AWARD YEAR 2001 - Program Grants
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ALITALO Kari
Molecular / Cancer Biology Laboratory
Haartman Institute
University of Helsinki
FINLAND
DUMONT Daniel J., Dept. of Medical Biophysics
University of Toronto
Women's College Health Sciences Center
Toronto,
CANADA
SUDA Toshio, Dept. of Cell Differentiation
Institute of Molecular Embryology and Genetics
Kumamoto University School of Medicine
JAPAN
Molecular controls of lymphangiogenesis and angiogenesis.
ALZARI Pedro (ITALY)
Unit of Structural Biochemistry
Pasteur Institute
Paris
FRANCE
FRASCH Alberto C.
Instituto de Investigaciones Biotecnologicas
Universidad Nacional de General San Martin
ARGENTINA
WITHERS Stephen G. (CANADA/UK)
Dept. of Chemistry
University of British Columbia
Vancouver
CANADA
Molecular function of trypanosomal sialidases: recognition, hydrolysis and synthesis of sialoconjugates.
Abstract
BONNE Gisèle
INSERM UR 523, Institut de Myologie
Groupe Hospitalier Pitié-Salpêtière, Paris
FRANCE
COLLAS Philippe (FRANCE)
Institute of Medical Biochemistry, University of Oslo
NORWAY
HAYASHI Yukiko
Dept. of Neuromuscular Research
National Institute of Neuroscience, NCNP, Tokyo
JAPAN
WORMAN Howard J.
Depts. of Medicine, and of Anatomy and Cell Biology
Columbia University, College of Physicians and Surgeons
New York
USA
Nuclear envelope and muscle diseases.
BURGER Koert N. J.
Dept. of Molecular Cell Biology, Institute of Biomembranes
Utrecht University
THE NETHERLANDS
KOZLOV Michael M.
Dept. of Physiology and Pharmacology
Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel Aviv University
ISRAEL
LUINI Alberto
Dept. of Cell Biology and Oncology
Lab. of Molecular Neurobiology
Consorzio Mario Negri Sud, S. Maria Imbaro
ITALY
MALHOTRA Vivek
Dept. of Biology
University of California, San Diego
USA
Molecular mechanism of membrane fission.
Abstract
CHRISTIANSEN Morten H. (DENMARK)
Depts. of Psychology and Linguistics
Southern Illinois University, Carbondale
USA
CHATER Nick J.
Dept. of Psychology
Institute for Applied Cognitive Science
University of Warwick, Coventry
UK
DOMINEY Peter F. (USA)
Institut des Sciences Cognitives, CNRS UMR 5015, Bron
FRANCE
OGURA Mieko
Dept. of English and Linguistics Lab., Tsurumi University
Yokohama
JAPAN
Multiple-cue integration in language acquisition: mechanisms and neural correlates.
Abstract
COEN Enrico
Dept. of Genetics, John Innes Centre, Norwich
UK
PRUSINKIEWICZ Przemyslaw (CANADA/POLAND)
Dept. of Computer Science, University of Calgary
CANADA
The virtual snapdragon - integrating genes and morphogenesis.
Abstract
CUSACK Stephen A. (UK)
EMBL Grenoble Outstation
FRANCE
LAMBOWITZ Alan M.
Institute of Cellular and Molecular Biology
The University of Texas at Austin
USA
MARTINIS Susan A.
Dept. of Biology and Biochemistry
University of Texas at Houston
USA
NUREKI Osamu
Dept. of Biophysics and Biochemistry
Graduate School of Science
University of Tokyo
JAPAN
Adaptation of the aminoacyl-tRNA synthetases for multiple biological functions.
DUNCAN John
Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit
Medical Research Council, Cambridge
UK
CHELAZZI Leonardo
Dept. of Neurological and Visual Sciences
University of Verona
ITALY
KANWISHER Nancy
Dept. of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, MIT, Cambridge
USA
VALDES-SOSA Mitchell
Dept. of Cognitive Neuroscience
Cuban Neuroscience Center, Havana
CUBA
Neural basis of nonspatial visual attention: objects, features and behaviour.
FELIX Marie-Anne
Institut Jacques Monod, CNRS / Université de Paris VI et VII
FRANCE
FITCH David
Dept. of Biology, New York University
USA
PODBILEWICZ Benjamin
Dept. of Biology, Technion-Israel Institute of Technology
Haifa
ISRAEL
SOMMER Ralf J.
Dept. of Evolutionary Biology,
MPI for Developmental Biology, Tübingen
GERMANY
Evolution of vulva development in nematodes related to C. elegans (family Rhabditidae).
JESSELL Thomas M. (UK)
Dept. of Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics
Hammer Health Sciences Center
Columbia University, New York
USA
BROWNSTONE Robert
Division of Neurosurgery, Dalhousie University, Halifax
CANADA
JACKSON Meyer B.
Dept. of Physiology
University of Wisconsin Medical School, Madison
USA
MAXWELL David J.
Spinal Cord Group
Institute of Biomedical and Life Science, University of Glasgow
UK
REDMAN Stephen J.
Division of Neuroscience, Australian National University
John Curtin School of Medical Research, Canberra
AUSTRALIA
TODD Andrew
Spinal Cord Group, Institute of Biomedical and Life Science
University of Glasgow
UK
ZISKIND-CONHAIM Lea
Dept. of Physiology
University of Wisconsin Medical School, Madison
USA
Functional analysis of genetically defined interneurons in the ventral spinal cord.
Abstract
KIEBLER Michael
Max-Planck Institute for Developmental Biology, Tübingen
GERMANY
SCHNAPP Bruce
Dept. of Cell Biology, Harvard Medical School, Boston
USA
ST. JOHNSTON Daniel
Wellcome/CRC Institute, University of Cambridge
UK
Molecular basis of mRNA transport along microtubules.
LAMOND Angus I.
Dept. of Biochemistry, University of Dundee
UK
ELLENBERG Jan
Gene Expression Program, EMBL, Heidelberg
GERMANY
MANN Matthias (GERMANY)
Protein Interaction Lab., University of Southern Denmark, Odense
DENMARK
PEDERSON Thoru
Dept. of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester
USA
Functional organization of the cell nucleus investigated through proteomics and molecular dynamics.
LeDOUX Joseph E.
Center for Neural Science, New York University
USA
BONHOEFFER Hans Tobias (GERMANY/USA)
Dept. of Neurophysiology
MPI for Neurobiology, Martinsried
GERMANY
DUDAI Yadin
Dept. of Neurobiology
The Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot
ISRAEL
MORRIS Richard G. M.
Center for Neuroscience, University of Edinburgh
UK
NADER Karim (CANADA/EGYPT)
Center for Neural Sciences, New York University
USA
Towards an understanding of reconsolidation.
MAYER Bernd
Institute of Pharmacology and Toxicology
Karl-Franzens University, Graz
AUSTRIA
ANDERSSON K. Kristoffer (SWEDEN)
Dept. of Biochemistry, University of Oslo
NORWAY
LANGE Reinhard (GERMANY)
INSERM U128, Montpellier
FRANCE
SHIMIZU Toru
Institute for Chemical Reaction Science
Tohoku University, Sendai
JAPAN
Mechanism of nitric oxide synthesis: a unique role for tetrahydrobiopterin in catalysis.
McBAIN Christopher (UK)
Lab. of Cellular and Molecular Neurophysiology
NICHD / NIH, Bethesda
USA
HENLEY Jeremy M.
Dept. of Anatomy
MRC Centre for Synaptic Plasticity, University of Bristol
UK
LACAILLE Jean-Claude
Dept. of Physiology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Montréal
CANADA
Targeting and signaling at interneuron Ca2+-permeable AMPA synapses.
Abstract
MECHALI Marcel
Genome Dynamics and Development
Institute of Human Genetics, CNRS, Montpellier
FRANCE
DIFFLEY John F. X. (USA)
Chromosome Replication Lab., Clare Hall Labs.,
Imperial Cancer Research Fund, Potters Bar, Herts
UK
WAHL Geoffrey M.
Gene Expression Lab., The Salk Institute for Biological Studies
La Jolla
USA
DNA replication origin recognition and its regulation in eukaryotes.
MOLNAR Zoltàn
Dept. of Human Anatomy and Genetics
St. John's College, University of Oxford
UK
AUDINAT Etienne
Dépt. de Neurophysiologie, INSERM EPI 00-027
Ecole Sup. de Physique et de Chimie Industrielles
Paris
FRANCE
LAVERY Daniel (USA)
Glaxo Wellcome Experimental Research
Institut de Biologie Cellulaire et de Morphologie, Lausanne
SWITZERLAND
YAMAMOTO Nobuhiko
Division of Biological Engineering
Graduate School of Engineering Science, Osaka University
JAPAN
Cellular and molecular mechanisms involved in the differentiation of cortical layer V neurons.
NARANJO Jose R.
Dept. of Molecular and Cellular Biology
National Center of Biotechnology
Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientificas, Madrid
SPAIN
CARAFOLI Ernesto
Dept. of Biochemistry, University of Padova
ITALY
DERVAN Peter B.
Dept. of Chemistry
California Institute of Technology, Pasadena
USA
GENAZZANI Armando A. (ITALY)
Dept. of Pharmacology, Cambridge University
UK
Ca2+-regulated expression of Ca2+ transporting sytems during neuronal development, survival and death.
Abstract
OOSTRA Ben A.
Dept. of Clinical Genetics, Erasmus University, Rotterdam
THE NETHERLANDS
BAGNI Claudia
Dept. of Biology, University of Rome "Tor Vergata"
ITALY
MANDEL Jean-Louis
Human Molecular Genetics
IGBMC - LGME/CNRS, INSERM U184, Illkirch
FRANCE
PASTORE Annalisa (ITALY)
Molecular Structure Division
National Institute for Medical Research, London
UK
Neural function of the FMR1 protein defective in fragile X mental retardation: an integrated approach.
Abstract
OWEN-HUGHES Thomas
Dept. of Biochemistry, University of Dundee
UK
CAIRNS Bradley R.
Dept. of Oncological Sciences, Huntsman Cancer Institute
University of Utah School of Medicine, Salt Lake City
USA
HILL Christopher (UK)
Dept. of Biochemistry, University of Utah, Salt Lake City
USA
WERNER Michel (BELGIUM)
Dept. of Cellular and Molecular Biology
CEA Saclay, Gif-sur-Yvette
FRANCE
YANIV Moshe (FRANCE/ISRAEL)
Dept. of Biotechnology, Pasteur Institute, Paris
FRANCE
Functional and structural studies of SWI/SNF-related complexes.
Abstract
PENNARTZ Cyriel M. A.
Dept. of Electrophysiology
Netherlands Institute for Brain Research, Amsterdam
THE NETHERLANDS
EVERITT Barry John
Dept. of Experimental Psychology, University of Cambridge
UK
McNAUGHTON Bruce L.
ARL Division of Neural Systems, Memory and Aging
University of Arizona, Tucson
USA
Cell assembly interactions between connected brain areas during learning and memory consolidation.
Abstract
PETERS Christoph
Medizinische Molekularbiologie
Klinikum der Albert-Ludwigs-Universität, Freiburg
GERMANY
PLOEGH Hidde (THE NETHERLANDS)
Dept. of Pathology, Harvard Medical School, Boston
USA
VILLADANGOS Jose (SPAIN)
Immunology Division
The Walter and Eliza Institute of Medical Research, Melbourne
AUSTRALIA
Role of proteolysis in MHC class II antigen presentation by dendritic cells.
PLUCKTHUN Andreas (GERMANY)
Dept. of Biochemistry, University of Zürich
SWITZERLAND
RIGLER Rudolf (AUSTRIA)
Dept. of Medical Biophysics, Karolinska Institute, Stockholm
SWEDEN
Protein evolution and functional genomics with a single-molecule sorter.
ROTHSTEIN Rodney
Dept. of Genetics and Development, Columbia University
College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York
USA
ARCANGIOLI Benoît
Dept. of Biotechnology, Oncogenic Virus Unit,
Pasteur Institute, Paris
FRANCE
IWASAKI Hiroshi
Dept. of Molecular Microbiology
Research Institute for Microbial Diseases, Osaka University
JAPAN
The role of recombination intermediates and their resolution in genome stability.
Abstract
SCHAFER William R.
Division of Biology, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla
USA
BARGMANN Cornelia I.
Dept. of Anatomy, The University of California, San Francisco
USA
BAZZICALUPO Paolo
International Institute of Genetics and Biophysics
CNR, Napoli
ITALY
MORI Ikue
Lab. of Molecular Neurobiology, Graduate School of Science
Nagoya University,
JAPAN
Functional analysis of sensory circuits in C. elegans.
SCHÄRER Orlando D.
Institute of Medical Radiobiology, University of Zürich
SWITZERLAND
ELLENBERGER Thomas E.
Depts. of Biological Chemistry & Molecular Pharmacology
Harvard Medical School, Boston
USA
HOEIJMAKERS Jan H. J.
Dept. of Cell Biology and Genetics
Erasmus University, Rotterdam
THE NETHERLANDS
Biology, chemistry and structure of the DNA repair complex ERCC1/XPF.
Abstract
SCHIERWATER Bernd
Institute of Animal Ecology and Cell Biology
Tierärztliche Hochschule, University of Hannover
GERMANY
DELLAPORTA Stephen
Lab. of Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology
Yale University, New Haven
USA
HOLLAND Peter W. H.
Division of Zoology
School of Animal and Microbial Sciences,
The University of Reading
UK
Antp superclass genes consortium: the origin of regulatory genes and major body plan innovations.
Abstract
SHIBA Kiyotaka
Dept. of Cell Biology, Cancer Institute
Japanese Foundation for Cancer Research, Tokyo
JAPAN
SUGA Hiroaki (JAPAN)
Dept. of Chemistry, SUNY at Buffalo
USA
SZOSTAK Jack W.
Dept. of Molecular Biology, Massachusetts General Hospital
Harvard Medical School, Boston
USA
Creation of novel genetic coding system by artificial evolution.
SHORE David Mark (USA)
Dept. of Molecular Biology, University of Geneva Sciences II
SWITZERLAND
DI MAURO Ernesto
Dept. of Genetics and Molecular Biology,
University of Rome "La Sapienza"
ITALY
MIZUTA Keiko
Faculty of Engineering, Hiroshima University
JAPAN
WARNER Jonathan R.
Dept. of Cell Biology, Albert Einstein College of Medicine,
Yeshiva University, Bronx
USA
Growth regulation of ribosomal protein gene transcription in yeast.
SILVER Pamela A.
Dept. of Biol. Chemistry and Molecular Pharmacology
Dana Farber Cancer Institute, Harvard Medical School
Boston
USA
AEBI Ueli
Biozentrum, Maurice E. Müller Institute, University of Basel
SWITZERLAND
CORBETT Anita H.
Dept. of Biochemistry, Emory University, Atlanta
USA
HURT Eduard C.
Biochemie-Zentrum Heidelberg
Ruprecht-Karls-Universität, Heidelberg
GERMANY
STEWART Murray (AUSTRALIA)
MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge
UK
YONEDA Yoshihiro
Dept. of Cell Biology and Neuroscience
Graduate School of Medicine, Osaka University
JAPAN
Molecular mechanism of nucleocytoplasmic transport.
Abstract
STUART David I.
Division of Structural Biology, Oxford University
UK
BAMFORD Dennis
Biocenter II, University of Helsinki
FINLAND
BURNETT Roger
The Wistar Institute, Philadelphia
USA
Structures of macromolecular assemblies and functions of molecular machines.
TALIANIDIS Iannis
Lab. of Mammalian Genetics
IMBB, FORTH, Heraklion
GREECE
PONTOGLIO Marco (ITALY)
Dept. of Biotechnologies, Pasteur Institute, Paris
FRANCE
STOFFEL Markus (GERMANY)
Lab. of Metabolic Diseases, Rockefeller University, New York
USA
The role of hepatocyte nuclear factors in liver and pancreatic beta-cell function.
Abstract
THIER Hans-Peter
Dept. of Cognitive Neurology
University of Tübingen, GERMANY
BARASH Shabtai
Dept. of Neurobiology
The Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot
ISRAEL
GLICKSTEIN Mitchell (USA)
Dept. of Anatomy and Developmental Biology,
University College London
UK
SHINODA Yoshikazu
Dept. of Systems Neurophysiology
School of Medicine, Tokyo Medical and Dental University
JAPAN
Cerebello-cerebral communication: a basis of visual and oculomotor cognition.
Abstract
THOMAS Andrew P.
Dept. of Pharmacology and Physiology
UMDNJ - New Jersey Medical School, Newark
USA
PETERSEN Ole H.
Dept. of Physiology, University of Liverpool
UK
RIZZUTO Rosario
Dept. of Experimental Medicine, Section of General Pathology
University of Ferrara
ITALY
RUTTER Guy A.
Dept. of Biochemistry, School of Medical Sciences,
University of Bristol
UK
Mitochondrial calcium signalling; structural determinants and cellular consequences.
Abstract
TOYOSHIMA Chikashi
Institute of Molecular and Cellular Biosciences, University of Tokyo
JAPAN
CHAMPEIL Philippe
Dept. of Molecular and Cellular Biology
Centre d'Etudes de Saclay, Gif-sur-Yvette
FRANCE
INESI Giuseppe
Dept. of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
University of Maryland Medical School, Baltimore
USA
Structural basis of active ion transport by P-type ATPase.
UEMURA Tadashi
Lab. of Molecular Genetics, Institute for Virus Research
Kyoto University School of Science
JAPAN
DICKSON Barry J. (AUSTRALIA)
Research Institute of Molecular Pathology, Vienna
AUSTRIA
LUO Liqun (CHINA)
Dept. of Biological Sciences, Stanford University
USA
POO Mu-Ming
Dept. of Molecular and Cell Biology,
University of California at Berkeley
USA
Axonal and dendritic patterning: regulation of Rho GTPases.
WEIGEL Detlef (GERMANY)
Plant Biology Laboratory
The Salk Institute for Biological Studies, La Jolla
USA
BRADLEY Desmond J.
Dept. of Molecular Genetics
John Innes Centre, Sainsbury Lab., Norwich
UK
BRADY Robert Leo (AUSTRALIA/UK)
Dept. of Biochemistry, University of Bristol
UK
LIFSCHITZ Eliezer
Dept. of Biology, Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa
ISRAEL
Control of plant architecture by a new signaling pathway.
Abstract
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WERNER Milton H.
Laboratory of Molecular Biophysics
The Rockefeller University, New York
USA
ITO Yoshiaki
Dept. of Viral Oncology, Institute for Virus Research,
Kyoto University
JAPAN
KRUDE Torsten (GERMANY)
Dept. of Zoology
Wellcome / CRC Institute, University of Cambridge
UK
SHIBAHARA Keiichi
Japan Science and Technology Corporation, Kyoto University
JAPAN
Chromatin assembly and acute human leukemia.
Abstract
WICKNER William T.
Dept. of Biochemistry, Dartmouth Medical School, Hanover
USA
GALLWITZ Dieter
Dept. of Molecular Genetics
MPI for Biophysical Chemistry, Göttingen
GERMANY
MAYER Andreas
Friedrich-Meischer-Lab., Max-Planck-Gesellschaft, Tübingen
GERMANY
NAKANO Akihiko
Molecular Membrane Biology Lab.
RIKEN (Institute of Physical and Chemical Research), Saitama
JAPAN
Mechanisms of fusion of biological membranes.
Abstract
WITTBRODT Joachim
Developmental Biology Programme
EMBL, Heidelberg
GERMANY
BOVOLENTA Paola (ITALY/SPAIN)
Dept. of Developmental Neurobiology
Instituto Cajal, CSIC, Madrid
SPAIN
HIMMELBAUER Heinz (AUSTRIA)
MPI of Molecular Genetics, Berlin-Dahlem
GERMANY
KONDOH Hisato
Lab. for Developmental Biology
Institute of Molecular Biology, Osaka University
JAPAN
Systematic molecular and genetic analysis of lens-retina interactions in vertebrates.
YAGITA Hideo
Dept. of Immunology, Juntendo University School of Medicine, Tokyo
JAPAN
SMYTH Mark
Dept. of Cancer Immunology
Peter MacCallum Cancer Institute, East Melbourne
AUSTRALIA
Molecular mechanisms that control NK cell-mediated tumor surveillance.
Abstract