Career Awardee: Tarek Fahmy

Clinical CO-Investigator: Joseph Craft
Institution: Yale University
Project Title: Multimodal Nanoparticles for Targeting Autoimmune T Cells in Systemic Lupus Erythematosus: A Strategy for Non-Invasive Diagnosis and Targeted Drug Delivery

Career Awardee: Xudong Fan

Clinical CO-Investigator: Paul Dale
Institution: University of Missouri
Project Title: Prototyping Lab-on-a-Chip Based on Liquid Core Optical Ring Resonators For Detection of Breast Cancer Biomarkers

Career Awardee: Elizabeth Hillman

Clinical CO-Investigator: Désirée Ratner
Institution: Columbia University
Project Title: Development of depth-resolved optical imaging for melanoma margin mapping and invasion depth determination

Career Awardee: Ali Khademhosseini

Clinical CO-Investigator: Richard Lee
Institution: Harvard University -- MIT
Project Title: Microscale Bottom-Up Cardiac Tissue Engineering

Career Awardee: Kirill Larin

Clinical CO-Investigator: Michael Allon
Institution: University of Houston
Project Title: Development of Objective, Noninvasive Technique to Assess Viability of Human Pre-Implantation Stage Embryos

Career Awardee: Erin Lavik

Clinical CO-Investigator: Young Kwon
Institution: Yale University
Project Title: Sustained Delivery of Timolol Maleate for Management of Elevated IOP for Glaucoma

Career Awardee: Anant Madabhushi

Clinical CO-Investigator: Michael Feldman
Institution: Rutgers University
Project Title: Automated Detection of Prostate Cancer from High Resolution MRI

Career Awardee: Mia Markey

Clinical CO-Investigator: Gary Whitman
Institution: University of Texas at Austin
Project Title: Evidence-Based Computer-Aided Detection of Breast Cancer

Career Awardee: Steven Nicoll

Clinical CO-Investigator: Sunday Akintoye
Institution: University of Pennsylvania
Project Title: Novel Dermal Fibroblast-Cellulose Composites for Mandibular Condyle Cartilage Regeneration

Career Awardee: Krishnendu Roy

Clinical CO-Investigator: Larry Kwak
Institution: University of Texas at Austin
Project Title: Polymer-based delivery systems for genetic vaccines against B cell lymphoma

Career Awardee: Shiladitya Sengupta

Clinical CO-Investigator: Harold Dvorak
Institution: Harvard University -- MIT
Project Title: Multivalent hybrid-nanocells for spatiotemporal ablation of neovasculature and solid tumors

Career Awardee: Palaniappan Sethu

Clinical CO-Investigator: Salvatore Bertolone
Institution: University of Louisville
Project Title: Leukocyte Isolation using a Microfluidic System for Clinical Analysis of Patient Samples to Study Disease Processes

Career Awardee: Samuel Sia

Clinical CO-Investigator: William Rodriguez
Institution: Columbia University
Project Title: BioMEMS Device for Counting of CD4+ Lymphocytes

Career Awardee: Maurice Smith

Clinical CO-Investigator: Herminia Rosas
Institution: Harvard University -- MIT
Project Title: Error feedback control dysfunction as a measure of the progression of Huntingtons disease

Career Awardee: Stavroula Sofou

Clinical CO-Investigator: David Scheinberg
Institution: Polytechnic University
Project Title: Liposomes containing 'raft-switches' for targeted therapy of solid tumors

Career Awardee: James Tunnell

Clinical CO-Investigator: Tri Nguyen
Institution: University of Texas at Austin
Project Title: Spectral Diagnosis of Early Cutaneous Melanoma

Career Awardee: John Viator

Clinical CO-Investigator: Paul Dale
Institution: University of Missouri
Project Title: Photoacoustic detection of circulating melanoma cells

Career Awardee: Yingxiao Wang

Clinical CO-Investigator: Stephen Boppart
Institution: University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Project Title: Development of Specific FRET Biosensors to Monitor Live-Cell MT1-MMP Activity and to Detect Cancer Cells

Career Awardee: Ronald Xu

Clinical CO-Investigator: Stephen Povoski
Institution: Ohio State University
Project Title: Development of an Integrated Dynamic Breast Imaging System for the Early Detection of Breast Cancer

Career Awardee: Changhuei Yang

Clinical CO-Investigator: Karl Gaal
Institution: California Institute of Technology
Project Title: Applying Optofluidic Microscopy to Cell Imaging

Career Awardee: Gang Yao

Clinical CO-Investigator: Judith Miles
Institution: University of Missouri
Project Title: Dynamic Pupillary Light Reflex for Autism Screening

Career Awardee: Jason Zara

Clinical CO-Investigator: Michael Manyak
Institution: George Washington University
Project Title: Microfabricated Optical Coherence Tomography Imaging Probes

Career Awardee: Xiaojing Zhang

Clinical CO-Investigator: Ann Gillenwater
Institution: University of Texas at Austin
Project Title: In-Vivo Molecular Imaging of Oral Epithelial Cancer Using MEMS Silicon Confocal Microscope

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