1999 Travel Fellowship Grant Awardees 
for Young Investigators

The following have been awarded the 1999 Travel Fellowships to the Experimental Biology Meetings held April 17-21, 1999 in Washington, D.C.


1999 Travel Fellowship Grant Awardees
back row (L to R): Gerald C. Koenig, Anna DiPietrantonio, Lorraine M. Lanningham-Foster,
Jill L. Zeiders, David W. Mullins, Zhixin Zhang, Weilie Ma
front row (L to R): Kevin T. Belasco, Jae Rin Suh, Robert W. Brock, Kathleen L. DeCicco,
Hunter C. Champion, Bingzhong Xue and Stephen A.W. Dukacz.
(not present: Francis N. Bosah)

Kevin T. Belasco, University of Iowa
"CGRP Promoter Activity Following Gene Transfer to Trigeminal Cultures"

Francis N. Bosah, Morehouse School of Medicine
"Signal Integration and Activation MAPK Pathways in Vascular Smooth Muscle Cells Isolated from Dahl Hypertensive Rats"

Robert W. Brock, University of Western Ontario
" TNFa requires Kupffer Cells to Initiate Hepatic Injury Following Hindlimb Ischemia in the Rat"

Hunter C. Champion, Tulane University
"In vivo Adenoviral Gene-Transfer of Endothelial Nitric Oxide Synthase to the Pulmonary Vascular Bed of the Mouse: Effect on Agonist-Induced and Flow-Mediated Vasodilation"

Kathleen L. DeCicco, Pennsylvania State University
IL-2RB, IRF-1, and STAT-1 mRNA are Reduced in Vitamin A Deficiency but Recovered by Treatment with Retinoic Acid (RA) and Poly-I:C-L,C (PIC) In Vivo"

Anna DiPietrantonio, New York Medical College
"Activation of Caspase-3 by H2O2 in HL60 Cells"

Stephen A.W. Dukacz, University of Western Ontario
"Angiotensin II Sensitivity of the Renal Medullary Circulation is Greater for SHR
Compared with WKY Rats"

Gerald C. Koenig, Massachusetts General Hospital
"Signaling Mechanisms used by bFGF in Downregulating Cell Adhesion Molecular Expression"

Lorraine M. Lanningham-Foster, University of Florida - Gainesville
"Overexpression of the Zinc-finger Protein Cysteine-Rich Intestinal Protein (CRIP) in CRIP Transgenic Mice Increases Sensitivity to Lipopolysaccharide and Influenza Virus Challenge"

Weilie Ma, Yale University
"Antisense Reduction of LFA-3 and ICAM-1 Expression on Cultured Human Endothelial Cells Inhibits Allogeneic CD4+ T Cell Activation and Sensitization Without Induction of Anergy"

David W. Mullins, Virginia Polytechnic Institute
"Tumor-Derived Factors Regulate Paclitaxel-Activated Macrophages"

Jae Rin Suh, Cornell Univeristy
"Identification of a Folate Degradation Pathway"

Bingzhong Xue, University of Tennessee, Knoxville
"the Agouti Gene Product Stimulates islet amyloid Polypeptide (Amylin) Secretion in Pancreatic B-Cells"

Jill L. Zeiders, Duke University
"Cellular Mechanisms Underlying Agonist-Induced Heterologous Sensitization of Beta- Adrenergic Receptor Signaling in Neonatal Rat Heart"

Zhixin Zhang, Univeristy of Alabama, Birmingham
"Expression of Rag and TDT in Normal PBL and in Synovial Tissue of Rheumatoid Arthritis Patients: Evidence of Receptor Revision"

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