UW Weekly Recovery Act Report
Summary: The week of July 27th August 2nd 2009, the University of Washington
received 26 ARRA awards for $10, 271, 983 Million. This brought total awards to
date to 99 awards for $38,263,527 Million. Expenditures to date are $284,869.00.
Thirty (38) of the awards are from the National Science Foundation, 58 from the
National Institutes of Health, 1 from the State of Washington, 1 from PNNL and 1
from the National Endowment for the Arts.
Research Highlights:
Multisite Prevention of Adolescent Conduct Problems
PI Robert McMahon Sponsor NIH
This 10 year long comprehensive intervention study will
Evaluate almost 1400 youth from kindergarten through age 20. The research is designed
to prevent serious antisocial behavior and related adolescent problems and examine
developmental models of conduct problems through childhood and adolescence. Youth
have been followed annually from kindergarten through age 20. The research plan
focuses on two issues identified as central for advancing knowledge about conduct
problems. The first issue concerns the age-of-onset subtyping approach to identifying
developmental pathways of conduct problems and the diagnosis of conduct disorder. (The
second issue concerns the potential role of psychopathic traits in identifying an additional
developmental pathway of conduct problems.
Mediated Shedding in Endothelial Inflammatory Responses
PI Elaine W Raines Sponsor NIH
Activation of the endothelial cells that line blood vessels during inflammatory processes
such as those associated with cardiovascular disease results in the recruitment of
circulating white blood cells into the vessel wall. This situation can ultimately contribute
to blockage of the blood vessel. One potentially important mechanism for endothelial
cells to regulate the recruitment of white blood cells is to rapidly modulate their
repertoire of cell surface proteins through proteolytic "shedding". The long-term
objective of this research is to better understand the cellular and molecular mechanisms
controlling chronic inflammatory responses such as atherosclerosis that remains the
major cause of death in the Western world.
Clinical Nutrition Research Unit
PI Alan Chait
Sponsor NIH
The major goal of the Clinical Nutrition Research Unit (CNRU) at the University of
Washington is to promote and enhance interdisciplinary nutrition research by bringing
together basic science and clinical investigators on a cooperative basis.
Elementary Particle Physics Using High Energy Colliders
PI Henry J Lubatti Sponsor NSF
The start of the Large Hadron Collider Program at CERN laboratory in Geneva,
Switzerland opens up a rich physics opportunity for fully exploring the mass energy
region up to 1 TeV. The goal of our research program is to significantly extend our
understanding of the Standard Model and go beyond the Standard Model boson. In the
early years of the LHC operation the research will focus on the observation and search
for long-lived heavy particles. The prospects for new discoveries that will significantly
increase our understanding of the fundamental forces of nature are enormous.