2009-2010 Funded Research

RESEARCH GRANTS: Total Awarded: $1,101,000
InvestigatorInstitutionResearch Project
Howard Chang, MD, PhD
Assistant Professor,
Department of Dermatology
Stanford University School of Medicine Regulation of Positional Identity in Scleroderma Skin
Christopher P. Denton, MD, PhD, FRCP
Professor of Experimental Rheumatology
Recipient of Actelion Research Award
Royal Free and University College Medical School Centre for Rheumatology, London Perturbed TGF-beta Signaling in the Pathogenesis of Systemic Sclerosis Associated Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension: Exploration in Transgenic Mice
Hal Dietz, MD
Victor A. McKusick Professor of
Genetics and Medicine
Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine; Howard Hughes Medical Institute Interrogation of the Pathogenesis of Stiff Skin Syndrome: A Congenital Form of Scleroderma
Laurie Glimcher, MD
Irene Heinz Given Professor of Immunology and Professor of Medicine
Harvard School of Public Health and Harvard Medical School The Function of T-bet, Innate Immunity and Type-2 Cytokines in Scleroderma
Vibha Lama, MD, MS
Assistant Professor, Department of Internal Medicine
David Pinsky, MD
J. Griswold Ruth, MD and Margery Hopkins Ruth Professor of Internal Medicine; Professor of Molecular and Integrative Physiology; Chief, Cardiovascular Medicine Scientific Director of the Cardiovascular Center
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor Cellular and Biochemical Modulation of Inflammation and Fibrosis in Systemic Sclerosis
Ann Marshak-Rothstein, PhD
Professor, Department of Microbiology
Boston University School of Medicine and School of Public Health A Model System for T-Cell Targeting of the Vascular Endothelium
Stephen M. Schwartz, MD, PhD
Professor, Department of Pathology; Director of Scleroderma Center of Excellence in Scleroderma Research
University of Washington, Seattle Tissue Studies and Rarefaction of Capillaries in Scleroderma
John Varga, MD
Professor of Medicine
Northwestern University School of Medicine PPAR-gamma: A Novel Target in Scleroderma Fibrosis
Michael Whitfield, PhD
Assistant Professor of Genetics
Dartmouth Medical School A Gene Expression Map of Scleroderma
Fredrick Wigley, MD
Professor of Medicine, Associate Director of the Division of Rheumatology, Director of the Johns Hopkins Scleroderma Center
Recipient of Actelion Center of Excellence Award
Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine Johns Hopkins Scleroderma Center

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