Outreach & Engagement

ARRA Awards at the University at Buffalo

For more information about the ARRA impact at the University at Buffalo, please visit their ARRA website

A total of $1,346,463 to two research institutions in Western NY through the National Institutes for Health. The University at Buffalo will receive $212,022 and the Roswell Park Cancer Institute (RPCI) will receive $1,134,441. This funding will create jobs for those in the field and bolster research efforts on important areas of medicine. A total of $9.9 million will be administered to New York State research institutions.  "These projects will invest in cutting-edge medical research at the University at Buffalo and the Roswell Park Cancer Institute," said Senator Schumer. "This funding will not only give an economic boost in the amount of jobs available in Western New York, but will bring us another step closer to solving public health problems afflicting many New Yorkers. Our federal dollars must continue to emphasize the importance of medical research in solving today's public health problems and giving our students the tools they need to succeed." 
Press: http://gillibrand.senate.gov/newsroom/press/release/?id=cb263993-6003-45f8-984a-0e16971d0708
Press: http://www.house.gov/apps/list/press/ny27_higgins/060109recoveryActRoswellUB.shtml 

University at Buffalo - $2,000,000

SUNY at Buffalo will receive $2,000,000 for PET/CT Multidimensional Translational Cardiovascular Research as part of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act. 
Press: http://schumer.senate.gov/new_website/record.cfm?id=311964
Press: http://www.house.gov/apps/list/press/ny27_higgins/042309roswellstim.shtml

University at Buffalo - $25,000

The University at Buffalo Medical Center will receive $25,836 to give students and teachers in the area hands-on training and research experience in NIH-funded laboratories. The federal investments for the University at Buffalo are part of a $33 million investment nationwide to put nearly 4,000 students and teachers in NIH-funded laboratories in hopes of reaching breakthroughs to improve lives across the country.  These federal funds from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) are part of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act.
Press:  http://schumer.senate.gov/new_website/record.cfm?id=313719

$79,250
Antenatal Betamethasone in Late Preterm Gestation Lambs
Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Dev 

$2,000,000
PET/CT for Multidimensional Translational Cardiovascular Research
National Center for Research Resources  

$389,357
Malt Liquor and Marijuana; Factors in Their Concurrent Versus Separate Use
National Institute for Alcohol Abuse & Alcoholism 

$230,464
Effects of Negative Consequences on Drug Self Administration in Rats
National Institute on Drug Abuse 

$600,000
CAREER: Synthesis, Phase Transitions, and Device Integration of Nanoscale Vandium Oxides: A Research and Education Program
National Science Foundation 

$2,536
Collaborative Research: Studying Language Production in the Field: Accessibility Effects on Variation
National Science Foundation 

$533,041
Defining the role of the PLCbeta3 Signaling Pathway in Mouse Taste Cells
National Science Foundation

$25,836
Inhibitory control and clinical response in ADHD
National Institute of Mental Health 

$299,999
Development of Functionally of Graded Protective Systems for Attenuation of Blast Loading
National Science Foundation 

$910,000
High Energy Physics Research at CMS and D-Zero Collider Experiments
National Science Foundation 

$845,796
International Collaborative Cicumpolar Archaeological Project (ICCAP): Joint Russian-American research in Kamchatka
National Science Foundation 

$120,000
CAREER: Gravity, Cosmology and Collider Physics
National Science Foundation 

$121,690
Subconvexity Bounds of L-Functions
National Science Foundation 

$20,478
Selectin Mediated Cell Adhesion Under Hydro Dynamic Shear
National Heart Lung and Blood Institute 

$31,545
Multifunctional Image Guided Surgical Platform
National Inst of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering 

$191,544
Genomic and Cellular Markers and Chronic Renal Allograft Function
National Inst of Diabetes Digestive Kidney Disease  

$28,436
Vitamin C in Polymicrobial Sepsis
Nat'l Center for Complementary & Alternative Medic 

$299,688
Image Guided Tracking of Tumor Motion for Conformal Radiation Therapy
National Science Foundation  

$539,086
Career: Generalized Image Understanding with Probabilistic Ontologies and Dynamic Adaptive Graph Hierarchies
National Science Foundation 

$74,276
Scalable bioprocess for cardiomyocyte generation from human embryonic stem cells
National Heart Lung and Blood Institute 

$77,439
Kv4.3 Gating Current: Mechanisms Underlying Closed State Inactivation
National Institute of Mental Health 

$744,973
Analysis of the Regulation of G Protein Coupled Sensory Signaling in C. Elegans
National Science Foundation  

$524,049
The REDfly Database of Transcriptional Regulatory Elements
National Science Foundation  

$277,375
Drug Abuse and Impulsivity: Tests of Animal Models
National Institute on Drug Abuse  

$173,995
Genetics & Biology of M. catarrhalis LOS in Otitis Media
National Inst on Deafness & Other Comm Disorders  

$64,139
Animal Models of Tinnitus, Brain Imaging and Therapy
National Inst on Deafness & Other Comm Disorders  

$36,455
Varicella-zoster Virus:  Tegument Proteins in Pathogenesis
Stanford University  

$380,818
Protein Arginine Methylation in Trypanosomes
National Institute of Allergy & Infectious Disease 

$385,377
Influenza Therapy by Au-nanorod 5'PPP-NS1-siRNA/cDNA Targeting of Bronchial Cells
National Institute of Allergy & Infectious Disease  

$389,985
Integration of Clinical, Genomic and Proteomic Data using a Bioinformatic Approach
National Institute of Allergy & Infectious Disease  

$209,379
Collaborative Research: Nonlinearities in the Arctic Climate System During the Holocene
National Science Foundation   

$51,710
Fellowship for John Fisk: Role of the guide RNA binding protein RBP16 in the bloodstream form of T. brucei
National Institute of Allergy & Infectious Disease  

$9,046
ST6GAL-1 Sialyltransferase in Allergic Airway Inflammation
Health Research Inc  

$78,810
Relational aggression, victimization, and adjustment during middle childhood
Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child 

$304,179
NetSE: Small: Cooperation and Security for Opportunistic Coding- based Wireless Networks
National Science Foundation 

$10,100
Mechanism and Treatment of Manganese Toxicity
National Inst of Environmental Health Sciences  

$193,355
Imbalances in Calcium Homeostasis: Mechanism Behind Ethanol-Related Dendritic Degeneration
National Institute for Alcohol Abuse & Alcoholism  

$74,743
Behavioral Measures on Temporal Resolution in Mice With or Without Kv1.1 Subunits
National Inst on Deafness & Other Comm Disorders  

$525,000
Career: Collective transport near quantum critical points in superconducting nanostructures
National Science Foundation

$114,916
Quantitative Modeling of Segmental Timing in Dysarthria
Oregon Health & Science University 

$30,618
Regulation of the tryptophan genes in Bacillus
National Institute of General Medical Sciences

$366,736
POET Study:  A Randomized Multi-institutional clinical Trial of Girls with Reflux
National Inst of Diabetes Digestive Kidney Disease

$43,200
Antiretroviral Pharacology Training in Resource Poor Countries
Fogarty International Center

$111,220
Therapeutic Approaches to Dysarthria:  Acoustic and Perceptual Correlates
National Inst on Deafness & Other Comm Disorders

$200,000
Multifunctional Nanoparticles in Diagnosis and Therapy of Pacreatic Cancer
National Cancer Institute 

$299,000
Electron-Phonon interaction and Disorder:  nanoscale Interference in Transport Phenomena
National Science Foundation

$394,857
ARRA:  Structure/Function of Varicella Zoster Virus DNA
National Institute of Allergy & Infectious Disease

$994,778
ARRA: Developing Web Delivered Coping Skills Training for Women with Alcoholic Partners
National Institute for Alcohol Abuse & Alcoholism

$12,368
ARRA: Dietary Supplement Selenium and HIF-1 Alpha Regulation in Cancer
Health Research Inc 

$558,617
ARRA:  Virulence Determinants in Staphylococcus Bacteremia
National Institute of Allergy & Infectious Disease 

$17,000
IPA: Research Agreement with USGS
US Geological Survey

$410,442
ARRA: Identifying Multiple Mechanisms of Change in Alcoholism Treatment
National Institute for Alcohol Abuse & Alcoholism 

$100,000
ARRA: Managing Ionic Iron: Molecular Architecture and Mechanism of Cell Iron Metabolism
National Inst of Diabetes Digestive Kidney Disease 

$535,271
ARRA: Cancer Prevention among Urban Poor with Complex Chronic Conditions
National Ctr on Minority Health&Health Disparities 

$39,625
ARRA: The effect of inter-species interactions on the virulence of Streptococcus mutans
National Institute of Dental & Craniofacial Res 

$954,397
ARRA: Saliva and Serum Inflammatory Biomarkers in Periodontitis: A Prospective Study in Older Women
National Institute of Dental & Craniofacial Res 

$68,339
ARRA: Pharmacogenetics of Human Carbonyl Reductases
National Institute of General Medical Sciences 

$142,011
ARRA: Type II Enterotoxins as Mucosal Immunomodulators
National Institute of Dental & Craniofacial Res 

$210,117
ARRA: Role of Parkin in Regulating Manganese Toxicity
National Inst of Environmental Health Sciences 

$230,937
ARRA: Communiction in Late-Stage Cancer: Exploring Hospice Decision
National Institute for Nursing Research 

$114,782
ARRA: Candidacidal Mechanisms of Salivary Histatins
National Institute of Dental & Craniofacial Res 

$144,330
ARRA: Allosteric Control of NMDA Receptors
National Inst of Neurological Disorders & Stroke 

$8,742
ARRA: Proteasome function in the aging retina
Regents of the University of Minnesota

$763,880
ARRA: Identifying and Studying RNA Loop-Small Molecule Interactions
National Institute of General Medical Sciences 

$300,000
ARRA: Paleoclimatic Reconstruction and Archaeological Investigation at Xcoch, Puuc Region of Yucatan, Mexico: Exploratory Research into Arctic Climate Change and Maya Culture Process
National Science Foundation 

$199,999
ARRA: NYS AHEC System SEARCH Program
Health Resources and Services Admin

$47,673
ARRA: Noninvasive Assessment of Embryo Implantation Potential using 1H NMR Metabonomics
University of California at San Francisco

$93,911
Parkinson's Disease iPS Cell Line Research Consortium
McLean Hospital Corporation 

$9,901
Targeting the Proteasome to Overcome Therapy Resistance in B-NH
Health Research Inc

$20,000
ARRA supplement:  Time resolved studies of transport in renal epithelial cells
National Inst of Diabetes Digestive Kidney Disease

$203,378
ARRA: Implementation of Asthma Guidelines in Primary Care: Comparison of 4 Approaches
University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center

$27,936
ARRA: Regulation of DNA replication and repair
National Institute of General Medical Sciences

$390,524
ARRA:  MRI-R2: Acquisition of an Inductively Coupled Plasma Mass Spectrometer (ICP/MS)
National Science Foundation

$29,876
ARRA Supplement: Emergence of Cognitive Competence
Georgia State University

$79,493
ARRA:  Outcomes of a Device Trial Utilizing Digital Augmentative Alternative Communication Technology on Underserved Elementary School-Aged Children with Down Syndrome
Institute for Matching Person and Technology 

$12,900
ARRA: Internship Stipend Program - Master's in Rehabilitation Counseling
NYS Office of Children and Family Services 

$23,234
ARRA:  Operational assistance to WBFO
NYS Education Department

$79,320
ARRA: Genome-Wide Association Study of Chronic Periodontitis
University of Missouri at Kansas City

$30,000
ARRA:  Adaptive Equipment Loan Project for CBVH
NYS Office of Children and Family Services  

$499,800
ARRA:  Illumina Genome Analyzer IIx
National Center for Research Resources

$43,798
ARRA: CBVH Innovative Employment and Training Program: Center for Assistive Technology - Innovative Scoping
NYS Office of Children and Family Services