Grant Funded Projects
Kyle McInnis, Sc.D., (UMB), Jessica Whiteley, Ph.D., (UMB), and Gary Bennett, Ph.D., (DFHCC), Obesity/Weight Loss Intervention for African-American Women, funded 12/1/05.
Linda S. Huang, Ph.D., (UMB) and Pamela A. Silver, Ph.D., (DFHCC), Examination of Sporulation-specific Spliceosome Recruitment, funded 12/1/05.
Greer Glazer, Ph.D.,(UMB) and Patricia Reid-Ponte, DN.Sc., (DFHCC), PhD Program in Health Policy Targeted to Cancer Nursing Care and Health Disparities – A Joint Venture in Training, Mentorship, and Community Outreach, funded 12/1/05.
Russell Schutt, Ph.D., (UMB) and JudyAnn Bigby, M.D., (DFHCC), Educating Underserved Communities about Cancer Clinical Trials, funded 12/1/05.
Joan Liem, Ph.D., (UMB) and Susan Bauer-Wu, DN.Sc., (DFHCC), Training Minority Clinical Psychology Doctoral Students to be Cancer Researchers: A Collaborative Undertaking between the UMB Clinical Psychology PhD Program and the DFHCC, funded 6/1/06.
Alexey Veraksa, Ph.D., (UMB) and Dietmar Schmucker, M.D., (DFHCC), Control membrane receptor signaling by endocytosis and multiprotein signaling complexes, funded 6/1/06.
Enrico Marcelli, Ph.D., (UMB) and Gary Bennett, Ph.D., (DFHCC), The Boston-Cambridge-Quincy Metropolitan Dominican Immigrant Household Survey (BDIHS), funded 11/1/06.
John Perez, Ph.D., (UMB), Amy Rex-Smith, DN.Sc., (UMB), and Elizabeth Tracey (DFHCC), Understanding prayer as a coping mechanism among cancer patients, funded 11/1/06.
Joan Becker, Ed.D,(UMB), Karen Burns White, M.S., (DFHCC), Education and Community Outreach Program for UMass Boston Students, funded 11/1/06.
Alexey Veraksa, Ph.D., (UMB) and Dietmar Schmucker, M.D., (DFHCC), In vivo analysis of membrane receptor signaling by dissecting mulitprotiein complex formation, funded 11/1/07.
Susan DeSanto-Madeya, DN.Sc., (UMB), Holly Prigerson, Ph.D., (DFHCC) and Elizabeth Trice, MD, Ph.D., (DFHCC), Radical Disparities in Cancer Care at the End of Life (RADICCAL), funded 11/1/07.
Barbara Lewis, Ph.D., (UMB), Alix Cantave, Ph.D., (UMB) and Jennifer Dacey Allen, D.Sc., (DFHCC), Needs Assesment of Haitian Community, funded 11/1/07.
Adán Colón-Carmona, Ph.D., (UMB) and David Pellman, M.D. (DFHCC), Aberrant chromosome segregation without cancerous growth; CENP-E protein inn Arabidopsis, funded 11/1/07.
Jessica Whiteley, Ph.D., (UMB) and Kasisomayajula Vishwanath, Ph.D., Health Communication Channels among Nontraditional College Students, funded 11/1/08.
Laura Hayman, Ph.D., (UMB) and Mary Cooley Ph.D., (DF/HCC), Current health behaviors and motivational readiness to pursue behavioral change among African American and European American lung cancer patients and their families, funded 11/1/08.
John Perez, Ph.D., (UMB), Amy Rex-Smith, DN.Sc., (UMB), and Laurel Radwin, Ph.D., Prayer and Well-Being among Cancer Patients: A Randomized, Controlled Trial, funded 11/1/08.
John Perez, Ph.D., (UMB) and Jennifer Dacey Allen, D.Sc., (DFHCC), Cancer Screening among Latinos in Churches, funded 11/1/08.
Wei Zhang, Ph.D., (UMB) and Nathanael Gray, Ph.D., (DF/HCC), Development of Fluorescent Small Molecule Probes of Cancer Cell Lines, funded 9/1/09.
Robyn Hannigan, Ph.D., (UMB) and Clair Beard, M.D., (DF/HCC), Quantification of Platium levels of serum, tissues,and bone of patients treated with Pt-based chemotherapy drugs, funded 9/1/09.