Final Reports & Publications for Fiscal Year 2008

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]
Last Reviewed: 10/25/2016