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Suffolk County, N.Y., funds by Health and Human Services, Department of

Listing $80,777,457.29 in stimulus funds from Health and Human Services, Department of for Suffolk

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
THE RESEARCH FOUNDATION OF STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK $14,179,569 National Center for Research Resources, Recovery Act Construction Support This application seeks funds for the construction of the first Animal Biosafety Level 3 Laboratory (A-BSL-3) in the Division of Laboratory Animal Research at the Health Sciences Center at Stony Brook University. The A- BSL-3 wi... Show more National Institutes of Health 3/25/2010
THE RESEARCH FOUNDATION OF STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK $7,417,151 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support Pneumonic plague is highly lethal in humans, and the agent of this disease, Y. pestis, is considered a major threat as a biological weapon. Current strategies to prevent pneumonic plague, such as the use of vaccines or antibiotics, are non-effective or co National Institutes of Health 7/24/2009
COLD SPRING HARBOR LABORATORY $4,687,965 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support The goal of this Molecular Target Discovery and Development Center (MTDDC) application is to further develop the innovative functional genomic approaches we have developed at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL) in order to provide biological context and
This spending item is part of a $4,737,965 allocation. See details
National Institutes of Health 9/30/2009
THE RESEARCH FOUNDATION OF STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK $2,805,907 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support Patient Reported Outcomes (PROs) are a necessary component of medical research and practice. The NIH-sponsored Patient-Reported Outcome Measurement Information System (PROMIS) has developed item banks and scales for several domains of symptoms and functi National Institutes of Health 9/29/2009
COLD SPRING HARBOR LABORATORY $2,779,842 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support Autistic Spectrum Disorders (ASD) are characterized by delay in or absence of language acquisition, deficits in social interactions and repetitive behaviors. ASD are largely genetic in origin, and occur either sporadically (simplex) or in a familial (mult National Institutes of Health 9/29/2009
COLD SPRING HARBOR LABORATORY $2,773,908 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support Mammalian development is driven by the successive restriction of developmental potential as the totipotent zygote generates the diversity of mature cell types present within an adult animal. The characteristics adopted by each cell within the animal are s
This spending item is part of a $2,979,908 allocation. See details
National Institutes of Health 9/29/2009
COMMUNITY PROGRAM CENTER OF LONG ISLAND INC $2,568,039 ARRA - Head Start The Children's Community Head Start served an additional 16 children/families in a full day, extended option, providing early morning/late afternoon care to enable parents to work/go to school. A new Early Head Start component served 32 center based chil Administration for Children and Families 9/18/2009
SUFFOLK, COUNTY OF $2,493,706 ARRA Child Care and Development Block Grant ARRA Supplemental Funding for the Child Care and Development Fund (CCDF): Provide child care financial assistance to low-Income working families and fund activities to improve the quality of child care.
This spending item is part of a $96,785,640 allocation. See details
Administration for Children and Families 4/09/2009
COLD SPRING HARBOR LABORATORY $2,269,575 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support Each year, more than a million women are diagnosed with breast cancer worldwide. Our understanding of the molecular mechanisms that underlie this disease are advancing rapidly, in part due to an enormous application of resources and effort to this problem
This spending item is part of a $2,919,697 allocation. See details
National Institutes of Health 9/30/2009
ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITY COUNCIL OF SUFFOLK, INC. $1,969,535 ARRA - Community Services Block Grant ARRA Supplemental Funding for the Community Services Block Grant (CSBG) Program: Allocate funds to a network of eligible entities to support employment related services which create and sustain economic growth in keeping with the requirements of the CSBG
This spending item is part of a $86,780,940 allocation. See details
Administration for Children and Families 4/10/2009
COLD SPRING HARBOR LABORATORY $1,783,961 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support Self-renewal is essential for the homeostasis and lifetime maintenance of many organ systems. The process of self-renewal is carried out by rare populations of adult stem cells whose key features are multilineage potential and repopulating capacity. Blood
This spending item is part of a $2,505,191 allocation. See details
National Institutes of Health 9/29/2009
SUFFOLK, COUNTY OF $1,726,882 ARRA Child Care and Development Block Grant ARRA Supplemental Funding for the Child Care and Development Fund (CCDF): Provide child care financial assistance to low-Income working families and fund activities to improve the quality of child care.
This spending item is part of a $96,785,640 allocation. See details
Administration for Children and Families 4/09/2009
THE RESEARCH FOUNDATION OF STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK $1,673,946 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support Burns are one of the most common and devastating injuries known to mankind. Each year in the US approximately 500,000 patients with burns present to emergency departments. Of 40,000 annual hospitalizations, 25,000 burn victims are admitted to specialized National Institutes of Health 9/25/2009
APPLIED BIOMATHEMATICS INC $1,627,774 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support Physicians and their patients will benefit from well designed software tools that compensate for these problems to (1) explain to patients the meaning of the results of a medical test in a way that is understandable and accurate, and (2) help patients dec National Institutes of Health 9/20/2010
COLD SPRING HARBOR LABORATORY $1,257,683 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL) is seeking support to recruit a developmental neurobiologist with knowledge and expertise in neural circuit development and plasticity to significantly enhance current efforts to understand how neuropsychiatric disorde National Institutes of Health 9/28/2009
THE RESEARCH FOUNDATION OF STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK $1,237,825 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support The goal of this proposal is to provide funds for start-up packages for two new, independent tenure-track faculty members in the Department of Neurobiology and Behavior at SUNY Stony Brook. Support would be utilized to revitalize the faculty searches stal National Institutes of Health 9/29/2009
THE RESEARCH FOUNDATION OF STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK $1,067,230 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support Abnormal accumulation and deposition of the amyloid ss-protein (Ass), a prominent pathological feature of patients with Alzheimer's disease (AD) and related disorders, can occur from increased production but in most cases is likely due to decreased cleara National Institutes of Health 7/16/2009
THE RESEARCH FOUNDATION OF STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK $999,833 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support Multimodality Optical Imaging Tools for Cocaine Studies' will address the broad Challenge Area (06: Enabling Technologies) and Specific Challenge topic (06-DA-102: Tool Development for the Neurosciences). The central goal of this proposal is to develop no National Institutes of Health 9/21/2009
COLD SPRING HARBOR LABORATORY $986,713 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support This application addresses broad Challenge Area (15): Translational Science and specific Challenge Topic,15- MH-103 Mapping the Neural Connectivity of a Mouse Model. Brain function is dictated by its circuitry, yet we know little about its wiring architec
This spending item is part of a $998,857 allocation. See details
National Institutes of Health 9/24/2009
L I CHILD AND FAMILY DEVELOPMENT SERVICES INC $923,417 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. Administration for Children and Families 6/26/2009
L I CHILD AND FAMILY DEVELOPMENT SERVICES INC $923,417 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. Head Start/Early Head Start ARRA/QI: L.I. Child and Family Development Services, Inc is funded for 1,675 chil Administration for Children and Families 6/26/2009
COLD SPRING HARBOR LABORATORY ASSOCIATION, INC. $851,656 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support This application is a request for an LTQ-Orbitrap Velos ETD mass spectrometer to support new proteomics research efforts at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL). The instrument will be used to support multiple CSHL investigators in studies including phosp National Institutes of Health 5/13/2010
COLD SPRING HARBOR LABORATORY $825,029 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support This application addresses broad Challenge Area (08) Genomics and specific Challenge Topic, 08- MH-103: Understanding the genomic risk architecture of mental disorders. Rett syndrome (RTT), caused by mutations in the X-linked gene encoding methyl-CpG-bind
This spending item is part of a $1,012,457 allocation. See details
National Institutes of Health 9/25/2009
SUFFOLK COUNTY COMMUNITY COLLEGE $802,573 ARRA - Health Information Technology Professionals in Health Care Tidewater Community College, in collaboration with an active consortium of 22 community colleges, will facilitate the adoption and meaningful use of electronic health records (EHRs) among primary health care providers in the twelve sta... Show more
This spending item is part of a $16,267,603 allocation. See details
Health and Human Services, Department of 4/02/2010
THE RESEARCH FOUNDATION OF STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK $782,500 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support Statistics on the health-related and economic costs of alcohol abuse were summarized in the application. We consider that the consequences of acute intoxication and of alcohol consumption by individuals with reduced acetaldehyde dehydrogenase 2 activity c National Institutes of Health 6/09/2009
THE RESEARCH FOUNDATION OF STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK $782,500 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support Statistics on the health-related and economic costs of alcohol abuse were summarized in the application. We consider that the consequences of acute intoxication and of alcohol consumption by individuals with reduced acetaldehyde dehydrogenase 2 activity c National Institutes of Health 6/09/2009
THE RESEARCH FOUNDATION OF STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK $756,673 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support Project Summary Language is one of the most fundamental human cognitive abilities. It plays an important role in normal development, and is the major means for acquiring information in many domains. A number of psychological disorders (e.g., schizophrenia National Institutes of Health 7/17/2009
THE RESEARCH FOUNDATION OF STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK $750,975 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support It is paramount in medical imaging to measure, compare, calibrate, register and analyze potentially deformed organ shapes with high accuracy and fidelity. However, this is extremely difficult due to the complicated shape of human organs. Different organs National Institutes of Health 7/15/2009
BROOKHAVEN SCIENCE ASSOCIATES, LLC $726,737 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support Title: Macromolecular Crystallography at the National Synchrotron Light Source. Description: We are constructing an integrated facility at beamline X26-C of the National Synchrotron Light Source (NSLS) for single crystal X-ray diffraction and spectrosco
This spending item is part of a $853,840 allocation. See details
National Institutes of Health 8/13/2009
THE RESEARCH FOUNDATION OF STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK $725,971 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support We seek to identify common factors by which OA initiates and develops following normal loading of abnormal joint tissues (genetic model) or after abnormal loading of normal joints (post-traumatic/surgical model). Goal: To identify common factors by which
This spending item is part of a $4,140,386 allocation. See details
National Institutes of Health 9/16/2010
COLD SPRING HARBOR LABORATORY ASSOCIATION, INC. $684,000 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support Heterochromatin was first discovered in plants, but is widespread among eukaryotes and has important roles in chromosome structure, centromere function, gene expression and transposon silencing. Transposable elements (TEs) are major constituents of hetero National Institutes of Health 9/15/2009
THE RESEARCH FOUNDATION OF STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK $671,792 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support The long term goal of our program is to develop novel broad spectrum chemotherapeutics that can be used for Phase 1 clinical trials for treating the diseases caused by priority pathogens such as Francisella tularensis, Burkholderia pseudomallei and Yersin
This spending item is part of a $1,958,105 allocation. See details
National Institutes of Health 9/17/2009
THE RESEARCH FOUNDATION OF STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK $671,792 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support The long term goal of our program is to develop novel broad spectrum chemotherapeutics that can be used for Phase 1 clinical trials for treating the diseases caused by priority pathogens such as Francisella tularensis, Burkholderia pseudomallei and Yersin
This spending item is part of a $1,958,105 allocation. See details
National Institutes of Health 9/17/2009
THE RESEARCH FOUNDATION OF STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK $671,792 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support The long term goal of our program is to develop novel broad spectrum chemotherapeutics that can be used for Phase 1 clinical trials for treating the diseases caused by priority pathogens such as Francisella tularensis, Burkholderia pseudomallei and Yersin
This spending item is part of a $1,958,105 allocation. See details
National Institutes of Health 8/30/2010
THE RESEARCH FOUNDATION OF STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK $602,271 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support The association of Clq with autoimmune diseases in genera!, and with systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) in particular, has been firmly established. Genetic deficiency of Clq is in 3L? fact considered to be a strong susceptibility factor for SLE. Of the kn National Institutes of Health 8/14/2009
THE RESEARCH FOUNDATION OF STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK $541,689 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support The leading cause of disability in the U.S.is arthritis, affecting approximately 60% of those over 65 years of age. Biomedical treatments are limited in their ability to curb osteoarthritis (OA) disease progression and to eliminate pain and functional imp
This spending item is part of a $606,241 allocation. See details
National Institutes of Health 9/21/2009
THE RESEARCH FOUNDATION OF STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK $500,000 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support A 500 MHz solid-state NMR spectrometer is requested in order to replace an aging 360 MHz NMR instrument that was purchased in 1989. This NMR instrument currently supports four areas of NIH-funded biomedical research at Stony Brook University that rely on National Institutes of Health 4/28/2009
THE RESEARCH FOUNDATION OF STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK $475,670 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support The general objective of this project is to upgrade cage wash support service equipment for two satellite buildings housing laboratory animals in the Division of Laboratory Animal Resources at Stony Brook University (SBU). The University has both short an National Institutes of Health 6/08/2009
THE RESEARCH FOUNDATION OF STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK $464,091 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support This proposal requests funds for the purchase of a Leica TCS SP5 confocal microscope. The Leica TCS SP5 is a single point broadband confocal modular platform equipped with an RGB (HeNe 633nm, HeNe 594nm, HeNe 543, Argon 458/476/488/496/514) and a UV-diode National Institutes of Health 5/20/2010
THE RESEARCH FOUNDATION OF STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK $440,334 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support Tyrosine kinases are important regulators of growth, differentiation, and apoptosis in eukaryotic cells. Inappropriate activation of tyrosine kinases often occurs in human cancers. The goal of this project is to understand the contributions of the catalyt National Institutes of Health 6/01/2009
THE RESEARCH FOUNDATION OF STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK $430,146 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support Hantaviruses infect endothelial cells (ECs) and cause 2 vascular permeability-based diseases: Hemorrhagic Fever with Renal Syndrome (HFRS) and Hantavirus Pulmonary Syndrome (HPS). Pathogenic hantaviruses bind to a 53 residue PSI domain present at the apex National Institutes of Health 6/04/2009
THE RESEARCH FOUNDATION OF STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK $414,744 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support The type III secretion system (TTSS) is essential for the pathogenesis of a number of gram-negative human pathogens, including three Yersinia species; Y. pseudotuberculosis and Y. enterocolitica, that cause infection of intestinal lymphoid tissues, and Y. National Institutes of Health 9/01/2009
THE RESEARCH FOUNDATION OF STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK $414,744 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support The type III secretion system (TTSS) is essential for the pathogenesis of a number of gram-negative human pathogens, including three Yersinia species; Y. pseudotuberculosis and Y. enterocolitica, that cause infection of intestinal lymphoid tissues, and Y. National Institutes of Health 9/01/2009
THE RESEARCH FOUNDATION OF STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK $387,263 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support Bacteria in the genus Yersinia cause a range of human diseases, including bubonic and pneumonic plague, infections of the intestinal lymphoid system, and lethal systemic infections. A number of virulence factors are common to pathogenic Yersinia species, National Institutes of Health 7/26/2010
MCVEIGH ASSOCIATES, LTD. $358,590 Perform studies under Antigen Sparing contract relating to H1N1 and other strains of pandemic influenza vaccine.
This spending item is part of a $62,478,417 allocation. See details
Health and Human Services, Department of 9/28/2009
THE RESEARCH FOUNDATION OF STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK $354,754 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support The goal of the current grant is to understand the role of ribbon synapses in communicating visual information in the retina. Visual signals originate in the photoreceptor cells, which then communicate with second-order bipolar neurons via ribbon synapses National Institutes of Health 9/16/2009
THE RESEARCH FOUNDATION OF STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK $312,916 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support All neurotransmitters require an efficient mechanism to terminate their action. Water-soluble neurotransmitters diffuse unassisted in the cytosol to their respective catabolic enzyme for breakdown, after being transported into cells. The endocannabinoids, National Institutes of Health 7/16/2009
THE RESEARCH FOUNDATION OF STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK $292,050 ARRA ? Equipment to Enhance Training for Health Professionals Equipment funding will replace 22 of the twenty plus year old dental opeatory units (one-third of the oldest operatories) in the DCC clinic. The projects goal is to support the training of providers and the provision of oral health servi... Show more Health Resources and Services Administration 9/04/2010
THE RESEARCH FOUNDATION OF STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK $291,021 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support 1) HIV Tropism as a potential Biomarker for Atherosclerosis: This project investigates whether a property of HIV called 'tropism' can predict which HIV-infected individuals are at high risk of developing cardiovascular disease. Identifying such a predi
This spending item is part of a $1,546,761 allocation. See details
National Institutes of Health 4/28/2010
THE RESEARCH FOUNDATION OF STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK $266,782 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support Positron emission tomography (PET) radioisotopes, such as carbon-11 (11C) and fluorine-18 (18F), will be incorporated into current antibiotics, such as the tuberculosis drugs isoniazid and rifampicin, in order to directly identify the protein target(s) fo
This spending item is part of a $460,294 allocation. See details
National Institutes of Health 7/22/2009
NANOPROBES INC $264,430 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support Cancer imaging is important for tumor detection, determination of prognosis qnd treatments, image guided surgery and irradiation, as well as for monitoring responses. Molecular imaging of scientific targets could identify tumor types and enable selection
This spending item is part of a $295,393 allocation. See details
National Institutes of Health 9/28/2009
COLD SPRING HARBOR LABORATORY ASSOCIATION, INC. $258,373 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support Cell migration and invasion are critical to cancer progressiona nd metastasis, and a better understanding the mechanism and regulation of these processes could suggest new approaches for controlling cancer. Missing in Metastasis (MIM) is an actin-binding National Institutes of Health 9/17/2009
THE RESEARCH FOUNDATION OF STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK $239,337 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support Oral health is an important component of overall health (e.g., Tabak, 2008; U.S. Department of Health and Human Services [USDHHS], 2000a) and is one of 28 focus areas in U.S. Government's Healthy People 2010 public health strategy (USDHHS, 2000b). Oral di
This spending item is part of a $570,520 allocation. See details
National Institutes of Health 9/25/2009
SUFFOLK, COUNTY OF $217,295 Aging Congregate Nutrition Services for States This Senior Nutrition Program is to provide congregate meals for the elderly. The program was built on the Congregate Meals program authorized by Title III-C-1 of the Older American's Act. However, the Administration on Aging has limited the ARRA fundin... Show more
This spending item is part of a $4,148,718 allocation. See details
Administration on Aging 3/18/2009
THE RESEARCH FOUNDATION OF STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK $198,581 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support Myelodysplastic syndromes (MDS) are stem-cell malignancies most frequently seen among elderly patients, resulting in a high annual incidence of approximately 14,000 new cases per year. The incidence of MDS continues to increase as our population ages. Abo National Institutes of Health 8/17/2010
THE RESEARCH FOUNDATION OF STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK $196,382 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support The proposed research aims to study regulation of macromolecular transport through plant intercellular connections, the plasmodesmata (PD). PD interconnect most cells within a mature plant and are critical for maintaining and regulating communication with National Institutes of Health 9/25/2009
BROOKHAVEN SCIENCE ASSOCIATES, LLC $193,512 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support Positron emission tomography (PET) radioisotopes, such as carbon-11 (11C) and fluorine-18 (18F), will be incorporated into current antibiotics, such as the tuberculosis drugs isoniazid and rifampicin, in order to directly identify the protein target(s) fo
This spending item is part of a $460,294 allocation. See details
National Institutes of Health 7/22/2009
THE RESEARCH FOUNDATION OF STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK $192,685 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support All cells surround themselves with an extracellular matrix that provides both physical support and protection for the cell. In multicellular organisms the extracellular matrices from individual cells combine to form much larger structures that provide the National Institutes of Health 9/25/2009
THE RESEARCH FOUNDATION OF STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK $184,414 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support Amyloid deposition occurs in more than twenty different human diseases. This project is concerned with amyloid formation by Islet Amyloid Polypeptide (IAPP), the endocrine hormone responsible for pancreatic islet amyloid in type 2 diabetes. Islet amyloid National Institutes of Health 9/30/2009
COLD SPRING HARBOR LABORATORY ASSOCIATION, INC. $183,253 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support The nervous system processes sensory stmuli, such as sounds, by encoding them into a sequence of neural representation (deCharms and Zador 2000). The cortical representation is a highly processed version of the auditory nerve input from which it was deri National Institutes of Health 9/18/2009
THE RESEARCH FOUNDATION OF STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK $182,339 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support Heterotrimeric G proteins are activated by membrane receptors that respond to a diverse set of agonists ranging from hormones, ions, light and neurotransmitters. Activated G proteins in turn can activate a host of intracellular effector proteins, one of w National Institutes of Health 8/10/2009
THE RESEARCH FOUNDATION OF STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK $172,250 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support Myelination is essential for brain development and function but the precise mechanisms that control the development of myelinating oligodendrocytes are not known. In demyelinating diseases such as multiple sclerosis, the loss of myelin is also thought to National Institutes of Health 9/15/2009
BROOKHAVEN SCIENCE ASSOCIATES, LLC $171,410 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support Eukaryotic chromosomal replication is an intricate process that requires the coordinated and tightly regulated action of numerous molecular machines. Failure to ensure once only replication initiation per cell cycle can result in uncontrolled proliferatio
This spending item is part of a $256,405 allocation. See details
National Institutes of Health 9/30/2009
THE RESEARCH FOUNDATION OF STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK $171,293 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support One of the molecules causally linked to cancer is the transcription factor STAT3. STAT3 is a member of the family of Signal Transducers and Activators of Transcription and is activated by specific tyrosine phosphorylation. The activity of STAT3 is normall National Institutes of Health 9/29/2009
THE RESEARCH FOUNDATION OF STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK $168,000 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support The leading cause of disability in the U.S. is arthritis, affecting approximately 60 percent of those over 65 years of age. Biomedical treatments are limited in their ability to curb osteoarthritis (OA) disease progression and to eliminate pain and functi National Institutes of Health 9/21/2009
THE RESEARCH FOUNDATION OF STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK $155,334 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support The long term goal of this research is to understand the role of histone modifications such as acetylation and methylation and their effect on chromosome function, using the widely-studied yeast, Saccharomyces cerevisiae, to study these processes. In part National Institutes of Health 8/13/2009
THE RESEARCH FOUNDATION OF STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK $151,971 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support The canonical Wnt/?-catenin signaling pathway regulates virtually all aspects of embryonic development. More recently, dysregulation of this signaling cascade has been linked to a range of human diseases, most notably cancer. Activation of this pathway re National Institutes of Health 5/04/2009
THE RESEARCH FOUNDATION OF STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK $151,588 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support Anandamide (AEA) is a naturally occurring ligand that binds to cannabinoid receptors and is widely distributed in the body, particularly the nervous system. Although AEA was described in 1992, the pathway for its synthesis has not been definitively determ National Institutes of Health 6/01/2009
THE RESEARCH FOUNDATION OF STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK $150,859 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support The photoreceptor cells of the retina carry out the essential task of translating light into electrical signals that can be passed on and analyzed by the rest of the visual system. Diseases that cause the photoreceptor cells to degenerate lead to irrevers National Institutes of Health 9/12/2009
THE RESEARCH FOUNDATION OF STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK $147,375 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support Nucleotide Excision Repair (NER) is a versatile DNA repair pathway involved in the removal of diverse lesions, including those formed by UV light, from DNA. The importance of NER is underscored by the fact that the cancer-prone inherited disorder xeroderm
This spending item is part of a $262,759 allocation. See details
National Institutes of Health 8/14/2009
THE RESEARCH FOUNDATION OF STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK $131,000 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support The Stony Brook University Genetics Program is a graduate educational and research program leading to the Ph.D. degree in Genetics. The Genetics Program provides a unique, multi-institutional curriculum of course and laboratory research that draws upon th National Institutes of Health 8/13/2009
THE RESEARCH FOUNDATION OF STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK $130,316 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support Regulated exocytosis of secretory membrane vesicles proceeds via recruitment of the vesicles to the plasma membrane at specific sites conducive for exocytosis, followed by staged fusion into the plasma membrane. Generalized defects in regulated exocytosis National Institutes of Health 9/30/2009
THE RESEARCH FOUNDATION OF STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK $121,557 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support The lens has an internal circulation that is generated by ion transport, which creates fluid movement in the same pattern. The circulation of ions depends on fiber cell gap junctions to conduct intracellular, outwardly directed fluxes of Na2+ and Ca2+, wh National Institutes of Health 1/29/2010
THE RESEARCH FOUNDATION OF STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK $120,000 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support The 9.4T magnetic resonance imaging laboratory is a joint facility between Stony Brook University (SBU) and Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL) and has been operational since 2004. The growing user group mainly includes investigators from BNL, SBU and Co National Institutes of Health 4/28/2009
THE RESEARCH FOUNDATION OF STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK $110,779 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support Nicotinic acetylcholine receptors (nAChRs) are essential to behaviors as basic as breathing and as mysterious as motivation, memory and mood. Loss of cholinoceptive sites, evident as decreased nAChRs and deterioration of central cholinergic projections ar National Institutes of Health 9/21/2009
SUFFOLK, COUNTY OF $106,931 Aging Home-Delivered Nutrition Services for States This Senior Nutrition Program is to provide home delivered meals for the elderly. The program was built on the Home Delivered Meals program authorized by Title III-C-2 of the Older American's Act. However, the Administration on Aging has limited th... Show more
This spending item is part of a $2,042,446 allocation. See details
Administration on Aging 3/18/2009
THE RESEARCH FOUNDATION OF STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK $100,000 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support The goal of this proposal is to understand the role of class IA phosphatidylinositol 3-kinase (PI3K) p110a and p110? in regulating pathological and physiological cell growth in the pancreas and skeletal muscle. These two class IA PI3Ks are postulated to c National Institutes of Health 12/28/2009
SUFFOLK, COUNTY OF $100,000 ARRA - Immunization Section 317 grantees have been allocated ARRA funding to purchase priority vaccines. Funding will support operations infrastructure needed to deliver vaccine and account for those vaccinated. Initiatives to be funded with ARRA grant resources are as fol
This spending item is part of a $3,844,764 allocation. See details
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention 9/15/2009
COLD SPRING HARBOR LABORATORY $99,310 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support Real-time PCR, also known as quantitative PCR (qPCR), is a highly sensitive and accurate technique for detection and precise quantitation of nucleic acids. This established technology is heavily used by the members of this Program Project, in application National Institutes of Health 8/28/2009
AIR TECHNIQUES, INC. $98,766 Digital dental X Ray equipment Indian Health Service 9/22/2010
THE RESEARCH FOUNDATION OF STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK $96,011 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support Proper salivary gland function is critical for the maintenance of oral health and physiological well-being. Saliva functions to moisten the oral tissues as an aid for speech, as a solvent important for taste, and as a masticatory wetting agent/lubricant i National Institutes of Health 3/08/2010
COLD SPRING HARBOR LABORATORY ASSOCIATION, INC. $95,137 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support The long-term goal of this project is to develop a complete understanding of the spatial and temporal events involved in the regulation of RNA polymerase II transcription and pre-mRNA processing in living cells. An understanding of these parameters in the National Institutes of Health 12/11/2009
THE RESEARCH FOUNDATION OF STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK $93,854 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support The present proposal is aimed at incorporating the newly developed cross-correlation light scattering capability with synchrotron X-ray scattering, specifically designed for bio-macromolecular gels, solutions and suspensions. The combined X-rays and laser National Institutes of Health 8/25/2009
THE RESEARCH FOUNDATION OF STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK $91,601 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support Dividing cells must co-ordinate their rate of division with their rate of cell growth and protein synthesis. In many microbes, and in yeast in particular, this co-ordination is achieved by a size control mechanism: when the cell grows to a certain critica National Institutes of Health 12/18/2009
THE RESEARCH FOUNDATION OF STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK $88,449 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support The endomembrane system of all eukaryotic cells consists of a collection of membrane bound compartments. Movement of materials amongst these compartments is achieved by the regulated trafficking of cargo vesicles between compartments. In the process of di National Institutes of Health 9/25/2009
COMMUNITY PROGRAM CENTER OF LONG ISLAND INC $87,969 ARRA - Head Start FY2009 ARRA COLA/QI - Awards a cost-of-living adjustment increase for Head Start employees in the amount of $27,878 and awards quality improvement funds in the amount of $60,091, together totaling $87,969. The cost of living increase is calculated from 1 Administration for Children and Families 6/16/2009
COLD SPRING HARBOR LABORATORY ASSOCIATION, INC. $82,532 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support This administrative supplement supports an additional predoctoral position on an existing Institutional Training grant in Cellular, Biochemical, and Molecular Sciences, T32GM065094, that was awarded to the Watson School of Biological Sciences at Cold Spri National Institutes of Health 8/07/2009
THE RESEARCH FOUNDATION OF STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK $76,716 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support The goal of this project will be to continue studies of the structure and function of lipid rafts: ordered sphingolipid and cholesterol-rich membrane domains found in mammalian and other eukaryotic cells. Among other functions, rafts are implicated in sor National Institutes of Health 7/13/2009
THE RESEARCH FOUNDATION OF STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK $73,822 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support The diversity of cell types within the vertebrate nervous system depends on patterning events that occur at early stages of development. The specification and patterning of neural tissue is closely coupled to the development of the other germ layers. The National Institutes of Health 9/17/2009
THE RESEARCH FOUNDATION OF STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK $67,340 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support The Collaborative Observational Study of Myopia in COMET Children (COSMICC) is a longitudinal study that has followed the cohort of children who participated in the Correction of Myopia Evaluation Trial (COMET. Currently, at an average age of 17 years, my National Institutes of Health 8/11/2009
THE RESEARCH FOUNDATION OF STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK $67,295 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support Mycobacterium tuberculosis is a major opportunistic pathogen in patients with HIV/AIDS. Current tuberculosis treatment regimes are severely hampered by the occurrence of multidrug resistant strains of M. tuberculosis (MDR-TB) and there is a critical need National Institutes of Health 6/11/2009
THE RESEARCH FOUNDATION OF STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK $67,241 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support Meiosis is a specialized cell division used by sexually reproducing organisms to produce haploid gametes from diploid cells. This reduction in chromosome number is accomplished by having two rounds of chromosome segregation follow a single round of chromo National Institutes of Health 7/15/2009
THE RESEARCH FOUNDATION OF STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK $63,335 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support The central theme of this Program Project involves the relationship among molecular structure, thermodynamics, and biological function. By developing novel biological systems that reflect the mutagenic specificity of a single DNA adduct and by using NMR s
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National Institutes of Health 8/27/2009
THE RESEARCH FOUNDATION OF STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK $55,000 Technical support and administrative/management services: Task Order 6, Antiviral and Immune Plasma Infrastructure Development
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National Institutes of Health 9/28/2009
THE RESEARCH FOUNDATION OF STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK $53,500 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support Activation of complement (C) with consequent generation of the C5-derived peptides C5a and C5a des Arg is a primary chemotactic stimulus at sites of infection or injury. Excessive C5a- mediated leukocyte recruitment into various tissues is known to be a c National Institutes of Health 7/02/2010
THE RESEARCH FOUNDATION OF STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK $49,000 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support The proposed work will establish national networking of scientists by providing a new software system (VIVO) and support for scientists using VIVO. Scientists using VIVO will be able to find other scientists and their work. Conversely, scientists using
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National Institutes of Health 9/25/2009
THE RESEARCH FOUNDATION OF STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK $45,177 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support There is currently no sensitive noninvasive method for diagnosing preclinical peripheral arterial disease (PAD), which affects 8 million Americans. In this project we propose to implement and evaluate a new noninvasive MRI based method in healthy subjects
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National Institutes of Health 9/21/2009
THE RESEARCH FOUNDATION OF STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK $42,669 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support Palmer Center for Chiropractic Research (PCCR) proposes to build upon its success in developing research expertise and infrastructure by strengthening its current collaborations and formally establishing a new collaboration in a 4 year multidisciplinary g
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National Institutes of Health 9/29/2009
THE RESEARCH FOUNDATION OF STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK $42,443 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support The funds will be used to develop, open and analyze three H1N1 studies in HIV-infected populations. The first study will determine the safety and immunogenicity of an H1N1 vaccine in HIV-infected pregnant women. The second study will determine safety an
This spending item is part of a $1,701,287 allocation. See details
National Institutes of Health 11/25/2009
SUFFOLK, COUNTY OF $40,000 ARRA - Prevention and Wellness--State Territories and Pacific Islands Under Component II, the DCDIP proposes to educate leaders and decision-makers about, and promote the effective implementation of, nutrition initiatives and will include evaluation to assess and document the public health impact an... Show more
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Centers for Disease Control and Prevention 2/06/2010
THE RESEARCH FOUNDATION OF STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK $34,655 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support The molecular basis of nervous system development remains a central question in developmental biology. Identifying the mechanisms and different pathways that orchestrate pluripotency or multipotency of stem cells, as well as the molecular signaling that c National Institutes of Health 7/20/2009
THE RESEARCH FOUNDATION OF STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK $31,949 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support Negative masking is the suppression of nocturnal locomotor activity that occurs when a mammal is exposed to light. On the one hand, it has been considered to be either an inconvenience for circadian rhythm assessment insofar as it can obscure underlying e National Institutes of Health 8/19/2009
THE RESEARCH FOUNDATION OF STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK $16,386 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support Accurate health-related quality of life (HRQOL) measurement is a critical aspect of assessing health, and the success of health care interventions. However, psychological research indicates that memory-based methods, typical of HRQOL assessment, are often
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National Institutes of Health 5/11/2010
THE RESEARCH FOUNDATION OF STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK $11,794 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support During the previous grant period, we have investigated the neural basis of the focal dystonia, benign essential blepharospasm (BEB). Our studies reveal that the spasms of lid closure characteristic of this disorder are an exaggeration of the abnormal blin National Institutes of Health 7/14/2009
THE RESEARCH FOUNDATION OF STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK $10,460 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support The funds will be used to develop, open and analyze three H1N1 studies in HIV-infected populations. The first study will determine the safety and immunogenicity of an H1N1 vaccine in HIV-infected pregnant women. The second study will determine safety an
This spending item is part of a $1,701,287 allocation. See details
National Institutes of Health 11/25/2009
COLD SPRING HARBOR LABORATORY $9,869 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support The overall goal of this application is to understand biochemical mechanisms that underlie the function of rhesus monkey TRIM5 (rhTRIM5). rhTRIM5 blocks HIV-1 infection by acting at two or more post-entry stages. Importantly, rhTRIM5 E3 ubiquitin ligase a National Institutes of Health 9/18/2009
THE RESEARCH FOUNDATION OF STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK $8,980 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support The funds will be used to develop, open and analyze three H1N1 studies in HIV-infected populations. The first study will determine the safety and immunogenicity of an H1N1 vaccine in HIV-infected pregnant women. The second study will determine safety an
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National Institutes of Health 11/25/2009
THE RESEARCH FOUNDATION OF STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK $0 Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support Pathogenic bacteria must assemble and secrete virulence factors to interact with host tissues and cause disease. Gram-negative bacteria have an outer membrane in addition to a cytoplasmic membrane and must secrete virulence factors across both these barri
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National Institutes of Health 9/30/2009