| 1998 Grants |
| Investigator |
Institution |
Project Title |
Grant Duration |
Amt Granted |
| Stephen Doxsey,
Ph.D. |
University of
Massachusetts Medical Center
Worcester, Mass. |
Centrosome autoantigens:
Their role in the scleroderma-like syndrome in the tight
skin (TSK-2) mouse. |
One Year |
$49,154 |
| Barry Gruber,
M.D. |
Worcester, MA
SUNY at Stony Brook
Stony Brook, N.Y. |
Mast cell tryptase:
Regulatory studies of a novel activating factor |
One Year |
$50,000 |
| Gloria Higgins,
Ph.D. |
University of
Tennessee
Memphis, Tenn. |
Intracellular
II-Ira and precursor II-I a regulation fibroblast matrix |
One Year |
$50,000 |
| Elena Hitraya,
M.D., Ph.D. |
Thomas Jefferson
University
Philadelphia, Penn. |
dentification
of TGF-B- responsive elements in the first Intron of the
x(1) procollagen gene and evaluation of their role in
the pathogenesis of scleroderma |
One Year |
$50,000 |
| Stanley Hoffman,
Ph.D. |
Medical University
of South Carolina
Charleston, S.C. |
Curcumin sensitivity
and altered PKC in scleroderma |
One Year |
$50,000 |
| Stephen Krane,
M.D. |
Massachusetts
General Hospital
Boston, Mass. |
Role of collagenase
in scleroderma |
One Year |
$25,000 |
| Arnold Postlethwaite,
M.D. |
University of
Tennessee
Memphis, Tenn. |
Identification
of T Cell epitopes in Type I human collagen in patients
with systemic sclerosis |
One Year |
$50,000 |
| Virginia Steen,
M.D. |
Georgetown University
Washington, D.C. |
Survival studies
in systemic sclerosis |
One Year |
$49,640 |
| Paul Utz, M.D. |
Brigham and Women's
Hospital
Boston, Mass. |
Associations
of SR proteins with the U1- and U3sn autoantigen complexes |
One Year |
$43,910 |
| John Varga, M.D. |
University of Illinois
Chicago, Ill. |
Repression of collagen transcription
by Interferon-Gamma in human fibroblasts |
One Year |
$20,102 |
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|
Total Granted 1998: |
|
$437,806 |
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