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January 12, 2007
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Local News
CSU lands bioscience grants
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| Originally published 2007-01-12 00:00:00 |
FORT COLLINS - Colorado State University has landed more than
$440,000 for five bioscience projects from the Colorado Office of
Economic Development and International Trade.
The OEDT awarded more than $1.9 million in grants under the newly
created Bioscience Discovery Evaluation Grant program. The University
of Colorado received the most grant money, with just over $1 million
going to 13 projects.
CSU received the next highest amount with $441,000, which the
university must match through institutional or private sources. The
projects awarded grants are in a wide range of disciplines.
William Dernell, a veterinarian at the Animal Cancer Center in the
College of Veterinary Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, was awarded a
grant to study the impacts of sustained release of anticancer
chemotherapy from a biodegradable implant made of polymer. Dernell's
work will focus on lymph nodes, a site where breast cancer typically
spreads.
Randy Bartels, assistant professor in electrical and computer
engineering, is working to develop novel forms of nonlinear optical
microscopy that could produce images of the inside of living organisms
at the molecular level. The application of such technology could lead
to a greater understanding of diseases such as bovine spongiform
encephalopathy or mad cow disease, chronic wasting disease in deer and
elk and scrapie in sheep.
Eric Monnet and Christopher Orton in the College of Veterinary Medicine
and Biomedical Sciences and Sue James in the College of Engineering
have developed a device that can be implanted without open-heart
surgery and cardiac bypass to improve the survival prognosis for
patients with heart failure and functional mitral valve regurgitation.
Christian Puttlitz, mechanical engineering assistant professor,
received a grant for his design of an improved Caspar pin distractor, a
device used to open up the space between two adjacent vertebrae during
cervical spine surgery.
"These funds will assist Colorado State's leading scientists to more
quickly turn their scientific findings into products that could lead to
new ventures and job creation," said Bill Farland, vice president for
research at CSU. "One of the university's major goals is to fully
realize the potential impacts of discovery and contribute to economic
prosperity."
The University of Northern Colorado also received $53,260 for a single
project. Information on the project was not available in time for
publication.
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