Endowment Grant Recipients 2009-10

Kurt Gilliland, PhD and Edward Kernick, DPM, Faculty, Dept of Cell and Developmental Biology
"Anatomy in 3D:  Training Medical Students in the 21st Century"

Anne Mounsey, MD, Associate Professor, Dept of Family Medicine
"A Randomized Controlled Trial of Two Different Types of Web-based Instructional Methods"

Jeffrey T. Spang, MD, Assistant Professor, Dept of Orthopedics
"The effect of Nitric Oxide on Tendon Healing in the Rat Achilles Tendon Model"

Arthur M. Baker, MD, Clinical Instructor and Fellow, Dept of Obstetrics and Gynecology (Maternal Fetal Medicine)
"Association of paraoxonase 1 activity and preterm birth"

David J. Fitzhugh, MD, Resident (PGY 3), Dept of Medicine
"The role of GRK3 as a modulator of CXCR4 in an in vivo model of breast cancer metastasis"

Sina Haeri, MD, MHSA, Clinical Instructor and Fellow, Dept of Obstetrics and Gynecology (Maternal Fetal Medicine)
"Association between maternal Epstein-Barr reactivation and preterm birth"

Joseph Caster, MS II, Dept of Surgery (Surgical Oncology) (advising)
"Comparing the expression profiles of micro- and macrometastases in human breast cancers"

Christopher Hanzaker, MS II, Dept of Medicine (Endocrinology) (advising)
"The Dynamic Role of Thrombospondin-1 on the Enhanced Proliferation of Vascular Smooth Muscle Cells in Hyperglycemic Conditions"

Robyn Mercer, MS II, Dept of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine (advising)
"Development of a Practical Cancer Clonotype Assay for Molecular Discrimination of Multiple Primary vs. Metastatic Cancer"