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Awards › archived 1997

Your Foundation Donations at Work:

Update: total of $633,461 awarded as of July 2003

1997 award totals: $40,000

  1. Barry S. Levine, D.Sc., DABT, University of Illinois at Chicago “Stress Produced by Gavage Administration in the Rat” SUMMARY report posted at www.aclam.org
    • In 1999: as a POSTER at the ACLAM Forum.
    • In 2000: PUBLISHED in Contemporary Topics 39(1): 17-21.
  2. Mark T. Whary, DVM, PhD and James G. Fox, DVM, MS, Massachusetts Institute of Technology “ELISA-Based Monitoring and Epidemiology of Helicobacter hepaticus Infection in Mouse Colonies” SUMMARY report posted at www.aclam.org
    • In 1999: as a POSTER at the ACLAM Forum and PRESENTED at AALAS - Abstract in Contemporary Topics 38(4): 26.
    • In 2000: PUBLISHED in Comp. Med. 50(1): 78-81 In 2000: PUBLISHED in Comp. Med. 50(4): 436.
    • In 1999: as a POSTER at the ACLAM Forum.
    • In 2001 PUBLISHED Whary, M.T., Cline, J., King, A., Ge, Z., Shen, Z., Sheppard, B., and Fox, J.G. 2001. Long-term colonization levels of Helicobacter hepaticus in the cecum of hepatitis-prone A/JCr mice are significantly lower than those in hepatitis-resistant C57BL/6 mice. Comp Med., 51:413-417.
    • In 2001 PUBLISHED Ge, Z., White, D.A., Whary, M.T., and Fox, J.G. 2001. Fluorogenic PCR-based quantitative detection of a murine pathogen, Helicobacter hepaticus. J.Clin.Microbiol., 39:2598-2602.
    • In 2000 PUBLISHED Whary, M.T. 2000. Containment of Helicobacter hepaticus by use of husbandry practices. Comp Med., 50:584
    • In 2000 PUBLISHED Whary, M.T., Cline, J.H., King, A.E., Hewes, K.M., Chojnacky, D., Salvarrey, A., and Fox, J.G. 2000. Monitoring sentinel mice for Helicobacter hepaticus, H. rodentium, and H. bilis infection by use of polymerase chain reaction analysis and serologic testing. Comp Med., 50:436-443.
    • In 2000 ORAL PRESENTATION: American Association for Laboratory Animal Science Platform Session, San Diego, CA 2000. Enhanced Th1 responses of young A/JCr mice to Helicobacter hepaticus is associated with more severe hepatitis and lower enteric colonization compared to C57BL/6 mice. Contemporary Topics In Laboratory Animal Science 39 (4): 50.
  3. David G. Besselsen, DVM, PhD, University of Arizona “Development and Evaluation of Diagnostic Assays for Newly Recognized Rodent Parvoviruses” SUMMARY report posted at www.aclam.org
    • In 1999: as a POSTER at the ACLAM Forum. In 1999: PRESENTED at AALAS as two papers.
    • In 2000: PUBLISHED in Comp. Med. 50(5): 498-502
    • Data from the ACLAM grant led to the funding of 2 NIH Grants:
      1. 1 RO1 RR018488-01 Besselsen (PI) 07/1/03-06/30/08 $800,000 NIH/NCRR Pathogenesis of murine parvovirus field strains. Role: PI The major goals of this project are to examine the molecular biology, epidemiology, pathogenesis, and host response to several murine parvovirus field strains.
      2. 1 RO1 RR14072-01 Besselsen (PI) 06/15/99-05/31/03 $361,078 NIH/NCRR 5α Nuclease Assays for Rodent Health Monitoring Role: PI
        The major goals of this project were to develop and validate fluorogenic 5 α nuclease assays for a number of infectious agents that are pathogenic in rodents and/or may adversely affect research.

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