 Removing Organic Chemical Contaminants from the Earth's SoilsLinda M. Abriola, PhD, a civil engineer whose research focuses on novel cost-effective interdisciplinary approaches to deal with groundwater contamination, was named dean of the School of Engineering in 2003. |
 Diabetes at the Subcellular LevelOrian Shirihai, MD, PhD, and his group focus on diseases in which mitochondria play a key role, including diabetes and anemia. One innovative technology they use is the Optical LiveCell Array, a transparent micron-sized array of wells. |
 Studying the Effects of Race on Group Dynamics Samuel R. Sommers, PhD, is an experimental social psychologist interested in issues of race and how race-related stereotypes influence the way people process information and make decisions in the real world. |
 Using Economics to Answer Questions on US Food PoliciesParke E. Wilde, PhD, joined the Gerald J. and Dorothy R. Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy as an assistant professor in the Food Policy and Applied Nutrition Program in September 2004. |
 Paul Murphy, Director of Research AdministrationPaul Murphy, JD, MPA, came to Tufts in May 2003 to join the Office of the Associate Provost for Research (recently renamed the Office of the Vice Provost) as its first director of research administration. |
 Treating Heart Disease with a Patient's Own Stem Cells Douglas W. Losordo, MD, associate professor of medicine at Tufts University School of Medicine and chief of cardiovascular research at Caritas St. Elizabeth's Medical Center, is currently directing the first US adult stem cell clinical trial for the treatment of heart disease. |
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 NO-COST EXTENSIONSA no-cost extension of the expiration date of an awarded project can be requested if you have submitted a proposal to continue the project but have not yet been awarded the continuation and need time to bridge the gap, or you need additional time to finish experiments essential to the project. |
 Patenting and Licensing TechnologiesThe mission of the Office for Technology Licensing and Industry Collaboration (OTL&IC) is to make Tufts technology available for public benefit, to promote research by facilitating collaboration with industry, and to generate research-supporting income. |
 Student Research Involving Humans Student research that involves human subjects requires Institutional Review Board (IRB) approval. Research includes any systematic investigation designed to develop or contribute to generalizable knowledge, or to develop, test, or evaluate past, present, or future research, whether or not the results are published. |
 Institutional Review Board Approval for International Human Subjects Research Besides the normal challenges of developing an ethical protocol for human subjects research, investigators working in foreign countries have the additional challenge of learning about the local culture and norms and developing their protocol with these norms in mind. |
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Children and Their Families to Make a Difference in Their LivesEllen Pinderhughes, PhD (Psychology, Yale 1986), began working full time as an associate professor in the Eliot-Pearson Department of Child Development in September 2003, but she had been an active visiting faculty member for the previous academic year. |
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Experimentally Derived Model of Parathyroid Hormone—Receptor
BindingMichael Rosenblatt, MD, the new dean (November 2003) of Tufts University School of Medicine, could easily be thought of as a hard-core biochemist because of the research he does on the structural biology of hormone-receptor interactions. |
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Wasps and BeesPhilip T. B. Starks is an assistant professor of behavioral ecology in the Biology Department. After receiving his PhD in neurobiology and behavior from Cornell in 1999, Starks held a three-year postdoctoral fellowship at the Miller Institute for Basic Research in Science at UC Berkeley, where he was hosted by Wayne Getz. |
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Agents of Zoonotic Diseases - Is Genetically Identical Truly Biologically
Identical?Sam R. Telford III, ScD, joined the Tufts School of Veterinary Medicine in September 2002 as an associate professor. Trained in tropical infections, Telford is an ecologist who brings a new perspective to the study of infectious disease. |
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GottfriedDirector of Research Integrity for Tufts-NEMC and the Tufts Health Sciences Campus Kate-Louise Gottfried, JD, MSPH, came to Tufts / Tufts-New England Medical Center in June 2003 to fill a new position, director of research integrity. |
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Cancer Research at Tufts-NEMC and Tufts University The first year of the Molecular Oncology Research Institute (MORI) has been very successful. According to the institute's executive director, Philip Tsichlis, MD, "within a year and a half, we have an institute with twelve outstanding investigators." |
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Sponsored Coordination Form (ISC Form) for Proposal Submissions As your proposal nears completion, you need to fill out the appropriate Internal Sponsored Coordination Form (ISC form) for your campus (Medford or Health Sciences) and get it to the Office of the Vice Provost, along with a copy of your proposal and a Financial Interest Disclosure Form. |
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Technology Startups Every startup company has a unique story about how it came to be. One may have had an element of serendipity in its origins, while another may have come from a researcher's dogged persistence. However they come about, Tufts startups pass through similar steps. |
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IRB Education Requirements for Tufts Health Sciences and Tufts-NEMC The IRB Executive Committee has revised the IRB human subjects protection education requirements for Tufts University Health Sciences and Tufts-NEMC. |
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Research Protocols - Full Review, Expedited Review, or Exempt The IRB for the Social and Behavioral Sciences on the Medford campus serves researchers whose work involves living human subjects, tissue or material from living humans, or data concerning identifiable human subjects. |
 Music As a Window to the BrainIn 2002 Jamshed Bharucha, PhD, began a new phase of his career as provost and senior vice president of Tufts University. Before coming to Tufts he was a teacher, researcher, and administrative official at Dartmouth College. |
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 Manipulating Mouse Genetics to Answer Intriguing QuestionsMaribel Rios, PhD (Tufts 1997), trained with Suzanne Roffler-Tarlov in the Department of Anatomy (Program in Cell, Molecular, and Developmental Biology). |
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After the University decided to hire a grantwriter with a strong background in science, a string of coincidences brought Sackler graduate M. S. (Peg) AtKisson here. |
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