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Mehrdad Abedi, M.D. Sandeep Krishna Agarwal, M.D., PhD. Stephen Clark, PhD. Patrizia Fuschiotti, PhD. Francesco Del Galdo, M.D., Ph.D. Daniel Tschumperlin, BSME, MSE, PhD. Heather Yowell, PhD.

1996 Grants
Investigator Institution Project Title Grant Duration Amt Granted
Frank Arnett, M.D. University of Houston
Houston, Texas
Candidate genes for susceptibility to systemic sclerosis in Choctaw Native Americans One Year $34,994
Stephen Clark, M.D. VA Medical Center
Newington, Conn
Analysis of the tight skin-2 mutation in an immune deficient mouse One Year $34,930
Barry Gruber, M.D. SUNY at Stony Brook
Stony Brook, N.Y.
Determining the mechanism of action for pirfenidone: a new antifibrotic agent for treatment of systemic sclerosis One Year $35,000
J. Lee Nelson, M.D. Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center
Seattle, Wash.
HLA alloantigens, pregnancy, and risk of scleroderma One Year $35,000
David Strehlow, Ph.D. Boston University Medical Center
Boston, Mass.
Genetic markers for hypoxia using differential display One Year $35,000
Maria Trojanowska, M.D. Medical University of South Carolina
Charleston, S.C.
TGF-B Receptor signaling in fibrosis One Year $35,000
David Wyler, M.D. New England Medical Center
Boston, Mass.
Regulation of fibrosin expression in scleroderma fibroblast activation. I cloning and analysis of human fibrosin gene One Year $35,000
    Total Granted 1996:   $244,924

All grants collaboratively funded by the Scleroderma Federation and the United Scleroderma Foundation.

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