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Role of CD46 in pig retinal pigment epithelium (RPE)”.(2010) PI, Bellarmine University summer stipend, institutional grant in aid of research.
“The role of
Snail
in human proliferative vitreoretinopathy”.(2004) PI, Bellarmine University summer stipend, institutional grant in aid of research.
“Neuroplasticity Genes in Visual Cortex”, National Institutes of Health (NIH), R01 (2006-2010). Consultant, with Dr. Geroge Mower, PI (1R01EY016724).
Collaborator, "QSAR of Adrenergic Receptor Antagonists", KY-IDEA Networks of Biomedical Research Excellence (KY-INBRE) through the National Institutes of Health. (2004-2008)
"The Outer Blood Retinal Barrier in Xenopus laevis", Kentucky Biomedical Research Infrastructure Network/National Institutes of Health. (2002-2003)
"Role of the PDZ3-SH3-GuK cluster of ZO-2 in tight junction function and regulation", Kentucky Biomedical Research Infrastructure Network/National Institutes of Health. (Summer, 2002)
"Acquisition of transmission electron microscopy equipment for invertebrate and vertebrate pigment cell studies, undergraduate laboratory demonstrations, and undergraduate research", Co-PI, National Science Foundation. (2001-2003)
"Regulation of the Outer Blood-Retinal Barrier." National Eye Institute, Public Health Service. (1999-2002)
"Regulation of Outer Blood-Retinal Barrier by RPE Tight Junctions." Fight for Sight, the Research Division of Prevent Blindness America. (1999-2000)
"Migratory responses of retinal pigment epithelium to different extracellular matrix environments." Sigma Xi, The Scientific Research Society. (1996-1997)
"Apical membrane protein expression during postnatal development in the retinal pigment epithelium of normal and dystrophic rats." Sigma Xi, The Scientific Research Society. (1995-1996)
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