April 1, 2010

The following projects have been funded for the 2010 Wallace H. Coulter Foundation 2010 funding cycle:

1. Title: Treatment of Lower Back Pain Utilizing a Biomimetic Aggrecan Elimination of Lower Back Pain.
   Co-PI’s: Ken Barbee (Drexel U, Biomed), Michele Marcolongo (Drexel U., Dept. of Materials Sciences and Engineering), Caroline Schauer (Drexel U., Dept. of Materials Sciences and Engineering), Edward Vresilovic (Penn State Hershey Medical Center, Dept. Orthopaedic Surgery)
2. Title: Bioactive Alimentary Protein-based Scaffolds (APS) for Wound Healing and Regenerative Medicine.
   Co-PI’s: Peter Lelkes (Drexel U, Biomed), Michael Weingarten (DUCOM, Dept. of Surgery), Elisabeth Papazoglou (Drexel U, Biomed)
3. Title: Near-infrared Spectroscopy as a Monitor for Depth of Anesthesia.
   Co-PI’s: Kurtulus Izzetoglu (Drexel U, Biomed), Kambiz Pourrezaei (Drexel U, Biomed), James Reynolds (DUCOM, Dept. of Medicine), Jay Horrow (DUCOM, Dept. of Anesthesiology)
4. Title: Development of a Urine Screening Test For Liver Cancer.
   Co-PI’s: Wan Shih (Drexel U, Biomed), Ying-Hsiu Su (DUCOM, Dept. Microbiology and Immunology), Wei-Heng Shih (Drexel U., Dept. of Materials Sciences and Engineering), Kenneth Rothstein (DUCOM, Dept. of Medicine)
5. Title: Fast Plasma-assisted Hand Disinfection or Sterilization System.
   Co-PI’s: Gregory Fridman (Drexel U, Biomed), Richard Hamilton (DUCOM, Dept. of Emergency Medicine), Suresh Joshi (DUCOM, Dept. of Surgery), Mark Ingermann (Lankenau Hospital, Dept. of Infectious Disease)
6. Title: Syk Kinase as a Biomarker of Skin UV Damage and Photocarcinogenesis.
   Co-PI’s: Elisabeth Papazoglou (Drexel U, Biomed), Jouni Uitto (Thomas Jefferson University, Dept. of Dermatology)