2005 Grant Recipients, Larry L. Hillblom Foundation

2005 Hillblom Foundation Grant Recipients

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Start-Up Grants Kathrin Maedler, PhD Adjunct Assistant Professor Larry Hillblom Islet Research Center University of California, Los Angeles Project Title: “Inflammatory Mechanisms in Type 2 Diabetes: The Role of IP-10 and SOCS-3 in Glucose Induced ß-cell Apoptosis” Amount Granted: $70,000 per year for 3 years Projected Grant Dates: 7-1-05 to 6-30-08 Gal Bitan, PhD Assistant Professor in Residence Department of Neurology David Geffen School of Medicine University of California, Los Angeles Project Title: “Amyloid ß-protein Oligomerization Inhibitors – A Multidisciplinary Study” Amount Granted: $70,000 per year for 3 years Projected Grant Dates: 7-1-05 to 6-30-08 Linda Ercoli, PhD Assistant Clinical Professor Neuropsychiatric Institute and Hospital University of California, Los Angeles Project Title: “Plaque and Tangle PET Imaging in Mild Cognitive Impairment” Amount Granted: $70,000 per year for 3 years Projected Grant Dates: 7-1-05 to 6-30-08 William W. Seeley, MD Clinical Instructor UCSF – Memory and Aging Center University of California, San Francisco Project Title: “Anterior Cingulate, Insular and Frontoinsular Vulnerability in FTLD and AD” Amount Granted: $70,000 per year for 3 years Projected Grant Dates: 7-1-05 to 6-30-08
Fellowship Grants Lingwen Zhong, PhD Postdoctoral Fellow Larry Hillblom Islet Research Center University of California, Los Angeles Project Title: “The Role of cdk Inhibitor, p27 kip1, in Regulating Pancreatic Beta-cell Differentiation and Regeneration” Amount Granted: $60,000 per year for 3 years Projected Grant Dates: 7-1-05 to 6-30-08 P. D. SiDong, PhD Postdoctoral Fellow Department of Biochemistry University of California, San Francisco Project Title: “Identification and Characterization of Novel Pancreatic Genes” Amount Granted: $60,000 per year for 3 years Projected Grant Dates: 7-1-05 to 6-30-08 Hong Hua, PhD Research Associate Department of Immunology The Scripps Research Institute La Jolla, CA Project Title: “Function of BMP4 and Id Proteins in the Expansion of Pancreatic Progenitors” Amount Granted: $60,000 per year for 3 years Projected Grant Dates: 7-1-05 to 6-30-08 Annette Marleau, PhD Research Associate Department of Immunology The Scripps Research Institute La Jolla, CA Project Title: “Thymic T cell Selection in Virally-induced Diabetes” Amount Granted: $60,000 per year for 3 years Projected Grant Dates: 7-1-05 to 6-30-08 Gultekin Tamguney, PhD Postdoctoral Scholar Institute for Neurodegenerative Diseases University of California, San Francisco Project Title: “Genes Modifying the Pathogenesis of Dementing Diseases” Amount Granted: $60,000 per year for 3 years Projected Grant Dates: 7-1-05 to 6-30-08 Christopher Patil, PhD Postdoctoral Scholar Life Sciences Division Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Berkeley, CA Project Title: “Mechanisms of Gene Regulation in Cellular Senescence” Amount Granted: $60,000 per year for 3 years Projected Grant Dates: 7-1-05 to 6-30-08 Jyothi Arikkath, PhD Postdoctoral Fellow Mission Bay Campus University of California, San Francisco Project Title: “The Functional Roles of d-catenin in Synaptogenesis and Synaptic Remodeling in the Developing and Aged” Amount Granted: $60,000 per year for 3 years Projected Grant Dates: 7-1-05 to 6-30-08 Sun Hur, PhD Postdoctoral Fellow Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics Genentech Hall University of California, San Francisco Project Title: “The Molecular Bases for the Premature Aging Disease, Dyskeratosis Congenita” Amount Granted: $60,000 per year for 3 years Projected Grant Dates: 7-1-05 to 6-30-08 Ken Nakamura, MD, PhD Fellow Department of Neurology University of California, San Francisco Project Title: “The Real Time Analysis of Synuclein Multimers in Live Cells” Amount Granted: $60,000 per year for 3 years Projected Grant Dates: 7-1-05 to 6-30-08 Beth Stevens, PhD Postdoctoral Fellow Department of Neurobiology Stanford University Stanford, CA Project Title: “Is Alzheimer’s Disease Caused by a Re-activation of a Developmental Mechanism of Synapse Elimination?” Amount Granted: $60,000 per year for 3 years Projected Grant Dates: 7-1-05 to 6-30-08 Ke Zhan, PhD Postdoctoral Fellow Department of Neurology Stanford University Stanford, CA Project Title: “Pathogenetic Mechanisms in Down Syndrome and Alzheimer’s Disease” Amount Granted: $60,000 per year for 3 years Projected Grant Dates: 7-1-05 to 6-30-08 Serge Dumoulin, PhD Postdoctoral Fellow Department of Psychology Stanford University Stanford, CA Project Title: “Cortical Plasticity and Reading in Age-Related Macular Degeneration” Amount Granted: $60,000 per year for 3 years Projected Grant Dates: 7-1-05 to 6-30-08
Larry L. Hillblom Distinguished Scholar S. Thomas Carmichael, MD, PhD Assistant Professor Department of Neurology UCLA School of Medicine Los Angeles, CA Project Title: “Cellular Microenvironments for Neuronal Regeneration after Stroke” Amount Granted: $100,000 award Projected Grant Dates: 7-1-05 to 1-1-07

2005 Hillblom Foundation Grant Recipients

Start-Up Grants

Kathrin Maedler, PhD
Adjunct Assistant Professor
Larry Hillblom Islet Research Center
University of California, Los Angeles

Project Title: “Inflammatory Mechanisms in Type 2 Diabetes: The Role of IP-10 and SOCS-3 in Glucose Induced ß-cell Apoptosis”

Amount Granted: $70,000 per year for 3 years
Projected Grant Dates: 7-1-05 to 6-30-08

Gal Bitan, PhD
Assistant Professor in Residence
Department of Neurology
David Geffen School of Medicine
University of California, Los Angeles

Project Title: “Amyloid ß-protein Oligomerization Inhibitors – A Multidisciplinary Study”

Amount Granted: $70,000 per year for 3 years
Projected Grant Dates: 7-1-05 to 6-30-08

Linda Ercoli, PhD
Assistant Clinical Professor
Neuropsychiatric Institute and Hospital
University of California, Los Angeles

Project Title: “Plaque and Tangle PET Imaging in Mild Cognitive Impairment”

Amount Granted: $70,000 per year for 3 years
Projected Grant Dates: 7-1-05 to 6-30-08

William W. Seeley, MD
Clinical Instructor
UCSF – Memory and Aging Center
University of California, San Francisco

Project Title: “Anterior Cingulate, Insular and Frontoinsular Vulnerability in FTLD and AD”

Amount Granted: $70,000 per year for 3 years
Projected Grant Dates: 7-1-05 to 6-30-08

Fellowship Grants

Lingwen Zhong, PhD
Postdoctoral Fellow
Larry Hillblom Islet Research Center
University of California, Los Angeles

Project Title: “The Role of cdk Inhibitor, p27 kip1, in Regulating Pancreatic Beta-cell Differentiation and Regeneration”