Tompkins County, N.Y., funds by Health and Human Services, Department of
Listing $28,676,931.99 in stimulus funds from Health and Human Services, Department of for Tompkins
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.
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| CORNELL UNIVERSITY, INC | $3,910,774 |
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 |
| TOMPKINS COMMUNITY ACTION, INC. | $2,945,707 | ARRA - Head Start ARRA Early Head Start Expansion funding to serve 92 children and their families. Programming provides services for low-income families with young children, pregnant mothers and up to 3 year olds; promoting healthy development of children and their familie | Administration for Children and Families | 12/08/2009 |
| CORNELL UNIVERSITY, INC | $2,000,000 | Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support The purpose of this proposal is to facilitate the purchase of a 3T MRI scanner for basic and applied research at Cornell University. This 3T scanner will be the first MRI research instrument at the Cornell Ithaca campus, providing capabilities for imaging | National Institutes of Health | 4/28/2009 |
| CORNELL UNIVERSITY, INC | $999,891 | Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support This application addresses broad Challenge Area 01: Behavior, Behavioral Change, and Prevention, and specific Challenge Topic 01-OD-101: Test default options to promote healthier behaviors. We propose a set of three related studies that target two critica | National Institutes of Health | 9/28/2009 |
| CORNELL UNIVERSITY, INC | $817,558 | Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support Tuberculosis is an extremely successful pathogen with a penetrance of its host population, mankind, that is estimated by WHO to be close to 1/3 of the population of the planet. In areas of high endemnicity for HIV infection, such as Sub-Saharan Africa, t | National Institutes of Health | 5/07/2009 |
| CORNELL UNIVERSITY, INC | $761,954 | Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support Sexual reproduction provides ample opportunity for pairwise interactions between the genotypes of mating pairs. One consequence of processes that are rife with male x female interactions is that evolution may fail to optimize functions for either sex, and | National Institutes of Health | 8/24/2009 |
| CORNELL UNIVERSITY, INC | $756,523 | Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support The proposed research takes advantage of the strengths of one of the oldest and most widely used neurological assessments in clinical practice, the Rey Auditory Verbal Learning Test (RAVLT). We will apply cutting-edge mathematical modeling tools that wer | National Institutes of Health | 9/24/2009 |
| CORNELL UNIVERSITY, INC | $736,240 | Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support Resistance to infection is determined by immune system activity and the overall physiological condition of the host. This project will determine how the seemingly disparate physiological processes of immunity, metabolism and reproduction are genetically l | National Institutes of Health | 7/21/2009 |
| CORNELL UNIVERSITY, INC | $697,032 | Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support Our goal is to estimate the frequency, location, and functional significance of nucleotide variation underlying G?footprintsG? of adaptation in the Drosophila melanogaster genome. The proposed research builds on our successful initial scan using variation | National Institutes of Health | 9/18/2009 |
| CORNELL UNIVERSITY, INC | $691,673 | Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support The organization of the neural network, or Central Pattern Generator (CPG), that organizes locomotor behavior in the rodent spinal cord, is poorly understood. We propose that the function of the CPG network depends not only on the pattern of synaptic conn | National Institutes of Health | 7/17/2009 |
| CORNELL UNIVERSITY, INC | $681,110 |
Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support Tumor angiogenesis represents a critical event of cancer that involves the recruitment of bone marrow derived endothelial progenitor cells; however, the exact mechanisms and effects by which microenvironmental conditions regulate these processes are not w
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National Institutes of Health | 9/29/2009 |
| CORNELL UNIVERSITY, INC | $649,913 |
Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support One fifth of America's children grow up in poverty. While there is good evidence that this is harmful to health, achievement, and socio-emotional adjustment, very little is known about the brain basis that mediates the detrimental effects of poverty. We a
This spending item is part of a $1,443,756 allocation.
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National Institutes of Health | 9/28/2009 |
| CORNELL UNIVERSITY, INC | $559,030 |
Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support This research proposal, entitled 'Building on GWAS for NHLBI-diseases: the U.S. CHARGE consortium', will leverage existing population, laboratory and computational resources to identify susceptibility genes underlying genome-wide significant and well-repl
This spending item is part of a $27,554,408 allocation.
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National Institutes of Health | 9/29/2009 |
| CORNELL UNIVERSITY, INC | $554,976 | Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support Cells continuously experience genome damage that, if not properly attended to, can cause developmental defects, premature aging, and increased cancer predisposition. DNA damage checkpoints defend against these consequences of genomic instability by regula | National Institutes of Health | 6/19/2009 |
| CORNELL UNIVERSITY, INC | $500,000 | Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support This application requests support for the acquisition of a hybrid Quadrupole, Ion Mobility separation, orthogonal acceleration Time-of-Flight Tandem Mass Spectrometer (Synapt HDMS), interfaced with a fully integrated ultra-high performance liquid chromato | National Institutes of Health | 4/28/2009 |
| CORNELL UNIVERSITY, INC | $499,734 | Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support This is a request for funds to purchase an inverted Zeiss LSM710 confocal microscope to augment a 5-year old upright Leica TCS SP2 confocal microscope that will remain in the same shared imaging facility. These instruments will be managed under MIF-Biotec | National Institutes of Health | 5/14/2009 |
| CORNELL UNIVERSITY, INC | $468,630 | Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support In this proposal, funds are requested to acquire a sensitive modern X-band CW-ESR spectrometer, which will support biomedical research at Cornell (Ithaca) and Weill Medical College of Cornell University. This will replace a 25 years old ESR spectrometer t | National Institutes of Health | 2/26/2010 |
| COLORADO STATE UNIVERSITY | $468,166 |
Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support Oncogenesis occurs when mechanisms of cell growth control are deregulated. This generally develops in a multistep process that involves mutations in oncogenes and tumor suppressor genes. The understanding of this process has been greatly enhanced through
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National Institutes of Health | 7/16/2009 |
| CORNELL UNIVERSITY, INC | $423,500 | Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support In the central nervous system, protein isoform diversity is responsible, at least in part, for its complexity and its many orchestrated activities. This proposal concerns the role of alternative splicing in the differentiation and function of various extr | National Institutes of Health | 8/27/2009 |
| CORNELL UNIVERSITY, INC | $372,293 | Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support Microtubules play essential roles in a variety of cellular processes, including chromosome segregation and organelle transport. They are dynamic polymers that alternate frequently between phases of growing and shrinking, a property that allows the rapid r | National Institutes of Health | 9/30/2009 |
| TOMPKINS COMMUNITY ACTION, INC. | $361,765 |
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.
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Administration for Children and Families | 4/10/2009 |
| CORNELL UNIVERSITY, INC | $358,545 | Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support This Award aims to investigate how aging is impacted by certain special features of the genome that are stably inherited through multiple rounds of cell division, but do not involve changes in the DNA sequence. These epigenetic features often involve spe | National Institutes of Health | 8/14/2009 |
| CORNELL UNIVERSITY, INC | $317,882 | Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support The principle long-term objective of this project is to provide a detailed biophysical and molecular understanding of exocytotic vesicle fusion and transmitter release in endocrine cells and nerve terminals. Upon electrical stimulation nerve terminals and | National Institutes of Health | 7/17/2009 |
| CORNELL UNIVERSITY, INC | $310,588 |
Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support Clinical evidence suggests a strong link between Alzheimer's disease (AD) and cerebral microvascular dysfunction, but it remains unclear whether they contribute independently to dementia, or if AD pathology triggers microvascular disease, or vice versa. I
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National Institutes of Health | 5/15/2009 |
| CORNELL UNIVERSITY, INC | $265,210 |
Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support The goal of this proposal is to perform the integrated multi-disciplinary large animal studies needed to advance clinical treatment and assessment of articular cartilage injury and degeneration in the United States. Microfracture, a simple and minimally i
This spending item is part of a $1,730,845 allocation.
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National Institutes of Health | 9/29/2009 |
| CORNELL UNIVERSITY, INC | $250,359 | Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support Much of the ability to move depends upon networks of neurons in the spinal cord and hindbrain. Recent evidence indicates that there is a relatively simple structural and functional organization in spinal cord that may extend into the hindbrain. This propo | National Institutes of Health | 8/14/2009 |
| CORNELL UNIVERSITY, INC | $238,500 | Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support This proposal is to conduct basic research into the structure and function of mammalian cells, with a focus on the processes of secretion and endocytosis. Both secretion and endocytosis are vital for human and animal health because they are required for m | National Institutes of Health | 7/19/2010 |
| RHEONIX, INC. | $233,044 | Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support This supplemental grant is focused on expanding the scope of work of the original parental grant. While the parental grant is focused on the rapid molecular detection of sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) in point-of-care markets, the supplemental effo | National Institutes of Health | 8/02/2010 |
| CORNELL UNIVERSITY, INC | $217,616 |
Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support Technological innovations arising from the HapMap Project have dramatically increased the speed and accuracy of genotyping while greatly reducing cost. Public and private efforts are beginning to release an unprecedented volume of human genotype and DNA s
This spending item is part of a $419,259 allocation.
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National Institutes of Health | 9/30/2009 |
| CORNELL UNIVERSITY, INC | $206,549 |
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.
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National Institutes of Health | 9/30/2009 |
| CORNELL UNIVERSITY, INC | $200,200 | Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support Genetically encoded Ca2+ sensors hold great promise for the dissection of complex physiology in vivo. The ability to make molecular scale measurements in real time in mammals, and to determine lineage G??specific signaling events by genetic specification | National Institutes of Health | 9/16/2009 |
| VYBION, INC. | $200,000 | Arthritis, Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases Research Rapid isolation of high-affinity human antibodies from large synthetic libraries | National Institutes of Health | 1/29/2010 |
| CORNELL UNIVERSITY, INC | $200,000 | Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support The Recovery Act Administrative Supplement funds will be used to complete the syntheses of several members of the guttiferone family of natural products and to evaluate their function. The proposed novel and concise synthetic architectural assembly will | National Institutes of Health | 9/30/2009 |
| VYBION, INC. | $200,000 | Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support This project is for the development and testing of ProCode, a new technology for preclinical development of novel pharmaceutical therapies based on functional bispecific antibodies. It was described in the NIH Readiness Tool as A NEW TECHNOLOGY FOR PRECL | National Institutes of Health | 5/14/2010 |
| VYBION, INC. | $200,000 | Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support This project is for developing a new process for the rapid isolation of high-affinity human antibodies from large synthetic libraries. | National Institutes of Health | 1/29/2010 |
| CORNELL UNIVERSITY, INC | $198,747 | Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support Our long-term objective is to identify how protein conformation plays a role in various diseases. Our specific aims are to compute the 3D structures of proteins, protein-protein and protein-nucleic acid complexes, and the folding pathways leading to these | National Institutes of Health | 9/30/2009 |
| CORNELL UNIVERSITY, INC | $192,500 | Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support The mTOR (mammalian target of rapamycin) and GCN2 [eukaryotic initiation factor 2 alpha (eIF2?) kinase 4] pathways play critical roles in integrating the organismG??s response to insulin, growth factors, energy status, and nutrient availability, and both | National Institutes of Health | 8/31/2009 |
| CORNELL UNIVERSITY, INC | $185,288 |
Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support Prostate cancer is a leading cause of cancer related morbidity and mortality in US males. Despite initial treatments with curative intent for localized stage (surgery or radiation) approximately one third patients will progress to advanced stages. This h
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National Institutes of Health | 7/16/2009 |
| TETRAGENETICS, INC | $177,636 | Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support Novel methods for high-level expression of aglycosylated or fully glycosylated monoclonal antibodies in a Tetrahymena thermophila manufacturing platform. | National Institutes of Health | 7/28/2010 |
| CORNELL UNIVERSITY, INC | $177,624 | Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support Human rhinoviruses (HRV) are the major causative agent of the common cold and the most common acute infectious illness in humans. Due to the large number of HRV serotypes, little immunological protection is offered by prior rhinovirus exposure, rendering | National Institutes of Health | 5/03/2010 |
| CORNELL UNIVERSITY, INC | $174,697 |
Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support The Human Microbiome Project (HMP) is an NIH Roadmap program that will produce unprecedented amounts of information about the microbial communities living on and within humans. The objective of our current work is to provide a Data Analysis and Coordinati
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National Institutes of Health | 9/10/2009 |
| CORNELL UNIVERSITY, INC | $172,334 | Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support Recent developments in dog (Canis familiaris) genomics have catapulted this species to the status of a model organism, with major advantages for the study of complex genetic diseases and traits relevant to the human condition. Its rapid rise in genomics w | National Institutes of Health | 1/22/2010 |
| CORNELL UNIVERSITY, INC | $171,005 | Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support This application requests funds for state-of-the-art Light Scattering (LS) devices for the characterization of macromolecular size, shape, oligomeric state and solution behavior. The instrumentation will consist of a Wyatt Technology Corporation DAWN HELE | National Institutes of Health | 2/20/2010 |
| CORNELL UNIVERSITY, INC | $170,351 |
Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support The purpose of this study is to evaluate ultra-short echo (UTE) imaging as a buiomatker of meniscal integrity by biomechanical and histological measures in an ovine model of meniscal repair: site-specific meniscal T2* values will be correlated with corres
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National Institutes of Health | 9/23/2009 |
| CORNELL UNIVERSITY, INC | $170,227 | Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support We propose to determine the first genome-wide estimate of mutation rates in cells that undergo meiosis. These studies will address whether cells in meiosis sustain higher rates of mutagenesis relative to mitotic cells and whether homologous recombination | National Institutes of Health | 8/03/2009 |
| CORNELL UNIVERSITY, INC | $165,770 | Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support The overall aim is to investigate the molecular and neurophysiological mechanisms for steroid-dependent plasticity of auditory encoding in a teleost fish model system. Aim 1 of the parent grant tests the hypothesis that estrogen-dependent shifts in audito | National Institutes of Health | 7/17/2009 |
| CORNELL UNIVERSITY, INC | $154,000 | Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support Efficient discrimination between innocuous and pathogenic antigens forms the basis of effective immune function. Appropriate restraint of immune responsiveness is particularly important within the unique environment of the liver since intrahepatic cells a | National Institutes of Health | 5/29/2009 |
| CORNELL UNIVERSITY, INC | $149,308 | Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support This renewal proposal describes plans to continue a vigorous chemistry-biology interface (CBI) predoctoral training program that is designed to train scientists in key aspects of fundamental organic and biological chemistry as well as in scientific discip | National Institutes of Health | 8/03/2009 |
| CORNELL UNIVERSITY, INC | $140,957 | Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support The goal of this research is to explore whether gene expression in lung tissue is modulated by antioxidant status. Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) is characterized by the development of irreversible airflow limitation and is the fourth leadin | National Institutes of Health | 5/08/2009 |
| CORNELL UNIVERSITY, INC | $136,480 |
Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support The lack of large animal models of genetic diseases is a serious barrier to reliable testing of the safety and efficacy of new therapies. There are currently no large animal systems whose genomes can be readily manipulated. Many NIDDK diseases lack approp
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National Institutes of Health | 9/21/2009 |
| TOMPKINS COMMUNITY ACTION, INC. | $133,816 | ARRA - Head Start This award provides for ARRA Cost of Living Adjustment (COLA), and Quality Improvement Funding consistent with the provisions of Section 640(a)(5) of the Head Start Act for the Head Start and/or Early Head Start program. Head Start promotes the school rea | Administration for Children and Families | 6/26/2009 |
| CORNELL UNIVERSITY, INC | $131,473 |
Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support The lack of large animal models of genetic diseases is a serious barrier to reliable testing of the safety and efficacy of new therapies. There are currently no large animal systems whose genomes can be readily manipulated. Many NIDDK diseases lack approp
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National Institutes of Health | 9/21/2009 |
| CORNELL UNIVERSITY, INC | $129,044 | Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support The irreversible commitment to M phase requires the explosive activation of the key mitotic driver, CDK1/Cyclin B (also known as M phase promoting factor, or MPF). Since the molecular identification of MPF in the 1980s, many investigators have been attra | National Institutes of Health | 9/11/2009 |
| TOMPKINS, COUNTY OF | $125,648 |
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.
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Administration for Children and Families | 4/09/2009 |
| CORNELL UNIVERSITY, INC | $119,577 | Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support Cells have evolved mechanisms to establish spatial order of their constituent organelles and provide direction for transport of cellular components. This is most apparent in the need for cell polarity and the ability to segregate organelles appropriately | National Institutes of Health | 9/30/2009 |
| CORNELL UNIVERSITY, INC | $117,470 | Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support Coordination of DMA replication and gene expression is central to the regulation of cell proliferation. A strategy for the coordination of these two processes is to engage the same regulators in both processes. Classical examples of such dual functional r | National Institutes of Health | 8/14/2009 |
| TOMPKINS, COUNTY OF | $113,414 |
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.
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Administration for Children and Families | 4/09/2009 |
| CORNELL UNIVERSITY, INC | $111,681 |
Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support The purpose of this project is to examine the relationships between nonstandard work among mothers and children's behavior, cognitive test scores, and body mass index (BMI; or weight-for height). We focus on atypical and unpredictable aspects of maternal
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National Institutes of Health | 7/21/2010 |
| CORNELL UNIVERSITY, INC | $110,785 | Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support Studies supported by GM47458 have been directed toward understanding the roles played by the small GTPase Cdc42 in cell growth and differentiation. We have begun to examine the importance of Cdc42 in these cellular processes and in developmental events b | National Institutes of Health | 8/14/2009 |
| CORNELL UNIVERSITY, INC | $110,059 |
Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support This application entitled, 'Discovering Pathways of Functional Decline: A GWAS Approach' addresses the challenge area (08): Genomics and the specific challenge topic, 08-AG-101: Genetic factors affecting rates of change in disease risk factors with age. T
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National Institutes of Health | 9/24/2009 |
| CORNELL UNIVERSITY, INC | $109,120 | Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support Recently, cerebral microvessel disease has been identified as an important component of Alzheimer's disease. The mechanism of interaction between the diseases is still unclear in part because animal models of microvascular disease are lacking. The propose | National Institutes of Health | 8/14/2009 |
| CORNELL UNIVERSITY, INC | $107,389 | Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support Folate metabolism is required for the synthesis of nucleotides (purines and dTMP) and S- adenosylmethionine (AdoMet). Disruption of folate metabolism affects AdoMet and dTMP syntheses and thereby influences AdoMet-dependent methylation reactions and uraci | National Institutes of Health | 7/08/2010 |
| CORNELL UNIVERSITY, INC | $106,081 | Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support We aim to conduct genome-wide global run-on and sequencing (GRO-seq) analysis to characterize promoter architecture and nascent transcription activity at a high resolution in induced pluripotent stem cells (iPS) derived from non-embryonic sources. We hav | National Institutes of Health | 8/31/2009 |
| CORNELL UNIVERSITY, INC | $104,036 | Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support Rapid and accurate recognition of invading pathogens is critical for survival from infectious diseases. Toll-like receptors (TLRs) are a family of innate receptors poised to rapidly recognize components of infectious organisms. Originally it was thought t | National Institutes of Health | 9/17/2009 |
| CORNELL UNIVERSITY, INC | $100,000 | Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support This extends ongoing research focused on understanding the role of nuclear folate metabolism in folate-mediated one-carbon metabolism and folate-associated pathologies. The proposed studies will enable us to follow up on a recent novel discovery that bot | National Institutes of Health | 9/28/2009 |
| CORNELL UNIVERSITY, INC | $95,900 | Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support Tuberculosis is an extremely successful pathogen with a penetrance of its host population, mankind, that is estimated by WHO to be close to 1/3 of the population of the planet. In areas of high endemnicity for HIV infection, such as Sub-Saharan Africa, tu | National Institutes of Health | 9/01/2009 |
| BOYCE THOMPSON INSTITUTE FOR PLANT RESEARCH, INC. | $83,942 |
Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support We have elucidated the identities and functions of several small molecule signals that control development and mating in the nematode Caenorhabditis elegans. This family of signaling molecules, called ascarosides, is based on the dideoxysugar ascarylose m
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National Institutes of Health | 7/17/2009 |
| CORNELL UNIVERSITY, INC | $81,808 |
Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support The goal of this proposal is to perform the integrated multi-disciplinary large animal studies needed to advance clinical treatment and assessment of articular cartilage injury and degeneration in the United States. Microfracture, a simple and minimally i
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National Institutes of Health | 9/29/2009 |
| CORNELL UNIVERSITY, INC | $81,312 | Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support We are interested in elucidating the molecular mechanisms involved in tissue stem cell self-renewal and fate choice, in normal tissue development and homeostasis. Stem cells hold great promises for future therapies of numerous deadly diseases, yet their b | National Institutes of Health | 6/10/2009 |
| CORNELL UNIVERSITY, INC | $79,500 | Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support Many studies have demonstrated that the amount of speech children receive is related to their vocabulary and language development: typically, the more speech, the better. In addition to quantity, other characteristics of child-directed speech are positive | National Institutes of Health | 9/01/2010 |
| CORNELL UNIVERSITY, INC | $78,627 | Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support Asthma affects millions of people worldwide and has been gaining prevalence in the US. Symptoms of allergic asthma include airway inflammation, increased numbers of eosinophils in BAL and sputum, and airways hyperresponsiveness. While the role of eosinoph | National Institutes of Health | 5/02/2011 |
| CORNELL UNIVERSITY, INC | $71,277 | Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support Viruses invade all forms of life, causing diseases in humans including HIV-AIDS. Although the variety of viruses is daunting, all enveloped viruses, including HIV-1 and Rous Sarcoma Virus (RSV), must associate with the inner leaflet of plasma membranes. O | National Institutes of Health | 8/13/2009 |
| BOYCE THOMPSON INSTITUTE FOR PLANT RESEARCH, INC. | $55,720 |
Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support Plants and animals respond to PAMPs (pathogen-associated molecular patterns) that are indicative of pathogens. Oligogalacturonides (OGs), plant cell wall fragments generated by pathogen polygalacturonases, function as a PAMP in Arabidopsis thaliana. We hy
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National Institutes of Health | 9/09/2009 |
| CORNELL UNIVERSITY, INC | $54,000 | Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support In the spirit of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) of 2009, this supplemental award aims to create a job for a research technician who will accelerate the tempo of research of the parent grant (1 K01 DK080194-01). The parent grant is expl | National Institutes of Health | 9/21/2009 |
| CORNELL UNIVERSITY, INC | $51,061 | Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support Chronic inflammation observed in obesity has been implicated in the development of medically important complications, particularly atherosclerosis, cancer, insulin resistance and non-alcoholic fatty liver disease. Macrophages, key mediators of inflammatio | National Institutes of Health | 1/28/2010 |
| CORNELL UNIVERSITY, INC | $50,054 | Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support All viruses infecting vertebrates interact with receptors during the process of cell infection, and also are challenged by antibodies that are either pre-existing in the host or generated shortly after infection. Both these interactions are critical to th | National Institutes of Health | 7/17/2009 |
| CORNELL UNIVERSITY, INC | $49,950 | Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support Our research is focused on important aspects of respiratory chain assembly in mitochondria, using yeast as a model organism. We are seeking to understand the regulation of mitochondrial gene expression by proteins encoded in the nucleus that are required | National Institutes of Health | 9/18/2009 |
| CORNELL UNIVERSITY, INC | $43,043 | Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support The need for affordable, healthy foods (including organic and locally produced items) has increased public interest in home, school and community gardens. In addition to food security, economic savings, and reduced environmental impacts associated with fo | National Institutes of Health | 5/21/2010 |
| BOYCE THOMPSON INSTITUTE FOR PLANT RESEARCH, INC. | $40,600 |
Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support 'The long-term goal of this project is to apply molecular approaches to characterize and manipulate Taxus metabolism for production of the anti-cancer agent paclitaxel (Taxol''), a potent anti-cancer agent approved by the FDA for the treatment of breast,
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National Institutes of Health | 9/08/2009 |
| CORNELL UNIVERSITY, INC | $40,325 |
Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support Prostate cancer is the most common male cancer, claiming almost 27,000 lives annually.1 One of the treatment options for localized prostate cancer is surgery?radical prostatectomy, which is performed in 70,000 patients every year in United States. The suc
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National Institutes of Health | 7/15/2009 |
| CORNELL UNIVERSITY, INC | $39,750 | Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support Ever since the invention of monoclonal antibodies in 1975 and, more recently, the development of various in vitro antibody display technologies, antibodies have become one of the most powerful tools in biological research and are presently the fastest gro | National Institutes of Health | 5/29/2009 |
| CORNELL UNIVERSITY, INC | $39,002 |
Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support This proposal concerns the study of Men's Assessment of Social Support and Risk Networks. Unfortunately, relatively little is known about the particular social consequences of the aging of the HIV/AIDS population, either for the challenges faced by person
This spending item is part of a $323,537 allocation.
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National Institutes of Health | 5/05/2009 |
| CORNELL UNIVERSITY, INC | $34,980 |
Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support This is an administrative supplement to Microchip devices to assay quantal exocytosis, 5R01NS048826-05.
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National Institutes of Health | 9/15/2009 |
| CORNELL UNIVERSITY, INC | $32,192 |
Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support Oncogenesis occurs when mechanisms of cell growth control are deregulated. This generally develops in a multistep process that involves mutations in oncogenes and tumor suppressor genes. The understanding of this process has been greatly enhanced through
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National Institutes of Health | 7/16/2009 |
| CORNELL UNIVERSITY, INC | $26,410 | Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support This is a request for a Recovery Act Administrative Supplement to support one summer undergraduate student and one faculty from a non-research intensive institution. The purpose of the supplement is to expand the scope and accelerate the pace of researc | National Institutes of Health | 6/23/2009 |
| CORNELL UNIVERSITY, INC | $26,000 | Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support The mesodermal germ layer gives rise to a variety of functionally important cell types, including different muscle and non-muscle cells. Elucidating how different mesodermal cell fates are specified is not only important to the understanding of early stag | National Institutes of Health | 6/08/2009 |