Carver Trust Medical Research Initiative Grants
2010 Awardees

Identification of the direct targets of transcription factor Activator Protein 2 governing melanocyte differentiation
Robert Cornell, PhD
Associate Professor of Anatomy and Cell Biology

Sepsis-induced immunosuppression is mediated by TRAIL-expressing CD8+ regulatory T cells
Thomas Griffith, PhD
Associate Professor of Urology

Chemokine SDF-1alpha-mediated upregulation of TRPV1 and pain sensitization associated with prostate cancer bone metastasis
Durga Mohapatra, PhD
Assistant Professor of Pharmacology
Donna Hammond, PhD
Professor of Anesthesia and Pharmacology

PKC and Cdc42 signaling from the Golgi complex in cell transformation
Mark Stamnes, PhD
Associate Professor of Molecular Physiology and Biophysics

Establishing drosophila border cell migration as a model for studying prostaglandin mediated invasive cell migration
Tina Tootle, PhD
Assistant Professor of Anatomy and Cell Biology