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| Research : | Seed Grant Program |
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Also see - Description | RFA | Seed Grant Application In response to a request for seed grant applications issued August 15th, 2002, nineteen Letters of Intent were received by the September 15th, 2002 deadline. These Letters were reviewed by the Cousins Center Research & Education Committee whose members include Drs. Julienne E. Bower, Steven W. Cole, Chris J. Evans, John L. Fahey, Fawzy I. Fawzy, Michael R. Irwin, Bruce D. Naliboff, and Thomas F. Newton. |
| The Research & Education Committee recommended that full applications be invited from ten Letter submitters and nine full proposals were received by the November 15th, 2002 deadline. Each application was reviewed by a primary, secondary and tertiary reviewer and these reviews were presented and discussed at a meeting of the full committee. In any case where a committee member had a conflict of interest on a particular application, that committee member absented him or herself from the meeting room during discussion and abstained from voting. |
| As a result of this process, the following seven seed grants were funded in 2003: |
| Principal Investigator | Department | Seed Grant Title |
| Gayle Baldwin, Ph.D. | Hematology/Oncology | Cocaine: Making the Connection Between Nervous System Stimulation & Immune Dysfunction |
| Chris Evans, Ph.D. & Edwin Cooper, Ph.D. | Semel Institute and Neurobiology | Zebrafish as a Potential Model for Analyzing Neuroimmune Mechanisms |
| Daniel Furst, M.D. | Rheumatology | Sleep & Cytokines in Rheumatoid Arthritis |
| Shelly Gable, Ph.D. | Psychology | Social Evaluation, Fear of Rejection, & Proinflammatory Cytokine & Cortisol Responses to Stress |
| Bruce Naliboff, Ph.D. | Semel Institute | Plasma & Cerebrospinal Fluid Cytokine Concentrations in Women with Diarrhea Predominant IBS |
| Jennifer Pike, Ph.D. | Semel Institute | Tai Chi Chih in the Treatment of Rheumatoid Arthritis |
| Shelley Taylor, Ph.D. | Psychology | Family Environment and Biobehavioral Stress Responses |
