclonal antibodies to HIV have been isolated and studied extensively. Nevertheless, the molecular basis National Institutes of Health 9/27/2009
THE VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY $870,323 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support This project will provide a critically needed and thoroughly evaluated statistical technique to conduct comparative effectiveness research studies using observational data. We will evaluate the application of propensity score methods to common situations National Institutes of Health 9/27/2010
THE VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY $869,005 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support Sepsis is characterized by systemic inflammation secondary to infection. It is common and can affect individuals of any age, race, or sex. More than 750,000 cases are diagnosed in the United States annually, and among patients with associated organ dysfun National Institutes of Health 9/24/2009
MEHARRY MEDICAL COLLEGE $864,960 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support This project tests a hypothesis that activation of the endoplasmic reticulum stress-related signaling pathways is a mechanism by which apolipoproteins (fats that combine with proteins for transport in the blood) in ApoE-deficient lipoprotein mice regulate National Institutes of Health 6/21/2009
THE VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY $842,808 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support The goal of this research proposal is to understand the role of primate primary visual cortex (V1) and second visual cortical area (V2) in the processing of visual depth information. In the previous funding cycles, we investigated the organization of cont National Institutes of Health 6/03/2009
FINANCE AND ADMINISTRATION, TENNESSEE DEPARTMENT OF $830,697 ARRA - State Grants to Promote Health Information Technology Facilitate and expand the secure electronic movement and use of health information according to nationally recognized standards through setting up a statewide network of Core and Enterprise Services, and assisting with the set-up of a coord... Show more
This spending item is part of a $1,116,042 allocation. See details
Health and Human Services, Department of 2/08/2010
THE VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY $827,807 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support For metastatic prostate cancer (PCa), androgen deprivation therapy results in regression of the metastatic disease and a dramatic decrease in the serum of the androgen dependent prostate-specific antigen (PSA) protein. Eventually, all patients will fail t
This spending item is part of a $858,191 allocation. See details
National Institutes of Health 8/11/2009
THE VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY $822,333 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support Lung cancer is the leading cause of cancer related deaths in the United States. Despite similar risk factors, African-Americans have higher incidence and mortality rates from lung cancer than other populations. Numerous studies have recently demonstrated
This spending item is part of a $997,012 allocation. See details
National Institutes of Health 9/29/2009
AGING & DISABILITY, TENNESSEE COMMISSION ON $800,000 ARRA - Communities Putting Prevention to Work: Chronic Disease Self-Manage In collaboration with the Recovery Act-funded Communities Putting Prevention to Work (CPPW) program, this funding will support the deployment of evidence-based chronic disease self-management programs that empower older people... Show more Administration on Aging 3/31/2010
TN ST DEPARTMENT OF CHILDREN SERVICES $798,359 Foster Care_Title IV-E FY 2011 FOSTER CARE Administration for Children and Families 1/01/2011
THE VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY $798,101 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support The E2C2 has previously expressed its interest in validating the significant findings of our study (see attached support letter). Herein, we request additional funds to support the expanded validation component. Specifically, the supplemental funds will National Institutes of Health 7/17/2009
THE VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY $791,670 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support Abstract this project aims to establish a Lung Cancer Mutation Consortium (LCMC) consisting of 13 institutions with a major interest in lung cancer and genomic testing of lung cancer as documented by having major NCI grants in lung cancer. The LCMC member
This spending item is part of a $4,894,665 allocation. See details
National Institutes of Health 9/29/2009
THE VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY $775,416 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support Advances in molecular medicine, genomics, proteomics and bioinformatics have enhanced our understanding of inter-individual variability in susceptibility to disease, in expression of disease, and in beneficial and adverse responses to therapies. Vanderbil National Institutes of Health 9/30/2009
THE VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY $775,000 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support Tightly regulated cellular trafficking is a critical factor governing immune responses such as pathogen clearance and autoimmunity. Na+?ve T cell migration is limited to a series of peripheral secondary lymphoid organs interconnected via blood and lymphat National Institutes of Health 6/01/2009
THE VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY $775,000 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support Aim I: Synthesize Improved Nanocrystal Probes: Can we create highly stable and bright ultra-small, core/shell alloy nanocrystals for size-independent fluorescence labeling? Can we mate new buffer solubility strategies to our methodology for reducing non- National Institutes of Health 7/15/2009
THE VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY $774,959 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support Head and neck squamous cell carcinoma (HNSCC) is a devastating disease that is treated aggressively when diagnosed at late stages. Treatment includes at least two and at times all three modalities of surgery, radiation, and chemotherapy. Due to the critic National Institutes of Health 9/29/2009
NASHVILLE & DAVIDSON COUNTY, METROPOLITAN GOVERNMENT OF $751,477 ARRA - Head Start ARRA Cost of Living Adjustment (COLA) and Quality Improvement funding consistent with the provisions of Section 640(a)(5) of the Head Start Act. The purpose and outcome for the ARRA Cost of Living Adjustment (COLA) and Quality Improvement funding was to Administration for Children and Families 7/01/2009
THE VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY $738,424 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support The primary focus of this Challenge Proposal is to identify the signaling pathways that control regulatory processes of neural crest (NC) migration and differentiation which generate the neural elements of the lower urinary tract (LUT). There is a signifi National Institutes of Health 9/21/2009
THE VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY $729,352 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support The overarching aim of this project is to quantitatively characterize sub-voxel models of tissue water by nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) for the broader purpose of improving diagnostic specificity of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) protocols. A fundame National Institutes of Health 5/08/2009
THE VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY $716,165 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support The non invasive approach to the diagnosis of lung cancer remains a priority in biomarkers development at a time when markers of response and of prognosis are being developed rapidly. These should help us detect the disease at the preclinical level and po National Institutes of Health 9/29/2009
MATTHEW WALKER COMPREHENSIVE HEALTH CENTER, INC. $712,163 ARRA Health Center Integrated Services Development Initiative[g1] MWCHC will expand primary care clinic hours of the Clarksville, TN (Montgomery County) clinic to address the needs of working families and individuals experiencing homelessness. The hours will be expanded to 8:30 p.m. Monday ? Thursday... Show more Health Resources and Services Administration 3/27/2009
MATTHEW WALKER COMPREHENSIVE HEALTH CENTER, INC. $711,163 ARRA Health Center Integrated Services Development Initiative[g1] The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) of 2009 included funds for increased services at existing sites, and for spikes in demand to serve uninsured populations. This NGA provides funding for a 2-year budget and project peri... Show more Health Resources and Services Administration 3/27/2009
THE VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY $704,864 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support We are proposing to evaluate the efficacy of the sustained Vanderbilt University-Metropolitan Nashville Public Schools-Tennessee State University-Meharry Medical College-Fisk University GK12/Scientist in the Classroom Program (SCP) on the long-term impact
This spending item is part of a $985,151 allocation. See details
National Institutes of Health 9/24/2009
THE VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY $697,500 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support The imbalance in glucose homeostasis in diabetic patients is caused by loss or dysfunction of insulin secreting pancreatic islet ? cells. A concerted effort is being made to understand the molecular programs underlying ? cell formation and function to pr National Institutes of Health 7/17/2009
THE VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY $682,503 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support The broad goal of the proposed research is to extend our understanding of the functions of the cyclooxygenase enzymes (COXs, prostaglandin H synthases). These enzymes participate importantly in many physiologic functions and diseases, including key partic National Institutes of Health 9/08/2009
THE VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY $681,605 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support As noted in the request for applications, a key aspect of heterogeneity in autism spectrum disorders (ASD) is a relatively high number of clinical interventions that are commonly provided but have limited or even no objective evidence to support implement National Institutes of Health 9/17/2009
THE VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY $672,712 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support Using new technologies to improve or measure adherence. The primary aim of this research is to develop and test a method for increasing adherence to treatment recommendations for mothers of children with emotional or behavior problems. Parental psychopath National Institutes of Health 9/29/2009
HEALTH, TENNESSEE DEPT OF $652,155 ARRA - Prevention and Wellness--State Territories and Pacific Islands Component III will seek to enhance proactive Quitline counseling and expand media services in order to increase the number of tobacco quitters in Tennessee. Proactive counseling will be enhanced and expanded to provide Quitline c... Show more
This spending item is part of a $1,002,155 allocation. See details
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention 2/06/2010
THE VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY $642,794 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support The parent grant titled Epidemiologic Architecture for Genes Linked to Environment (EAGLE) is funded to use DNA samples from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Surveys for characterizing genetic variations identified through genome-wide associa National Institutes of Health 5/20/2010
THE VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY $640,445 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support Salivary carcinoma is a devastating disease whose primary treatment often relies on surgery. Cure rates are unacceptable and for patients that cannot be treated surgically due to tumor spread or patient characteristics, the chance of cure is very low. Ver National Institutes of Health 9/22/2009
COMMUNITY FOOD ADVOCATES $640,156 ARRA - Prevention and Wellness--Communities Putting Prevention to Work The Communities Putting Prevention to Work award is utilized for a community-wide initiative to reduce obesity. By increasing consumption of fruits and vegetables and decreasing intake of transfats, salt and sugary beverages, The ... Show more
This spending item is part of a $7,527,527 allocation. See details
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention 3/19/2010
THE VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY $635,835 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support The goal of this proposed research is to evaluate and validate the biological basis of emerging non-invasive imaging biomarkers for use in evaluation of treatment response in colorectal cancer (CRC). Current imaging criteria for evaluating therapeutic res National Institutes of Health 7/16/2009
THE VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY $628,478 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support This program describes a chemical synthesis route to biologically active natural products. Mitomycin C is a clinically-used small molecule for chemotherapy that functions as a DNA cross-linking agent. No other known chemotherapeutic duplicates this mechan National Institutes of Health 7/17/2009
THE VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY $623,650 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support The overarching goal of the proposal is to design and develop neuroscience-oriented educational and outreach materials in collaboration with the Adventure Science Center (ASC) of Nashville, and which bolster the mission of the Vanderbilt Silvio O. Conte C National Institutes of Health 5/21/2010
THE VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY $620,311 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support Inflammatory bowel disease, consisting of ulcerative colitis and Crohn's disease, affects more than 1 million Americans and causes extensive morbidity. There is also a substantial risk of colitis-associated colon cancer. Our lab is focused on the role of National Institutes of Health 9/16/2009
MEHARRY MEDICAL COLLEGE $593,718 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support The Clinical Research and Education for Career Development (CRECD) award supplement will expand and enhance research development opportunities and mentoring for CRECD trained physician scientists at Meharry Medical College. National Institutes of Health 9/04/2009
THE VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY $576,658 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support Circadian clocks are self-sustained biochemical oscillators that underlie daily rhythms of sleep/waking, metabolic activity, gene expression, and many other biological processes. Their properties include temperature compensation, a time constant of approx National Institutes of Health 8/31/2009
MEHARRY MEDICAL COLLEGE $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
THE VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY $553,019 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support The Collaborative to Build Community Capacity for Research is a joint project of Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Meharry Medical College, and Tennessee State University which proposes to create sustainable mechanisms and processes to develop and enh National Institutes of Health 9/24/2009
THE VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY $528,108 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support Vanderbilt University requests an Administrative Supplement for T-15 Restoration Slots for 4 Council-approved full-time training positions that were requested but not awarded in the 2006 Vanderbilt University Biomedical Informatics Program training grant National Institutes of Health 7/23/2009
THE VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY $527,577 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support Experiments conducted by the Vanderbilt Mouse Metabolic Phenotyping Center (VMMPC) Cell Imaging Shared Resource have demonstrated our ability to measure blood cell and plasma flows in vivo with sub-om spatial and -10 msec temporal resolution. The unique a National Institutes of Health 9/25/2009
THE VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY $521,559 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support Gastric cancer develops from preneoplastic metaplsias. Our present grant is focused on identifying and the mechanisms responsible for induction of metaplasia and characterizing possible markers of induced metaplasia in mouse models of acute and chronic pa
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National Institutes of Health 9/29/2009
Cumberland Pediatric Foundation $520,000 ARRA - Health Information Technology Extension Program Regional Extension Center (REC) Grant Award in the amount of $ 7,256,155 to QSource (tnREC) on February 12, 2010: to provide assistance to 1,343 priority primary health care providers (PPCPs) throughout the state of Tennessee as they transition t... Show more
This spending item is part of a $9,171,540 allocation. See details
Health and Human Services, Department of 2/08/2010
THE VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY $505,738 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support Adenoviruses (Ads) are common human viruses that cause mainly respiratory infections, as well as gastrointestinal infections and severe ocular infections. Modified forms of adenovirus have shown great potential for gene delivery and vector-based vaccinati National Institutes of Health 9/16/2009
THE VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY $503,328 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support A two?year administrative supplement is requested, in order to pursue emerging opportunities that will accelerate science within the original scope of this project. The proposed investigations expand and advance work ongoing on the structural basis for mu National Institutes of Health 7/16/2009
THE VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY $501,408 Recovery Act Comparative Effectiveness Research - AHRQ This project, the Population-Based Effectiveness in Asthma and Lung Diseases (PEAL) Network, will create a new infrastructure to accelerate comparative effectiveness research in asthma and other lung diseases in diverse populations. The network ... Show more
This spending item is part of a $4,461,234 allocation. See details
Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality 9/29/2010
UNIVERSITY COMMUNITY HEALTH SERVICES, INC. $500,180 ARRA Health Center Integrated Services Development Initiative[g1] Award Name: ARRA--Capital Improvement Program. This was an ARRA funded Capital Improvement grant to an existing urban FQHC to renovate clinical space and expand health services to vulnerable populations. Three projects were undertaken... Show more Health Resources and Services Administration 6/25/2009
MEHARRY MEDICAL COLLEGE $500,000 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support This supplement will evaluate the use of green tea and a major component in green tea epigallocatechin gallate (EGCG) to determine if the tea can provide symptomatic relief of uterine fibroids. A second year of funding was received through a non competing National Institutes of Health 9/17/2009
THE VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY $500,000 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support We request funds to purchase a Perkin Elmer Opera LX microscope for fully automated, point-scanning confocal, high-throughput microplate imaging. Conventional inverted and confocal microscopes, plate readers and high-throughput scanners at Vanderbilt Univ National Institutes of Health 5/13/2010
THE VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY $499,995 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support The goal of this proposal is to acquire a highly sensitive mass spectrometer with high mass accuracy and high resolution for the proteomic analysis of complex biological samples. The instrument is needed to identify and quantify posttranslationally modifi National Institutes of Health 4/28/2009
THE VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY $499,901 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support This supplement will be used to enhance the career development of our International Clinical Research Fellows through a competitive second year of employment, and to develop an online infrastructure of benefit to our current and future Fellows. We are re National Institutes of Health 1/22/2010
MEHARRY MEDICAL COLLEGE $499,688 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support Provide Meharry Medical College researchers with a modern vertebrate animal facility for research on cancer, women's health, brain and behavior disorders, cardiovascular diseaes, HIV AIDS research and environmental diseases. National Institutes of Health 7/16/2009
MEHARRY MEDICAL COLLEGE $498,945 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support This supplement will evaluate the use of green tea and a major component in green tea epigallocatechin gallate (EGCG) to determine if the tea can provide symptomatic relief of uterine fibroids. A second year of funding was received through a non competing National Institutes of Health 9/17/2009
THE VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY $493,128 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support Voltage-gated sodium channels are heteromultimeric integral membrane proteins that are responsible for the initial phase of the action potential in most excitable cells. A variety of inherited disorders affecting skeletal muscle contraction (hyperkalemic National Institutes of Health 2/26/2010
THE VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY $489,387 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support We request funds to purchase a shared FEI Quanta 250 FEG Scanning Electron Microscope (SEM). At present, the only SEM available at Vanderbilt is one maintained by the College of Engineering and used primarily for materials science applications. Use of th National Institutes of Health 5/13/2010
THE VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY $482,490 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support We request funds to purchase a Becton Dickinson custom multilaser LSRII flow cytometer for polychromatic analytical flow cytometry. The current facilities at Vanderbilt University provide a strong infrastructure for conduct of highly technical flow cytome National Institutes of Health 3/04/2010
THE VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY $479,279 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support We proposed the purchase of a Thermo Scientific LTQ Orbitrap XL ETD hybrid mass spectrometer equipped with both high-energy collisional dissociation (HCD) and electron transfer dissociation (ETD) capabilities. The instrument will employ an Eksigent Nano U National Institutes of Health 3/25/2010
THE VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY $476,768 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support While the control of the tyrosine kinase activity of the EGF receptor is understood at certain levels, the contributions of the cytoplasmic juxtamembrane (JM) and carboxyterminal (CT) regions, which are adjacent to the kinase domain, are not clear. These
This spending item is part of a $785,052 allocation. See details
National Institutes of Health 9/30/2009
THE VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY $471,000 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support Antigen receptor gene assembly by T and B lymphocytes is a fundamental aspect of adaptive immunity and is required to generate a diverse repertoire of immunoglobulins and T cell receptors, which recognize virtually any pathogen a species may encounter. Th
This spending item is part of a $775,000 allocation. See details
National Institutes of Health 7/17/2009
THE VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY $469,261 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support This supplement is requested to enhance the accomplishment of the aims of the parent grant and extend our ability to investigate new questions. This will be achieved by: (1) hiring a new research assistant who will increase our capacity to obtain behavio National Institutes of Health 9/30/2009
THE VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY $465,830 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support The applicant has been in the forefront of studies of the function of PB1-F2. Studies in cells have shown that PB1-F2 targets the mitochondrial membrane where it interacts with AMT3 and VDAC1 of the permeability transition pore complex causing the release
This spending item is part of a $7,935,507 allocation. See details
National Institutes of Health 9/23/2009
THE VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY $464,862 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support Silent Cerebral Infarct (SCI) is the most common cause of severe neurological disease in children with sickle cell anemia, occurring in 22% of this population prior to their 18th birthday. The overall goal of this trial is to determine whether blood trans
This spending item is part of a $1,571,661 allocation. See details
National Institutes of Health 9/07/2009
THE VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY $459,995 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support This application requests funds to purchase a dedicated ClonePix FL system (Genetix Ltd.) to automate the screening and selection of monoclonal antibody-secreting hybridoma cell lines. The instrument will be housed and operated by the Vanderbilt Monoclona National Institutes of Health 1/29/2010
UNITED NEIGHBORHOOD HEALTH SERVICES, INC. $452,913 ARRA Health Center Integrated Services Development Initiative[g1] Grant Name: Increased Demand for Service: Service Expansion in Nashville, Tennessee. Purpose: The purpose of this award was to increase those provided medical care at UNHS' current clinics. The goal of the project was to: Increase pr... Show more Health Resources and Services Administration 3/27/2009
THE VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY $451,792 ARRA - Nurse Faculty Loan Program The PhD program in Nurse Science at VUSN prepares graduates to serve as active nurse scientists who can fulfill the academic role of nurse faculty. The VUSN PhD graduates have a rich history of pursing academic careers, with all but one currently being em Health Resources and Services Administration 8/10/2009
MEHARRY MEDICAL COLLEGE $445,252 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support This is a supplement to Meharry Medical College's Research Initiative for Scientific Enhancement (RISE) initiative to establish a career development office for the PhD student. National Institutes of Health 9/11/2009
THE VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY $426,463 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support The pioneering of laser surgery and ocular coherence tomography by eye researchers has had a tremendous global health impact upon the current ability to diagnose, understand, treat, and monitor multiple eye diseases. The potential of combining these two p National Institutes of Health 9/14/2009
THE VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY $426,355 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support The gut mucosa represents a major entry point for many pathogens and is the target of a variety of inflammatory conditions, including the idiopathic inflammatory bowel diseases (IBD) ulcerative colitis and CrohnG??s disease. Emerging evidence suggests a c National Institutes of Health 8/14/2009
THE VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY $426,250 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support Mechanisms of immunity to rotavirus, the major cause of dehydrating diarrhea in children, have proven elusive. Despite the fact the live attenuated vaccines induce protection against severe disease, we still donG??t understand fully how immunity to rotavi National Institutes of Health 7/22/2009
THE VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY $425,938 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support Immunoreceptor-mediated activation of transcription factor NF-kB and MAP kinases (MAPKs) is essential for proper regulation of multiple genes involved in the innate and adaptive immune response to microbial pathogens. Prior experiments with transformed ce National Institutes of Health 5/21/2009
THE VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY $425,876 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support Bipolar disorder (BPD) is among the 10 leading causes of disability in the developed world. The etiology of the disease is unknown and treatment options are based on either serendipitous discoveries of mood stabilizing effects of certain substances, or on National Institutes of Health 4/28/2009
THE VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY $425,875 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support The major objectives of the proposed research in this application from a new investigator are to develop candidate vaccines for human metapneumovirus (HMPV), identify viral determinants of virulence and define genetic diversity of HMPV over time. HMPV is National Institutes of Health 5/21/2009
THE VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY $421,694 ARRA - Nurse Faculty Loan Program The PhD program in Nurse Science at VUSN prepares graduates to serve as active nurse scientists who can fulfill the academic role of nurse faculty. The VUSN PhD graduates have a rich history of pursing academic careers, with all but one currently being em Health Resources and Services Administration 6/14/2010
MEHARRY MEDICAL COLLEGE $418,720 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support This grant will provide Meharry Medical College investigators and their trainees a confocal microscope system capable of high speed as well as long-term imaging to capture dynamic processes occurring within living cells. The research studies proposed at M National Institutes of Health 6/03/2010
THE VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY $415,228 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support The purpose of the original funding opportunity (RFA-HG-07-005: Genome-Wide Studies in Biorepositories with Electronic Medical Record Data (U01)) was to provide support to develop necessary methods for, and then to perform, genome-wide association studies National Institutes of Health 9/10/2009
THE VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY $414,901 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support Visual signal transduction depends upon the GPCR rhodopsin and heterotrimeric guanine nucleotide binding proteins (G-proteins; G? and G??). Structural characterization of opsin, rhodopsin, and G-proteins in multiple states has provided exceptional insight National Institutes of Health 9/30/2009
THE VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY $402,500 ARRA - Immunization The Emerging Infections Program (EIP) works with local, state, and federal agencies to assess the public health impact of emerging infections and evaluate methods for their prevention and control. With American Recovery and Reinvestment Act funding, Tenn
This spending item is part of a $684,484 allocation. See details
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention 8/31/2009
THE VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY $402,331 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support This is an application for an administrative supplement to the Vanderbilt Program of the Clinical Proteomic Technologies Assessment for Cancer (CPTAC) in response to NIH announcement number RFA-OD-09-056 G?Availability of Recovery Act Funds for Administra National Institutes of Health 9/21/2009
THE VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY $401,508 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support The long-term objective of this project is to understand how changes in insulin signaling regulate the actions of amphetamine (AMPH). Dopamine (DA) transporters (DATs), which largely control DA clearance, are targets for psychostimulants such as AMPH and
This spending item is part of a $774,457 allocation. See details
National Institutes of Health 7/16/2009
MEHARRY MEDICAL COLLEGE $391,120 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support The Meharry Medical College Clinical and Translational Research Center (MeTRC) grant will be used to fund meritorious pilot projects in clinical and basic science research. National Institutes of Health 9/25/2009
THE VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY $387,344 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support A growing body of evidence suggests a causal relationship between the accumulation of classically activated macrophages in adipose tissue and development of insulin resistance in obesity. The molecular mechanisms regulating adipose tissue macrophage (ATM) National Institutes of Health 7/17/2009
THE VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY $386,449 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support Administrative Supplement funding is requested to advance the pace of scientific progress in our investigation of the cellular effects of membrane-bound and diffusible electrophilic lipid oxidation products. Together with our Program Project colleagues w National Institutes of Health 8/15/2009
THE VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY $385,325 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support The Nashville Breast Health Study (NBHS, R01CA100374).is a population-based, case-control study of breast cancer funded by NCI since June 2004 with a major focus on evaluating genetic factors and gene environment interactions involved in the etiology of b National Institutes of Health 9/20/2009
THE VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY $378,900 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support An Interactive Web-Based Game for Collaborative Labeling of Medical Images. The proposed research investigates extension of established practices for volumetric labeling and web-based collaboration to create an innovative infrastructure for labeling. A us
This spending item is part of a $435,741 allocation. See details
National Institutes of Health 6/15/2009
THE VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY $378,550 Recovery Act Comparative Effectiveness Research - AHRQ We will develop a distributed network infrastructure for comparative effectiveness research that provides flexibility to participant sites in the means for data sharing. This flexibility will be implemented by allowing codification of data shar... Show more
This spending item is part of a $8,309,906 allocation. See details
Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality 9/28/2010
THE VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY $366,917 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support The main goal of this application is to design an effective vaccine against HIV infection. Our group has made novel changes to a vaccine (BCG) commonly used to vaccinate newborn children against tuberculosis. These changes make this vaccine more effective
This spending item is part of a $438,917 allocation. See details
National Institutes of Health 9/25/2009
MEHARRY MEDICAL COLLEGE $364,297 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support Recent studies have uncovered potential links between the novel human gammaretrovirus Xenotropic murine leukemia virus-related virus (XMRV) with disease (REF). The pathogenic potential of this virus gives rise to the need for investigating specific proper National Institutes of Health 5/24/2010
THE VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY $355,725 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support North American AIDS Cohorts Collaboration on Research and Design A disturbing increase in the incidence of non-AIDS-defining conditions including renal disease, metabolic and cardiovascular disease, and malignancies has been observed in recent years, and
This spending item is part of a $7,312,062 allocation. See details
National Institutes of Health 9/21/2009
HEALTH, TENNESSEE DEPT OF $354,212 ARRA - Preventing Healthcare-Associated Infections The Emerging Infections Program (EIP) works with local, state, and federal agencies to assess the public health impact of emerging infections and evaluate methods for their prevention and control. With American Recovery and Reinvestment Act funding,... Show more Centers for Disease Control and Prevention 8/28/2009
THE VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY $350,550 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support This application seeks funds to purchase a state-of-the-art small-animal fluorescence tomography system for users at Vanderbilt University. Non-invasive molecular imaging can be employed to quantitatively assess numerous physiological processes in vivo an National Institutes of Health 5/06/2010
THE VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY $347,442 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support The Vanderbilt OG??Brien Center was funded to establish the Vanderbilt Mouse Kidney Physiology and Disease Center (MKPDC). By bringing together nephrologists, pathologists, histologists, cell and molecular biologists together with experts in renal cell-sp National Institutes of Health 8/13/2009
THE VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY $342,000 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support We propose an upgrade to our existing Superconducting QUantum Interference Device (SQUID) biomagnetometer (Tristan Model 637i) that will allow us (1) to increase the spatial resolution by installing additional channels; and (2) to add additional magnetic National Institutes of Health 3/04/2010
THE VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY $336,796 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support This 2-year Administrative Supplement application is submitted in response to the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) of 2009, NCI-Activities to Promote Research Collaboration (NCI-APRC). The parent grant of this application is the NCI-funded R0
This spending item is part of a $977,864 allocation. See details
National Institutes of Health 9/21/2009
THE VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY $332,016 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support EGF receptor (EGFR) ligands are produced as type 1 transmembrane proteins that are cleaved from the cell surface to produce soluble ligand. EGFR activation can be achieved by soluble ligand (autocrine or paracrine) or by membrane-tethered ligand (juxtacri National Institutes of Health 9/18/2009
THE VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY $331,010 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support The parent grant titled Epidemiologic Architecture for Genes Linked to Environment (EAGLE) is funded to use DNA samples from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Surveys for characterizing genetic variations identified through genome-wide associa National Institutes of Health 9/04/2009
THE VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY $329,893 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support While considerable progress has been achieved in understanding basic mechanisms of glomerular and renal fibrosis, the absence of a true experimental model for human FSGS has made it difficult to clearly understand how these basic mechanisms apply to huma
This spending item is part of a $700,239 allocation. See details
National Institutes of Health 9/18/2009
THE VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY $326,312 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support This grant has enabled the creation of software that contributes important capabilities for identifying mutated and modified proteins that are characteristic of cancer samples. This supplement will hire a new programmer tasked with adding three new featur National Institutes of Health 8/31/2009
THE VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY $320,720 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support Chronic kidney disease is a major health problem in the United States today, as more than 20 million people (1 in 9 adults) have abnormalities in kidney function, and over 400,000 are on renal replacement therapy. The incidence of this condition is rising National Institutes of Health 7/13/2009
THE VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY $318,677 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support The proposed administrative supplement is structured to accelerate the pace of discovery for one of the key aims of the parent R01 - specifically to describe the timeline for the appearance and maturation of cortical multisensory circuits. The expanded sc National Institutes of Health 7/28/2009
THE VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY $314,161 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support This program describes a chemical synthesis route to biologically active natural products. Mitomycin C is a clinically-used small molecule for chemotherapy that functions as a DNA cross-linking agent. No other known chemotherapeutic duplicates this mechan National Institutes of Health 7/17/2009
THE VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY $310,000 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support This application from the Vanderbilt Diabetes Research and Training Center (DRTC; P60 DK020593) seeks supplemental funding under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 for the DRTCG??s long-standing efforts to facilitate the discovery, applica National Institutes of Health 12/04/2009
THE VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY $309,875 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support A recent imaging study suggested that damage to the insular cortex (IC) results in cessation of smoking in chronic cigarette users. However, the regions of interest designated as the IC in this imaging study included not only the IC but also the claustru National Institutes of Health 6/01/2009
THE VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY $300,240 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support The Collaborative to Build Community Capacity for Research is a joint project of Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Meharry Medical College, and Tennessee State University which proposes to create sustainable mechanisms and processes to develop and enh National Institutes of Health 9/25/2009
THE VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY $300,187 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support This proposal requests supplemental funding to hire additional scientific staff and accelerate the pace of discovery related to a Parent R01 project entitled G?FGF-10 Expression in a Fetal Mouse Lung Model of Bronchopulmonary Dysplasia.G? Novel, unexpecte National Institutes of Health 7/16/2009
THE VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY $294,478 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support The Collaborative to Build Community Capacity for Research is a joint project of Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Meharry Medical College, and Tennessee State University which proposes to create sustainable mechanisms and processes to develop and enh National Institutes of Health 9/26/2009
THE VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY $294,381 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support This application is for expansion of the Vanderbilt Digestive Disease Research Center (VDDRC) pilot and feasibility program for two years under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009. The VDDRC is focused on the study of the molecular and cel National Institutes of Health 7/20/2009
THE VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY $293,694 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support To meet the goals of the American Recovery Act, and also accelerate discovery for our research goals, we aim to hire 2 new additional research assistants and a new postdoctoral fellow, with partial support of yet another fellow. We also request funds to s National Institutes of Health 8/11/2009
THE VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY $293,588 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support This administrative supplement will support the creation and deployment of computer software that will enable each of the seven sites in IeDEA Region 2 (Caribbean, Central and South America) to transmit HIV epidemiology research data that is quality contr National Institutes of Health 9/21/2009
THE VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY $288,891 Recovery Act Comparative Effectiveness Research - AHRQ Bipolar is a severe and lifelong illness affecting 4.5% of the population ? about 14 million people in the U.S. It is one of the top 10 most disabling medical conditions worldwide according to the World Health Organization. Traditionally, the moo... Show more
This spending item is part of a $9,784,863 allocation. See details
Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality 9/28/2010
THE VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY $288,610 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support This is a competitive supplement in response to NOT-OD-09-058 (NIH Announces the Availability of Recovery Act Funds for Competitive Revision Applications). Diabetes is a metabolic disorder that currently affects over 180 million people worldwide. Common t
This spending item is part of a $820,936 allocation. See details
National Institutes of Health 9/30/2009
THE VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY $284,961 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support The NIDDK provides funding to four different basic science consortia. Each of these groups has established an informatics infrastructure, but has done so independently. This poses major limitations for the NIDDK since there is no direct way for visitors
This spending item is part of a $2,595,935 allocation. See details
National Institutes of Health 7/27/2009
THE VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY $284,509 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support Acute myocardial infarction and chronic cardiomyopathies damage healthy heart tissue disrupting the normal electronmechanical continuum of ventricular muscle. Over the last years, a number of studies in animal models have suggested that transplantation o National Institutes of Health 7/16/2009
MEHARRY MEDICAL COLLEGE $282,111 ARRA - Scholarships for Disadvantaged Students Meharry Medical College received ARRA-SDS (Scholarships for Disadvantaged Students) awards to help aid economically disadvantaged students with financing their health professions educational expenses. Health Resources and Services Administration 6/14/2010
HEALTH, TENNESSEE DEPT OF $281,984 ARRA - Immunization The Emerging Infections Program (EIP) works with local, state, and federal agencies to assess the public health impact of emerging infections and evaluate methods for their prevention and control. With American Recovery and Reinvestment Act funding, Tenn
This spending item is part of a $684,484 allocation. See details
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention 8/31/2009
THE VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY $279,000 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support We propose to determine the conformation of monomeric and dimeric arrestin2 in solution and the conformation of receptor-bound arrestin2 using multidimensional solution NMR methods. Using purified recombinant wild type (WT) arrestin2 expressed in E. coli National Institutes of Health 8/14/2009
MEHARRY MEDICAL COLLEGE $276,299 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support Provide a summer undergraduate research experience for six minority undergraduate students in an area of health disparities. In addition, provide summer research opportunities for four high school science teachers from the Metropolitan Nashville Public Sc National Institutes of Health 7/13/2009
MEHARRY MEDICAL COLLEGE $272,047 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support This supplement to Meharry Medical College's cancer center grant will provide funds to plan for the systematic collection of biospecimen tissues in the southern region of the US. National Institutes of Health 9/30/2009
Locomotion Creative LLC $270,842 ARRA - Prevention and Wellness--Communities Putting Prevention to Work The Communities Putting Prevention to Work award is utilized for a community-wide initiative to reduce obesity. By increasing consumption of fruits and vegetables and decreasing intake of transfats, salt and sugary beverages, The ... Show more
This spending item is part of a $7,527,527 allocation. See details
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention 3/19/2010
THE VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY $269,700 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support The goal of this supplement is to accelerate the work originally proposed as part of Specific Aim 3 of the award entitled G?p63 Signaling in Epithelial Cell Growth and CancerG?, which focuses on analysis of ?Np63?-associated proteins to identify proteins National Institutes of Health 9/24/2009
THE VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY $269,630 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support p120-catenin (p120) and ?-catenin are armadillo repeat proteins that directly bind and regulate E-cadherin, a major cell-cell adhesion receptor with tumor- and metastasis-suppressor activity. ?-catenin is also an important component of the Wnt signaling p National Institutes of Health 9/02/2009
THE VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY $264,396 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support In this supplement, we request funds to accelerate the research tempo by (1) upgrading selected equipment infrastructure and (2) hiring research staff trained in the tools and techniques employed in the laboratory. We propose to replace aging and perhaps National Institutes of Health 9/14/2009
THE VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY $264,356 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support The clinical manifestation of autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is highly complex and heterogeneous, with medical and mental health disruptions beyond the three core behavioral criteria used for diagnosis (social behavior, communication, restricted interests
This spending item is part of a $570,222 allocation. See details
National Institutes of Health 9/22/2009
MEHARRY MEDICAL COLLEGE $262,684 ARRA ? Equipment to Enhance Training for Health Professionals The overall goal is to purchase computer equipment and software as a unit to establish a primary care faculty development skills lab (FDSL). This lab will be used to train primary care physicians in new technology in clinical teaching and... Show more Health Resources and Services Administration 9/04/2010
VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY, THE $262,072 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support The Southeast Regional Center of Excellence for Emerging Infections and Biodefense (SERCEB) is an NIH/NIAID-funded consortium of institutions across the southeast established in 2003. SERCEB?s mission is to assist the nation in developing and deploying ef
This spending item is part of a $499,170 allocation. See details
National Institutes of Health 7/26/2010
THE VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY $261,384 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support A critical challenge facing emergency department (ED) physicians is how best to manage patients presenting with symptoms of heart failure. Currently, most patients being evaluated for heart failure are admitted to the hospital, yet not all of these patien National Institutes of Health 7/16/2009
THE VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY $250,037 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support A recent study has shown that apoE and one of its receptors, LDLr, are involved in the uptake of glycolipid antigen and subsequent activation of NKT cells. This led us to postulate that other receptors important for lipid uptake would be involved in anti National Institutes of Health 7/16/2009
JERICHO SCIENCES, LLC $249,976 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support HIV/AIDS RESEARCH Health and Human Services, Department of 9/24/2010
JERICHO SCIENCES, LLC $248,052 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support HIV/AIDS RESEARCH Health and Human Services, Department of 9/19/2011
THE VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY $242,680 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support This request for an Administrative Supplement to the parent grant (5 R01 AI061721-05) entitled Molecular Basis of iNKT Cell Ontogeny and Function is responsive to NOT-OD-09-056 (NIH Announces the Availability of Recovery Act Funds for Administrative Suppl National Institutes of Health 8/23/2010
THE VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY $242,458 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support In the parent grant, we hypothesized that TLR4 deficiency would result in decreased macrophage accumulation and inflammation in WAT. We have completed those studies and confirmed out hypothesis to be correct. In addition, based upon current literature d National Institutes of Health 7/16/2009
THE VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY $239,408 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support The parent grant (DK018243-34 G?Gluconeogenesis and Glycogenolysis: Role and RegulationG?) supports work carried out in the conscious dog, the specific aims of which relate to brain insulin action, hypoglycemic counterregulation and the interplay between National Institutes of Health 12/30/2009
GREATER NASHVILLE REGIONAL COUNSIL (INC) $237,870 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 centers, and faith-based settings.
This spending item is part of a $1,321,639 allocation. See details
Administration on Aging 3/18/2009
THE VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY $236,707 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support Patient recruitment and retention Patient recruitment and retention of study subjects has been excellent in this study. The COMET Network was able to screen 108 potential subjects. From these there were 12 screen fails, 3 subjects withdrew consent, two
This spending item is part of a $7,915,507 allocation. See details
National Institutes of Health 9/28/2009
THE VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY $233,947 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support The long term objective of our studies is to understand the gene regulatory networks that define pancreatic multipotent progenitor cells (MPCs). This knowledge will provide new insights into the biology of MPCs and also assist in the validation of protoc National Institutes of Health 12/04/2009
THE VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY $232,500 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support ???cell proliferation is high during perinatal stages, but declines precipitously prior to adulthood, due in part to increased expression of cell cycle inhibitors with age. Insulin resistant states, such as pregnancy and obesity, stimulate replication in National Institutes of Health 6/07/2010
THE VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY $232,500 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support The objective of this proposal is to better understand the regulation of glucose uptake and storage by the liver in vivo in the normal and insulin resistant state. The specific aims are: 1) to determine the importance of hormone and substrate sensing in National Institutes of Health 7/09/2010
THE VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY $231,618 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support The Minority Based Community Clinical Oncology Program at Meharry Medical College supplement will strengthen clinical care and research in hematology and oncology at Meharry Medical College.
This spending item is part of a $261,808 allocation. See details
National Institutes of Health 8/27/2009
THE VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY $219,365 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support In this supplemental proposal for CA34590 we are investigating a number of ways to interrupt chemokine receptor facilitated metastasis by blocking chemokine receptor mediated cell migration. We are using time lapse intravital imaging of the tumor microenv National Institutes of Health 9/03/2009
THE VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY $218,186 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support Purchase of a Episcopic Fluorescence Image Capture System (EFIC) from Vashaw Scientific is proposed. This instrument will serve the research programs of four major users distributed among several departments on campus. The development of new EFIC projects National Institutes of Health 4/15/2010
THE VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY $217,642 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support This two year NICHD-focused R21 Brain Disorders proposal seeks two years of funding to support development of a long-term, sustainable collaborative research relationship and program with the Vietnamese Academy of Social Sciences in Hanoi, Vietnam. The re
This spending item is part of a $307,910 allocation. See details
National Institutes of Health 5/15/2009
THE VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY $215,289 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support The Collaborative to Build Community Capacity for Research is a joint project of Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Meharry Medical College, and Tennessee State University which proposes to create sustainable mechanisms and processes to develop and enh
This spending item is part of a $551,188 allocation. See details
National Institutes of Health 9/23/2009
MEHARRY MEDICAL COLLEGE $213,263 ARRA - Scholarships for Disadvantaged Students Meharry Medical College received ARRA-SDS (Scholarships for Disadvantaged Students) funds to assist with financing students? health professions education who come from a family with an annual income that falls below the low income levels based on the num... Show more Health Resources and Services Administration 9/03/2009
THE VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY $210,056 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support The broad objectives of the work are to clarify the mechanisms by which thrombin localized on fibrin (Fbn) clots can either be inactivated by its target serine protease inhibitors (serpins) heparin cofactor II (HCII) and antithrombin (AT), or protected by National Institutes of Health 8/01/2009
THE VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY $201,388 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support An accurate assessment of human anatomy and physiology is critical to the success of clinical research. Echocardiography and vascular Doppler are assessment tools used in clinical research to evaluate the baseline characteristics of subjectsG?? physiology National Institutes of Health 3/25/2010
MAX MOBILITY, LLC $200,000 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support Over half of the wheelchair user population has developed upper extremity (UE) pain and injury. One of the activities that likely contribute to the development of injury is wheelchair propulsion. The PVA Clinical Practice Guidelines for the Preservation o National Institutes of Health 4/01/2010
HUMAN SERVICES, TENNESSEE DEPARTMENT OF $197,000 ARRA - Community Services Block Grant The CSBG ARRA funds were used to provide services and activities addressing employment, education, housing, nutrition, health, and emergency services.
This spending item is part of a $19,697,805 allocation. See details
Administration for Children and Families 4/10/2009
VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY, THE $195,405 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support Community Leadership and Reciprocal Development to Advance Community Engaged Research at Two CTSA Institution There is a growing recognition that translational research benefits from community engagement at the outset. The NC Translational and Clinical Sc
This spending item is part of a $568,156 allocation. See details
National Institutes of Health 9/17/2009
UNIVERSITY COMMUNITY HEALTH SERVICES, INC. $194,029 ARRA Health Center Integrated Services Development Initiative[g1] Increased Demand for Services Grant--UCHS is using HRSA IDS funding to increase health center staffing at its Vine Hill Clinic, expanding existing medical services and opening in scope preventive dental services. Also, much needed com... Show more Health Resources and Services Administration 3/27/2009
THE VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY $189,205 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support The purpose of the parent project is to compare speech intervention methods for improving speech accuracy and speech intelligibility in children with Down Syndrome. In keeping with the NIDCD and broader NIH guidelines, the proposed supplement is designed National Institutes of Health 7/17/2009
THE VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY $182,321 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support The broad research objective of the parent grant is to better understand tyrosine kinase signaling pathways activated in response to integrin-mediated cell-ECM adhesion, both in terms of biochemical mechanism and cell biological impact. The supplement wil National Institutes of Health 8/31/2009
THE VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY $175,427 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support Exciting and unanticipated new results from Aim 3.3 of our currently funded grant RO1 grant GM52948, raising the question of whether the human DNA helicase B under investigation in Aim 3 may be the long-sought vertebrate ortholog of S. cerevisiae Sld3. T National Institutes of Health 1/08/2010
MEHARRY MEDICAL COLLEGE $174,679 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support Lung cancer is the leading cause of cancer related deaths in the United States. Despite similar risk factors, African-Americans have higher incidence and mortality rates from lung cancer than other populations. Numerous studies have recently demonstrated
This spending item is part of a $997,012 allocation. See details
National Institutes of Health 9/29/2009
THE VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY $174,071 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support Increasing data indicate that emotional stimuli gain preferential access to attentional resources. This effect can be instantiated as improved detection time, enhanced cortical responses, and greater disruption in processing concurrent or immediately subs National Institutes of Health 9/27/2009
THE VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY $174,056 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support Our training objective remains to provide trainees with a theoretical and practical base that will allow them to conduct state of the art research in basic cellular, biochemical and molecular biology. Laboratory research is the major component but overall National Institutes of Health 8/13/2009
THE VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY $173,888 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support This supplement request is to support the hiring of an outstanding postdoctoral research associate who will take on a central role in carrying out fMRI studies of motion perception, Aim 2 of this R01 project. The PI has lab members actively working on stu National Institutes of Health 9/30/2009
THE VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY $172,800 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support This post-doctoral training project focuses on a child clinical psychologist currently working at the Judge Baker Children's Center, Harvard Medical School. The child clinical psychologist has expertise in the implementation and dissemination of evidence- National Institutes of Health 9/03/2009
THE VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY $168,431 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support The period immediately following hospitalization is a vulnerable time for patients. After hospital discharge, approximately 40% of patients experience at least 1 serious medication error, a term that includes adverse drug events as well as potentially har National Institutes of Health 8/10/2009
MEHARRY MEDICAL COLLEGE $166,568 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support Supplemental funds are requested to enable the collection of additional information and biospecimens to enhance the Southern Community Cohort Study (SCCS) as a unique national resource for investigating cancer disparities. Nearly 90,000 adults age 40-79,
This spending item is part of a $4,721,145 allocation. See details
National Institutes of Health 9/30/2009
THE VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY $165,338 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support This administrative supplement requests funds to accelerate research on the structural dynamics of multidrug ABC tranporters (R01-GM077569). Active drug extrusion by multidrug transporters is one of four general mechanisms associated with the multidrug re National Institutes of Health 8/31/2009
MEHARRY MEDICAL COLLEGE $162,908 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support This supplement provides funds to hire a postdoctoral scientist in cancer biology. The goal of the project the postdoc is working on is to understand the nature of the interaction between fetuin-A and annexin-6. These are two molecules that affect calciu National Institutes of Health 9/29/2009
THE VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY $159,900 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support This shared instrumentation grant is for the purchase of a digital, real-time autoradiography system with multiple radiolabel capability. The NIH-funded research projects that require this system are aimed primarily at developing new molecular imaging age National Institutes of Health 7/29/2010
THE VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY $159,336 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support The need for a rapid response to new bioterror threats and emerging infectious diseases is frustrated by the slow pace of drug discovery. We hypothesized in Specific Aims 2 and 3 (see below) that the protein synthetic machinery can be engineered for the r National Institutes of Health 9/28/2009
THE VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY $158,888 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support Development of effective cell based therapies to mediate wound and cardiac regeneration is a national priority and has been identified as two Challenge Areas (11-GM-101 and 11-HL-101). Our funded R01 proposal addresses these challenge areas as it seeks to National Institutes of Health 8/01/2009
MEHARRY MEDICAL COLLEGE $157,628 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support This is a supplement to the principal investigator's SC3 grant. This project will provide information regarding the role of protease-activated receptors in the regulation of the endothelium, which plays an important role in vascular tone. Endothelial dys National Institutes of Health 9/11/2009
THE VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY $157,523 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support The Bcl2 family of proteins is comprised of key regulators of cell death. The BH3-only members of this family act as sensors, relaying death signals to the core apoptotic machinery at the mitochondria. Pro-apoptotic BH3-only Bid is situated at the interf National Institutes of Health 8/01/2009
THE VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY $155,000 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support In the past decade, we have witnessed tremendous advances in the development and implementation of noninvasive molecular imaging in order to phenotypically characterize cancers through early detection and staging using molecular imaging. Among these techn National Institutes of Health 6/05/2009
HEALTH, TENNESSEE DEPT OF $151,689 ARRA - Prevention and Wellness--State Territories and Pacific Islands Component I will seek to improve statewide policy within child care facilities expanding the TN Department of Health Gold Sneaker Program, which enhances policy related to physical activity, nutrition, and tobacco use within licen... Show more
This spending item is part of a $921,489 allocation. See details
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention 2/06/2010
THE VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY $150,145 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support The goal of this Administrative Supplement is to support the employment of additional laboratory personnel. Increased support is needed to bolster our efforts to identify and characterize genes that regulate oxygen sensing, smooth muscle responsiveness, National Institutes of Health 7/16/2009
NASHVILLE CIVIC DESIGN CE $150,000 ARRA - Prevention and Wellness--Communities Putting Prevention to Work The Communities Putting Prevention to Work award is utilized for a community-wide initiative to reduce obesity. By increasing consumption of fruits and vegetables and decreasing intake of transfats, salt and sugary beverages, The ... Show more
This spending item is part of a $7,527,527 allocation. See details
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention 3/19/2010
HEALTH, TENNESSEE DEPT OF $147,526 ARRA - Prevention and Wellness--Communities Putting Prevention to Work Tennessee Department of HealthG??s Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS) shall collect approximately 1,500 completed interviews for Davidson county in Tennessee, between the months of August and December during the 20... Show more Centers for Disease Control and Prevention 8/06/2010
MEHARRY MEDICAL COLLEGE $146,500 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support The objective of this study is to determine the relationship between the severity of emphysema in COPD patients and abnormality in the expression of key mediators of retinoid action in the lungs National Institutes of Health 5/08/2009
THE VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY $145,638 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support This supplement will increase both the rate and quality of our research by 1 supporting a skilled research position that would otherwise be lost to the program, and 2 preserving genetically unique mouse lines for type 1 diabetes research. This supplement National Institutes of Health 8/16/2010
THE VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY $144,682 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support Metabolic syndrome is devastating our health care system and compromising the quality of life for millions. Understanding the pathogenesis of this condition is paramount to eliminating it. The metabolic syndrome is an epidemic because people have adopted National Institutes of Health 2/02/2010
THE VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY $141,161 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support The PS-OC has organized a leadership structure to provide expertise and fully support all initiatives. The leadership consists of the Principal Investigator, Franziska Michor, PhD, and the Senior Co-investigator, Eric Holland, MD, PhD. Support personnel c
This spending item is part of a $2,749,336 allocation. See details
National Institutes of Health 9/23/2010
THE VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY $141,084 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support MicroRNAs miRNAs?? are a recently discovered family of small ??22 nucleotide?? RNAs that function to regulate gene expression at the post?transcriptional level, mostly by inhibition of translation. Target specificity is due to base pairing interactions be National Institutes of Health 9/18/2009
THE VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY $141,010 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support Three of the critical issues in modern cancer research and evolutionary theory include (a) an understanding of the progression of mutations over time, (b) an identification of the cell of origin of these tumors, (c) and the differential response of cancer
This spending item is part of a $2,195,148 allocation. See details
National Institutes of Health 9/29/2009
THE VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY $140,616 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support Insomnia is a major comorbidity in children with autism spectrum disorders ??ASD??, and one of the most common medical concerns expressed by parents of these children. Improving sleep in this population holds promise for ameliorating many of the associate National Institutes of Health 9/29/2009
THE VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY $139,485 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support This is a request for the purchase of specialized instrumentation to expand acquisition of samples for BioVU, the Vanderbilt DNA databank, into the pediatric population. The challenges to improve child health surround us - regionally, nationally, and glob National Institutes of Health 1/14/2010
THE VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY $136,100 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 VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY $131,568 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support S100 proteins are a group of calcium sensor proteins found only in humans and other vertebrate animals. They are members of the EF-hand family of calcium binding proteins, uniquely distinguished by their ability to be secreted into the extracellular space National Institutes of Health 9/30/2009
THE VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY $131,244 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support This request for an Administrative Supplement to the grant (5 R01 GM064779-08) entitled 'Proteornic Analysis of Eukaryotic Protein Synthesis' is responsive to NOT-OD-056 (NIH Announces the Availability of Recovery Acts Funds for Administrative Supplemen National Institutes of Health 6/11/2010
THE VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY $130,472 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support Studies of human and mouse prostate cancer indicate that the homeodomain-containing transcription factor Nkx3.1 is an important haplo-insufficient tumor suppressor gene involved in prostate tumor initiation. Nkx3.1 protein expression is lost in human and National Institutes of Health 9/30/2009
THE VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY $129,600 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support This application is a response to NOT-DK-04-501 and a letter RFA for Vanderbilt University to continue to serve as the Coordinating Center (CC) for the Beta Cell Biology Consortium (BCBC), a team science initiative that has been in existence since Septemb National Institutes of Health 3/08/2010
THE VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY $126,498 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support Vanderbilt University requests an Administrative Supplement to the Vanderbilt Biomedical Informatics Training Program for six Summer Research Experiences for each of two years: Year 1 G?? May 1, 2009 to April 30, 2010 and Year 2 G?? May 1, 2010 to April 3 National Institutes of Health 8/20/2009
VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY, THE $118,817 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support Description of the ARRA-funded project: The overarching goal of this proposal is to evaluate a potentially unifying psychobiological mechanism underlying social deficits and restricted repetitive behaviors (RRBs) in autism. The potential ultimate impact
This spending item is part of a $415,762 allocation. See details
National Institutes of Health 8/14/2009
THE VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY $118,458 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support This project extends the work of our P30 GrantG??s Clinical Recruitment Core (Core E) by linking to our existing (linked) databases TennesseeG??s Newborn Hearing Screening and Cancer Registry databases. Over the past few years, Core E methodologists have National Institutes of Health 9/16/2009
THE VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY $118,090 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support This project will address the role of natriuretic peptide ligand-reeptor signaling in the regulation of early pregnancy events. Defects in the uterus can cause infertility and pregnancy loss in women. This research will provide deeper insight into the mol National Institutes of Health 7/29/2010
GREATER NASHVILLE REGIONAL COUNSIL (INC) $117,110 Aging Home-Delivered Nutrition Services for States ARRA provided funding for Home-Delivered Nutrition Services. Established in 1978 under the Older Americans Act, the program provides meals to seniors who are homebound.
This spending item is part of a $650,653 allocation. See details
Administration on Aging 3/18/2009
THE VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY $116,438 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support Patient recruitment and retention Patient recruitment and retention of study subjects has been excellent in this study. The COMET Network was able to screen 108 potential subjects. From these there were 12 screen fails, 3 subjects withdrew consent, two
This spending item is part of a $7,915,507 allocation. See details
National Institutes of Health 9/28/2009
THE VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY $115,992 The Systolic Blood pressure Intervention Trial, (SPRINT) contractor will conduct a multicenter, randomized clinical trial to determine whether treating systolic blood pressure to a lower goal than currently recommended, will reduce cardiovascular disease.
This spending item is part of a $2,491,798 allocation. See details
National Institutes of Health 9/24/2010
THE VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY $115,126 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support This proposal seeks to continue development of the NIDDK Consortial Interconnectivity Network (dkCOIN), an important initiative that will enable the long term storage, tracking and exchange of annotated scientific resource information between NIDDK-funded National Institutes of Health 9/30/2010
THE VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY $112,476 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support Vincristine is active against a wide variety of malignancies and has been shown to substantially improve outcomes. Although vincristine is among the most commonly used anticancer agents, little is known about optimal therapeutic dosing and it is widely re
This spending item is part of a $986,304 allocation. See details
National Institutes of Health 9/29/2009
THE VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY $110,857 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support Neural crest is a multipotent population of embryonic cells with the ability to contribute to a variety of adult derivatives including all the neurons and glia making up the enteric nervous system responsible for coordination of gut movements. Because neu National Institutes of Health 9/17/2009
HEALTH, TENNESSEE DEPT OF $110,177 ARRA - Immunization The federal Epidemiology and Laboratory Capacity (ELC) program assists states with building surveillance, epidemiology, laboratory, and public health informatics capacity. With these American Recovery and Reinvestment (ARRA) funds, the Tennessee Departme Centers for Disease Control and Prevention 9/03/2009
THE VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY $109,144 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support Respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) is a major etiologic agent of lower respiratory tract infection in children and the elderly. In the U.S., RSV can be detected in 43% of pediatric patients hospitalized with bronchiolitis and 25% with pneumonia. Neonates h National Institutes of Health 8/13/2009
THE VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY $108,000 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support The goal of this supplement is to extend findings and hypotheses from the parent grant which proposed that functional variants in drug efflux transporter genes (MRP2, BSEP and BCRP) contribute to wide interpatient variability in chemotherapy disposition. National Institutes of Health 9/08/2009
THE VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY $101,600 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support This research supplement request is intended to promote racial/ethinic diversity in health related research. We request two years of support for an African American graduate research assistant who is working towards a doctoral degree in the field of mole National Institutes of Health 9/17/2009
THE VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY $100,700 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support Correct regulation of gene expression requires that a complex set of biochemical events occur with precise timing and sequence. In recent years, it has become evident that one way in which these event are coordinated is by close interactions between the t National Institutes of Health 9/18/2009
THE VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY $100,011 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support Transforming Growth Factor -B1 (TGF-B) key mediator in tissue fibrosis. TGF-B involved in: 1) Differentiation of myofibroblasts, primary source of ECM production; 2) Stimulate synthesis of many other matrix components, such as collagens, fibronectins, and National Institutes of Health 3/29/2010
THE VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY $100,000 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support Tumor progression toward a malignant, metastataic disease state involves complex interactions between tumor cells and the host microenvironment, including vascular endothelium. My research centers on understanding the role of EphA2 receptor tyrosine kinas National Institutes of Health 9/22/2009
THE VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY $100,000 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support In examining the effect of vitamin C or ascorbic acid on endothelial function as part of DK050435, we made the surprising discovery that ascorbate traverses the endothelial barrier not through the cells, as expected, but around the cells in a para cellula National Institutes of Health 8/24/2009
THE VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY $100,000 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support Trafficking events regulating vesicle targeting to the apical membrane are regulated by a number of Rab small GTPases including Rab11a, Rab8a and Rab10. The results from our present RO1 have demonstrated that class V myosin motors can associate will all t National Institutes of Health 8/14/2009
THE VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY $100,000 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support The proposed administrative supplement proposes to obtain additional funds for The ASSESS-AKI (ASsessment, Serial Evaluation, and Subsequent Sequelae in Acute Kidney Injury) Consortium. This particular administrative supplement is in response to NIH Notic National Institutes of Health 11/26/2009
THE VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY $99,999 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support The goal of this project is to increase recruitment and retention of underrepresented and underserved populations into AIDS Clinical Trials Group (ACTG) clinical trials. The ACTG is committed to enrollment of domestic clinical trial participants in propor
This spending item is part of a $1,130,883 allocation. See details
National Institutes of Health 9/21/2009
MEHARRY MEDICAL COLLEGE $99,838 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support This is a supplement to the K01 Regulation of Prostate Cancer Growth by PPARg ligands grant. This supplement will advance knowledge on how agonists for peroxisome proliferator activated receptor gamma proteins reduces the growth of prostate cancer cells. National Institutes of Health 9/22/2009
MEHARRY MEDICAL COLLEGE $99,823 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support Research data indicates that nitric oxide (NO) mediated stomach smooth muscle relaxation is higher in healthy females than in age matched healthy male rats and a reduction of this system leads to severe stomach emptying problems in diabetic females only. National Institutes of Health 1/27/2010
THE VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY $98,248 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support To date, the AMDCC has nearly exclusively characterized inbred laboratory mice strains to study the development diabetes nephropathy. These studies support the influence of genetic risk factors as contributing to diabetic nephropathy in these inbred lines National Institutes of Health 9/07/2009
THE VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY $97,873 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support Development of the vertebrate brain requires the appropriate specification, migration, and differentiation of neurons. As a model organism for studying these events, we use the zebrafish, because the genetic, molecular and embryological tools available gi National Institutes of Health 7/08/2010
THE VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY $96,800 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support Endocrine islet cell production solves several distinct yet related problems: endocrine commitment, cell type specification, islet cell differentiation, and maturation. In this grant application, we propose to utilize Myt1 gene activity manipulation and c National Institutes of Health 6/14/2010
THE VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY $95,263 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support The purpose of this supplement is to fund equipment infrastructure upgrade to allow uninterrupted progress of proposed study in the parent grant. The goal of this study is to understand how the subcellular localization and activation of WASP is regulated National Institutes of Health 1/08/2010
MATTHEW WALKER COMPREHENSIVE HEALTH CENTER, INC. $94,848 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support The Collaborative to Build Community Capacity for Research is a joint project of Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Meharry Medical College, and Tennessee State University which proposes to create sustainable mechanisms and processes to develop and enh
This spending item is part of a $551,188 allocation. See details
National Institutes of Health 9/23/2009
THE VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY $92,200 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support The destruction of renal tissue is associated with progressive tubulointerstitial fibrosis, which is a common final pathway in the development of end-stage renal disease. Renal fibrosis is associated with a reduction in tissue oxygen levels, which is thou National Institutes of Health 9/25/2009
THE VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY $87,075 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support The conversion of adenosine to inosine (A-to-I) by RNA editing is a widespread RNA processing event by which genomically encoded sequences are altered through site-specific deamination of adenosine residue(s) in precursor and mature mRNA transcripts. The National Institutes of Health 8/15/2009
THE VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY $87,028 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support The objectives of this training program is to provide significant biological training to students receiving in-depth training in synthetic/mechanistic chemistry and to provide significant training in synthetic/mechanistic chemistry to students receiving i National Institutes of Health 8/03/2009
THE VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY $87,028 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support The first goal is to train future investigators to characterize human genetic variation and its phenotypic implications. The research may be either direct studies of human traits or studies of animal models of human traits. The second goal is to provide s National Institutes of Health 8/13/2009
THE VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY $87,028 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support The Molecular Biophysics Training Program at Vanderbilt involves Training Faculty exploring a wide range of problems in Molecular Biophysics using a broad spectrum of physical, chemical, and computational approaches. The main purpose of the program is to National Institutes of Health 8/03/2009
THE VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY $86,019 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support The initial and current funding periods of the Nuclear Receptor Signaling Atlas has demonstrated the ability of the Consortium members to pursue the collective goal of generation and validation of high-content datasets and the distribution of these data t
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National Institutes of Health 3/11/2010
THE VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY $85,525 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support We have a bioluminescence monitoring apparatus that assays the circadian bioluminescence rhythms of cyanobacteria and is absolutely essential for Specific Aims D?2 and D?3 and to a lesser extent, Aim D?1 of our grant. This apparatus was constructed in 199 National Institutes of Health 6/18/2009
MIDDLE TENNESSEE RESEARCH INSTITUTE $85,250 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support This is a proposal to validate the accuracy of a multi-gene Lung Cancer Risk Test (LCRT). An accurate LCRT may be used to design more efficient lung cancer screening and/or chemoprevention studies by enabling enrollment of the highest risk individuals, re
This spending item is part of a $799,426 allocation. See details
National Institutes of Health 9/30/2009
THE VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY $85,250 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support This is a proposal to validate the accuracy of a multi-gene Lung Cancer Risk Test (LCRT). An accurate LCRT may be used to design more efficient lung cancer screening and/or chemoprevention studies by enabling enrollment of the highest risk individuals, re
This spending item is part of a $1,649,791 allocation. See details
National Institutes of Health 9/30/2009
MIDDLE TENNESSEE RESEARCH INSTITUTE $85,250 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support This is a proposal to validate the accuracy of a multi-gene Lung Cancer Risk Test (LCRT). An accurate LCRT may be used to design more efficient lung cancer screening and/or chemoprevention studies by enabling enrollment of the highest risk individuals, re
This spending item is part of a $1,649,791 allocation. See details
National Institutes of Health 9/30/2009
THE VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY $85,075 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support The major goal is to elucidate the structural and functional mechanisms by which the thalamus controls cortical processing in the primate brain. Our specific thesis for this proposal is that all thalamic nuclei contain some cell groups that act as driver National Institutes of Health 3/22/2010
THE VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY $84,502 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support This supplemental project proposes two new global surveys of genes with metastatic potential in parallel. A meta?analysis strategy will be used to identify candidate genes based on our newly developed human cancer signature database. The whole transcripto National Institutes of Health 9/15/2009
THE VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY $83,611 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support This application requests an administrative supplement for a currently funded project, R01DK078158, to allow for purchase of a vibratome and digital camera with supporting computer as well as for support of a graduate student to accelerate completion of t National Institutes of Health 1/01/2010
THE VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY $83,241 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support Prostaglandin E2 (PGE2) regulates blood pressure, where it can exert either vasopressor or vasodepressor effects. These physiologically opposing effects can be explained in part by the existence of four PGE2 receptors, designated the E-Prostanoid (EP) rec National Institutes of Health 12/08/2009
MEHARRY MEDICAL COLLEGE $82,480 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support The Collaborative to Build Community Capacity for Research is a joint project of Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Meharry Medical College, and Tennessee State University which proposes to create sustainable mechanisms and processes to develop and enh
This spending item is part of a $551,188 allocation. See details
National Institutes of Health 9/23/2009
Manna Inc $82,012 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support The Collaborative to Build Community Capacity for Research is a joint project of Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Meharry Medical College, and Tennessee State University which proposes to create sustainable mechanisms and processes to develop and enh
This spending item is part of a $551,188 allocation. See details
National Institutes of Health 9/23/2009
THE VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY $80,446 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support The primary goal of this administrative supplement is to significantly increase the number of 15N hyperpolarized metabolic injectable agents based on parahydrogen hyperpolarization technology. Parahydrogen is a unique and stable molecule that can provide National Institutes of Health 9/29/2009
NASHVILLE & DAVIDSON COUNTY, METROPOLITAN GOVERNMENT OF $80,000 ARRA - Prevention and Wellness--State Territories and Pacific Islands Component III will seek to enhance proactive Quitline counseling and expand media services in order to increase the number of tobacco quitters in Tennessee. Proactive counseling will be enhanced and expanded to provide Quitline c... Show more
This spending item is part of a $1,002,155 allocation. See details
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention 2/06/2010
THE VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY $78,876 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support Pancreatic islets are extensively vascularized and this is important in their ability to sense the blood glucose and quickly secrete insulin. While islets receive up to 20 times more blood flow than surrounding pancreatic acinar tissue, the molecular fact National Institutes of Health 1/26/2010
THE VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY $77,252 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support The PS-OC has organized a leadership structure to provide expertise and fully support all initiatives. The leadership consists of the Principal Investigator, Franziska Michor, PhD, and the Senior Co-investigator, Eric Holland, MD, PhD. Support personnel c
This spending item is part of a $2,749,336 allocation. See details
National Institutes of Health 9/23/2010
PROGRESO COMMUNITY CENTER - CENTRO COMUNITARIO PROGRESO $76,559 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support The Collaborative to Build Community Capacity for Research is a joint project of Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Meharry Medical College, and Tennessee State University which proposes to create sustainable mechanisms and processes to develop and enh
This spending item is part of a $551,188 allocation. See details
National Institutes of Health 9/23/2009
MEHARRY MEDICAL COLLEGE $76,418 ARRA ? Equipment to Enhance Training for Health Professionals The title of this grant is Equipment to Support Family Medicine Residency Training. The goal of this grant is to acquire equipment that will be primarily used to train family medicine residents and medical students that rotate through the ... Show more Health Resources and Services Administration 9/05/2010
MEHARRY MEDICAL COLLEGE $75,416 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support Prostate cancer is the most commonly diagnosed noncutaneous cancer in United States men and the second leading cause of cancer death. It is estimated that 186,320 men will be diagnosed with prostate cancer in 2008 and 28,660 men will die of it. Prostate c
This spending item is part of a $395,573 allocation. See details
National Institutes of Health 7/16/2009
Tennessee Association For The Education of Young Children $75,000 ARRA - Head Start The grant will be used to improve coordination and collaboration among early childhood education and care programs and services. History, Description and Purpose of Award: The State of Tennessee applied for the State Advisory Council (SAC) funding in Ju
This spending item is part of a $2,418,400 allocation. See details
Administration for Children and Families 9/16/2010
MEHARRY MEDICAL COLLEGE $74,350 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support The Human Immunodeficency Virus has caused a worldwide pandemic. Supporting strategies through basic science research that treat and prevent infectious disease like HIV is part of NIAID's mission. The purpose of this work is to elucidate the virus-host ce National Institutes of Health 8/11/2009
NASHVILLE & DAVIDSON COUNTY, METROPOLITAN GOVERNMENT OF $72,025 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support We are proposing to evaluate the efficacy of the sustained Vanderbilt University-Metropolitan Nashville Public Schools-Tennessee State University-Meharry Medical College-Fisk University GK12/Scientist in the Classroom Program (SCP) on the long-term impact
This spending item is part of a $985,151 allocation. See details
National Institutes of Health 9/24/2009
TN ST DEPARTMENT OF CHILDREN SERVICES $71,476 Guardianship Assistance FY 2010 GUARDIANSHIP ASSISTANCE Administration for Children and Families 7/01/2010
THE VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY $71,302 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support Osteoarthritis (OA) affects 27 million Americans, many of whom have concomitant symptomatic meniscal tear. Arthroscopic partial meniscectomy (APM) is the surgical procedure used to treat these patients when conservative measures are not successful. The ef
This spending item is part of a $1,372,153 allocation. See details
National Institutes of Health 9/28/2009
MEHARRY MEDICAL COLLEGE $71,132 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support Trypanosoma brucei is a group of hemoflagellated parasitic protozoa that causes a fatal disease in humans known as African sleeping sickness and a similar diseases in domestic animals called nagana. The disease is transmitted by an insect vector, the tset National Institutes of Health 8/01/2009
MEHARRY MEDICAL COLLEGE $71,132 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support Previous studies have shown that HIV-1 preferentially buds from cholesterol-rich microdomains called lipid rafts, and that cholesterol is required for HIV infectivity and structural integrity. Moreover, the presence of cholesterol is also required both fo National Institutes of Health 8/14/2009
THE VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY $69,756 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support The overarching goal of this fellowship application is to provide support for work which will focus on dissecting the structure-function relationships in ribonucleoprotein (RNP) complexes that mediate post-transcriptional gene regulation in viruses with d National Institutes of Health 8/11/2009
MEHARRY MEDICAL COLLEGE $69,151 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support Caveolin-1, an integral membrane protein highly localized to lipid rafts, has been shown to cause marked decrease in HIV-1 protein expression. Caveolae, the plasmalemmal invaginations formed by caveolin oligomerization, are involved in regulation of intra National Institutes of Health 9/01/2009
HEALTH, TENNESSEE DEPT OF $67,865 ARRA- State Primary Care Offices The Tennessee Department of Health is committed to assuring that all Tennesseans have access to quality, affordable health care. State-wide recruitment and retention is a key component of the DepartmentG??s safety-net efforts and the New Limited Award wi
This spending item is part of a $137,865 allocation. See details
Health Resources and Services Administration 9/10/2009
SAINT THOMAS HEALTH SERVICES FUND $65,873 ARRA - Systolic Blood Pressure Intervention Trial (SPRINT) - Senior
This spending item is part of a $2,708,560 allocation. See details
National Institutes of Health 9/24/2010
THE VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY $65,000 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support The goal of this proposal is to investigate how the brain encodes tactile motion information in the brain. Responses within different areas of primary somatosensory cortex (SI) will be examined (areas 3a, 3b, 1, and 2). Central to understanding their func National Institutes of Health 9/15/2009
THE VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY $62,633 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support My RO1 grant (1 R01 GM074044; G?Developmental Regulation of the Cell Cycle in DrosophilaG?) consists of three aims: How does the PNG kinase substrate, GNU, regulate early embryonic cell cycles? 2) What is the mechanism by which Mat89Bb/ASUN regulates the National Institutes of Health 8/31/2009
THE VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY $59,850 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support The current supplement proposal will build on the parent grant G?School for Science and Math at VanderbiltG? Specific Aim #2: The School for Science and Math at Vanderbilt (SSMV) will develop and implement an interdisciplinary, sequential, four-year curri
This spending item is part of a $97,840 allocation. See details
National Institutes of Health 9/15/2009
THE VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY $59,455 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support We propose to train, employ and mentor undergraduate students as Research Assistants in our NICHD-funded study, 'Addressing Health Literacy and Numeracy to Prevent Childhood Obesity' (R01 - HD059794-01) -- a multi-site, controlled trial of a low-literacy
This spending item is part of a $253,771 allocation. See details
National Institutes of Health 9/25/2009
THE VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY $59,404 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support Gdf6 is a member of the BMP (Bone Morphogenetic Protein) gene family of secreted signaling ligands. Gdf6 is required for patterning and development of various skeletal and nonskeletal structures, including limb, ear and spine joints, and digits, skull sut National Institutes of Health 9/16/2009
THE VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY $59,134 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support My RO1 grant (R01 GM081635; G?Biochemical reconstitution of heterotrimeric G proteins in the Wnt pathwayG?) consists of two aims: 1) Which heterotrimeric G proteins participate in canonical Wnt signaling? 2) What are the mechanisms by which G protein subu National Institutes of Health 9/30/2009
VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY, THE $59,019 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support Description of the ARRA-funded project: The overarching goal of this proposal is to evaluate a potentially unifying psychobiological mechanism underlying social deficits and restricted repetitive behaviors (RRBs) in autism. The potential ultimate impact
This spending item is part of a $415,762 allocation. See details
National Institutes of Health 8/14/2009
HEALTH, TENNESSEE DEPT OF $59,000 ARRA - Survey and Certification Ambulatory Surgical Center Healthcare-Associated Infection (ASC-HAI) Prevention Initiative This initiative will significantly expand the awareness of proper infection control technique among ASCs and SAs, increase the extent to which infection control deficiencies are ... Show more Health Care Financing Admin. (was Medicare and Medicaid Serv.) 5/10/2010
TENNESSEE STATE UNIVERSITY $57,134 ARRA - Prevention and Wellness--Communities Putting Prevention to Work The Communities Putting Prevention to Work award is utilized for a community-wide initiative to reduce obesity. By increasing consumption of fruits and vegetables and decreasing intake of transfats, salt and sugary beverages, The ... Show more
This spending item is part of a $7,527,527 allocation. See details
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention 3/19/2010
WANG VISION INSTITUE $56,000 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support This project is to develop a novel and cost effective technology, the Adaptive Photorefraction, to detect and quantify mild or early stage keratoconus (FFKC). FFKC is the major cause of the refractive laser surgery failures in the US. The research team wi
This spending item is part of a $404,731 allocation. See details
National Institutes of Health 8/04/2009
THE VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY $55,053 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support The purpose of this supplement is to purchase a new HPLC system with the goal to enable us to more rapidly and effectively explore the parent grantG??s hypothesis of a biosynthetic cross-over of two inflammatory pathways in vivo. The two pathways to be in National Institutes of Health 9/30/2009
THE VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY $54,000 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support This is an application for an Administrative Supplement (NOT-OD-09-056) for my funded proposal G?TRAIL Mediated Apoptosis in Renal Cell CarcinomaG? (K08 CA113452). The parent grant hypothesized that the type I interferon, IFNa, could modulate the sensitiv National Institutes of Health 9/15/2009
THE VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY $53,946 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support Patient education is a priority and desired by both patients and providers in the care of chronic kidney disease (CKD). Yet, even in the setting of frequent interactions with health care providers, patients often report low knowledge of chronic diseases, National Institutes of Health 9/20/2009
THE VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY $53,703 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support Autoimmune pancreatitis (AIP) is a poorly understood form of pancreatic autoimmunity. Understanding AIP had been hampered by the lack of a mouse model of disease. We identified the Tgfbr2^fspKO mouse that develops AIP. Since development of autoimmunity is National Institutes of Health 7/20/2009
THE VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY $52,820 NORC has been awarded a contract from the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) to conduct an evaluation of the State Health Information Exchange Cooperative Agreements Program. This evaluation, required by HITECH, wi
This spending item is part of a $5,383,852 allocation. See details
Program Support Center 3/31/2010
THE VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY $52,283 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support The primary aim of this interdisciplinary training program is to produce leading scientists who will contribute to the state of knowledge about neurobiological and psychosocial mechanisms underlying the development, maintenance, and remission of psychopat National Institutes of Health 9/28/2009
THE VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY $52,158 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support Application is made under the NIDDK FY2009 Program for Adminstrative Supplements utilizing Recovery Act funds to increase the tempo of our work on the role of ErbB proteins in liver ontogeny and regeneration and to promote job creation and economic develo National Institutes of Health 7/16/2009
THE VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY $51,845 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support This Recovery Act administrative supplement grant aims to continue and accelerate our research on structural requirements for sterol 14alpha-demethylase. Support for purchase of a new HPLC system is requested because the HPLC (1992) indicated in the equi National Institutes of Health 2/05/2010
THE VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY $51,307 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support The students will participate in research and training in a dynamic lab environment, performing molecular biology experiments aimed at exploring the molecular and cellular basis for neutralization of HIV. A subset of HIV-specific antibodies can neutralize National Institutes of Health 9/27/2009
THE VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY $50,000 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support To facilitate the efficient and effective conduct of the parent K23 Mentored Clinical Scientist Development Award that seeks to define the clinical and molecular epidemiology of community-associated methicilin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (CA-MRSA) in National Institutes of Health 9/25/2009
THE VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY $50,000 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support To facilitate the efficient and effective conduct of the parent K23 Mentored Clinical Scientist Development Award that seeks to define the clinical and molecular epidemiology of community-associated methicilin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (CA-MRSA) in National Institutes of Health 9/07/2010
THE VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY $50,000 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support The aim of this administrative request is to preserve a unique research resource, enhancing the follow-up participation of the clinical study, the Tennessee ChildrenG??s Respiratory Initiative, and increasing the capacity for data analysis. The Tennessee National Institutes of Health 9/07/2010
THE VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY $49,995 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support The aim of this administrative request is to preserve a unique research resource, enhancing the follow-up participation of the clinical study, the Tennessee ChildrenG??s Respiratory Initiative, and increasing the capacity for data analysis. The Tennessee National Institutes of Health 9/11/2009
THE VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY $49,926 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support The investigations currently funded by R01 DK075555 are focused on elucidating the function of the brush border cytoskeleton and its associated motor proteins in the normal physiology and pathophysiology of the enterocyte. As the primary site of nutrient National Institutes of Health 9/28/2009
THE VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY $49,834 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support The PS-OC has organized a leadership structure to provide expertise and fully support all initiatives. The leadership consists of the Principal Investigator, Franziska Michor, PhD, and the Senior Co-investigator, Eric Holland, MD, PhD. Support personnel c
This spending item is part of a $2,749,336 allocation. See details
National Institutes of Health 9/23/2010
THE VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY $49,580 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support We propose to provide research experiences for up to 3 undergraduate students and one high school student for the summer of 2009, with the request to repeat this in summer of 2010. We believe that molecular imaging in cancer is a multi-faceted, multidisci National Institutes of Health 6/01/2009
THE VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY $47,545 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support Essential hypertension is a major threat to public health, affecting over a billion people in the world and contributing to kidney and cardiovascular mortality and morbidity in 5 million people annually. Like other complex disorders, multiple genes with v
This spending item is part of a $999,876 allocation. See details
National Institutes of Health 9/25/2009
THE VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY $46,605 ARRA - Prevention and Wellness--Communities Putting Prevention to Work The Communities Putting Prevention to Work award is utilized for a community-wide initiative to reduce obesity. By increasing consumption of fruits and vegetables and decreasing intake of transfats, salt and sugary beverages, The ... Show more
This spending item is part of a $7,527,527 allocation. See details
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention 3/19/2010
THE VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY $46,550 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support The central objective of the research proposed in R37 AI38296 is to elucidate molecular mechanisms by which reovirus binds to receptors and causes disease. Reoviruses provide an attractive experimental system to study the role of virus-receptor interactio National Institutes of Health 9/13/2010
THE VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY $46,532 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support Cancer represents a complex set of diseases originating from normal cells with many genetic and epigenetic defects present prior to any treatment. The infrastructure that the Human Tissue Acquisition and Pathology Shared Resource (HTAP) offers in the acqu National Institutes of Health 9/17/2009
THE VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY $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
This spending item is part of a $1,981,588 allocation. See details
National Institutes of Health 8/07/2009
TN ST DEPARTMENT OF CHILDREN SERVICES $45,841 Guardianship Assistance FY 2011 GUARDIANSHIP ASSISTANCE Administration for Children and Families 4/27/2011
THE VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY $45,806 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support This administrative supplement request seeks to provide employment for a highly skilled Ph.D. level scientist who is being laid off from another laboratory due to budget constraints related to the economic downturn. In addition we request support for an G National Institutes of Health 7/11/2009
THE VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY $45,728 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support The protein serine-threonine phosphatase 2A (PP2A) family of enzymes participates in a wide spectrum of cellular functions including cell growth, differentiation, cell cycle progression, and apoptosis. Multiple regulatory mechanisms control the activity National Institutes of Health 1/08/2010
ENVIROTEMPS, INC. $44,904 Administrative duties related to the ARRA project. *Sr. Project Administrative responsible for administrative, management and engineering in relation to The ARRA project. Indian Health Service 9/08/2010
THE VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY $43,922 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support Essential hypertension is a major threat to public health, affecting over a billion people in the world and contributing to kidney and cardiovascular mortality and morbidity in 5 million people annually. Like other complex disorders, multiple genes with v
This spending item is part of a $999,876 allocation. See details
National Institutes of Health 9/25/2009
THE VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY $43,310 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support This award is issued in response to Notice OD-09-060, Recovery Act Administrative Supplements Providing Summer Research Experiences for Students and Science Educators. The goal of this project is to design and develop a hand exoskeleton to facilitate reha
This spending item is part of a $87,366 allocation. See details
National Institutes of Health 9/29/2009
TENNESSEE STATE UNIVERSITY $43,191 ARRA - Scholarships for Disadvantaged Students ARRA-Scholarships for Disadvantaged Students. It is the goal of Tennessee State Unviversity help eliminate the nursing shortage. Health Resources and Services Administration 9/03/2009
THE VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY $41,250 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support The mission of the Beta Cell Biology Consortium (BCBC) is to bring a team-based approach to the acquisition of new knowledge and the production of novel resources necessary to develop cell-based therapies for insulin delivery. The main research strategies
This spending item is part of a $5,239,099 allocation. See details
National Institutes of Health 9/22/2009
THE VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY $40,799 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support Identification of G*E interaction terms for common diseases represents a top priority for the Gene Environment Association Studies (GENEVA) consortium of investigators. We propose a cohort specific, hypothesis-driven strategy to filter high throughput gen
This spending item is part of a $167,163 allocation. See details
National Institutes of Health 9/30/2009
THE VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY $40,646 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support The parent grant focus is on investigating the role of mycobacterial antigens in sarcoidosis pathogenesis. Recent studies from independent laboratories have noted an association with mycobacteria and sarcoidosis pathogenesis. We found a statistically sig National Institutes of Health 9/28/2009
THE VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY $40,639 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support Young children with cleft lip and/or palate are at risk for speech and language delays associated with structural deficits despite early surgical repair. This study proposes to evaluate the effectiveness of an early intervention to facilitate speech and v
This spending item is part of a $377,503 allocation. See details
National Institutes of Health 7/17/2009
THE VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY $40,105 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support This application is for a Recovery Act Administrative Supplement (NOT-OD-056) to parent grant R01 HD23264, Developmental Outcomes of Pediatric Chronic Abdominal Pain (2007-2012). The parent grant uses a prospective design and experimental methods to ident National Institutes of Health 7/30/2010
THE VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY $39,500 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support Zucker diabetic fatty (ZDF) rats, an animal model of human type 2 diabetes, have a blunted response to hyperglycemia with a failure to suppress net hepatic glucose production and increase glucose flux to glycogen, which are associated with a failure to st National Institutes of Health 2/02/2010
THE VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY $39,000 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support The PS-OC has organized a leadership structure to provide expertise and fully support all initiatives. The leadership consists of the Principal Investigator, Franziska Michor, PhD, and the Senior Co-investigator, Eric Holland, MD, PhD. Support personnel c
This spending item is part of a $2,749,336 allocation. See details
National Institutes of Health 9/23/2010
THE VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY $38,750 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support CpG islands, clusters of CpG dinucleotides in GC-rich regions, are often located in the promoter regions and are considered gene markers. Experiments have shown that methylation of promoter CpG islands plays an important role in gene silencing, carcinogen National Institutes of Health 8/24/2010
MAX MOBILITY, LLC $38,507 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support Manual wheelchair users are at considerable risk of developing upper limb overuse injuries. One preventative measure is to improve the user's push style. This project will develop the understanding required to teach proper propulsion technique. ABSTRACT M National Institutes of Health 7/10/2010
NASHVILLE & DAVIDSON COUNTY, METROPOLITAN GOVERNMENT OF $37,990 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support The current supplement proposal will build on the parent grant G?School for Science and Math at VanderbiltG? Specific Aim #2: The School for Science and Math at Vanderbilt (SSMV) will develop and implement an interdisciplinary, sequential, four-year curri
This spending item is part of a $97,840 allocation. See details
National Institutes of Health 9/15/2009
THE VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY $37,830 The Vanderbilt University has been awarded a contract to provide tumor types to the NCI for The Cancer Genome Atlas (TCGA) project. Specifically this award is to fund the provision of head and neck cases. These cases are all primary and untreated. The National Institutes of Health 7/13/2010
HALSEY, MICHAEL $37,450 In support of the National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases' (NCIRD) aim to promote immunization throughout the lifespan, AED will apply communication and social marketing and risk communication research, theories, principles, and practice
This spending item is part of a $4,450,426 allocation. See details
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention 9/30/2010
NASHVILLE PUBLIC TELEVISION, INCORPORATED $35,000 ARRA - Prevention and Wellness--Communities Putting Prevention to Work The Communities Putting Prevention to Work award is utilized for a community-wide initiative to reduce obesity. By increasing consumption of fruits and vegetables and decreasing intake of transfats, salt and sugary beverages, The ... Show more
This spending item is part of a $7,527,527 allocation. See details
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention 3/19/2010
TN ST DEPARTMENT OF CHILDREN SERVICES $34,535 Foster Care_Title IV-E FY 2012 FOSTER CARE Administration for Children and Families 10/12/2011
TENNESSEE STATE UNIVERSITY $32,863 ARRA - Scholarships for Disadvantaged Students ARRA-Scholarships for Disadvantaged Students Health Resources and Services Administration 9/03/2009
TENNESSEE STATE UNIVERSITY $32,863 ARRA - Scholarships for Disadvantaged Students ARRA-Scholarships for Disadvantaged Students. It is the goal of Tennessee State University to help eliminate the nursing shortage. Health Resources and Services Administration 9/03/2009
THE VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY $31,644 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support The parent grant is focused on identifying cognitive and neural components of working memory (WM) deficit, a core feature of schizophrenia (SZ). Since WM deficit is linked to poor social functioning and outcome, it is very important to develop treatment National Institutes of Health 5/29/2009
MEHARRY MEDICAL COLLEGE $30,384 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support For metastatic prostate cancer (PCa), androgen deprivation therapy results in regression of the metastatic disease and a dramatic decrease in the serum of the androgen dependent prostate-specific antigen (PSA) protein. Eventually, all patients will fail t
This spending item is part of a $858,191 allocation. See details
National Institutes of Health 8/11/2009
MEHARRY MEDICAL COLLEGE $30,190 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support The Minority Based Community Clinical Oncology Program at Meharry Medical College supplement will strengthen clinical care and research in hematology and oncology at Meharry Medical College.
This spending item is part of a $261,808 allocation. See details
National Institutes of Health 8/27/2009
THE VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY $29,927 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support Purpose: The study will determine the influence of genetic risk factors on radiotherapy sensitivity among childhood cancer survivors, using the existing Childhood Cancer Survivor Study (CCSS) cohort. The Childhood Cancer Survivor Study (CCSS) is a retros
This spending item is part of a $410,944 allocation. See details
National Institutes of Health 7/16/2009
THE VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY $29,374 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support One of medicine's greatest challenges today is the efficient, seamless translation of biomedical research discoveries into clinical applications. New methodologies, technologies and integrated information systems offer unprecedented promise for discovery
This spending item is part of a $863,573 allocation. See details
National Institutes of Health 9/26/2009
THE VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY $29,155 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support Inflammatory bowel diseases are associated with increased risk of early-onset colorectal cancer, incurring great cost both economically and in patient morbidity and mortality. Intensive research has been focused on identifying signaling pathways which may National Institutes of Health 7/28/2009
THE VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY $28,948 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support This request for an Administrative Supplement to the parent grant (5 R01 AA015752-03) entitled Intracellular Therapeutics for Inflammatory Liver Injury is responsive to NOT-OD-09-056 (NIH Announces the Availability of Recovery Act Funds for Administrative National Institutes of Health 8/12/2009
THE VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY $28,859 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support The PS-OC has organized a leadership structure to provide expertise and fully support all initiatives. The leadership consists of the Principal Investigator, Franziska Michor, PhD, and the Senior Co-investigator, Eric Holland, MD, PhD. Support personnel c
This spending item is part of a $2,749,336 allocation. See details
National Institutes of Health 9/23/2010
THE VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY $28,429 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support Hybrid Revascularization vs Percutaneous Coronary Intervention: A Planning Grant This application addresses broad Challenge Area (04) Clinical Research and specific Challenge Topic, 04-HL-115: Treatment of stenosed coronary arteries with hybrid coronary
This spending item is part of a $1,000,000 allocation. See details
National Institutes of Health 9/21/2009
THE VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY $27,528 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support Research to be conducted under the ARRA mechanism will accelerate the scientific tempo of a trial designed to understand the efficacy, mechanisms, and cost-effectiveness of alternative resuscitation strategies for septic shock. Trial recruitment will be e
This spending item is part of a $2,314,994 allocation. See details
National Institutes of Health 9/30/2009
TENNESSEE STATE UNIVERSITY $27,162 ARRA - Scholarships for Disadvantaged Students ARRA - Scholarships for Disadvantaged Students Health Resources and Services Administration 9/03/2009
THE VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY $26,230 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support This study examines 1800 patients treated at more than 20 centers with expertise in robotic and standard prostate surgery; the patients have been evaluated for quality of life before and after surgery, and for complications, costs, and cancer control. WeG
This spending item is part of a $1,000,000 allocation. See details
National Institutes of Health 9/22/2009
THE VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY $25,000 ARRA - Prevention and Wellness--Communities Putting Prevention to Work The Communities Putting Prevention to Work award is utilized for a community-wide initiative to reduce obesity. By increasing consumption of fruits and vegetables and decreasing intake of transfats, salt and sugary beverages, The ... Show more
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Centers for Disease Control and Prevention 3/19/2010
African America Cultural Alliance Ibe $25,000 ARRA - Prevention and Wellness--Communities Putting Prevention to Work The Communities Putting Prevention to Work award is utilized for a community-wide initiative to reduce obesity. By increasing consumption of fruits and vegetables and decreasing intake of transfats, salt and sugary beverages, The ... Show more
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Centers for Disease Control and Prevention 3/19/2010
GOOD FOOD FOR GOOD PEOPLE $25,000 ARRA - Prevention and Wellness--Communities Putting Prevention to Work The Communities Putting Prevention to Work award is utilized for a community-wide initiative to reduce obesity. By increasing consumption of fruits and vegetables and decreasing intake of transfats, salt and sugary beverages, The ... Show more
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Centers for Disease Control and Prevention 3/19/2010
Corinthian Baptist Church $24,275 ARRA - Prevention and Wellness--Communities Putting Prevention to Work The Communities Putting Prevention to Work award is utilized for a community-wide initiative to reduce obesity. By increasing consumption of fruits and vegetables and decreasing intake of transfats, salt and sugary beverages, The ... Show more
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Centers for Disease Control and Prevention 3/19/2010
CRITICAL LEARNING SYSTEMS INC $24,000 ARRA - Prevention and Wellness--Communities Putting Prevention to Work The Communities Putting Prevention to Work award is utilized for a community-wide initiative to reduce obesity. By increasing consumption of fruits and vegetables and decreasing intake of transfats, salt and sugary beverages, The ... Show more
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Centers for Disease Control and Prevention 3/19/2010
THE VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY $23,044 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support Prostaglandin E2 (PGE2) regulates blood pressure, where it can exert either vasopressor or vasodepressor effects. These physiologically opposing effects can be explained in part by the existence of four PGE2 receptors, designated the E-Prostanoid (EP) rec National Institutes of Health 7/13/2009
BELMONT UNIVERSITY $22,000 ARRA - Prevention and Wellness--Communities Putting Prevention to Work The Communities Putting Prevention to Work award is utilized for a community-wide initiative to reduce obesity. By increasing consumption of fruits and vegetables and decreasing intake of transfats, salt and sugary beverages, The ... Show more
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Centers for Disease Control and Prevention 3/19/2010
THE VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY $21,086 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support The mechanism that allows steroid receptors to control tissue-specific and cell-specific gene expression is fundamental to understanding how an endocrine tissue targets hormone action at distant sites. Clearly, the steroid receptor will be required but t National Institutes of Health 7/13/2009
ENVIROTEMPS, INC. $20,679 *Administrative duties related to the ARRA project. *Sr. Project Administrative responsible for administrative, management and engineering in relation to The ARRA project. Indian Health Service 9/08/2010
THE VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY $19,729 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support The immediate goal of this three month project is to purify a fragment (60kDa) of the EGF receptor that is generated when cells are treated with EGF. The fragment is generated by rhomboid proteases, which cleave transmembrane proteins within the transmemb National Institutes of Health 6/03/2009
THE VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY $18,755 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support The period immediately following hospitalization is a vulnerable time for patients. After hospital discharge, approximately 40% of patients experience at least 1 serious medication error, a term that includes adverse drug events as well as potentially har National Institutes of Health 5/29/2009
THE VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY $15,500 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support The student will participate in testing how different PAR agonists differentially regulate barrier function using ECIS in an endothelial cells as a model. We will further explore the ability of different PAR agonists to differentially regulate different G National Institutes of Health 6/01/2009
THE VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY $13,750 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support This application is in response to Notice Number (NOT-OD-09-058) and Notice Title: NIH Announces the Availability of Recovery Act Funds for Competitive Revision Applications. We propose a competitive revision to the Clinical Proteomic Technology Assessmen
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National Institutes of Health 8/31/2009
THE VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY $12,257 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support We propose to train, employ and mentor undergraduate students as Research Assistants in our NICHD-funded study, Addressing Health Literacy and Numeracy to Prevent Childhood Obesity (R01 - HD059794-01) -- a multi-site, controlled trial of a low-literacy, National Institutes of Health 7/15/2009
ENVIROTEMPS, INC. $9,649 *Administrative duties related to the ARRA project. *Sr. Project Administrative responsible for administrative, management and engineering in relation to The ARRA project. Indian Health Service 5/07/2010
THE VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY $9,579 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support This administrative supplement seeks funds to support one undergraduate studentG??s summer research experience. The primary purpose is to introduce an undergraduate student to molecular cancer biology research. The student will be trained in molecular a National Institutes of Health 6/02/2009
ENVIROTEMPS, INC. $8,532 *Administrative duties related to the ARRA project. *Sr. Project Administrative responsible for administrative, management and engineering in relation to The ARRA project. Indian Health Service 2/26/2010
ENVIROTEMPS, INC. $8,466 *Administrative duties related to the ARRA project. *Sr. Project Administrative responsible for administrative, management and engineering in relation to The ARRA project. Indian Health Service 6/04/2010
THE VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY $7,426 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support Childhood obesity is a serious public health problem that is rapidly increasing. Using an addiction model to examine brain activation in response to food cues in childhood obesity, we predict that cue-induced brain activation differences play a critical r National Institutes of Health 7/15/2009
GOOD FOOD FOR GOOD PEOPLE $6,000 ARRA - Prevention and Wellness--Communities Putting Prevention to Work The Communities Putting Prevention to Work award is utilized for a community-wide initiative to reduce obesity. By increasing consumption of fruits and vegetables and decreasing intake of transfats, salt and sugary beverages, The ... Show more
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Centers for Disease Control and Prevention 3/19/2010
THE VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY $5,609 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support Saphenous vein, mammary artery, and radial artery are all used as conduits for bypassing coronary artery stenoses. The focus in our laboratory is to develop methods to prevent vein graft failure. The current RO-1 proposal, ?Prevention of Vein Graft Failur National Institutes of Health 6/04/2009
ENVIROTEMPS, INC. $3,663 *Administrative duties related to the ARRA project. *Sr. Project Administrative responsible for administrative, management and engineering in relation to The ARRA project. Indian Health Service 4/07/2010
AGING & DISABILITY, TENNESSEE COMMISSION ON $49 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 centers, and faith-based settings.
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Administration on Aging 3/18/2009
AGING & DISABILITY, TENNESSEE COMMISSION ON $3 Aging Home-Delivered Nutrition Services for States ARRA provided funding for Home-Delivered Nutrition Services. Established in 1978 under the Older Americans Act, the program provides meals to seniors who are homebound.
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Administration on Aging 3/18/2009
THE VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY $0 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support Recent studies have uncovered potential links between the novel human gammaretrovirus Xenotropic murine leukemia virus-related virus (XMRV) with disease (REF). The pathogenic potential of this virus gives rise to the need for investigating specific proper
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National Institutes of Health 5/24/2010
TN ST DEPARTMENT OF HUMAN SERVICES $0 Temporary Assistance for Needy Families 2010 TANF Administration for Children and Families 1/01/2010
TN ST DEPARTMENT OF CHILDREN SERVICES -$14,282 Adoption Assistance FY 2012 ADOPTION ASSISTANCE Administration for Children and Families 10/13/2011
TN ST TENNCARE/MEDICAID DIV -$8,892,006 Medical Assistance Program MEDICAID ENTITLEMENT FOR TENNESSEE - FY 2011 QUARTER 4 - T19 Health Care Financing Admin. (was Medicare and Medicaid Serv.) 9/01/2011
TN ST TENNCARE/MEDICAID DIV -$17,278,198 Medical Assistance Program MEDICAID ENTITLEMENT FOR TENNESSEE - FY 2012 QUARTER 1 - T19 Health Care Financing Admin. (was Medicare and Medicaid Serv.) 12/15/2011