Hamill awards to fund research
The Rice University Institute of Bioscience and Bioengineering (IBB) has announced the recipients of the 2007 Hamill Innovation Awards. Now in its third year, the seed-grant program supports high-risk, high-impact research projects among IBB faculty.Two of the recipients are engineering faculty.
“The program provides valuable start-up funds for collaborative, multidisciplinary research projects that have enormous potential but are considered premature for traditional funding agencies,” said Jennifer West, the Isabel C. Cameron Professor of Bioengineering, professor in chemical and biomolecular engineering and director of IBB.
To date, the program has funded nine interdisciplinary collaborations. The inaugural Hamill Innovation grants, totaling $50,000 in 2005, have already resulted in more than $450,000 in external grant support. This year’s award, which includes a $20,000 grant to each team, was supported by a renewed $100,000 endorsement to IBB from the Hamill Foundation in 2007.
The 2007 grants will fund research by:
• Robert Raphael, the T. N. Law Assistant Professor of Bioengineering, and Jonathan Silberg, assistant professor of biochemistry and cell biology, for “Creating a Biosensor for In Vivo Measurements of Membrane Cholesterol in Single Cells.”
• Vicki Colvin, professor of chemistry and director of the Center for Biological and Environmental Nanotechnology (CBEN),
• Rebekah Drezek, associate professor of bioengineering, Mary Ellen Lane, assistant professor of biochemistry and cell biology, and Daniel Wagner, assistant professor of biochemistry and cell biology, for “A Zebrafish Model for the Assessment of the Biological Properties of Nanomaterials.”
• Kathleen M. Beckingham, professor of biochemistry and cell biology, and R. Bruce Weisman, professor of chemistry, for “Use of a Model Organism to Develop Tissue Targeting of Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes.”
• Cecilia Clementi, assistant professor of chemistry, and Jeffrey D. Hartgerink, assistant professor of chemistry, for “A Combined Experimental and Theoretical Approach to the Design and Characterization of PBX-Binding Peptides with Cancer Suppressing Activity.”
• Janet Braam, professor of biochemistry and cell biology, and Pernilla Wittung-Stafshede, associate professor of biochemistry and cell biology, for “Ion Binding by Novel Sensor Proteins in Plants.”
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