2008 TAPITMAT-CBIT Award Recipients

Cellular High Throughput Screeing (HTS) Assay for Duchenne’s Muscular Dystrophy (DMD) Therapy
(Tejvir Khurana, PhD, Physiology, SOM)
Identifying Novel Promotersof Human MSC Osteo-Chondrogenesis through Chemical Library Screening Applications for Tissue Engineering
(Robert Mauck, MD, Orthopaedic Surgery, SOM and Jason Burdick, PhD, Bioengineering, SEAS)
Screening of Small Molecule Inhibitors of Complement
(Wenchao Song, PhD, Pharmacology, SOM)

2007 CBIT Awardees

Detection of caspase activation in zebrafish embryos, a sophisticated vertebrate for high-througput screening (HTS) of radiomodifying agents
(Dr. Gary D. Kao, Radiation Oncology, SOM)
Identifying selective ligands for prostacyclin-thromboxane receptor heterodimers
(Dr. Emer M. Smyth, Ph.D., Pharmacology, SOM)
Synthetic chemistry of Alzheimer Disease modulators
(Amos Smith PhD Chemistry, SEAS and Virgina Lee PhD, Pathology SOM).