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Research Opportunities

Research Funding - Pediatric Track

Research in the Division of Allergy and Immunology at Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center is supported by grants and contract awards from the National Institutes of Health, the Food and Drug Administration, the American Academy of Allergy, Asthma, and Immunology, Merck & Company, the Burroughs Wellcome Fund, the Food Allergy and Anaphylaxis Network, the American Heart Association, Genentech, Glaxo-Smith-Kline, Cincinnati Children's, the Leukemia Research Foundation, and the March of Dimes.  Funding as of July 1, 2005 consists of the following:

Research Grants and Contract Awards

J. Pablo Abonia, MD
Recruitment of Murine Mast Cell Progenitors
National Institutes of Health
K08 AI 057991
$111,500/$403,12507/01/04 – 01/31/08
K12 Pediatric Center for Gene Expression and Development
National Institute of Health
$58,750/$176,25010/01/01 – 03/29/08
Carine Blanchard, PhD
Periostin Expression in Inflammatory Contexts
American Heart Association – Ohio Valley
$86,00007/01/06 – 06/30/08
Filaggrin Expression is Decreased in Pediatric EE Patients
Thrasher Research Fund
$26,75002/01/07 – 01/31/09
Simon Hogan, PhD
Eosinophils and Pediatric Inflammatory Bowel Disease
Crohn's and Colitis Foundation of America Year
$90,000/$270,00001/01/07 – 12/31/07
IL-9 and IgE-Mediated Food Allergy
American Academy of Allergy, Asthma, and Immunology Year
$20,00001/01/07 – 12/31/07
Eosinophils and Pediatric Inflammatory Bowel Disease
Chron's & Colitis Foundation of America Year
$90,000/$270,00001/01/07 – 12/31/09
DDRDC Trustee Grant
Children's Hospital Medical Center
$100,00007/01/05 – 06/30/07
Kimberly Risma, MD, PhD
Mechanisms of Altered Lymphocyte Cytotoxicity
Doris Duke Charitable Foundation
$125,000/$375,00008/01/06 – 07/31/09
Pathophysiologic Basis of Perforin Misfolding in Cytotox
American Academy of Allergy Asthma & Immunology
$100,00007/01/07 – 06/30/09
K12 Pediatric Center for Gene Expression and Development
National Institute of Health
$194,94112/01/05 – 11/30/08
Gurjit Khurana Hershey, MD, PhD
Interleukin-13 in Experimental Asthma – Component 4
National Institutes of Health
P01 HL 076383
$273,182/$1,327,28307/01/04 – 06/30/09
Biology of IL-13 Receptor Alpha 2
National Institutes of Health
R01 AI 058157
$165,932/$1,250,00001/01/04 – 12/31/08
Genetic Susceptibililty for Occupational Asthma
National Institutes of Health (University of Cincinnati subcontract)
R01 OH 008795
$49,781/$179,42409/01/06 – 07/31/10

Epithelial Genes in Allergic Inflammation
National Institutes of Health
U19 AI 070235

Hershey, G
Hershey, G
Rothenberg, M
Wills-Karp
Nick, T

$674,286/$3,567,767

$34,503
$210,497
$135,497
$210,497
$83,292

09/15/06 – 08/31/11

Administrative Core
Project 1
Project 2
Project 3
Scientific Core

Development of a Custom Asthma and Allergy SNP Platform
National Institutes of Health (University of Texas Health Science Center – San Antonio subcontract)
U19 AI 070412
$83,00004/01/07 – 09/30/08
Anil Mishra, PhD
Mechanistic Analysis of Eosinophilic Esophagitis
National Institutes of Health
R01 DK 067255
$231,698/$1,178,07204/01/05 – 03/31/10
Marc Rothenberg, MD, PhD
Interleukin-13 in Experimental Asthma – Component 3
National Institutes of Health
P01 HL 076383
$273,182/$1,327,28507/01/04 – 06/30/09
Interleukin-13 in Experimental Asthma – Scientific Core 2
National Institutes of Health
P01 HL 076383
$145,796/$793,08207/01/04 – 06/30/09
The Hypereosinophilic Syndromes and Mepolizumab
National Institutes of Health (University of Utah subcontract)
R01 AI 061097
$8,054/$91,45606/15/04 – 05/31/08
Eosinophil, Chemokine and IL-13 Cooperativity in Asthma
National Institutes of Health
R01 AI 057803
$118,523/$500,00004/01/04 – 03/31/08
Regulation of Gastrointestinal Eosinophils
National Institutes of Health
R01 AI 045898
$189,636/$960,00001/15/04 – 12/31/08
Role of Arginase in Allergic Airway Inflammation
National Institutes of Health
R01 AI 053479
$237,045/$1,250,00012/15/02 – 11/30/07
Molecular Analysis of Eosinophilic Esophagitis
Food Allergy and Anaphylaxis Network
$69,444/$138,88802/01/07 – 01/31/09
IL-13 and Eosinophilic Esophagitis (EE)
National Institutes of Health
R01 DK 076893
$307,500/$1,537,50009/01/07 – 06/30/12
Arnold Strauss, MD – Principal Investigator
Marc Rothenberg, MD – Program Director
Pediatric Center for Gene Expression and Development
National Institutes of Health
K12 HD 028827
$400,000/$2,000,00012/01/06 – 11/30/11
Ning Wang, MD
Genetics of Eosinophilic Esophagitis
National Institutes of Health
R21 DK 074626
$145,650/$275,00005/15/06 – 04/30/08
Nives Zimmermann, MD
The Role of Arginine Transport in the Development of Inflammatory Homeostasis in the Lung
March of Dimes – National
$248,50206/01/06 - 05/31/09
Targeting Eosinophils by Anti-Siglec-F Treatment
Translational – Cincinnati Children's Medical Center
$100,00007/01/07 – 06/30/08
The Dana Foundation$100,000/$300,00010/01/07 – 09/30/10