2008 Collaborative Activity Seed Grant Program Recipients   

  Pediatric Oncology Nanotechnology Initiative  

PI:Susan Blaney, M.D.
Baylor College of Medicine
Co-PI: Jennifer West, Ph.D.
Rice University 

  Gulf Coast Cluster for Translational Pain Research 2nd Annual Symposium  

PI: Jin Mo Chung, Ph.D.
University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston 

 Collaborative Research Alliances for the Cure of Lung Diseases  

PI: Tony Eissa, M.D.
Baylor College of Medicine 

  Gulf Coast Consortium for Bioinformatics Workshop Series  

PI: Sallie Keller-McNulty, Ph.D.
Rice Univeristy
Co-PI: Jonas Almeida, Ph.D.
University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center
Co-PI: Elmer Bernstam, M.D.
University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston 

 Reconceptualizing Medical Ontologies: Merging Cognitive Linguistics and Biomedical Informatics  

PI: Suzanne Kemmer, Ph.D.
Co-PI: Amy Franklin, Ph.D.
Rice Univeristy
Co-PI: Jiajie Zhang, Ph.D.
Co-PI: Jack Smith, M.D., Ph.D.
University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston 

  Workshop on Single Particle Reconstruction  

PI: Steven Ludtke, Ph.D.
Baylor College of Medicine 

  Gulf Coast Consortium for Magnetic Resonance Meeting  

PI: Ed Nikonowicz, Ph.D.
Rice University
Co-PI: Ponnada Narayana, Ph.D.
University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston 

  GCC Cancer Epigenome Workshop  

PI: Steffi Oesterreich, Ph.D.
Co-PI: Wei Li, Ph.D.
Baylor College of Medicine 

  Systems Biology Summer Workshop and ICBP Grant Planning  

PI: Prahlad Ram, Ph.D.
Co-PI: Gordon Mills, M.D., Ph.D.
University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center
Co-PI: Luay Nakhleh, Ph.D.
Rice University 

The GCC Collaborative Activity Seed Grant Program is generously supported by the W.M. Keck Foundation.