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.
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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