Fiscal Year 2008
- Individual Research Grant Number 08-3205-BIR-E-0
Smita Thakker-Varia, Ph.D., UMDNJ-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School
Grant Award: $495,000
Title: The Role of Brain-Derived Neurotrophic Factor Signaling in Traumatic Brain Injury
Final Report [pdf 7m] - Individual Research Grant Number 08-3206-BIR-E-0
John Glod, M.D., Ph.D., UMDNJ-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School
Grant Award $330,000
Title: The Role of the Bone Marrow Cells in Repair of the Blood Brain Barrier after Injury
Final Report [pdf 195k] - Individual Research Grant Number 08-3208-BIR-E-0
Peter Dowling, M.D., Veterans Biomedical Research Institute
Grant Award $489,523
Title: Novel Erythropoietin-derived Peptides for Treatment of Acute Brain Injury
Final Report [pdf 349k]
Publication [pdf 891k]
Publication [pdf 3m]
Publication [pdf 145k] - Individual Research Grant Number 08-3210-BIR-E-0
Martin Yarmush, Ph.D., Rutgers University, Department of Biomedical Engineering
Grant Award $327,275
Title: A Novel Organotypic Model of Traumatic Brain Injury
Final Report [pdf 673k] - Individual Research Grant Number 08-3211-BIR-E-0
Wilma Friedman, Ph.D., Rutgers University, Department Biological Sciences
Grant Award $495,000
Title: Brain Inflammation Leads to Neuronal Cell Death
Final Report [pdf 26k]
Publication [pdf 528k]
Publication [pdf 2m]
Publication [pdf 1.8m]
Publication [pdf 2.5m]
Publication [pdf 2.4m]
Publication [pdf 2m] - Programmatic Multi Investigator Research Grant Number 08-3207-BIR-E-0
Steven W. Levison, Ph.D., UMDNJ–New Jersey Medical School
Grant Award $1,533,130
Overall Title: Stimulating CNS Regeneration after Traumatic Brain Injury
Subproject 1:
Allen Maniker, M.D.
Title: CNS Regeneration after TBI from Transplanted Primary Neural Precursors
Subproject 2:
Steven W. Levison, Ph.D.
Title: CNS Regeneration after TBI from Endogenous Neural Stem/Progenitors
Subproject 3:
G. Miller Jonakait, Ph.D.
Title: The Role of Microglia in Recovery from Injury
Subproject 4:
Ellen Townes-Anderson, Ph.D.
Title: Control of Axonal Sprouting from Adult Neurons by Reactive Glia and Neural Stem Cell
Final Report [pdf 165k]
Publication [pdf 1m]
Publication [pdf 3.1m]
Publication [pdf 2m]
Publication [pdf 2.1m]
Publication [pdf 1.1m] - Programmatic Multi Investigator Research Grant Number 08-3209-BIR-E-0
Bonnie Firestein, Ph.D., Rutgers University, Department of Cell Biology & Neuroscience
Grant Award $1,980,000
Overall Title: Treating TBI via Astrocyte-based Approaches
Subproject 1:
Bonnie Firestein, Ph.D.
Title: Synaptic Architecture Preservation by Uric Acid and P2Y1 Antagonists after TBI
Subproject 2:
Sigurd Weaver, Ph.D., Princeton University
Barclay Morrison, Ph.D., Columbia University
Title: Uric Acid Prevention of Post Traumatic Brain Cell Death on Stretchable Electrodes
Subproject 3:
David Meaney, Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania
Title: Gliocentric Control of Glutamate to Improve Outcome after TBI
Final Report [pdf 3.1m]
Publication [pdf 1.4m]