10 Seed Grants

Nanoparticle Based Molecular Imaging of Cerebraamyloid Angiopathy, A Major Risk Factor for Stroke- $ 125,000

Principal Investigator: Jason Eriksen, PhD (UH), Co-Investigator: Ananth Annapragada, PhD (UTHSC)

Integrating amine-functionalized gold nanoparticle conjugated microRNAs into cancer prognostic and therapeutic strategies targeted at drug resistant Multiple Myeloma (MM). $125,000

Principal Investigators: Preethi H. Gunaratne, Ph.D. (UH), Chung-Che (Jeff) Chang, M.D. Ph.D.(TMHRI)

Design of Nanofabricated Piezoelectric Sensors for the Structural Health Monitoring of Total Hip Prostheses $ 125,000

Principal Investigator : Dr. Gangbing Song (UH) , Co-Principal Investigators: Dr. Li Sun (UH), Dr. Philip Noble (BCM) and Dr. Chonglin Chen (UH).

Engineered Gold Nanoparticles for the Detection of Solid Cancers: Investigation of Shape-Dependent Biological Dynamics $ 125,000

Principal Investigators: Dr Paul Ruchhoeft (UH) and Dr Daniel Lee (TMHRI), Co-Investigators: Dr Richard Willson (UH), Dr King Li (TMHRI) and Dr Ching Tung (TMHRI)

Design and Develop Magnetic Nanostructures for Multiplexing MRI Diagnostics $125,000

Principal Investigator: Dr Li Sun (UH), Co-Principal Investigators: Dr Yuxiang Zhou (UTHSC), Dr Dong Liu

3-dimensional Multisensing Probes for Neural Recording & Brain-Machine Interfaces $125,000

Principal Investigator: Prof. John C. Wolfe (UH), Co-Principal Investigators: Prof. John A Dani (BCM), Dr Fabrizio Gabbiani (BCM), Dr Andreas Tolias (BCM)

Advancing Clinical Proteomics Using DNA Nanotechnologies $125,000

Principal Investigator: Dr. Michael Diehl (Rice), Co-Investigators: Dr. Walter Hittelman (UTMDACC), Dr. Bradley McIntyre (UTMDACC)

Tumor-targeted and Infrared-triggered Delivery of siRNA-nanotherapeutics for Human Lung Cancer- $125,000

Principal Investigator: Dr. Lin Ji (UTMDACC), Co-Principal Investigator: Dr. Naomi Halas (Rice)

Nanotechnology-Based Therapeutics for the Central Nervous System- $125,000

Principal Investigator: Professor James M Tour (Rice), Collaborator: Professor Raymond Grill (UTHSC), Co-PI: Professor Andrew Jea (BCM)

Nano-engineered, Multi-channel Scaffolds for Axon Regeneration $125,000

Principal Investigators: Dr. Jiming Bao (UH) and Dr. Qilin Cao (UTHSC)