GAP Award Winners 2012
| PROFESSORS MICHAEL BLABER & JOSEPH SCHLENOFF Awarded $50,000 |
Accelerated Wound Healing Develop and evaluate improved method for treating wounds using novel materials and a breakthrough therapeutic healing technology. |
| PROFESSOR STEVEN LENHERT Awarded $15,000 Video Presentation |
High-Throughput Drug Screening Array Develop and evaluate microarray platform capable of screening of drug libraries at a fraction of the cost of the current state of the art. |
| PROFESSOR JUAN ORDONEZ Awarded $6,850 |
Inflatable Lightweight Vacuum Chamber Design and build a system of lightweight vacuum chambers that could have aerospace, medical device, and energy applications. |
| PROFESSOR KENNETH ROUX Awarded $25,000 |
Production of Monoclonal Antibodies and Kits Develop and scale up test kits that are used to detect specific types of nut allergens to avoid nut allergy outbreaks. |
| PROFESSOR JACOB VANLANDINGHAM Awarded $35,000 |
Novel Treatment for Traumatic Brain Injuries Develop and test a new drug treatment for sports-related concussions and blast related injuries in the military. |
| PROFESSOR ALAN LEMMON Awarded $15,000 Video Presentation |
A Novel Method of DNA Sequencing in Vertebrates Develop and optimize a novel method to extend the set of DNA probes he has developed to accurately characterize species differences among 30 vertebrate families. |
| PROFESSOR JUAN ORDONEZ AND DR. SEAN BARTON Awarded $5,000 Video Presentation |
Inflatable Vacuum Chamber To continue their project to design and build a system of lightweight vacuum chambers that could have aerospace, medical device, and energy applications. |
| DR. EWA BIENKIEWICZ , PROFESSOR PRADEEP BHIDE AND PROFESSOR JACOB VANLANDINGHAMÂ Awarded $35,000 Video Presentation |
A Novel Approach to Treating Vascular Injury To develop a novel therapeutic agent to minimize cell death following a vascular injury event, including stroke. |
| PROFESSOR MIKE OVERTON, PROFESSOR AMY SANG, AND PROFESSOR MARTIN SCHWARTZ Awarded $20,000 Video Presentation |
Putative Therapeutic Agents to Treat Obesity in Animal Models To evaluate the efficacy and toxicity of novel anti-obesity compounds in animal models. |
| PROFESSOR BRANKO STEFANOVIC Awarded $20,000 Video Presentation |
Evaluation of the Efficacy of Novel Anti-Fibrotic Drugs Targeting Type I Collagen To develop and evaluate the toxicity of novel anti-fibrotic drugs in animal models. |
| PROFESSOR THEO SIEGRIST AND DR. JEFFERY WHALEN Awarded $15,000 Video Presentation |
Advancing Functional Crystalline Materials To develop and optimize novel crystals that can significantly assist the spintronics industry to improve the capacity and performance of solid-state electronics (i.e. computer hard drives, LED's, and LCD's). |