Round 3 Awardees
High-Resolution MRI of Prostate Cancer James Brooks (Urology) Dwight Nishimura (Electrical Engineering) Bob S. Hu (Electrical Engineering) John Higgins (Pathology)
Enhancement of neuron: device interactions by surface presentation of small molecule neurotrophin receptor agonists Stefan Heller (Otolaryngology) Frank Longo (Neurology & Neurological Sciences) Gerald Fuller (Chemical Engineering)
Novel nanoparticles for delivery of small molecules in cancer therapy Chris Contag (Pediatrics) Richard Zare (Chemistry)
Molecular and Functional Characterization of Colon Tumor Cancer Stem Cells and Stroma Michael F. Clarke (Internal Medicine) Patrick Brown (Biochemistry) Steven Quake (Bioengineering)
Inventing a Microendoscope to Measure Sarcomere Lengths in Humans Scott Delp (Bioengineering) Terry Sanger (Neurology and Neuroscience) Mark Schnitzer (Biological Sciences) Stephen Smith (Molecular and Cellular Physiology)
Interferometric Analysis of Membrane Protein Conformation Steven Boxer (Chemistry) Nick Melosh (Materials Science & Engineering)
Determination of Muscle Stem Cell Fate in Bioengineered Artificial Niches Helen Blau (Microbiology and Immunology) Curtis Frank (Chemical Engineering)
Wound Management with Intelligent Materials Curtis Frank (Chemical Engineering) Jennifer Cochran (Bioengineering) George Yang (Surgery) Michael Longaker (Medicine)
Engineering Fluorophore-Binding Protein Tags for In Vivo Molecular Imaging Jennifer Cochran (Bioengineering) Sanjiv Sam Gambhir (Radiology) JiangHong Rao (Radiology)
Construction of a Conditional Stem Cell Niche Gerald Crabtree (Pathology) Tom Wandless (Chemistry) Tobias Meyer (Molecular Pharmacology) Steven Quake (Bioengineering)
Gating Mechanisms of Metazoan Sensory Mechanotransduction Channels Miriam Goodman (Molecular and Cellular Physiology) Eric Darve (Mechanical Engineering)
High-speed transcranial magnetic force pulses to drive stem cell migration Karl Deisseroth (Bioengineering) Bret Schneider (Psychiatry)
Carbon Nanotube Mediated Therapy for Lymphoma Hongjie Dai (Chemistry) Dean Felsher (Medicine-Oncology)
Understanding Pterosaur Flight An Interdisciplinary Study of Flight and Wing Dynamics Margot Gerritsen (Energy Resources Engineering) Scott Delp (Bionegineering) Ilan Kroo (Aeronautics and Astronautics) Jonathan Payne (Geological and Environmental Sciences)
Vascular Anastomosis Using Thermoreversible Gels Gerald Fuller (Chemical Engineering) Geoffrey Gurtner (Surgery)
Nanoreservoir Arrays to Study Neuronal Signaling Ricardo Dolmetsch (Neurobiology) Nicholas Melosh (Materials Science & Engineering)
A Novel Transducer Array and Intelligent Softwarefor Automated Detection of Asymptomatic Carotid Artery Stenosis Sandy Napel (Radiology) T. Khuri-Yakub (Electrical Engineering) R. Brooke Jeffrey (Radiology)
Development of Novel Nanocrystal-Based MRI Contrast Agents for In-Vivo Cellular and Vascular Imaging Dwight Nishimura (Electrical Engineering) Hongjie Dai (Chemistry) Phillip Yang (Medicine-Cardiovascular) Michael McConnell (Medicine-Cardiovascular) Bruce Daniel (Radiology)
Mapping the functional surface of the ribosome exit tunnel with novel antibiotics: a combined approach using computational design, chemo-biosynthesis, and experimental characterization Chaitan Khosla (Chemistry) Vijay Pande (Chemistry) Jody Puglisi (Structural Biology)
A novel approach to study the neural circuitry of learning Jennifer Raymond (Neurobioogy) Mark Schnitzer (Biological Sciences) Gregory Barsh (Genetics)
How are synapses eliminated to generate a functional neural circuit? Mark Schnitzer (Biological Sciences) Ben Barres (Neurobiology)
Development of integrated semiconductor optical imaging sensors Stephen Smith (Molecular and Cellular Physiology) Krishna Shenoy (Electrical Engineering) James Harris (Electrical Engineering)
An FPGA-Based Bioinformatics Accelerator and Application to Ultra-High-Throughput Sequencing William Dally (Computer Science) Arend Sidow (Genetics) Serafim Batzoglou (Computer Science)
Investigation of Directed Cell Migration Using Microfluidic Electrokinetic Systems Eugene Butcher (Pathology) Juan Santiago (Mechanical Engineering