Bindley Bioscience Center researchers will participate in four of the eight 2009 Discovery Park Seed Grant awards. Fifty-four proposals were submitted to this second annual competition to support interdisciplinary, one-year research projects with budgets up to $50,000.
Catherine Hill (PI), Entomology and Val Watts (Co-PI), Pharmacy
Partnering DP Center: Bindley Bioscience Center
Title: New Chemistries for Control of Arthropod Vectors
Daniel Szymanski (PI), Agronomy; Mark Hall (Co-PI), Biochemistry; Scott Jackson (Co-PI), Agronomy; Christopher Staiger (Co-PI), Biological Sciences; and Olga Vitek (Co-PI), Statistics
Partnering DP Center: Bindley Bioscience Center
Title: A Proteomic Roadmap to the Endogenous Protein Complexes of the Endoplasmic Reticulum in Key Plant Species
Jeff Ko (PI), Veterinary Clinical Sciences; Brenda Austin (Co-PI), Veterinary Clinical Sciences; and Thomas Talavage (Co-PI), Electrical & Computer Engineering/Biomedical Engineering
Partnering DP Center: Bindley Bioscience Center
Title: A New Method for Pain Assessment-functional MRI (fMRI) as a Tool to Assess Acute and Chronic Pain in Animals
Garth Simpson (PI), Chemistry; and Lynne Taylor (Co-PI), Industrial & Physical Pharmacy Partnering DP Center: Bindley Bioscience Center Title: Nucleation of Pharmaceutical Crystals Quantified by Second-order Nonlinear Optics
