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Funded Research
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Dr. Robert Morecraft, Ph.D., Professor - Sanford School of Medicine
of The University of South Dakota - for his work on mapping the damage
during a brain injury and how proteins can play a positive role in
lessening the damage and possibly reversing it. This is a multi-state,
multi-center collaboration bringing more resources together with the hope of success.
This is a major 3 year grant we provide approximately $77,000.00
to annually, dependant on Council approval.
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Dr. James Sears, Ph.D., Director - Additive Manufacturing Center -
South Dakota School of Mines and Technology, Direct Write Technology in
Application to Nerve Cell Research - $25,000.00 - February 1, 2006/
February 1, 2007. Collaborators include:
nScrypt, Inc.,
Dr. Stephen Armstrong, Ph.D of the
South Dakota Health
Research Foundation and
Dr. Daniel A Neufeld, Ph.D., Professor - Sanford School of Medicine
of The University of South Dakota
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Dr. Da-Qing Yang, Ph.D., Assistant Professor - Sanford School of
Medicine of The University of South Dakota - Reprogramming Healthy Donor
Cells into Neuronal Cells for Treatment of Spinal Cord Injury -
$24,200.00 - February 1, 2006/ February 1, 2007.
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Dr. Thomas Ripperda, M.D. -
Avera McKennan Hospital/Avera Research Institute - Evaluating the
Effect of Partial Weight Supportive Treadmill Gate Training Following
Traumatic Brain Injury - $24,530.00 - February 1, 2006/ February 1,
2007.
- Title: Protection from
Excitotoxicity by Simultaneous Inhibition of Glutamate Receptors and Gap
Junction Proteins Principal Investigator:
Dr. Brian D Burrell, Assistant Professor, Division of Basic
Biomedical Sciences, Sanford School of Medicine of The University of
South Dakota. Amount: $24,965 Grant Period: March 1, 2007 to February
28, 2008
- Title: Role of SynGAP in
the Modulation of Traumatic Neuronal Injury In Vivo Principal
Investigator:
Dr. Pasquale Manzerra, Assistant Professor, Basic Biomedical
Sciences, Sanford School of Medicine of The University of South Dakota.
Amount: $25,000 Grant Period: February 1, 2007 to January 31, 2008
- Title: Improving Hand
Function in Individuals with Spinal Cord Injury and Traumatic Brain
Injury using a Neuroprosthesis
Principal Investigator:
Peter Johnson, M.D., Medical Director, Sanford
Health Rehabilitation Unit. Amount: $22,276 Grant Period:
March 1, 2007 to February 28, 2008
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