Research Grants - 1992
 

Total Grants Awarded for Year: $695,489
(derived from Grants and You, KCOM faculty and staff principal investigators are listed in bold font)

Allen, Daniel M., D.O. (Osteopathic Manipulative Medicine). $3,450. Cranial Academy. Aug. 1992 - July 1993. Effects of osteopathic evaluation and treatment of the newborn utilizing a one-year follow-up.

Allen, Daniel M., D.O. (Osteopathic Manipulative Medicine). $5,000. National Osteopathic Foundation Mead Johnson Fellowship. July 1992 - June 1993. Effects of osteopathic evaluation and treatment of the newborn utilizing a one-year follow-up.

Allen, Daniel M., D.O. and Michael L. Kuchera, D.O. (Faculty Sponsor, Osteopathic Manipulative Medicine). $5,000. American Osteopathic Association/Burroughs Wellcome Osteopathic Research Fellowship. July 1992 - June 1993. Effects of osteopathic evaluation and treatment of the newborn utilizing a one-year follow-up.

Baer, Robert W., Ph.D. (Physiology). $27,500. American Heart Association, Missouri Affiliate. July 1992 - June 1993. Coronary vasoregulation and coronary transcapillary exchange.

Beatty, David R., D.O. (Osteopathic Manipulative Medicine). $2,201. American Osteopathic Association. Sept. 1992 - Aug. 1993. Validity of screening tests for intersegmental motion restriction.

Cenedella, RJ, Ph.D. (Biochemistry). $133,389 (year 15). National Institutes of Health/National Eye Institute. Sept. 1992 - Aug. 1993. Lens cholesterol metabolism and the U18666A cataract.

Degenhardt, Brian F., D.O. (Osteopathic Manipulative Medicine). $5,000. National Osteopathic Foundation Mead Johnson Fellowship. July 1992 - June 1993. The prevalence of cranial dysfunction in children ages five to eight years with otitis media.

Degenhardt, Brian F., D.O. and Michael L. Kuchera, D.O. (Faculty Sponsor, Osteopathic Manipulative Medicine). $5,000. American Osteopathic Association/Burroughs Wellcome Osteopathic Research Fellowship. July 1992 - June 1993. Efficacy of osteopathic evaluation and treatment in reducing the morbidity of otitis media in children.

Hultgren, Philip B., Ph.D. (Physiology). $1,876. KCOM Warner/Fermaturo Fund. July 1992 - June 1994. Rat Achilles tendon repair with fibroblast growth factor.

Kuchera, Michael L., D.O., FAAO (Osteopathic Manipulative Medicine). $194,250 Anonymous. Jan. 1992 - Dec. 1992. KCOM Levitor program.

Kuchera, Michael L., D.O. (Osteopathic Manipulative Medicine). $6,175. American Osteopathic Association. Sept. 1992 - Aug. 1993. Investigating the spinal cord as "an organizer of disease processes."

Kuchera, Michael L., D.O. (Osteopathic Manipulative Medicine). $21,578. American Osteopathic Association. Sept. 1992 - Aug. 1993. Efficacy of osteopathic specific diagnosis and treatment in the management of low back pain patients with nonphysiological sacroiliac somatic dysfunction.

Ousterhout, Julia, Ph.D. (Pharmacology). $2,500. KCOM Warner/Fermaturo Fund. July 1992 - June 1994. Involvement of potassium channel in the actions of endothelium derived relaxing factors.

Peterson, Fred, Ph.D. (Physiology). $4,000. KCOM Warner/Fermaturo Fund. July 1992 - June 1994. Project on aging: effects of chronic exercise training.

Sargentini, Neil J., Ph.D. (Microbiology/Immunology). $100,000. National Institutes of Health/National Cancer Institute-Shannon Award. Sept. 1992 - Sept. 1994. Effects of umuC, O₂ and OH on gamma-radiation mutagenesis.

Sexton, William L., Ph.D. (Physiology). $25,000 (year-02). American Heart Association, Missouri Affiliate. July 1992 - June 1993. Microcirculatory transport capacity in skeletal muscle of diabetic rats.

Steele, Karen M., D.O. (Osteopathic Manipulative Medicine). $3,696.50. KCOM Warner Fund. July 1992 - June 1994. The efficacy of osteopathic manipulation in the prevention of pneumonia in severely handicapped children.

Stuart, Melissa K., Ph.D. (Microbiology/Immunology). $6,500. U.S. Deppartment of Agriculture. July 1992 - June 1993. Immunological identification of the Khapra Beetle, Trogoderma granarium everts, and related species of economic Trogoderma.

Stuart, Melissa K., Ph.D. (Microbiology/Immunology). $10,000. Wallace Genetic Foundation. Jan. 1992 - Dec. 1992. A monoclonal antibody-based immunoassay to differentiate beneficial from destructive insects in stored grain.

Theobald, Robert J., Ph.D. (Pharmacology),and Brian Degenhardt, D.O. (Osteopathic Manipulative Medicine). $2,300. KCOM Warner/Fermaturo Research Fund. July 1992 - June 1994. Changes in detrusor responsiveness caused by induced putative somatic dysfunction.

Theobald, Robert J., Ph.D. (Pharmacology). $1,000. National Institutes of Health. July 1992 - June 1994. ANAPP3 custom synthesis research fund.

Uray, Nandor J., Ph.D. (Anatomy). $122,832 (year 05). Alcohol, Drug Abuse and Mental Health Administration. Sept. 1992 - Aug. 1993. Ethanol-hormonal interactions in cerebellar development.

Zarcone, Gregory S., Class of 1994, and Philip B. Hultgren, Ph.D. (Faculty Sponsor, Physiology). $2,242. F. Herbert Fields, D.O., Memorial Research Fund. May 1992 - April 1993. Achilles tendon repair with exogenous fibroblast growth factor and supplemental vitamin C administration.

Zarcone, Gregory S., Class of 1994, and Philip B. Hultgren, Ph.D. (Faculty Sponsor, Physiology). $5,000. American Osteopathic Association/Burroughs Wellcome Osteopathic Research Fellowship. July 1992 - June 1993. Achilles tendon repair with exogenous fibroblast growth factor administration.

*Written by or with assistance from the Office of Grants and Program Development and/or the Office of Research Support.