Extramural Funding

2007 Spinal Cord Injury Research Program Postdoctoral Fellowships and Mentored Scientist Development Award Recipients

Postdoctoral Fellowship Award Recipients - 2 year awards

Lara DeRuisseau, Ph.D., SUNY's Upstate Medical University
Blair Calancie, Ph.D., mentor, SUNY's Upstate Medical University
Ventral root simulation to enhance cauda equina repair
$119,950 total

Yan Yan, Ph.D., University of Rochester School of Medicine
Roman Giger, Ph.D., co-mentor, University of Rochester School of Medicine
Mark Noble, Ph.D., co-mentor, University of Rochester School of Medicine
Proteoglycan co-factors of the Semaphorin 5A receptor
$120,000 total

Jieuwu Liu, Ph.D./Ulrich Hengst, Ph.D., Weill Medical College of Cornell University
Samie R. Jaffrey, M.D., Ph.D., mentor, Weill Medical College of Cornell University
Regulation of RhoA mRNA in spinal cord injury
$120,000 total

Mark Masino, Ph.D./Nathan Cramer, Cornell University
Ronald M. Harris-Warrick, Ph.D., mentor, Cornell University
Changes in spinal interneuron properties following SCI
$120,000 total

Shekhar Patil, Ph.D., Mount Sinai School of Medicine
George Huntley, Ph.D., mentor, Mount Sinai School of Medicine
Molecular mechanisms enabling neuropathic pain-associated intraspinal sprouting
$120,000 total

Brian Nieman, Ph.D., New York University School of Medicine
Daniel Turnbull, Ph.D., mentor, New York University School of Medicine
Longitudinal assessment of spinal cord injury repair by MRI
$120,000 total

Shengxiang Zhang, Ph.D., New York University School of Medicine
Wen-Biao Gan, Ph.D., mentor, New York University School of Medicine
The role of microcirculation in the regeneration of spinal cord axons
$120,000

Mentored Scientist Development Award Recipients - 3 year awards

Joseph Francis, Ph.D., SUNY Downstate Medical Center
John K. Chapin, Ph.D., mentor, SUNY Downstate Medical Center
Neural Control of Force in a Brain Machine Interface
$300,000 total

Donna Osterhout, Ph.D., SUNY Upstate Medical University
Dennis Stelzner, Ph.D., mentor, SUNY Upstate Medical University
Neural effects of release of cABC and GDNF caudal to SCI
$285,677 total

Nayanendu Saha, Ph.D., Sloan-Kettering Institute for Cancer Research
Dimitar Nikolov, Ph.D., mentor, Sloan-Kettering Institute for Cancer Research
ADAM Proteinases in Spinal Cord Injury
$300,000 total

Guo-Feng Tian, M.D., Ph.D., University of Rochester School of Medicine
Maiken Nedergaard, M.D., D.M.Sc., mentor, University of Rochester School of Medicine
Glutamate Release from Astrocytes in Spinal Cord Injury
$299,548 total