ARP/ATP Report of Awards - 2002 - Texas Higher Education ...
Advanced
Research
Program B 2001
Advanced
Technology
Program B 2001
Report of Awards
May 2002
Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board
Division of Finance, Campus Planning and Research
P.O. Box 12788
Austin, Texas 78711
Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board
Pamela P. Willeford (Chairman) Austin
Martin Basaldua, M.D. (Vice Chair) Houston
Neal Adams Bedford
Ricardo G. Cigarroa Jr., M.D. Corpus Christi
Kevin P. Eltife Tyler
Jerry Farrington Dallas
Raul B. Fernandez San Antonio
Cathy Obriotti Green San Antonio
Gerry Griffin Hunt
Carey Hobbs Waco
Adair Margo El Paso
Lorraine Perryman Odessa
Hector de J. Ruiz Austin
Robert W. Shepard Harlingen
Windy Sitton Lubbock
Terderma L. Ussery, II Dallas
COORDINATING BOARD MISSION
The mission of the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board is to provide the Legislature advice and comprehensive planning capability for higher education, to coordinate the effective delivery of higher education, to administer programs efficiently and to improve higher education for the people of Texas.
COORDINATING BOARD PHILOSOPHY
The Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board will promote access to quality higher education across the state with the conviction that access without quality is mediocrity and that quality without access is unacceptable. The Board will be open, ethical, responsive, and committed to public service. The Board will approach its work with a sense of purpose and responsibility to the people of Texas and is committed to the best use of public monies.
Created by the Texas Legislature in 1965, the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board works with institutions of higher education, other state agencies, the Legislature and the Governor to ensure that Texans seeking higher education have access to high quality programs. The Board's overall responsibilities include assessing the state of higher education in Texas, making recommendations to the Governor, Legislature and institutions for its enhancement, and establishing policies for the efficient and effective use of the state's higher education resources.
Table of Contents
Introduction 1
Role of the Advisory Committee on Research Programs 2
Solicitation of Research Proposals 3
The Peer Review Process 4
Summary of the 2001 Advanced Research and Advanced Technology Program Awards 6
Texas - Mexico Border Region 6
Biennial Evaluations of the Advanced Research and Advanced
Technology Programs 7
Acknowledgments 7
Appendices
Appendix A: Affiliations of Review Panelists A-1
Appendix B: Proposals Submitted by Research Area B-1
Appendix C: List of Funded Proposals C-1
Appendix D: Funding by Institution D-1
Appendix E: Comparison of Awards in 1997, 1999 and 2001 E-1
Appendix F: Pre-Proposal and Proposal Evaluation Forms F-1
List of Tables
Table 1: Advisory Committee on Research Programs, 2001 2
Table 2: Preliminary Allocations 3
Table 3: 2001 Review Panel Chairs 5
Advanced Research Program/Advanced Technology Program
Report of Awards
Introduction
In 1987, the 70th Texas Legislature created the Advanced Research Program (ARP) and the Advanced Technology Program (ATP) as complementary, statewide research programs providing peer-reviewed, competitive grants to Texas college and university researchers. For the 1987-1988 biennium, $60 million was appropriated. Since then, approximately the same amount has been appropriated for the programs for each of the seven subsequent biennia.
The Advanced Research Program is devoted to basic research designed to attract and retain the best students and researchers and help provide the knowledge base needed for innovation. Re-searchers at all public institutions of higher education are eligible to compete.
The Advanced Technology Program is devoted to research with a technological objective and a long-term economic goal, but retains a strong educational component. It is designed to promote the state's economic growth and diversification by increasing the number and quality of scientists and engineers in Texas, enlarging the technology base available to business and industry, creating new products and services, and attracting new industries to Texas. Researchers at all Texas public and independent institutions of higher education are eligible to compete.
In 2001, three types of proposals were considered:
Χ Advanced Research Program proposals to support basic research in nine areas specified in statute.
Χ Advanced Technology Program proposals to support applied research in 11 areas specified in statute and one newly created transportation research area.
Χ ATP Technology Development and Transfer proposals to continue the development and transfer to the private sector of technology created under previous Advanced Research Program or Advanced Technology Program grants.
A separate competition was held for each type of award. Proposals were invited based on peer review of shorter pre-proposals.
The implementation strategy for the ARP/ATP features three key elements:
Χ Policy guidelines and oversight are provided by the distinguished Texas scientists and engineers who are members of the Coordinating Board's Advisory Committee on Research Programs (ACORP);
Χ Proposals are solicited in 21 different research areas from faculty members at institutions of higher education in the state; and
Χ Proposals are peer reviewed by nationally prominent scientific and technological professionals, including industry and government representatives from Texas and throughout the nation and academic scientists from outside Texas. None of the reviewers are associated with or employed by Texas higher education institutions.
This report outlines the procedures followed during the 2001 ARP/ATP proposal solicitation and review process and describes the outcomes of the competitions.
Role of the Advisory Committee on Research Programs
The Coordinating Board's Advisory Committee on Research Programs (ACORP) provides direction and guidance to the programs and ensures their quality. Chaired by Dr. Norman Hackerman, it is composed of 12 eminent Texas scientists and engineers from academe and industry representing a wide range of disciplines (see Table 1). Currently, five members of the National Academy of Science, the National Academy of Engineering, or the Institute of Medicine serve on the Committee.
Table 1
Advisory Committee on Research Programs, 2001
(Membership list through December 31, 2001)
Norman Hackerman (Chair) President Emeritus, Rice University
Keith W. Brown Vice President and General Manager, GeneScreen
Orchid Biosciences, Inc., Dallas
Rinn Cleavelin Chief Operating Officer, SEMATECH
R. Gary Daniels Senior Vice President and General Manager (retired), Motorola
Bonnie J. Dunbar Assistant Director, University Research and
Astronaut, NASA Johnson Space Center
Frank Gerome Partner, STARTech Business Development Center, Richardson
James L. Kinsey D.R. Bullard-Welch Foundation Professor of Science, Rice University
Way Kuo Wisenbaker Chair in Innovation and Associate Vice Chancellor
of Engineering, Texas A&M University
John McKetta Professor Emeritus and Joe C. Walter, Jr. Chair Emeritus
The University of Texas at Austin
Bettie Sue Masters Welch Foundation Professor of Chemistry
The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio
Billy E. Welch Director (retired), Armstrong Laboratory, San Antonio
Jane L. Winer Dean, College of Arts and Sciences, Texas Tech University
The Committee consistently recommends that the Coordinating Board seek proposals from all possible sources within the Texas higher education system and select the very best of these through a fair and open process. ACORP reviews the program announcement, makes a preliminary allocation of funds among disciplines, and reviews the recommendations of the review panels.
ACORP recommended that reviewers place special emphasis on research projects that address environmental and water resource issues of the Texas-Mexico border region, reflecting similar legislative interest in this area.
Solicitation of Research Proposals
ACORP recommended the announcement of proposal solicitation and evaluation in March 2001. The committee reviewed the proposal submission process, recruitment of reviewers, and the peer review process.
ACORP made preliminary budget allocations for the targeted research areas (see Table 2). Exact allocations were to be based upon the quality of proposals within each area.
In February 2001, the Coordinating Board staff conducted a workshop for 35 Sponsored Programs officers to demonstrate a new electronic submission system for pre-proposals and proposals. The Sponsored Programs officers’ response was favorable overall, and their comments and suggestions were invaluable in helping improve development of the electronic system. With this system, investi-gators would create and track the progress of their submissions through the Coordinating Board’s web site.
The Coordinating Board adopted the program announcement proposed by ACORP at its April 2001 meeting. After adoption, the program announcement was available on the Coordinating Board’s web site.
| |
|Table 2 |
| |
|Preliminary Allocations |
| | |
|Advanced Research Program | |
| Biological Sciences |$ 7,000,000 |
| Chemistry |2,200,000 |
| Computer Sciences |1,800,000 |
| Earth Sciences |800,000 |
| Engineering |3,900,000 |
| Materials Science |1,400,000 |
| Mathematics |900,000 |
| Physics |1,300,000 |
| Social and Behavioral Sciences |600,000 |
| | |
| Advanced Technology Program | |
| Aerospace |1,600,000 |
| Agriculture/Aquaculture/Agricultural Biotechnology |3,800,000 |
| Biomedicine |6,900,000 |
| Computer and Information Engineering |3,500,000 |
| Energy |3,100,000 |
| Environmental Science and Engineering, Recycling, and Water Resources |4,200,000 |
| Manufacturing Technology |3,400,000 |
| Materials Technology |3,800,000 |
| Medical Biotechnology |4,000,000 |
| Microelectronics |2,500,000 |
| Telecommunications |2,400,000 |
| Transportation |600,000 |
In Spring 2001, Coordinating Board staff conducted a series of briefings at nine campuses throughout the state, as well as televised briefings transmitted to 26 additional campuses. In addition, over 4,000 copies of the program announcement and 57 copies of a videotaped briefing were distributed to Texas institutions of higher education.
In 2001, a pre-proposal review procedure was used to improve the quality of review and reduce the number of full proposals evaluated by all review panels in the Advanced Research and Advanced Technology Programs.
In 2001, the Advisory Committee on Research Programs recommended an experimental electronic submission system for full proposals submitted to the Aerospace, Computer and Information Engineering, Computer Science, Engineering, Microelectronics, Telecommunications and Transportation research areas.
By June 8, the Board received 3,100 pre-proposals that were filed electronically on the web site. Each pre-proposal specified a research area, project title, keywords, estimated budget, and brief discussion of the project’s goals and processes, staff, facilities and resources available, and student education and training opportunities. The pre-proposals were
reviewed electronically and 1,409 were selected for full proposals. By the August 14 deadline,
investigators at 50 institutions had submitted 1,344 full proposals. Of these, 318 were submitted and reviewed electronically.
The electronic submission system for pre-proposals and proposals and the panel review process proved to be capable of operating under adverse conditions that included an internet virus known as the Nimda worm and after effects associated with the September 11 terrorist attacks in New York and Washington, D.C. The electronic system allowed for rapid transfer, handling, and access to electronically submitted pre-proposals, proposals, and reviews.
The Peer Review Process
To review proposals, 136 experts were organized into 16 panels. The chairs (see Table 3) and panelists were recruited from academe, national laboratories, and U.S. and Texas companies. No panelists were associated with any Texas university. The majority were from outside Texas and had not served previously. A list of reviewer affiliations is provided in Appendix A.
The review criteria for the ARP proposals included the merit and soundness of the proposal, capability of the investigator(s) to perform the necessary research, adequacy of institutional commitment and resources, and potential positive effect on the infrastructure of science and engineering.
In addition to those criteria, the ATP proposals were also evaluated on their prospects for commercialization, leveraging of grant funds to attract external funds, technology transfer, and meaningful industrial collaboration.
Criteria for evaluating ATP Technology Development and Transfer proposals were the technical merit and soundness of the proposal, personnel, and physical resources available to the project, and the technology transfer plan.
The proposal evaluation forms in Appendix F outline the evaluation criteria in more detail.
The Texas Legislature mandates that no more than 70 percent of the funds may be awarded to institutions in The University of Texas System and the Texas A&M System. Adjustments were made by Coordinating Board staff using priorities established by the panels to ensure that limit. To satisfy the 70 percent mandate, the five next-highest ranked proposals from non-UT/A&M system institutions were added to the 361 proposals initially selected by the review panels. Final allocations for the 366 proposals selected for funding were reviewed by ACORP.
Table 3
2001 Review Panel Chairs
Lynda Delph Associate Professor of Biology, Indiana University
Hugh Ellis Professor and Chair, Department of Geography and Environmental Engineering
Johns Hopkins University
Charles Emerson Joseph Leidy Professor and Chair, Cell and Developmental Biology
University of Pennsylvania Medical Center
M. Charles Gilbert Professor of Petrology, University of Oklahoma
Warren Grobman Director, Interconnect and Lithography Software Systems, Motorola
Vasken Hagopian Distinguished Research Professor of Physics, Florida State University
David Hardt Professor, Co-Director, Leaders for Manufacturing Program
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
John Hauser Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering
North Carolina State University
Alan Karr Professor and Director, National Institute of Statistical Sciences
Research Triangle Park
Neil Kestner Professor of Chemistry, Louisiana State University
Michael McNaughton Vice President for Chemistry and Chemical Engineering
Southwest Research Institute
Martin Massengale Director, Center for Grassland Studies, University of Nebraska
Robert Morff Director of Medical Technology, Sentron Medical, Inc., Cincinnati
Felicia Nowak Associate Professor of Biomedical Sciences
Ohio University
Stanley Reynolds Professor and Head, Department of Economics, University of Arizona
Michael Richard Staff Research Chemist, Shell Chemical Company, Houston
In October 2001, the Advisory Committee on Research Programs recommended, based on the results of the peer review process, specific projects to the Coordinating Board for funding. The Board approved that recommendation and authorized the Commissioner to make additional awards if additional funds become available.
The Advisory Committee on Research Programs recommended one additional award In January 2002 and five additional awards in April 2002 from funds returned by institutions. One institution declined to accept one of the original awards because it had accepted external funding from another source for the project. The awards were approved by the Commissioner of Higher Education.
Summary of the 2001 Advanced Research and Advanced Technology Program Awards
The $58,873,654 appropriated for these research grant programs, plus an additional $3,185,697 carried forward from the previous ARP/ATP awards, was distributed as recommended by the review panel chairs. A total of 371 proposals received funding B 144 Advanced Research Program proposals, 189 Advanced Technology Program proposals, and 38 Advanced Technology Program Development and Transfer proposals. The average award was $152,480. Two or more higher education institutions collaborated on 33 projects, and 14 of the collaborations included a public institution reporting less than $11 million in total research and development expenditures for Fiscal Year 2000.
A list of the specific projects, principal investigators, institutions, and amounts awarded appears in Appendix C.
Texas-Mexico Border Region
The 76th Texas Legislature expressed interest in providing funding for projects that address environmental issues on the Texas-Mexico border. Review panels were directed to place special emphasis on those projects. The Environmental Science and Engineering review panel dedicated more than $760,000, or more than 18 percent of the total environmental sciences funding allocation, to four highly ranked border projects.
Border Projects Awarded in 2001 Grant ARP/ATP Competitions:
Hydrology and Salinity Monitoring and Modeling Along the Middle Rio Grande
$212,500 Texas Agricultural Experiment Station Ranjan Muttiah; Seiiche Miyamoto
Removal of Trihalomethanes from Drinking Water by Cometabolism in Nitrifying Biofilters
$199,935 The University of Texas at Austin Gerald Speitel
Pretreatment for Reverse Osmosis Membranes: Silica Removal to Increase Yield in Border Region
$139,650 The University of Texas at Austin Desmond Lawler
Extension of HF Radar for Water Currents and Direct Observation of Transport Model Coefficients
$123,653 Texas A&M University – Corpus Christ James Bonner
$85,000 The University of Texas at El Paso Rosa Fitzgerald
Two awards were made in Social and Behavioral Sciences for projects involving topics related to the Texas/Mexico border region:
Mujeres Sanas [Healthy Women]: Virtual Bridges for the 21st Century
$100,000 University of North Texas Ruthann Masaracchia
Colonial and Community History: The Rehabilitation of an Historic Spanish Mission in Socorro, Texas
$47,988 The University of Texas at Dallas Howard Campbell
Biennial Evaluations of the Advanced Research and Advanced Technology Programs
The legislation creating the Advanced Research and Advanced Technology Programs specifies that the Coordinating Board appoint a committee consisting of representatives of higher education and private research organizations to evaluate the programs= effectiveness every two years.
The programs were last evaluated in fall 2000 by a committee appointed by Coordinating Board Chair Pamela Willeford. The committee reviewed documentation associated with the programs and met with representatives of the Governor=s Office, the Legislative Budget Board, the Senate Finance Committee, the House Appropriations Committee, project investigators, institutional administrators, reviewers, Indus-try representatives, and representatives of the Advisory Committee on Research Programs (ACORP). Dr. Edward A. Knapp, chair of the evaluation team and immediate past president and a professor at Santa Fe Institute, reported the evaluation committee=s findings to the Coordinating Board at its January 2001 meeting. The evaluation committee considered ARP and ATP to be outstanding, well-administered programs with an incredibly small staff and extremely low administrative costs. The panel strongly recommended that activities related to generating and developing quantitative measures of success be continued and expanded. The panel made four operational recommendations that included modifying budgetary procedures to be in line with federal programs, investigating the possibility of longer duration grants, encouraging multi-disciplinary programs and mechanisms, and disseminating information on the programs to senior management of private companies. Policy recommendations include restoring the appropriation for the programs to their original purchasing power, investigating the possibility of estab-lishing a smaller program targeting emerging institutions, providing bridge funding to allow for completion of a project or technology transfer, and investigating the possibility of establishing mechanisms to allow discipline allocations to fit the needs of the evolving technical base in Texas. According to the commit-tee, this is a very successful, mature, well-administered program which is bringing excellent return to the State, and inflation should not be allowed to diminish its effectiveness.
Acknowledgments
The Advisory Committee on Research Programs and its chair, Dr. Norman Hackerman, continue to make important and vital contributions to the success of these efforts. In addition, scientists and engineers at Texas higher education institutions ensure the quality of the program through the submission of more excellent proposals than can be funded.
Appendix A
Affiliations of Review Panelists
Texas Industry
AgriPro Seed, Inc.
Amarillo Biosciences
Avant! Corporation
British Petroleum
EQE International
GeneScreen, Inc. (2)
Huntsman Corporation
Karta Technologies
Lockheed Martin
Mediaprise
Motorola, Inc. (4)
Shell Chemical Company
Southwest Research Institute
Texas Cattle Feeders Association
Texas Instruments (2)
WorldCom, Inc.
U.S. Industry
GlaxoSmithKline Pharmaceuticals (2)
IGC-Super Power, LLC
IBM T.J. Watson Research Company
Microsoft Research
National Institute of Statistical Sciences
Phillips Medical System, Washington University
School of Medicine
Sentron Medical, Inc.
Sugen
Government Affiliation
California Coastal Commission
Kansas Geological Survey
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (3)
NASA
National Institutes of Environmental Health
Sciences
Sandia National Labs
University of California Energy Institute
USDA, ARS, KHD National Aquaculture Research
Center
USDA-National Resources Conservation Service
USDA-Southern Regional Research Center
U.S. Department of Energy
Institutions
Auburn University
California State University – Northridge
Carnegie Mellon University
Case Western Reserve University, School
of Medicine
Clemson University
Colorado State University
Cornell University (3)
Duke University
Duke University Medical Center
Emory University
Florida State University
Gettysburg College
Indiana University-Bloomington (2)
Iowa State University
Johns Hopkins Medical School
Johns Hopkins University
Kenyon University
Louisiana State University (3)
Michigan State University
Michigan Technological University
Minnesota Institute of Technology
Mississippi State University
North Carolina State University (2)
Northeastern University
Ohio University
Oklahoma State University-Stillwater (2)
Oklahoma State University-Tulsa
Penn State University
Purdue University
San Diego State University (2)
State University of New York at Buffalo (2)
The Salk Institute for Biological Studies
Tufts University Sackler School of Biomedicine
University of Arizona (2)
University of Arkansas
University of California – Berkeley
University of California at Irvine
University of California at San Diego (2)
University of Colorado
University of Florida
University of Illinois
University of Iowa
University of Louisville (3)
University of Massachusetts
University of Miami School of Medicine (2)
University of Michigan
University of Missouri – Rolla (3)
University of Nebraska – Lincoln (3)
University of Oklahoma (4)
University of Pennsylvania Medical Center
University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine
University of South Florida
University of Utah
University of Virginia Health Sciences Center
University of Washington
University of Wisconsin-Madison
University of Wyoming
Vanderbilt University (2)
Virginia Commonwealth University
Virginia Institute of Technology
Washington University in St. Louis, School of
Medicine
Appendix B
Proposals Submitted by Research Area
| | |Number | |Dollars |
| | | Submitted | | Requested |
| | |Submitted | | |
|Advanced Research Program | | | | |
|Biological Sciences - All Other | |120 | |22,232,885 |
|Biological Sciences - Molecular Biology and Genetics | |162 | |30,927,456 |
|Chemistry | | 54 | | 9,504,195 |
|Computer Science | |43 | | 6,863,241 |
|Earth Sciences | |34 | |4,320,357 |
|Engineering - All Other | | 89 | |13,734,964 |
|Engineering - Electrical and Electronics | |33 | | 5,644,485 |
|Materials Science | |38 | | 6,471,089 |
|Mathematics | |41 | |2,900,748 |
|Physics and Astronomy | |48 | |6,733,311 |
|Social and Behavioral Sciences | |44 | |4,325,839 |
| | | 706 | |$113,658,570 |
|Advanced Technology Program | | | | |
|Aerospace | |24 | |4,611,918 |
|Agriculture/Aquaculture/Agricultural Biotechnology | | 57 | |10,305,125 |
|Biomedicine | |105 | |21,919,723 |
|Computer and Information Engineering | |49 | | 8,618,590 |
|Energy | | 56 | |10,007,801 |
|Environmental Science and Engineering | | 60 | |10,797,556 |
|Manufacturing Technology | |34 | | 6,413,081 |
|Materials Technology | |56 | |11,564,951 |
|Medical Biotechnology | | 59 | |12,014,275 |
|Microelectronics | |26 | |4,958,826 |
|Telecommunications | |24 | |4,248,551 |
|Transportation | | 9 | |1,202,285 |
| | | 559 | |$106,662,682 |
|ATP Development and Transfer | | | | |
|Aerospace | |3 | |640,000 |
|Agriculture/Aquaculture/Agricultural Biotechnology | |6 | |984,533 |
|Biomedicine | |14 | |3,131,983 |
|Computer and Information Engineering | |6 | | 917,774 |
|Energy | | 7 | |1,247,801 |
|Environmental Science and Engineering | |9 | |1,706,322 |
|Manufacturing Technology | | 5 | | 764,133 |
|Materials Technology | |5 | |1,193,594 |
|Medical Biotechnology | |12 | |2,469,530 |
|Microelectronics | |5 | |1,210,225 |
|Telecommunications | |6 | |1,394,461 |
|Transportation | |1 | |298,880 |
| | |79 | |$15,959,235 |
| | | | | |
|ATP Totals | | 638 | |$122,621,917 |
| | | | | |
| GRAND TOTALS | |1,344 | |$236,280,487 |
Appendix C
List of Funded Proposals
Advanced Research Program
Biological Sciences – All Other C-2
Biological Sciences – Molecular Biology and Genetics C-2
Chemistry C-3
Computer Sciences C-4
Earth Sciences C-4
Engineering – All Other C-5
Engineering – Electrical and Electronics C-5
Materials Science C-6
Mathematics C-6
Physics and Astronomy C-7
Social and Behavioral Sciences C-7
Advanced Technology Program
Aerospace C-8
Agriculture/Aquaculture/Agricultural Biotechnology C-8
Biomedicine C-9
Computer and Information Engineering C-10
Energy C-10
Environmental Science and Engineering, Recycling and Water Resources C-11
Manufacturing Technology C-12
Materials Technology C-12
Medical Biotechnology C-13
Microelectronics C-13
Telecommunications C-14
Transportation C-14
Advanced Technology Development and Transfer
Aerospace C-15
Agriculture/Aquaculture/Agricultural Biotechnology C-15
Biomedicine C-15
Computer and Information Engineering C-15
Energy C-16
Environmental Science and Engineering, Recycling and Water Resources C-16
Manufacturing Technology C-16
Materials Technology C-16
Medical Biotechnology C-17
Microelectronics C-17
Telecommunications C-17
Transportation C-17
Advanced Research Program
2001 Funded Projects
Biological Sciences - All Other
Landscape Epidemiology of a Texas Hantavirus: Habitat Structure and Potential Role of Parasites
$249,520 Texas Tech University Marilyn Houck; Nancy McIntyre
Genetic Diversity and Disease Transmission
$200,000 University of Houston Diane Wiernasz; Blaine Cole
Natural Killer Cell uPA and uPAR in Matrix Degradation and Tumor Infiltration
$200,000 UNT Health Science Center at Fort Worth Richard Kitson; Ronald Goldfarb
Opioids, Nitric Oxide, and Vagal Control of Heart Rhythm
$199,600 UNT Health Science Center at Fort Worth James Caffrey
Function and Regulation of Polycystin-2 in C. elegans – A Model for Polycystic Kidney Disease
$192,000 UNT Health Science Center at Fort Worth Peter Koulen
Artificial Stable RNA Sequestration of Heavy Metals
$176,076 University of Houston George Fox
Cell-Specific Induction of GRK Subtypes Mediates Opioid Receptor Cross Talk Mechanisms
$173,260 University of Houston Kelly Standifer
Expression and Function of the Steroidogenic Acute Regulatory (StAR) Protein in Mammalian Brain
$167,493 TTU Health Sciences Center Peter Syapin; Douglas Stocco
Ultraviolet Communication in Swordtails
$152,299 The University of Texas at Austin Michael Ryan
Microarray-Based Neuropathology Studies
$100,355 The University of Texas at Austin John T. McDevitt
$51,255 Southwest Texas State University Joseph Koke
Calcium Channel Dysfunction in a Transgenic Model of Heart Failure
$149,860 UNT Health Science Center at Fort Worth Glenn Dillon; Stephen Grant
Mechanisms of Cardiovascular Disease: Ion Channel Modulation by Angiotensin II
$146,588 UT Health Science Center at San Antonio Glenn Toney
Biochemical and Structural Studies of Human CIF150, a Subunit of TFIID
$145,500 UT M.D. Anderson Cancer Center Raymond Jacobson
Influence of Adipose Differentiation Related Protein on Intracellular Lipid Trafficking
$144,000 Texas Agricultural Experiment Station Barbara Atshaves; Ann Kier
Mechanisms of Manganese-Induced Glial Injury in Parkinson's Using a Novel Real-Time Screening Assay
$144,000 Texas Agricultural Experiment Station Ron Tjalkens; Roula Mouneimne
Adaptation of a Multi-Photon Microscope to Quantify Intracellular Diffusion
$141,806 UT Health Science Center at Houston Neal Waxham
Systematics and Phylogeography of the Model Cricket, Allonemobius
$138,624 The University of Texas at Arlington Jeremy Marshall
Rapid Screening Method Using Aptamer-Liposomes for Customized Cancer Treatment
$132,828 UT Health Science Center at San Antonio Beth Goins; Mohan Natarajan
Water Quality Issues: Real-time Assessment of Nutrients in Aquatic Systems
$100,368 The University of Texas at Arlington Thomas Chrzanowski
Anti-Edema Mechanisms: Nitric Oxide and Thromboxane in the Regulation of Lymphatic Function
$95,674 Texas Agricultural Experiment Station Randolph Stewart; Glen Laine
Biological Sciences - Molecular Biology and Genetics
Comparative Genomics to Identify Disease Traits in the Horse
$173,376 Texas A&M University Bhanu Chowdhary
$66,624 Texas Agricultural Experiment Station Loren C. Skow
Genetics of Maternal/Fetal Xenobiotic Metabolism and Childhood Cancer Risk
$236,553 UT Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas Gail Tomlinson
Interaction of the Menin Tumor Suppressor Protein with JunD
$200,000 TTU Health Sciences Center Curt Pfarr
Microarray Based Global Mapping of DNA-Protein Interactions at Promoters in Human Cells
$200,000 The University of Texas at Austin Vishwanath Iyer
Novel Approach for Gene Therapy of Breast Cancer
$192,000 The University of Texas at Austin Jaquelin Dudley; Shelley Payne
Nuclear Factor-kappaB Inactivation of Progesterone Receptor Function in the Initiation of Labor
$192,000 UT Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas Carole Mendelson
Free Radical-Promoted NFkB/bcl-2 Interaction Affects Gene Expression in the Aged Brain
$190,883 UT Medical Branch at Galveston Giulio Taglialatela; Steven Widen
Study the Role of MEKK3 in Cardiovascular Development by Conditional MEKK3-Knockout/Transgenic Mice
$186,200 UT M.D. Anderson Cancer Center Bing Su
Molecular Basis of Neuroinvasiveness and Mosquito Competence of West Nile Virus
$180,000 UT Medical Branch at Galveston Alan Barrett
Genetic Microarrays for the Discovery of New Lyme Disease Vaccines
$175,104 UT Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas Michael Norgard
The Role of Notch, Its Ligands, and Fringe in Cell Adhesion and Epithelia Maintenance
$168,471 Texas Agricultural Experiment Station Vladislav Panin
Identification of Vertebrate Learning and Memory Genes
$153,600 University of Houston Gregory Cahill
Function of Ashwin in Early Vertebrate Development
$100,000 University of Houston Amy Sater
$50,000 University of Houston - Downtown Akif Uzman
Proton Pumps at Cell's Surface Are Targets to Halt Angiogenesis and Metastasis in Breast Cancer Cell
$150,000 TTU Health Sciences Center Raul Martinez-Zaguilan
High-Throughput Structure Determination of Proteins by Combining Bioinformatics and NMR
$147,000 Texas Agricultural Experiment Station Andy LiWang; Jerry Tsai
Host-Plant Interference in Sinorhizobium meliloti Quorum Sensing
$147,000 The University of Texas at Dallas Juan Gonzalez
Reconstructing Gene Networks by Mining Expression, Genomic and Literature Data
$147,000 The University of Texas at Austin Edward Marcotte; Inderjit Dhillon
GTP Signalling in Bacteria
$145,500 UT Health Science Center at San Antonio William Haldenwang
A New Mouse Model for Human Obesity
$144,000 UT Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas Andrew Zinn
Ribozyme Biosensors for Influenza Virus
$144,000 The University of Texas at Austin Andrew Ellington; Robert Krug
Characterization of a Novel Signaling Pathway Inhibiting Btk-Dependent Activation of B Lymphocytes
$143,946 UT Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas Anne Satterthwaite
Function of Flotillin 2 in Metastatic Melanoma
$96,000 UT M.D. Anderson Cancer Center Madeleine Duvic; Parul Hazarika
Function of HECT Ubiquitin Ligases in Saccharomyces Cerevisiae
$96,000 The University of Texas at Austin Jon Huibregtse
Chemistry
Raman Near-Field Scanning Optical Microscopy
$192,000 The University of Texas at Austin Alan Campion
Nanostructuring of Metal Oxide Surfaces Induced by Radiation Enhanced Diffusion
$188,480 University of Houston J. W. Rabalais
19F Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Probes of RNA Structure and Dynamics
$97,825 Texas A&M University Victoria DeRose
$52,175 Texas Agricultural Experiment Station David Giedroc
New Quantum States with Relative Minimum Uncertainty and Maximum Shape Control
$150,000 University of Houston Donald Kouri; Emmanouil Papadakis
Probing the Structural Basis for Enzyme Specificity
$150,000 The University of Texas at Austin Stephen Martin
The Creation of Chiral Phosphorus Synthons
$150,000 Texas A&M University Frank Raushel
New Adsorbates for Soft Lithographic Patterning
$149,928 University of Houston T. Randall Lee
Cu(I) Complexes as Low Cost Photoredox Catalysts
$149,500 University of Houston Randolph Thummel
Redox Properties of Electroactive Porphyrin-Based Components for 'Molecular Electronics'
$147,000 University of Houston Karl Kadish
Stereoselective Aldols of Masked 2,2-Dimethyl-1,3-dioxoalkanes: Synthesis of Peloruside A
$147,000 The University of Texas at Austin Brian Pagenkopf
Identification of Ornithine Decarboxylase Inhibitors for the Treatment of African Sleeping Sickness
$144,000 UT Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas Margaret Phillips
Synthesis of Peloruside A
$131,424 UT Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas Jef De Brabander
New Applications of Electrogenerated Chemiluminescence
$108,561 The University of Texas at Austin Allen Bard
Orthogonal Molecular Recognition Motifs for Use in Nanoscale Assembly: Synthetic DNA Surrogates
$100,000 The University of Texas at Austin Michael Krische; Eric Anslyn
Computational Chemistry for Biopolymer-Inorganic Materials Recognition
$98,000 The University of Texas at Austin Peter Rossky
Atmospheric Photochemical Oxidation of Isoprene Relevant to Urban and Regional Air Quality
$94,766 Texas A&M University Simon North; Renyi Zhang
Computer Science
Congestion Controlled Streaming Media for the Internet
$200,000 The University of Texas at Austin Simon Lam
Flexible Integrated Caching Approach (FICA) for Efficient Content Delivery in Wireless Internet
$131,222 The University of Texas at Arlington Sajal Das; Mohan Kumar
$66,000 Midwestern State University Nelson Passos
Answer Set Programming
$195,706 The University of Texas at Austin Vladimir Lifschitz
Federated Multicast in IP
$111,061 The University of Texas at Austin Mohamed Gouda
$84,257 Southwest Texas State University Wuxu Peng
Synchronization Protocols for Wireless Multimedia Systems
$98,400 University of North Texas Azzedine Boukerche
$96,800 The University of Texas at Dallas Imrich Chlamtac
Knowledge Mining for Open-Domain Information Extraction
$189,030 The University of Texas at Austin Sanda Harabagiu
Tree-Based Data Structures to Accelerate Lookup in Biological Sequence Databases
$159,768 The University of Texas at Austin Daniel Miranker
Scalable Low-Overhead Fault-Tolerance
$147,000 The University of Texas at Austin Lorenzo Alvisi; Calvin Lin
Coevolution of Neural Networks for Multi-Agent Tasks
$146,936 The University of Texas at Austin Risto Miikkulainen
Programming Distributed Systems with Randomized Shared Objects
$144,000 Texas Engineering Experiment Station Jennifer Welch
Algorithms on High-Level Synthesis and Optimization for High-Performance Systems
$96,000 The University of Texas at Dallas Hsingmean Sha
Earth Sciences
Geophysical and Petrological View, Magmatic Contribution to Intracontinental Growth: Rio Grande Rift
$112,350 The University of Texas at El Paso Kate C. Miller
$37,650 Texas Tech University Calvin Barnes
Sub-Salt Imaging with Typical Marine P Data: Application to Offshore Gulf of Mexico E&P
$150,000 University of Houston Arthur Weglein
3-D Seismic Investigation of Gas Hydrates, a Potential New Energy Source
$146,712 The University of Texas at Dallas George McMechan
Geophysical Studies of the Deep Structure of the Continents: International Collaborations
$99,790 The University of Texas at El Paso G. Randy Keller
Geochemical Fate and Bioavailability of Arsenic in Pesticide-Applied Soils: Phase I: In-vitro Study
$98,000 The University of Texas at San Antonio Dibyendu Sarkar
Estimating Activities of H2O in the Earth's Mantle: A Comparison of Three Methods
$95,050 Texas A&M University Will Lamb; Robert Popp
Characterizing Fault Control of Groundwater Movement Using Geophysical Techniques
$79,628 The University of Texas at El Paso Diane Doser
Engineering - All Other
Dynamic Models for Flapping Wing Micro-Air Vehicles Derived from Hummingbird Flight
$241,336 The University of Texas at Austin Robert Dudley; Maruthi Akella
Intelligent Vision Sensing for Motion Based Guidance
$240,000 Texas Engineering Experiment Station John Valasek; John Junkins
Linking Microstructure and Macroscopically Observed Properties of Suspensions and Composites
$200,000 Texas Tech University Alan Graham; Lorne Davis
High-Resolution Laser-Induced Photoacoustic Tomography of the Breast
$192,000 Texas Engineering Experiment Station Lihong Wang; Hsin-i Wu
Towards Early Cancer Detection: A Novel Functionally Integrated Cytoskeleton Model
$192,000 The University of Texas at Austin Tess Moon
Laser-Induced Ultrasound Thermometry for Silicon Wafer Annealing
$191,856 Texas Engineering Experiment Station Steve Suh; Ravinder Chona
Development of Advanced, Nanostructured Catalysts to Remove Pollutants from Exhaust Gases
$185,710 Texas Engineering Experiment Station Jerald Caton
Nanofabrication and Performance Evaluation of a New Class of Membrane Filters for Water Purification
$175,600 University of Houston Shankar Chellam; Paul Ruchhoeft
A New Generation Simulator for Improved Oil Recovery Processes
$150,000 The University of Texas at Austin Mojdeh Delshad
Physical Simulation of Extreme Winds from Thunderstorms
$148,600 Texas Tech University Chris Letchford; Darryl James
Establishing Loads for the Safe Design of Wind Turbines Using Simulations and Field Data
$146,751 The University of Texas at Austin Lance Manuel
Magnetic Shape Memory Alloy Actuators
$145,500 Texas Engineering Experiment Station Dimitris Lagoudas; John Slattery
New Models of Low-Level Visual Search and Applications to Robotic Vision, Detection, and Data Mining
$143,950 The University of Texas at Austin Lawrence Cormack; Alan Bovik
Development of Test Methodology for Systemic Exploration of Immature Fiber Content in Texas Cotton
$142,496 Texas Tech University James Simonton; Mario Beruvides
Mass Transport Studies for Mammalian Cell Cultures in Micro Gravity
$94,810 University of Houston Stanley Kleis
Engineering - Electrical and Electronics
A High-Speed Signal-Processing Algorithm/Electronics for Transducers with Exponential-Decay Response
$250,000 UT M.D. Anderson Cancer Center Wai-Hoi Wong; Hongdi Li
Development of Nanostructured Photonic Devices with Nonlinear Organic Materials
$196,000 The University of Texas at Arlington Theresa Maldonado; Robert Magnusson
Self-Aligned Multi-Color Photodetectors Based on III-Nitrides for Advanced Flame/Fire Detection
$175,000 University of Houston David Starikov; Maria Mironova
Dielectric Resonator Antenna Applications in Wireless Communications
$160,000 University of Houston Stuart Long; David Shattuck
On-Chip High-K Metal-Insulator-Metal (MIM) Capacitors for GHz Analog and Mixed Signal Applications
$150,000 The University of Texas at Austin Dim-Lee Kwong
Parallel Interconnect Modeling Engine for Wireless Communication System-on-a-Chip Interconnects
$150,000 University of Houston Ji Chen; Donald Wilton
Minimization of Integrated Circuit Burn-In Testing via Outlier Identification
$115,958 Texas Engineering Experiment Station Duncan Walker
Novel Sensing Technique for Location and Inspection of Underground Utility Distribution Systems
$96,288 Texas Engineering Experiment Station Cam Nguyen
$16,452 Texas Transportation Institute Tom Scullion
Materials Science
Electronic Nanoparticle-Tissue Composites for Targeted Biomolecule Delivery
$244,520 The University of Texas at Austin Christine Schmidt; Brian Korgel
Biologically Engineered Evolution of Physical Properties of Semiconductor Quantum Dots
$196,000 The University of Texas at Austin Angela Belcher; Brent Iverson
Rare-Earth-Metal Clusters as Single-Molecule Magnets
$191,995 Texas A&M University Timothy Hughbanks
A Low Temperature Interfacial Force Microscope for Surface Spectroscopy
$163,584 Texas A&M University Glenn Agnolet
Fundamental Study of Surface Damage Phenomena in Polymers
$146,804 Texas Engineering Experiment Station Hung-Jue Sue
Guest-Host Interactions in Zeolite Adsorbents
$146,572 Texas Engineering Experiment Station Daniel Shantz
Direct Writing of Thick Films Magnetostrictive Actuators from Nanoparticles
$129,408 The University of Texas at Austin Desiderio Kovar; Michael Becker
Effects of Chemical Mechanical Planarization on Electrical Properties of Low-k Materials
$118,923 Southwest Texas State University Heather Galloway; Wilhelmus Geerts
Development and Characterization of New, High Performance Polymers.
$93,474 Texas Engineering Experiment Station Roger Morgan
Mathematics
Robustness of Mathematical and Statistical Models for the Analysis of Gene Expression Data
$167,731 UT M.D. Anderson Cancer Center Kevin Coombes; Keith Baggerly
Linking Modern Statistical Analysis to Lipoprotein Fingerprinting
$120,960 Texas A&M University Tailen Hsing; Ronald Macfarlane
Quantized Banach Spaces and Nonlinear Banach Space Theory
$84,480 Texas A&M University William Johnson; Gilles Pisier
Symmetry in Coupled Cell Systems and Neuroscience
$82,500 University of Houston Martin Golubitsky
3-Dimensional Topology and Geometry
$73,410 The University of Texas at Austin Cameron Gordon; Alan Reid
Mathematical Analysis of Flutter Control Problem in Aircraft Wings
$59,354 Texas Tech University Marianna Shubov
Mathematical Modeling of Schistosomiasis
$57,120 Texas Tech University Dean Victory; Edward Allen
Quasilinear Hyperbolic Equations with Discontinuous Coefficients Arising in Blood Flow Modeling
$50,000 University of Houston Suncica Canic
Optimally Dense Packings of Spheres and Polyhedra
$49,000 The University of Texas at Austin Charles Radin
Overcoming Mathematical Difficulties in Two-Phase Flows
$48,000 University of Houston Barbara Keyfitz
Design and Analysis of Mathematical Models for Deformable Porous Media
$47,305 The University of Texas at Austin R. E. Showalter
Advanced Methodologies for Longitudinal/Clustered Data with Applications to Nutrition and Cancer
$47,000 Texas A&M University Naisyin Wang; Raymond Carroll
$0 Texas Agricultural Experiment Station Robert Chapkin
Stability and Robustness in Biorhythms
$45,000 Texas Tech University Clyde Martin
Physics and Astronomy
Spin Injection and Charge Pumping in Metallic Single-Wall Carbon Nanotubes
$188,160 The University of Texas at Austin Zhen Yao; Qian Niu
Dual-Readout Calorimetry for High-Quality Energy Measurements
$150,000 Texas Tech University Richard Wigmans
Multiple Raman Scattering in Solids for the New Coherent Sources of Ultrashort Pulses
$150,000 Texas A&M University Olga Kocharovskaya; Alexei Sokolov
Continuum Equations for Granular Media: Validation by Experiment and Molecular Dynamics Simulation
$125,760 The University of Texas at Austin Jack Swift; Harry Swinney
The Spin Hall Effect - Realizing a Pure Spin Current
$125,000 Texas A&M University Winfried Teizer
Determining the Radial Dependence of Particle Intensities from Coronal Mass Ejections
$104,000 University of Houston Lawrence Pinsky
Solid Xenon Particle Detector
$98,000 Texas A&M University James White
The Dynamical Structure of Nearby Galaxies: Mining Their Evolutionary History
$96,000 The University of Texas at Austin Karl Gebhardt
Search for New Physics with a New Proton Detector
$95,760 The University of Texas at Arlington Andrew Brandt
Dying Stars, Living Planets
$90,160 The University of Texas at Austin Don Winget
Galaxy Evolution Templates
$83,928 University of North Texas Michael Fanelli
Black Holes, Quasars, and Galaxies
$67,208 The University of Texas at Austin Gregory Shields
Three-Dimensional Electric Confinement of a Thermal Ion Plasma
$40,000 University of North Texas Carlos Ordonez
Social and Behavioral Sciences
Mujeres Sanas (Healthy Women): Virtual Bridges for the 21st Century
$100,000 University of North Texas Ruthann Masaracchia
Sensory Influences in Early Speech Acquisition
$96,000 The University of Texas at Austin Barbara Davis
Mechanisms of Perceptual Clarity during Object Motion and Eye Movements
$85,750 University of Houston Harold Bedell; Haluk Ogmen
Visual Memory for Moving Scenes and Implications for Transportation Safety
$79,400 Texas Tech University Patricia DeLucia
Species Recognition versus Mate-Quality Recognition
$78,895 Southwest Texas State University Caitlin Gabor
The Economic Impact of Windstorms and Mitigation on Texas Labor Markets
$65,760 Texas Tech University Bradley Ewing; Jamie Kruse
Economic Basis for Identifying and Pricing Dynamic Digital Documents
$49,000 The University of Texas at Austin Andrew Whinston
Measuring the Competitiveness of Deregulated Electricity Markets
$48,853 Texas A&M University Steven Puller
Colonial and Community History: The Rehabilitation of an Historic Spanish Mission in Socorro, Texas
$47,988 The University of Texas at El Paso Howard Campbell
Advanced Technology Program
2001 Funded Projects
Aerospace
Autonomous Spacecraft Navigation
$250,000 Texas Engineering Experiment Station John Junkins; Johnny Hurtado
Intelligent Decision Making for Robot Human Cooperation
$250,000 The University of Texas at Austin Delbert Tesar; Chetan Kapoor
Radiation Tolerant and Ultra Efficient Multijunction Quantum Well Solar Cell for Spacecraft
$234,700 University of Houston Alex Freundlich
Unified Methods for Turbulence Simulation
$200,000 Rice University S. Scott Collis
Artificial-Gravity-Generating Tethered Satellite System with Student Participation Program
$159,800 The University of Texas at Dallas John Hoffman
$40,000 Texas Christian University Andre Mazzoleni
Alteration in Bacterial Virulence and Host Responses under Simulated Microgravity
$180,000 UT Medical Branch at Galveston Ashok Chopra; Vimlarani Chopra
Covariance Control in Space Surveillance
$150,000 Texas Engineering Experiment Station Kyle Alfriend
Near Zero-g Active Vibration Isolation for Microgravity Experiments
$110,920 University of Houston Karolos Grigoriadis
$39,080 University of Houston – Downtown Weining Feng
Agriculture/Aquaculture/Agricultural Biotechnology
Biological Activities of Citrus Flavonoids
$49,926 The University of Texas at Austin Jennifer Brodbelt
$49,296 TAMU System Health Science Center Edward Miller
$49,926 The University of Texas – Pan American Hassan Ahmad
$49,926 Texas Agricultural Experiment Station Nancy D. Turner
$49,926 Texas A&M University – Kingsville Bhimanagouda Patil
Antisense Approach to Reduce Gossypol in Cottonseed
$215,284 Texas Agricultural Experiment Station Jean Gould
Genetically Engineered Synthesis of Taxol
$210,000 Texas Agricultural Experiment Station Alastair I. Scott
Development of Novel Therapeutics to Prevent and Control Foot-and-Mouth Disease
$200,000 UT Medical Branch at Galveston Stanley Watowich
Comparative and Functional Genomics of the Bovine Major Histocompatibility Complex
$199,300 Texas Agricultural Experiment Station James Womack; Loren K. Skow
Functional Genomics of Fiber Development in Cotton
$196,500 Texas Agricultural Experiment Station Z. Jeffrey Chen; David M. Stelly
Sustainability of Systems for Manure Export and Water Quality Improvements on Impaired Watersheds
$106,231 Texas Agricultural Experiment Station Donald M. Vietor; Clyde Munster
$85,170 Tarleton State University Anne McFarland
Generating Conditional FMDV Resistance in Cattle by Inducible Ribozyme Degradation of IRES RNA.
$188,500 Texas Agricultural Experiment Station Patrick Dunne; Jorge Piedrahita
Creating Drought-, Salt-, and Chilling Temperature-Tolerant Cotton for West Texas
$185,000 Texas Tech University Hong Zhang; Scott Holaday
Development of an Early Warning System for Sorghum Ergot Using Doppler Radar and the NPET Network
$175,000 Texas Agricultural Experiment Station Charles M. Rush; Fekeda Workneh
Validation of Beef Carcass Decontamination by Organic Acids (declined)
$170,650 Texas Agricultural Experiment Station Gary Acuff; Jeff Savell
Development and Use of Hypervariable DNA Markers to Enhance Aquaculture of Morone Hybrids
$168,973 Texas Agricultural Experiment Station Delbert M. Gatlin; John R. Gold
Drought Tolerant Pines for Texas Forests
$160,000 Texas Agricultural Experiment Station Carol Loopstra
Satellite Virus Vectors as Peptide Delivery Vehicles
$150,000 Texas Agricultural Experiment Station Karen-Beth Scholthof
Reducing Odors and Flies at Texas Cattle Feedyards
$148,369 West Texas A&M University David Parker; Greta Schuster
Identification, Mapping, and Pyramiding of Leaf Rust Resistance Genes in Wheat
$147,000 Texas Agricultural Experiment Station Jackie Rudd; John E. Mullet
Novel Biomechanical Methods for Characterizing Beef Tenderness
$138,416 Texas Agricultural Experiment Station Rhonda Miller; Jimmy T. Keeton
Sustainable Cultivated Pasture Systems for Texas Meat Goats
$66,617 Texas Agricultural Experiment Station James P. Muir
$52,483 Angelo State University Rod Reed
Impact of High-Speed Chilling/Freezing Immersion on Microbial and Sensory Quality of TX Cantaloupe
$121,800 Texas Tech University Leslie Thompson; Linda Hoover
Development of Insect Neuropeptide-Based Insect Control Agents
$99,000 Texas Agricultural Experiment Station Howard Williams
Irrigation, Remote-Sensing and Tillage Management for Pepper and Cotton
$97,760 Texas Agricultural Experiment Station Daniel I. Leskovar; Giovanni Piccinni
Biomedicine
Development of Activation-State Specific Somatostatin Receptor Antibodies for Tumor Diagnosis
$275,000 UT Health Science Center at Houston Agnes Schonbrunn
Phylogenetic Approach to the Treatment of Pollen Allergy
$270,000 UT Medical Branch at Galveston Randall Goldblum
Novel Optoacoustic Imaging System for Early Detection and Image Guided Biopsy of Prostate Cancer
$250,000 UT Medical Branch at Galveston Alexander Oraevsky; Massoud Motamedi
Development of Novel System for Drug Delivery in Tumors
$230,000 UT Medical Branch at Galveston Rinat Esenaliev
A Virtual Reality Based Minimally Invasive Surgery Trainer
$225,000 The University of Texas at Arlington Venkat Devarajan
Combinatorial Syntheses of Peptidomimetics for Affinity Purifications of Antibodies
$225,000 Texas A&M University Kevin Burgess
Molecular Characterization of Human Cardiac Stem Cells
$220,000 UT Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas Daniel Garry
Peptide Vaccination for Autoimmune Myasthenia Gravis
$220,000 UT Medical Center at Galveston Premkumar Christadoss
Reverse Molecular Genetic Analysis of Hepatitis C Virus Replication: Toward Rational Drug Design
$220,000 UT Medical Branch at Galveston Stanley Lemon; Minkyung Yi
A Novel Gene, Capillary Morphogenesis Gene-2, Regulates Angiogenic Responses in Three Dimensions
$200,000 TAMU System Health Science Center George Davis
A Test for HERG Blockers Based on Heterologous Expression in “C elegans”
$200,000 UT Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas Leon Avery; James Waddle
Coactivator Antisense Oligonucleotides as Therapeutic Agents for Breast Cancer
$200,000 Baylor College of Medicine Carolyn Smith
Development of Pituitary Stem Cells as Therapeutic Agents for Pituitary Deficiencies
$200,000 Baylor College of Medicine Kathleen Mahon
Dietary Interactions to Inhibit Mammary Cancer
$200,000 The University of Texas at Austin Kimberly Kline; Bob Sanders
Gene-Directed Enzyme Prodrug Therapy
$200,000 UT M.D. Anderson Cancer Center David Farquhar
Genetic Targeting of Adenoviral Gene Transfer into Tumors
$200,000 UT Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas Robert Gerard
Human Heart Failure: Directed by Alternative Spliced Serum Response Factor, SRFdelta5
$200,000 Baylor College of Medicine Robert Schwartz; Lei Wei
New Approaches for Cell-Specific Targeting of Lung Cancer
$200,000 UT Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas Kathlynn Brown
Specific Coagulation of Tumor Vasculature
$200,000 UT Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas Philip Thorpe
Therapeutic Targets for Treatment of Heart Failure and Cardiac Enlargement
$200,000 UT Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas Eric Olson
ECE Inhibitors: Ocular Neuroprotective Agents
$198,000 UNT Health Science Center at Fort Worth Thomas Yorio
Development of Molecular Markers for Atherosclerosis Using High Throughput Proteomics
$190,000 Baylor College of Medicine Christie M. Ballantyne
Methods for Generating Kidney Tubules from Stem Cells
$180,000 UT Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas Peter Igarashi
Development of Peptide Aptamers on Display Phage for the Treatment of CDAD
$150,000 TTU Health Sciences Center Joe Fralick
MT Contrast Agents: A New Paradigm in Molecular Imaging
$150,000 The University of Texas at Dallas Dean Sherry
Imaging of Cellular Processes in vivo Using Fullerenes
$140,000 Baylor College of Medicine David Baskin
Inhibition of Renal Fibrosis by Targeting SMAD Signaling Using Ultrasound Gene Therapy Technique
$135,000 Baylor College of Medicine Hui Lan
Antibiotics Designed to Defeat Resistant Organisms
$100,000 Southern Methodist University John Buynak
Clinical Trial of Oral Interferon Alpha in Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis
$100,000 TTU Health Sciences Center Lorenz Lutherer; Cynthia Jumper
Comprehend Before You Consume: Product Information Labels to Improve Over-the-Counter Drug Selection
$90,000 University of Houston Sujit Sansgiry
Computer and Information Engineering
A Framework for Generating High-Level Programming Systems, Applied to Multimedia Communications
$200,000 Rice University Ken Kennedy
Resource Management for Safe Deployment of Edge Services
$125,000 Rice University Dan Wallach
$125,000 The University of Texas at Austin Michael Dahlin
Compiler Support for Beowulf Clusters
$249,507 Rice University John Mellor-Crummey
Geometry, Connectivity, and Simulation of Cortical Networks
$240,400 Texas Engineering Experiment Station Nancy Amato; Lawrence Rauchwerger
Text Mining for the Telecommunications Industry
$228,900 The University of Texas at Dallas Dan Moldovan
Pastry: A Generic Substrate for Large-Scale, Decentralized, Distributed Applications
$228,162 Rice University Peter Druschel; Alan Cox
Strategic Autonomy for Planetary Rovers
$199,960 The University of Texas at Austin Benjamin Kuipers
Exploring the Brain Forest
$199,644 Texas Engineering Experiment Station John Keyser; Bruce McCormick
Massively Multi-Person, Dynamic Virtual Environments
$197,696 Rice University Joe Warren
A Component System for Java Based on Generic Types
$197,444 Rice University Robert Cartwright
A Browser for Visual Content
$153,300 The University of Texas at Dallas Haim Schweitzer
Resource Management in Server Clusters
$150,000 The University of Texas at Austin Lorenzo Alvisi; Harrick Vin
Parallel Algorithms and Software for Delay Estimation in VLSI Circuits
$149,993 Texas Engineering Experiment Station Vivek Sarin; Weiping Shi
Integrating Design Verification Techniques with Defect-Oriented ATPG for Very Deep Submicron Systems
$139,720 Texas Engineering Experiment Station Ray Mercer
NetTomo: A Software Tool for Network Tomography
$130,540 Rice University Robert Nowak
Ensuring and Maximizing Reliability and Safety for Embedded Software Systems
$115,540 Southern Methodist University Jeff Tian
On the Statistical/Bio-physical Extraction of Textural Features of Imagery Databases
$100,000 Texas Engineering Experiment Station Jyh-Charn Liu; Yoonsuck Choe
System for Developing Efficient Power-Load Forecasters
$96,000 The University of Texas at Arlington Michael T. Manry
Energy
Improved Oil Recovery Efficiency by Gas Injection
$249,808 The University of Texas at Austin Russell Johns; Larry Lake
CO-Free Hydrogen for Fuel Cells via Stepwise Reforming of Hydrocarbons
$228,085 Texas A&M University David Goodman
Novel High Efficiency Thermophotovoltaic Device for Direct Heat to Electricity Conversion
$226,000 University of Houston Charles Horton
Photoelectrochromic “Smart” Windows for Energy-Efficient Buildings
$197,600 The University of Texas at Arlington K. Rajeshwar
Development of a Low Cost Inverter for Fuel Cell Power Systems
$194,298 Texas Engineering Experiment Station Prasad Enjeti
Chemical Liquefaction of Biomass to Hydrocarbon Fuels: Continuous Electrochemical Reduction
$175,000 The University of Texas of the Permian Basin J. Michael Robinson
Microtomographic Study for Carbonate Petrophysics
$107,100 University of Houston K. K. Mohanty
$54,000 University of Houston – Clear Lake Liwen Shih
Improved Catalytic Combustion System
$150,000 University of Houston James Richardson
Nanostructured Hybrid Membranes for High Temperature Fuel Cells
$149,995 The University of Texas at Dallas John Ferraris; Kenneth Balkus
Engine Friction Reduction
$149,892 The University of Texas at Austin Ron Matthews
3-D Seismic Attribute Analysis of the Devonian Thirty-One Chert Depositional System, Tobosa Basin, TX
$145,600 University of Houston Kurt Marfurt; Charlotte Sullivan
Increased Electricity Supply through Real-Time Power System Monitoring and Control
$141,000 Texas Engineering Experiment Station Carl Benner; B. Don Russell
Effects of Sea Water and Reservoir Brines on Gas Hydrate Formation
$101,500 Texas Engineering Experiment Station Yuri Makogon
Biodesulfurization of Recalcitrant Organosulfur Compounds
$100,000 Southwest Texas State University Linette Watkins; Walter Rudzinski
Increased Energy Efficiency of Fluorescent Lamps
$98,000 Texas A&M University Robert Kenefick; Eilliam Bassichis
Smart, Utility-Connected Inverters for Solar Power Panels
$72,300 Texas Tech University Michael Giesselmann
Inversion of Gravity Gradient Data, a New Tool in the Exploration and Production of Hydrocarbons
$45,150 Rice University Manik Talwani
Environmental Science and Engineering, Recycling, and Water Resources
Bioengineering a Fungus for Enhanced Degradation of Volatile Organic Contaminants
$297,700 The University of Texas at Austin Kerry Kinney; Chris Whitman
Fuel Efficient and Low Emissions Fuel Cell Powered Vehicle
$288,000 Texas Tech University Timothy Maxwell
Improved Aquifer Characterization Using Hydraulic Tomography
$275,600 Texas A&M University Brann Johnson; Mark Everett
Hydrology and Salinity Monitoring and Modeling Along the Middle Rio Grande
$212,500 Texas Agricultural Experiment Station Ranjin Muttiah; Seiiche Miyamoto
Phase Transfer Catalytic Process for in situ Remediation of Underground Contaminants
$106,250 Southwest Texas State University Larry Britton
$106,250 The University of Texas at Austin Gary Pope
Development of a Rapid Whole-Cell, Green-Fluorescent, Protein-Based Biosensor for Assessing Lysine
$200,000 Texas Agricultural Experiment Station Steven C. Ricke
Removal of Trihalomethanes from Drinnking Water by Cometabolism in Nitrifying Biofilters
$199,935 The University of Texas at Austin Gerald Speitel
Integrated Catalytic Filtration Devices for Diesel Exhaust Abatement of NOx and Particulates
$199,300 University of Houston Michael Harold
Antibody-Based Assays to Monitor Chemical Exposure
$198,416 UT Medical Branch at Galveston M. Firoze Khan; Ghulam Ansari
Environmental Viruses
$160,000 UT Health Science Center at San Antonio Philip Serwer; Stephen Hardies
Development of a High-Performance Airborne Remote-Sensing System for Water Resources Research
$159,223 Texas Tech University Stephan Maas; Thayne Montague
Detection of Airborne Mycotoxins Produced by Fungi in “Sick” Building
$150,000 TTU Health Sciences Center David Straus; James Hutson
Optimizing Emission Reduction Strategies for Refineries and Chemical Manufacturing Facilities
$150,000 The University of Texas at Austin David Allen
A Real-Time Drought Assessment and Forecasting System for Texas Using GIS and Remote Sensing
$149,920 Texas Agricultural Experiment Station Raghavan Srinivasan
Enhanced Degradation of Environmental Contaminants Using Pulsed and Heterodyne Sonochemistry
$149,501 Texas Tech University Dominick Casadonte
Real-Time Distributed Modeling of Flood Events Using NEXRAD Precipitation Data
$148,500 Texas Agricultural Experiment Station William Dugas
Application of High-Activity Modified Green Rusts for Treatment of Water and Wastewater
$146,697 Texas Engineering Experiment Station Bill Batchelor
Novel Reactor and Catalyst Designs for Ultra-Low Vehicular Emissions
$146,000 University of Houston Vemuri Balakotaiah
Development of Diode-Laser-Based Sensors for Nitric Oxide and Nitrogen Dioxide
$145,580 Texas Engineering Experiment Station Robert Lucht
Pretreatment for Reverse Osmosis Membranes: Silica Removal to Increase Yield in Border Region
$139,650 The University of Texas at Austin Desmond Lawler
Carbon Dioxide Capture by Absorption with Potassium Carbonate
$135,340 The University of Texas at Austin Gary Rochelle
Application of Cell Recognition Technology to Environmental Studies of Harmful Algal Blooms
$122,000 The University of Texas at Austin Edward Buskey
Conservation of Nitrogen and Phosphorus in Open-Lot Cattle Feedyards
$71,780 Texas Agricultural Experiment Station Wayne Greene
$27,720 West Texas A&M University David Parker
Manufacturing Technology
Manufacturing of Affordable Single Use Bio-MEMS
$391,500 The University of Texas at Arlington Shiv P. Joshi; Panayiotis S. Shiakolas
Surface Wave Plasmas for Next-Generation Integrated Circuit Manufacturing
$298,800 University of Houston John Wolfe; Michael Gorman
Integrated Multidimensional Positioning Technology for Precision Manufacturing Equipment
$249,999 Texas Engineering Experiment Station Won-jong Kim; Suhada Jayasuriya
Prediction of Flash Points for Flammable Liquid Mixtures
$162,000 Texas Engineering Experiment Station James Holste; William Rogers
$87,608 Prairie View A&M Universityq Irvin Osborne-Lee
Development of Information System for Hybrid Rapid Manufacturing Process
$200,000 Southern Methodist University Radovan Kovacevic
Design of Assembly Systems and Their Supply Chains to Promote Business Development under the NAFTA
$199,992 Texas Engineering Experiment Station Wilbert Wilhelm
Fabricating Photonic Nano-Composites
$190,900 The University of Texas at Austin Michael Becker; John Keto
Tools for the Design and Control of Hollow Fiber Spinning Systems
$171,080 The University of Texas at Austin Roger Bonnecaze
CyPhy: Direct Instrumentation of Product Prototypes
$150,000 The University of Texas at Austin Kristin Wood; Matthew Campbell
Nano-Precision Large Displacement Flexure Machines for Vacuum-Based Semiconductor Equipment
$150,000 The University of Texas at Austin S. V. Sreenivasan
Customized X-Ray Microtomographic Image Analysis for Measurement in Cotton-Based Industries
$149,987 Texas Tech University Hamed Sari-Sarraf; Eric Hequet
Extracting and Visualizing Manufacturing Variability Information from Coordinate Metrology Data
$149,900 Texas Engineering Experiment Station Daniel Apley; Amarnath Banerjee
Fault Diagnostics and Prognosis of Industrial Equipment using Information Theory Tools
$149,656 The University of Texas at Austin Benito Fernandez; Michael Bryant
Novel Fluorescent Diagnostics for Industrial Mixing Processes
$135,000 Texas Engineering Experiment Station Lynn Melton
Materials Technology
Applications of Carbon Nanotubes, Fluoronanotubes and Nanocrystals of Diamond and C3N4
$300,000 Rice University John L. Margrave
Development of Wireless Sensors to Monitor Corrosion in Civil Infrastructure Systems
$300,000 The University of Texas at Austin Dean Neikirk; Sharon Wood
Materials Development of Polymer Photonic Crystals for Integration with III-V Nanostructure Devices
$280,000 The University of Texas at Austin Dennis Deppe; Ray Chen
Developing a New Ruthenium-Based Diffusion Barrier for Copper Interconnects
$264,890 University of North Texas Oliver Chyan; Michael Richmond
Carbon Nanotube Single Crystals for Optoelectronic Devices
$250,000 Rice University Junichiro Kono; Richard E. Smalley
New Synthetic Methods for Metallic Alloy Nanocrystals for Ultra High Density Magnetic Recording
$250,000 The University of Texas at Austin Brian Korgel; Angela Belcher
Nonlinear Optical Devices Fabricated by Ionic Self-Assembled Monolayer Techniques
$250,000 The University of Texas at Arlington Martin Pomerantz; Theresa Maldonado
Nanotube/Polypropylene Nanocomposites for Electromagnetic Interference Shielding Effectiveness
$126,805 The University of Texas – Pan American Karen Lozano
$84,000 Rice University Enrique Barrera
Investigation of the Rhealogical Behavior of Metallocene Polymers
$76,000 Texas Engineering Experiment Station K. R. Rajagopal
$124,000 Texas Tech University Gregory McKenna
Ultrathin HfO2 and ZrO2 Gate Dielectrics for 70 nm Technology Applications
$200,000 The University of Texas at Austin Jack Lee
Nanoshell Based All-Optical Sensors and Devices
$199,996 Rice University Naomi Halas
Carbon Nanotube Arrays for Field-Emission Display Applications
$192,800 The University of Texas at Austin Chih-Kang Shih; Zhen Yao
Novel Ferroelectric and Functional Thin Films for Information Technology
$185,000 Rice University Susanne Stemmer
Newly Discovered Radiation Detector: Nanometer-Size Liquid Crystal Droplets Dispersed in Polymer
$150,000 The University of Texas at Arlington Suresh C. Sharma
An Automated System to Prepare and Process Cross-Sectional Specimens from Three-Dimensional Objects
$149,658 UT Health Science Center at San Antonio David Carnes
Domain Wall Phenomena in Magnetic Thin Film Microstructures
$140,000 The University of Texas at Austin James Erskine
The Development of Nanostructured Hydrogels for Controlled Delivery of Bioactive Compounds
$134,303 University of North Texas Zhibing Hu
Development of Design Tools for Nanoengineered Photonic Devices
$97,100 Rice University Peter Nordlander
Medical Biotechnology
Polymeric Carriers for Molecularly Targeted Diagnostic Agents for Near-Infrared Optical Imaging
$140,428 UT M.D. Anderson Cancer Center Chun Li
$104,018 Texas Engineering Experiment Station Eva Sevick
Isolation of a Gene which Marks Tamoxifen Resistance of Breast Tumors
$240,000 Baylor College of Medicine Bert O’Malley
Transabdominal Magnetic Anchoring System for Trocar-less Laparoscopic Survery
$70,875 UT Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas Jeffrey Cadeddu; Robert Eberhart
$154,125 The University of Texas at Arlington Raul Fernandez
Metabolic Engineering to Produce Terpenes
$210,000 Rice University Seiichi Matsuda
An “At Risk” Immunoassay for Alzheimer’s Disease Based on Specific Oxidized Plasma Proteins
$200,000 UNT Health Science Center at Fort Worth Robert Gracy
Bacteriophage Genes as the Basis for New Antibiotics
$200,000 Rice University Charles Stewart
Cancer Genomic Vaccines
$200,000 UT Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas Stephen Johnston
Novel Scaffold Design and Evaluation Technique for Engineering Bone Replacement Tissue
$187,500 Rice University Michael Liebschner; Antonios Mikos
Computational Model of the Control of Gene Expression – A Method for Novel Drug Target Discovery
$184,035 The University of Texas at Dallas Mohsin Jafri
Genetically Modified Bone Marrow Stromal Cell Transplantation for Aging-Related Neuronal Degeneration
$176,792 Baylor College of Medicine Keyi Yang
Rapid Detection of Drug Resistant Mycobacterium Tuberculosis Using Two-Dimensional Gene Scanning
$176,500 UT Health Science Center at San Antonio Rebecca Cox; Teresa Quitugua
Light-Directed Control of Multicellular Assemblies ex vivo
$170,000 UT Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas Kevin Luebke
Biomechanics and the Treatment of Cataracts
$80,235 Texas Engineering Experiment Station Jay Humphrey
$22,400 Texas Agricultural Experiment Station Joan Dziezyc
Chemoprevention of Skin Cancers by Novel Derivatives of Tempol in Mice and Cultures
$100,000 University of Houston Diana Chow
Improvements to the Cofocal Microscope
$83,804 UNT Health Science Center at Fort Worth Julian Borejdo
Microelectronics
Self-Assembled Silicide Nanostructures for Integrated Optoelectronics
$239,000 University of North Texas Jose M. Perez; Terry Golding
Integrated TE Microcooler and Mid-IR Laser for Chemical Sensing Applications
$237,320 University of Houston Shin-Shem Steven Pei
Metal Gate Electrodes for High-k Dielectric Stacks
$180,392 University of North Texas Robert M. Wallace
$49,608 University of Houston Len Trombetta
Polymer-Derived Nanowires for Integrated Circuit Strategies
$200,000 Southwest Texas State University Heather Galloway; Patrick Cassidy
Integration of Molecular Electronics with Scaled Silicon CMOS
$199,666 University of North Texas Bruce Gnade
Efficient Monolithic WDM Components at 1550 nm
$181,618 Southern Methodist University Jerome Butler
Mid-Infrared Optoelectronic Devices
$169,490 The University of Texas at Austin Ben Streetman; Archie Holmes
High-Speed Photodetectors for 40 GB/s Fiber Optic Receivers
$150,000 The University of Texas at Austin Joe Campbell
Low Power, High-Speed, Dense Flash Memories Using SiGe/C Heterostructures and Quantum Dot Gates
$149,950 The University of Texas at Austin Sanjay Banerjee
Compact, Scalable Computer Models for Noise in Advanced CMOS and Bipolar Technologies
$148,290 Southern Methodist University Zeynap Celik-Butler
Telecommunications
Phase-Controlled Imaging with Digital Light Processing
$250,000 UT Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas Harold Garner
Electrooptics Technology for Fiber Optics Networks
$200,000 Texas Engineering Experiment Station Henry Taylor; Ohannes Eknoyan
Single Event Upset in Integrated Circuits, Studied with a Newly Developed Nanoprobe
$200,000 University of North Texas Floyd McDaniel; Jerome Duggan
Compact Antenna System for Mobile Satellite Communication
$199,467 Southern Methodist University Choon Lee
Delivering High Perceptual Quality Real-Time Video over Wireless Networks
$194,303 Rice University Richard Baraniuk; Edward Knightly
Direct Write of Optical Components
$150,000 The University of Texas at Austin Joseph Beaman; Harovel Wheat
Scannable Antennas for LMDS Applications
$150,000 University of Houston David Jackson
QoS (Quality of Service) Supported Communication Schemes in Mobile Wireless Networks
$149,900 Texas Engineering Experiment Station Mi Lu
Network Architectures Based on Partial State
$82,100 Texas Engineering Experiment Station Narasimha Reddy
$67,700 Texas A&M University Marina Vannucci
ASIC Design and Implementation of Advanced Coding Techniques for Next Generation Wireless Networks
$142,252 Texas Engineering Experiment Station Gwan Choi; Krishna Narayanan
DSL to 802.11 Bridge: Enabling High-Speed Wireless Internet Access at Home and Small Offices
$127,500 The University of Texas at Austin Brian Evans; Robert Heath
Maximizing Profitability of QoS-Based Packet-Switched Telecommunications Networks
$102,884 Southern Methodist University Richard Helgason
Analytic and Simulation Tools for Wireless Data Networks
$78,200 Texas Engineering Experiment Station Scott Miller
Transportation
The Design of a New Generation of Traffic Noise Barriers – Continuing Investigation
$198,800 The University of Texas at Austin David Blackstock
Forecasting Highway Bridge Deterioration under NAFTA Truck Traffic
$135,000 Texas Transportation Institute Laurence Rilett; Gary Fry
Development of a Non-Contact Sensor for Measurement of Highway Pavement Skid Number
$99,733 University of Houston Richard Liu
Advanced Technology Development and Transfer
2001 Funded Projects
Aerospace
Hall Thruster Satellite Communication Impact Analysis
$190,000 The University of Texas at Austin Gary Hallock; James Wiley
Match: $250,000 Lockheed Martin Corp.; Sunnyvale, CA
Agriculture/Aquaculture/Agricultural Biotechnology
Development of High-Yielding Drought-Tolerant Cotton
$185,000 Texas Tech University Randy Allen; David Tissue
Match: $300,000 Syngenta; Basel, Switzerland
Exploiting Transgenic Cotton with Improved Yield and Fiber Quality
$175,533 Texas Tech University Candace Haigler; Scott Holaday
Match: $720,000 Aventis CropScience GmbH; Frankfurt, Germany
Testing Novel Inhibitors that Enhance the Biocidal Action of Herbicides
$150,000 The University of Texas at Austin Stanley Roux; Alan Lloyd
Match: $75,000 Biagro Western Sales, Inc.; Visalia, CA
$75,000 Intracrop-Brian Lewis Agriculture Ltd.; North Yorkshire, England
Fetal Wastage Tritrichomonas Foetus Diagnosis Development
$100,000 UT Health Science Center at San Antonio John Alderete
March: $100,000 Xenotope Diagnostics, Inc.; San Francisco, CA
Biomedicine
Chemical Vaccination Against HIV
$300,000 UT Health Science Center at Houston Sudhir Paul
Match: $2,100,000 Hesed Biomed; Omaha, NB
Polyethyeneimine-Gene Therapy Given by Aerosol: An Effective Treatment for Pulmonary Metastases
$118,973 Baylor College of Medicine Charles Densmore
$126,027 UT M.D. Anderson Cancer Center Eugene Kleinerman
Match: $249,992 JAGO Research AG (Subsidiary of SkyePharma AG); Muttenz, Switzerland
Identification of Telomerase Regulatory Genes as Potential Anticancer Targets
$119,256 Texas A&M University Thomas McKnight
$100,744 Texas Agricultural Experiment Station Dorothy Shippen
Match: $226,000 Geron Corporation; Menlo Park, CA
Treatment Planning Software for Electron Conformal Therapy Using Bolus
$220,000 UT M.D. Anderson Cancer Center Kenneth Hogstrom; John Antolak
Match: $250,000 Computerized Medical Systems, Inc.; St. Louis, MO
Transplantation of Bone Marrow Mesencymal Stem Cells in Dog Hearts with Myocardial Infarction
$200,000 UT Health Science Center at Houston Yong-Jian Geng
Match: $250,000 Osiris Therapeutics, Inc.; Baltimore, MD
In vivo Confocal Microscopy for Pre-Cancer Detection
$138,000 The University of Texas at Austin Rebecca Richards-Kortum
$60,000 UT M.D. Anderson Cancer Center Michele Follen
Match: $200,000 Lucid, Inc.; Rochester, NY
Evaluation of Antitumor and Antiangiogenic Properties of a Novel Gene, MDA-7
$100,000 UT M.D. Anderson Cancer Center Rajagopal Ramesh
Match: $100,000 Introgen Therapeutics, Inc.; Houston, TX
Computer and Information Engineering
SmartWeb: A Next-Generation Web Infrastructure
$190,000 Rice University Peter Druschel; Willy Zwaenepoel
Match: $90,000 IBM Austin Research Lab; Austin, TX
$100,000 Compaq Computer; Palo Alto, CA
A Digital Multispectral Stereo Image Analyzer for Prevention of Early Blindness from Retinopathy
$150,000 Texas Tech University Sunanda Mitra
Match: $160,000 Kestrel Corporation; Albuquerque, NM
Energy
Core Proton Exchange Membrane Fuel Cell Technology Transfer
$200,000 Texas Engineering Experiment Station John Appleby
Match: $295,000 Reliant Energy Power Systems, Inc.; Houston, TX
Sensorless Switched Reluctance Motors for Efficient Pumps and Compressors
$200,000 Texas Engineering Experiment Station Mehrdad Ehsani
Match: $300,000 Anacon Systems, Inc.; Austin, TX
Ultra-High Concentration HF Treatments for Stimulating Oil and Gas Recovery
$198,900 The University of Texas at Austin Ding Zhu; A. D. Hill
Match: $200,000 BJ Services Company; Tomball, TX
Low Cost, High-Accuracy, Slotted-Orifice, Multi-Phase Flowmeter
$99,900 Texas Engineering Experiment Station Gerald Morrison
Match: $100,000 Flowline Meters, Inc.; Mont Belview, TX
Environmental Science and Engineering, Recycling, and Water Resources
Extension of HF Radar for Water Currents and Direct Observation of Transport Model Coefficients
$123,653 Texas A&M University – Corpus Christi James Bonner
$85,000 The University of Texas at El Paso Rosa Fitzgerald
Match: $45,000 Exxon Mobile Research and Engineering; Fairfax, VA
$205,000 CODAR Ocean Sensors, Ltd.; Los Altos, CA
Quantum Cascade Laser-Based Gas Sensors for Chemical and Environmental Analysis
$115,000 Rice University Frank Tittel; Robert Curl
Match: $115,000 Analytical Specialties, Inc.; Houston, TX
Manufacturing Technology
Selective Laser Sintered and Silicon-Infiltrated Silicon Carbide Boats
$200,000 The University of Texas at Austin David Bourell; Kristin Wood
Match: $245,000 Si.C. Innovation; Elgin, TX
Containerless Processing of Nanotube Reinforced Metal Matrix Nanocomposites
$150,000 Rice University Enrique Barrera; Yildiz Bayazitoglu
Match: $110,000 NanoTechnologies of Texas, Inc.; Houston, TX
$90,000 Stewart Automotive Research, LLC; Houston, TX
Manufacture of Improved Thermoelectric Materials
$148,833 Texas Engineering Experiment Station K. T. Hartwig
Match: $148,833 Marlow Industries, Inc.; Dallas, TX
A Low-Cost Parallel Tester for Increasing Mixed Signal Semiconductor Test Time Efficiency
$142,800 Texas Engineering Experiment Station Rainer Fink; Jay Porter
Match: $136,400 National Instruments; Austin, TX
$135,000 Texas Instruments; Dallas, TX
Materials Technology
Environmentally Friendly High Performance Lubricants and Anti-Icing Aircraft Coatings
$235,000 The University of Texas at Arlington Ronald Elsenbaumer; Pranesh Aswath
Match: $250,000 Platinum Research Organization, LLC; Dallas, TX
Medical Biotechnology
Thin Film Optical Detectors (TOD) for Retinal Implantation – A “Bionic” Eye
$398,000 University of Houston Alex Ignatiev
Match: $500,000 CIBCO Technologies, LLC.; Houston, TX
$160,000 St. Joseph Hospital; Houston, TX
Development of Advanced Time-of-Flight (TOF) Mass Spectrometry
$300,000 Texas A&M University David Russell
Match: $463,600 Ionwerks; Houston, TX
Blood Test to Detect Cancer
$295,348 UT Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas Jonathan Uhr
Match: $460,000 Immunicon Corporation; Huntingdon Valley, PA
Commercialization of a Novel Family of Nitrogen-Free Reagents for Biomedical Analysis
$199,200 Texas A&M University Gyula Vigh
Match: $477,009 ANTEK Instrument, LP; Houston, TX
Dermatological Laser Therapy: Advancing the Technology to Treat Patients of All Skin Types
$60,000 Rice University Bahman Anvari
$60,000 UT M.D. Anderson Cancer Center David Chang
Match: $120,000 Candela Corporation; Wayland, MA
The Optical Stretcher – A Novel Cytological Device for Early Cancer Diagnosis
$100,000 The University of Texas at Austin Josef Kas
Match: $275,000 Evacyte Corporation; Austin, TX
Advanced Neuroprosthetic Multiple Electrode Arrays Using MEMS Technology
$54,900 The University of Texas at Dallas Lawrence Cauller
Match: $6,900 Plexon, Inc.; Dallas, TX
$48,000 Zyvex Corporation; Richardson, TX
Microelectronics
Bandwidth Enhanced Fully Embedded Optoelectronically Interconnected Processor-to-Memory Links
$298,000 The University of Texas at Austin Ray Chen; Gerald Lipovski
Match: $200,000 Pacific Wave Communications; Los Angeles, CA
$85,000 ITRI; San Jose, CA
$150,000 Intel Corp; Hillsboro, OR
$200,000 Applied Materials; Austin, TX
$200,000 Texas Instruments, Inc.; Dallas, TX
Commercialization of Low-Cost, Surface-Emitting Semiconductor Lasers at 1310 and 1550 nm
$242,225 Southern Methodist University Gary Evans
Match: $25,000 MicroFab Technologies, Inc.; Plano, TX
$1,510,720 Photodigm, Inc.; Dallas, TX
Development of Next Generation VLSI Technology for Very High Speed Analog Chip Design
$200,000 The University of Texas at Arlington Ronald Carter; W. Alan Davis
Match: $200,000 National Semiconductor Corporation; Santa Clara, CA
Telecommunications
Development of an IEEE 802.11 Platform to Support Delay-Sensitive Applications in Wireless LANs
$223,000 Rice University Behnaam Aazhang; Edward Knightly
Match: $280,000 Nokia; Irving, TX
$150,000 Texas Instruments Inc.; Dallas, TX
Photonic Switching with Digital Micromirror Arrays
$150,000 Texas Tech University Henry K. Temkin; Jordan Berg
Match: $150,000 Texas Instruments, Inc.; Plano, TX
Transportation
Active Suspension for Improved SUV Safety
$257,280 The University of Texas at Austin Steven Nichols
$41,600 The University of Texas – Pan American Robert Freeman
Match: $250,000 Stewart and Stevenson; Sealy, TX
$300,000 Litton; Toronto, Ontario
$4,000 Ford Center for Excellence; Austin, TX
Appendix D
Funding by Institution
| | | Number | |
| | |of Projects* | |
| | | | Dollars |
|Institution | | | | |
|Angelo State University | |1 | |52,483 |
|Baylor College of Medicine | |9 | |1,600,765 |
|Midwestern State University | |1 | |66,000 |
|Prairie View A&M University | |1 | |87,608 |
|Rice University | |24 | |4,219,368 |
|Southern Methodist University | |8 | |1,290,024 |
|Southwest Texas State University | |8 | |510,389 |
|TAMU System Health Science Center | |2 | |249,296 |
|Tarleton State University | |1 | |85,170 |
|Texas A&M University | |23 | |3,176,130 |
|Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi | |1 | |123,653 |
|Texas A&M University-Kingsville | |1 | | 49,926 |
|Texas Agricultural Experiment Station | |30 | |4,069,895 |
|Texas Christian University | |1 | | 40,000 |
|Texas Engineering Experiment Station | |40 | |6,105,203 |
|Texas Tech University | |23 | |3,145,244 |
|TTU Health Sciences Center | |6 | |917,493 |
|Texas Transportation Institute | |2 | |151,452 |
|University of Houston | |37 | |5,606,585 |
|University of Houston-Clear Lake | |1 | |54,000 |
|University of Houston-Downtown | |2 | |89,080 |
|University of North Texas | |10 | |1,540,579 |
|UNT Health Science Center at Fort Worth | |7 | |1,223,264 |
|The University of Texas at Arlington | |14 | |2,561,199 |
|The University of Texas at Austin | |79 | |12,630,501 |
|The University of Texas at Dallas | |12 | |1,702,442 |
|The University of Texas at El Paso | |5 | |424,756 |
|The University of Texas-Pan American | |3 | |218,331 |
|The University of Texas of the Permian Basin | |1 | |175,000 |
|The University of Texas at San Antonio | |1 | | 98,000 |
|UT Health Science Center at Houston | | 4 | |916,806 |
|UT Health Science Center at San Antonio | |7 | |1,011,074 |
|UT M. D. Anderson Cancer Center | |12 | |1,751,886 |
|UT Medical Branch at Galveston | |10 | |2,139,299 |
|UT Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas | |19 | |3,553,250 |
|West Texas A&M University | |2 | |176,089 |
| | | | | |
| TOTALS | |407 | |$62,059,351 |
| | | | | |
|*Joint proposals are counted multiple times -- once for each institution participating in the proposed project. The number of funded projects |
|is 371. |
Appendix E
Comparison of Awards in 1997, 1999, and 2001
| | | Number of Proposals Funded by Area |
|Advanced Research Program | | 1997 | | 1999 | | 2001 |
|Astronomy | |4 | |- | |- |
|Atmospheric Sciences | |4 | | - | |- |
|Biological Sciences | |37 | |49 | |43 |
|Chemistry | |18 | |18 | |16 |
|Computer/Information Sciences | |13 | |13 | |11 |
|Earth Sciences | |8 | |9 | |7 |
|Engineering | |26 | |32 | |23 |
|Marine Sciences | |7 | |- | |- |
|Materials Science | |10 | |11 | | 9 |
|Mathematics | |15 | |15 | |13 |
|Physics | |14 | |16 | |12 |
|Social/Behavioral Sciences | |12 | |13 | |10 |
| | |168 | |176 | |144 |
|Advanced Technology Program | | | | | | |
|Aerospace | |8 | |8 | |8 |
|Agriculture and Aquaculture | |24 | |28 | |20 |
|Biomedicine | |29 | |33 | |30 |
|Biotechnology | |29 | | - | |- |
|Computer/Information Engineering | |15 | |20 | |18 |
|Energy | |24 | |15 | |17 |
|Environmental Sciences/Engineering | |13 | |23 | |23 |
|Manufacturing Technology | |16 | |24 | |14 |
|Marine Technology | |3 | |-3 | |- |
|Materials Technology | |20 | |16 | |18 |
|Medical Biotechnology | |- | |23 | |15 |
|Microelectronics | |12 | | 9 | |10 |
|Telecommunications | |7 | |9 | |13 |
|Transportation | |- | |8 | |3 |
| | |200 | |216 | |189 |
|ATP Development and Transfer | | | | | | |
|Aerospace | |- | |1 | |1 |
|Agriculture and Aquaculture | |5 | |1 | |4 |
|Biomedicine | |4 | |2 | |7 |
|Biotechnology | |3 | |- | |- |
|Computer/Information Engineering | |4 | |1 | |2 |
|Energy | |1 | |3 | |4 |
|Environmental Sciences/Engineering | |4 | |2 | |2 |
|Manufacturing Technology | |3 | |3 | |4 |
|Materials Technology | |3 | |2 | |1 |
|Medical Biotechnology | |- | |1 | |7 |
|Microelectronics | |2 | |4 | |3 |
|Telecommunications | |1 | |3 | |2 |
|Transportation | |- | |- | |1 |
| | |30 | |23 | |38 |
| TOTALS | |398 | |415 | |371 |
|Comparison of Awards in 1997, 1999, and 2001 |
| |
| Funding Allocations by Research Area |
|Advanced Research Program | |1997 | |1999 | |2001 |
|Astronomy | |273,357 | | * | |* |
|Atmospheric Sciences | |329,652 | | ** | |** |
|Biological Sciences | |5,744,110 | |6,865,320 | |7,026,363 |
|Chemistry | |2,221,727 | |2,202,707 | |2,250,659 |
|Computer/Information Sciences | |1,714,714 | |1,715,153 | |1,866,180 |
|Earth Sciences | |916,642 | |922,398 | |819,180 |
|Engineering | |3,572,523 | |3,903,961 | |3,900,307 |
|Marine Sciences | |702,577 | | - | |- |
|Materials Science | |1,528,757 | |1,602,389 | |1,431,280 |
|Mathematics | |747,549 | |711,161 | |931,860 |
|Physics | |1,418,142 | |1,568,438 | |1,373,976 |
|Social/Behavioral Sciences | | 995,410 | |1,046,924 | | 691,646 |
| | |20,065,160 | |20,538,451 | |20,291,451 |
|Advanced Technology Program | | | | | | |
|Aerospace | |1,565,183 | |1,372,924 | |1,614,500 |
|Agriculture and Aquaculture | |3,941,835 | |4,348,669 | |3,360,403 |
|Biomedicine | |5,194,244 | |6,295,990 | |5,768,000 |
|Biotechnology | |4,635,717 | | - | |- |
|Computer/Information Engineering | |2,183,157 | |3,138,021 | |3,226,806 |
|Energy | |3,359,187 | |2,390,776 | |2,585,328 |
|Environmental Sciences/Engineering | |3,031,427 | |4,172,586 | |4,085,862 |
|Manufacturing Technology | |2,722,802 | |3,098,443 | |2,836,422 |
|Marine Technology | |565,248 | | - | |- |
|Materials Technology | |3,495,187 | |2,995,566 | |3,754,522 |
|Medical Biotechnology | |- | |4,005,585 | |2,700,712 |
|Microelectronics | |1,872,488 | |1,636,236 | |1,905,334 |
|Telecommunications | |1,292,633 | |1,360,505 | |2,094,306 |
|Transportation | |- | |983,591 | |433,533 |
| | |33,859,108 | |35,798,892 | |34,365,728 |
|ATP Development and Transfer | | | | | | |
|Aerospace | |- | |175,000 | |190,000 |
|Agriculture and Aquaculture | |568,727 | |194,000 | |610,533 |
|Biomedicine | |731,227 | |365,000 | |1,483,000 |
|Biotechnology | |313,737 | | - | |- |
|Computer/Information Engineering | |981,625 | | 83,000 | |340,000 |
|Energy | |156,216 | |750,800 | |698,800 |
|Environmental Sciences/Engineering | |821,522 | |447,600 | |323,653 |
|Manufacturing Technology | |845,447 | |345,200 | |641,633 |
|Materials Technology | |462,940 | |783,000 | |235,000 |
|Medical Biotechnology | |- | |285,500 | |1,467,448 |
|Microelectronics | |443,396 | |746,500 | |740,225 |
|Telecommunications | |201,336 | |551,148 | |373,000 |
|Transportation | |- | |- | |290,880 |
| | |5,526,173 | |4,726,748 | |7,402,172 |
| | | | | | | |
| TOTALS | |$60,528,824 | |$61,064,091 | |$62,059,351 |
* Included in Physics after 1997.
** Included in Earth Sciences after 1997.
Pre-Proposal Evaluation Forms
Advanced Research Program and Advanced Technology Program Pre-proposals
Each criterion is rated “poor,” “fair,” “good,” or “excellent.”
1. Technical merit and soundness of the proposal
2. Capability of personnel available to the project
3. Adequacy of physical resources available to the project
4. Student involvement and student research training opportunities
Reviewer Comments
Continue with Full Proposal Do Not Continue
Technology Development and Transfer Pre-proposals
Each criterion is rated “poor,” “fair,” “good,” or “excellent.”
1. Technical merit and soundness of the proposal
2. Capability of personnel available to the project
3. Adequacy of physical resources available to the project
4. Strength of industrial collaboration and feasibility of technology transfer plan
Reviewer Comments
Continue with Full Proposal Do Not Continue
Fund – Priority 1
Fund – Priority 2
Do Not Fund
Revise Budget
Merit and soundness of the proposal (50%)
A. Scientific Base/Importance
Possible Reviewer Comments:
Research of far-reaching significance and based on quality, adequately referenced, scientific work
Research important to development of discipline and based on quality, adequately referenced work
Research important to development of discipline but based on more speculative research
Research is significant in only a narrow area
Research not significant within the boundaries of this competition
B. Originality
Possible Reviewer Comments:
Original idea that looks feasible
Established technique applied to new area
Idea previously investigated
C. Research Plan and Budget
Possible Reviewer Comments:
Well-documented research plan with appropriate budget and time schedule
Feasible plan but proposed budget or schedule is 25% over or under what is needed to do the job
Feasible plan but proposed budget or schedule is 50% over or under what is needed to do the job
Poorly thought out research plan
Capability of the investigator(s) (25%)
D. Staff
Possible Reviewer Comments:
Principal investigator(s) capable of conducting outstanding research in the proposed area and qualified support personnel listed
Principal investigator(s) with some experience in this area and qualified support personnel listed
Principal investigator(s) with qualified support staff needed but not included
Principal investigator(s) with thus far little demonstrated potential for research in this area
Student involvement and research training opportunities (15%)
E. Education/Training
Possible Reviewer Comments:
Research designed to attract, retain, and enhance the qualifications of the best students and researchers
Research involves few students and provides modest training for research or innovation
No student involvement in proposed research
Adequacy of institutional commitment and resources (10%)
F. Institutional Priority and Available Laboratory Equipment
Possible Reviewer Comments:
Clear institutional priority with significant institutional support and needed equipment in place
Clear institutional priority with significant institutional support and equipment can reasonably be expected to be in place when needed
A departmental priority with modest support and equipment can reasonably be expected to be in place when needed
A topic of interest primarily to the investigator(s) and/or proposed facilities inadequate to do the job
Fund – Priority 1
Fund – Priority 2
Do Not Fund
Revise Budget
Merit and soundness of the proposal (50%)
A. Scientific Base/Importance
Possible Reviewer Comments:
Research of far-reaching significance, important to Texas, based on quality, adequately referenced, work
Research important and based on quality, adequately referenced work
Research important but based on more speculative technology
Research is significant in only a narrow area
Research not significant within the boundaries of this competition
B. Originality
Possible Reviewer Comments:
Original idea that looks feasible
Established technique applied to new area
Idea previously investigated
C. Research Plan and Budget
Possible Reviewer Comments:
Well-documented research plan with appropriate budget and time schedule
Feasible plan but proposed budget or schedule is 25% over or under what is needed to do the job
Feasible plan but proposed budget or schedule is 50% over or under what is needed to do the job
Poorly thought out research plan
D. Leveraged Funds and Technology Transfer
Possible Reviewer Comments:
An idea with a 70% chance of creating a major marketable product in five years and project funds are substantially leveraged from other sources
An idea with a 50% chance of producing a marketable product in ten years and project funds are leveraged
Prospects for leveraging of funds and/or meaningful industrial collaboration exists
Project includes a meaningful collaboration
An idea that is unlikely to yield a commercial product; there is no leveraging of funds and no meaningful collaboration exists
Capability of the investigator(s) (25%)
E. Staff
Possible Reviewer Comments:
Principal investigator(s) capable of conducting outstanding research in the proposed area and qualified support personnel listed
Principal investigator(s) with some experience in this area and qualified support personnel listed
Principal investigator(s) with qualified support staff needed but not included
Principal investigator(s) with thus far little demonstrated potential for research in this area
Student involvement and research training opportunities (15%)
F. Education/Training
Possible Reviewer Comments:
Proposed research designed to increase number and quality of future scientists and engineers in Texas
Proposed research involves few students and provides modest training for research or innovation
No student involvement in proposed research
Adequacy of institutional commitment and resources (10%)
G. Institutional Priority and Available Laboratory Equipment
Possible Reviewer Comments:
Clear institutional priority with significant institutional support and needed equipment in place
A departmental priority with modest support and equipment can reasonably be expected to be in place when needed
A topic of interest primarily to the investigator(s) and/or proposed facilities inadequate to do the job
1. Is there a letter included from each industrial collaborator indicating that they have read the Yes No
proposal and are making a financial commitment to the project?
Note discrepancies. _______________________________________________________
________________________________________________________________________
________________________________________________________________________
Comments:
2. What support is the industrial collaborator bringing to the project?
Cash contributions $__________________________________________________________________________________
In-kind contributions $__________________________________________________________________________________
Following are some examples of in-kind support listed in previous TDT grants. This list is not all-inclusive:
Access to/use of equipment, facilities, staff
Evaluation and testing, fabrication, installation, processing, manufacturing
Consulting, engineering support, assessment of safety or effectiveness
Patent application and processing, marketing materials, travel
Equipment or materials donation
Comments:
3. Is the value of the matching support from the industrial collaborator(s) equal to or greater than Yes No
the state funds requested?
Comments:
4. The investigator is required to disclose any relationship that might be viewed as a conflict of Yes No
interest between the university research team and the industrial collaborator on the form
Proposal – 5. Do you believe a conflict of interest exists that would compromise the execution
of the project or the institution’s interests?
Comments:
5. Is the industrial partner capable of commercializing the technology? Yes No
Comments:
Fund – Priority 1
Fund – Priority 2
Do Not Fund
Revise Budget
Merit and soundness of the proposal (45%)
A. Potential Impact
Possible Reviewer Comments:
A new technology with wide application that will create new markets
A technology that will be important in a narrow range of applications
A technology that is interesting but which will have a relatively narrow range of applications
Little or no potential impact
B. Technological Importance
Possible Reviewer Comments:
A sophisticated breakthrough technology
Interesting but technologically unsophisticated
Minimal technological importance
C. Plan, Budget and Schedule
Possible Reviewer Comments:
Well-documented research plan with appropriate budget and time schedule
Feasible plan but proposed budget or schedule is 25% over or under what is needed to do the job
Feasible plan but proposed budget or schedule is 50% over or under what is needed to do the job
Poorly thought out research plan
Personnel and Physical Resources Available to the Project (20%)
D. Staff
Possible Reviewer Comments:
Principal investigator has proven record in developing and transferring technology
Staff has good records as scientists but little experience in technology transfer
Staff inadequately prepared to undertake project
E. Facilities
Possible Reviewer Comments:
Excellent facilities to undertake project
Appropriate facilities to undertake project
Inadequate facilities to undertake project
Technology Transfer Plan (35%)
F. Intellectual Property
Possible Reviewer Comments:
Ownership of intellectual property well defined and protected
Legal protection of intellectual property initiated
Inadequate protection for intellectual property to allow commercialization
G. Industrial Collaborator
Possible Reviewer Comments:
Strong industrial collaborator willing to commercialize in Texas
Industrial collaborator only marginally interested in commercializing in Texas
No significant industrial collaboration
H. Collaboration Plan
Possible Reviewer Comments:
Collaborator intimately involved in project with both personnel and financial support
Collaborator moderately involved in project with both personnel and financial support
Unrealistic collaboration plan
Related reports available:
Research Assessment Program, Final Report; July 2000
Advanced Research Program/Advanced Technology Program, Progress Report; August 2000
Evaluation of the Advanced Research and Advanced Technology Programs; January 2001
Advanced Research Program/Advanced Technology Program 2001 Program Announcements, April 2001
Research Expenditures September 1, 2000 - August 31, 2001; April 2002
Related information is also available on the web site of the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board at:
For information about this program contact:
Dr. Linda Domelsmith
Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board
Division of Finance, Campus Planning and Research
P.O. Box 12788
Austin, Texas 78711
(512) 427-6150
Internet: Linda.Domelsmith@thecb.state.tx.us
The Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board does not discriminate
on the basis of race, color, national origin, gender, religion, age or disability
in employment or the provision of services.
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Advanced Technology Program ― 2001
Proposal Evaluation Form
Technology Development and Transfer Program – 2001
Matching Contribution Evaluation Form
Technology Development and
Transfer Program ― 2001
Proposal Evaluation Form
Rank
(Fund – Priority 1 Proposals only)
Rank
(Fund – Priority 1 Proposals only)
Rank
(Fund – Priority 1 Proposals only)
Advanced Research Program ― 2001
Proposal Evaluation Form
Appendix F
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