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Recent round of “seed” funding supports ICAN's research and long term goal of attracting external funding

► Second-round RFP to be issued Fall 2009*

The range of research being conducted by ICAN members expanded following a recent round of Center seed grant awards. With the support of the College of Veterinary Medicine and the Vice President of Research and Economic Development, ICAN was able to provide $100,000 in funding for a variety of research projects in neurotoxicology. The six proposals funded during this first-round competition emphasized ICAN priorities for an innovative multi-disciplinary team research approach that is also competitive and well-positioned to attract additional external funding.

Research projects awarded in 2009 under the first round of ICAN seed funding, with investigators and their departments, include:

“Ultra-sensitive Imaging of Nanomaterials, Pathogens, and Vesicular Transporters”

  Dr. Ning Fang, Chemistry

“Retinal Diagnostic Imagining in Rodent Models of Parkinson's Disease”

  Dr. Matt Harper, Vet. Clinical Sciences; Dr. Arthi Kanthasamy,

  Biomed. Sciences; Dr. Sinisa Grozdanic, Vet. Clinical Sciences

“Identification and Characterization of Novel Virulence Factors of

Neonatal Meningitis Associated E.Coli Via Proteomic Analysis”

  Drs. Lisa Nolan and Ganwu Li, Vet. Micro. & Preventative Med.

“Effects of Nanoparticles on Interface of Nervous and Immune Systems”

  Drs. Dušan Palić and Eric Rowe, Biomed. Sciences

“The C. elegans nAChR and parasitic disease; towards an effective

model system for small molecule drug discovery”

 Dr. Alan Robertson, Biomed. Sciences; Dr. Joanne Powell-Coffman, Genetics,

 Development and Cell Biology

“Genomewide analysis of alternative splicing in oxidative stress”

  Drs. Natalie Singh and Ravindra Singh, Biomed Sciences

*A second-round RFP for research projects supported by ICAN seed funding will be issued

in November 2009.  This competition will be open to all ISU faculty members,

with emphasis given to projects meeting ICAN’s research priorities

and its goal of attracting new external funding sources. 

For additional information contact:  Dr. Anumantha Kanthasamy,

515-2942516 or akanthas@iastate.edu