Project Title
Principal Investigator
Institution
Year
Amount
Program
Research Topics

Exercise and Protein Supplementation in Heart Transplants

Charles Cortes

Hartford Hospital

2001

$180,000

Clinical and Community Health Issues

Cardiovascular Diseases, Nutrition

Erythema Migrans-Window to Lyme Disease

Juan Salazar

Connecticut Children's Medical Center

2001

$180,000

Clinical and Community Health Issues

Cell and Molecular Research

Effects of Nicotine on Bone Turnover in Older Women

Cheryl Oncken

University of Connecticut Health Center

2001

$180,000

Clinical and Community Health Issues

Geriatrics

Non-Invasive measures of auditory integrity in infants

Gerald Leonard

University of Connecticut Health Center

2001

$180,000

Clinical and Community Health Issues

Pediatrics

Intensive care for teens with negative pregnancy tests

Lois Sadler

Yale School of Nursing

2001

$179,073

Clinical and Community Health Issues

Primary Care, Obstetrics and Gynecology

Substance abuse domestic violence treatment study

Caroline Easton

Yale School of Medicine

2001

$173,555

Clinical and Community Health Issues

Psychiatry, Substance Abuse

Transcranial magnetic stimulation & hallucinated voices

Ralph Hoffman

Yale School of Medicine

2001

$179,399

Clinical and Community Health Issues

Psychiatry

Mechanisms of inflammatory central nervous system injury

Sandra Hewett

Syracuse University

2001

$595,791

Donaghue Investigators

Cardiovascular Diseases, Neurodegenerative Diseases

Structural Studies of Sickle Cell Hemoglobin Fibers

Ishita Mukerji

Wesleyan University

2001

$595,791

Donaghue Investigators

Cell and Molecular Research, Chronic Illness and Disability

Intracellular Transport/Regulation Of Molecular M-C Interacts.

Stephen King

University of Connecticut Health Center

2001

$595,791

Donaghue Investigators

Cell and Molecular Research

Brief Interventions for Problem Gamblers

Nancy Petry

University of Connecticut Health Center

2001

$595,791

Donaghue Investigators

Psychiatry, Behavioral Sciences

Ethical Issues in the Management of Financial Conflicts of Interest in Bio-research

Thomas Murray

The Hastings Center

2001

$493,769

Practical Benefit Initiatives

Bioethics

Improving Access to Mental Health Services for Older Hartford Residents

Jean Schensul

Institute for Community Research

2001

$996,631

Practical Benefit Initiatives

Psychiatry, Geriatrics

Effect of estrogen therapy on men with prostate cancer

Pamela Taxel

University of Connecticut Health Center

2000

$180,000

Clinical and Community Health Issues

Cancer, Geriatrics

Mammographic Patterns in AfricanAmerican and White women

Beth Anne Jones

Yale School of Medicine

2000

$180,000

Clinical and Community Health Issues

Cancer, Epidemiology

Novel HPV probes to improve cervical cancer screening

Janet Brandsma

Yale School of Medicine

2000

$179,200

Clinical and Community Health Issues

Cancer

Improved stroke outcome quantitative functional MRI

Song Lai

University of Connecticut Health Center

2000

$179,989

Clinical and Community Health Issues

Cardiovascular Diseases

Association of osteonectin mutations with osteoporosis

Anne Delany

Saint Francis Hospital and Medical Center

2000

$180,185

Clinical and Community Health Issues

Geriatrics, Genetics

Quality Care for Assisted Living Persons with Dementia

Sandra Bellantonio

Baystate Geriatric Medicine

2000

$180,000

Clinical and Community Health Issues

Geriatrics, Neurodegenerative Diseases

The effect on aging on human bone/implant interactions

Gloria Gronowicz

University of Connecticut Health Center

2000

$178,165

Clinical and Community Health Issues

Geriatrics

Intervening events and functional decline in older persons

Thomas Gill

Yale University School of Medicine

2000

$180,000

Clinical and Community Health Issues

Geriatrics

Crohn’s disease and osteopenia

Francisco Sylvester

Connecticut Children's Medical Center

2000

$178,486

Clinical and Community Health Issues

Pediatrics, Chronic Illness and Disability

Effects of a mentoring program on maternal/ and health

Victoria Seitz

Yale School of Medicine

2000

$177,177

Clinical and Community Health Issues

Pediatrics

Screening hispanic mothers for postpartum depression

Cheryl Beck

University of Connecticut

2000

$179,955

Clinical and Community Health Issues

Psychiatry, Obstetrics and Gynecology

ketoconazole antagonism of cocaine-induced euphoria

Robert Malison

Yale School of Medicine

2000

$180,000

Clinical and Community Health Issues

Psychiatry, Substance Abuse

The role of GABA in postpartum depression

Cynthia Neill Epperson

Yale School of Medicine

2000

$180,000

Clinical and Community Health Issues

Psychiatry

Cortical GABA concentrations in depression

Gerald Sanacora

Yale School of Medicine

2000

$179,423

Clinical and Community Health Issues

Psychiatry

Markers of biological risk in schizophrenia

Jonathan Covault

University of Connecticut Health Center

2000

$178,562

Clinical and Community Health Issues

Psychiatry

Transcranial magnetic stimulation in refractory depressi

Robert Berman

Yale School of Medicine

2000

$179,878

Clinical and Community Health Issues

Psychiatry

Efficacy of lyme vaccine in 28

Marietta Vazquez

Yale School of Medicine

2000

$180,000

Clinical and Community Health Issues

Public Health

Epstein-Barr virus in bone marrow transplant patients

Eric Pamer

Yale School of Medicine

2000

$110,000

Donaghue Investigators

Cancer

Molecular genetics of aging

Stephen Helfand

Brown University

2000

$595,791

Donaghue Investigators

Genetics, Geriatrics

DNA polymerase beta and meiosis

Joann Sweasy

Yale School of Medicine

2000

$595,791

Donaghue Investigators

Genetics, Cancer

Prevention of brain injury in premature infants

Scott Rivkees

Yale University School of Medicine

2000

$595,791

Donaghue Investigators

Pediatrics, Cell and Molecular Research

Treatment of binge eating and obesity

Carlos Grilo

Yale School of Medicine

2000

$595,791

Donaghue Investigators

Psychiatry, Behavioral Sciences

Promoting Patient Safety: Ethical Basis for Policy Debate

Virgina Ashby Sharpe

The Hastings Center

2000

$205,300

Practical Benefit Initiatives

Bioethics

Influence of Cognitive Activity on Coordination and Dynamics

Geraldine Pellacchia

University of Hartford

2000

$99,520

Practical Benefit Initiatives

Chronic Illness and Disability

The Study of Health Care Relationships

Sally Cohen

Yale University School of Nursing

2000

$2,860,000

Practical Benefit Initiatives

Focused Program of Research, Clinical Practice

Connecticut Collaborative Fall Prevention Project

Mary Tinetti

Yale University

2000

$3,200,000

Practical Benefit Initiatives

Geriatrics, Public Health

Screening, Outreach and Safety for Abused Prenatal Patients

Mary Duncan

University of Connecticut Health Center

2000

$794,773

Practical Benefit Initiatives

Obstetrics and Gynecology, Primary Care