Awarded Research

Current Awards

FY 2002 Awards/Existing Projects

Extramural Awards (The extramural component of the program includes investigators outside the NASA community and is divided between NASA and NCI according to proposal focus.)

NASA

• Photonic Technologies for Early Detection of Human Disease - Mark G. Allen, Physical Sciences Inc.
• Development of an In-Vivo Sensing Technology for Cancer Signature - Sanford A. Asher, U. of Pittsburgh
• Fundamental Technologies for the Development of Biomolecular Sensors - James R. Baker, Jr., U. of Michigan
• A Nonlinear Optical Coherence Tomography System for Biomolecular Detection and Intervention - Stephen A. Boppart, Beckman Inst. For Advanced Science & Technology
• Translation of Disease Markers into Bioluminescent Signals - Donald Langdry, Columbia U. in the City of NY
• Nanoparticle Delivery of Repair Enzymes for Radiation Protection/DNA Repair - James F. Leary, U. of Texas Medical Branch
• Photonic Technologies for Noninvasive Detection, Diagnosis, and Treatment of Cancer - Timothy M. Swager, MIT

NCI

• Peptide Functionalized Nanoparticles As Biomolecular Sensors - Stephen Berry
• Virus-Based Nanoparticles: Novel Biomolecular Sensors for Targeting Cancer - Marianne Manchester Ph.D.
• Molecular Beacons and Hand-held Sensors - Ralph Weissleder, MD, Ph.D.
• Nanoscale Bioconjugates as Passive and Active Detection, Diagnosis and Treatment Systems - Karen Wooley, Ph.D.
• Boronic Acid-Based Sensors for Cell-surface Carbohydrates - Binghe Wang, Ph.D.
• Ultrabright Near Infrared Fluorophores for New Biomedical Sensor Technology - Michael Therien, Ph.D.

NASA Intramural Awards (The intramural portion of the program includes only investigators from Ames Research Center and the Jet Propulsion Laboratory.)

Ames Research Center, Mountain View, California

• Nanospores for Gene Sequencing - Victor Stolc
• Solid Surface DNA Sequencing - Victor Stolc
• Biosensor Nanovesicles - Eduardo Almeida
• High-Throughput Metabolic Profiling by Multidimensional NMR and Mathematical Modeling of Metabolic Networks - Shoudan Liang
• A New Ultrasensitive Technique for the Detection of Organisms and Their Biomarkers - David Summers
• Technology Development of Miniaturized Far-Infrared Sources for Biomolecular Spectroscopy - Cun-Zheng Ning
• High Resolution Imaging of Biological Samples - Meyya Meyyappan
• Development of NASA-Specific Bioinformatics Environment- Andrew Pohorille
• Computational Tools for Reconstruction and Discovery of Metabolic, Signal Transduction and Evolutionary Pathways - Andrew Pohorille
• Fluorometric Detection of Microorganisms on Sterilized Surfaces - Chris McKay
• Microbial Assay Technologies for Space (MATS): A Coordinated Ecosystem Response Assay Technology - Leslie Prufert-Bebout

Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, California

• The Pharmacokinetics of the Blood-Brain-Barrier: Applications in Chemotherapy and Astronaut Health - James Lambert
• MEMS Ion Channel Sensor (MEDICS) - Jay Nadeau
• Nanoconverters: Remotely Coupled DC Power for Driving Microdevices - Peter Siegel
• Molecular Complexes Within Cellular Networks - Eric Mjolsness
• Biomolecular Imaging with Atomic Force Microscope Mediated Raman Spectroscopy - Mark Anderson