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James H. Zumberge Research and Innovation Fund

Application Forms:

Multi-School Interdisciplinary Awards

Large Grant Deadlines:
Letters of Intent due January 20, 2010.
Full Proposals due February 24, 2010.

Small Grant Deadline: Open

Download the 2010 Zumberge Interdisciplinary Application Form and Guidelines:

• Zumberge Interdisciplinary 2010
  

Individual Awards

Download the 2010 Zumberge Individual Award Application Form and Guidelines in:

• interactive, fillable Adobe Acrobat, or
• Microsoft Word.

Individual Award Application Deadline: January 20, 2010.

Zumberge Fund Awards

The James H. Zumberge Research and Innovation Fund is USC's university-wide faculty research grant support mechanism. It awards several hundred thousand dollars each year through its annual James H. Zumberge Awards competition. The Zumberge Fund promotes the initiation of research at USC through two types of awards: Individual Awards and Interdisciplinary Awards.

Individual awards help newer faculty launch their research careers, and support research in areas with limited external funding opportunities through grants of up to $25,000. Interdisciplinary awards of up to $50,000 foster collaborative efforts among faculty from different schools and disciplines that lead to sustained interdisciplinary research programs and projects.

Inquiries regarding Zumberge Fund programs can be directed to Justin Pearlman, Assistant Vice Provost, Office of the Vice Provost for Research Advancement.

2009-2010 Individual Awards

Cetrulo, Curtis, Department of Surgery, Keck School of Medicine.
"Long-term permanent gene expression in myocutaneous flaps."

Delgado, Roberto, Department of Anthropology, College of Letters, Arts and Sciences.
"Variation in Diet, Behavior and Energy Budgets among Zanzibar Red Colobus."

Dibazar, Alireza, Department of Anthropology, College of Letters, Arts and Sciences.
"Nonlinear Dynamic Modeling of Impaired Voice for the Purpose of Restoring Lost Function."

Enciso, Reyes, School of Dentistry.
"Differential diagnosis of periapical lesions with Cone-Beam CT."

Jain, Rahul, Department of Electrical Engineering, Viterbi School of Engineering.
"Economics of Quality of Service on the Internet."

Li, Zibo, Department of Radiology, Keck School of Medicine.
"Integrin α2β1 Targeted Imaging of Prostate Cancer."

Machida, Keigo, Department of Microbiology and Immunology.
"Hepatocellular carcinoma induced by Hepatitis C Virus."

Mariani, Francesca, Department of Cell & Neurobiology, Keck School of Medicine.
"Skeletal Regeneration in Adult and Neonate Mice."

Poizat, Coralie, Department of Biochemistry, Keck School of Medicine.
"Role of LMPTP in Cardiac Contractility."

Shen, B.J., Department of Psychology, College of Letters, Arts and Sciences.
"Anxiety and Progression of Subclinical Coronary Heart Disease."

Stevens, Gregory, Department of Medicine, Keck School of Medicine.
"National Disparities in the Quality of a Medical Home for Children."

2009-2010 Interdisciplinary Awards

Kovacs, Andrea, Keck School of Medicine, and Walter Wolf, School of Pharmacy.
"Development of Health Information Technology using HIC/AIDS Care Model."

Neches, Robert, Viterbi School of Engineering, and Jeffrey Upperman, Children's Hospital Los Angeles.
"Initiative on Community and Systems Resilience."

Le, Ahn, School of Dentistry and Augustin Garcia, Keck School of Medicine.
"Regulatory T Cells as Predictors of Biophosphonate Related Osteonecrosis of the Jaw."

Hoskins, Janet, Department of Anthropology, and Viet Nguyen, Department of English.
"Center for Transpacific Studies."

Ladner, Robert, Keck School of Medicine, and Stan Louie, School of Pharmacy.
"Target Driven Drug Development for Colon Cancer."

Baker, Craig, Keck School of Medicine and Maura Sullivan, Rossier School of Education.
"Cognitive Task-Analysis to Develop a Competency-Based Surgical Curriculum."

Edwards, Katrina, Department of Biological Sciences, and Ellis Meng, Viterbi School of Engineering.
"Center for Dark Energy Biosphere Investigations."

Stott, Lowell, Department of Earth Sciences, and John Wilson, Department of Geography.
"Center for Regional Climate Change."

Gunderson, Martin, Viterbi School of Engineering and Darnell Cole, Rossier School of Education.
"Nanosecond Pulsed Power Science and Technology Center."

2008-09 Individual Awards

Hossein Ameri, Doheny Eye Insitute, Keck School of Medicine.
“Subchoroidal Retinal Prosthesis for Sight Restoration.”

Woojin An, Dept. of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology, Keck School of Medicine.
“Development of Cell Permeable Histone H3 Tail Mimics as a Transcription Blockade.”

Zemin Deng, Dept. of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences, Keck School of Medicine.
“Discovery of X-linked Genetic Loci for Schizophrenia Using Next Generation DNA Re-sequencing.”

David Etzioni, Dept. of Colorectal Surgery, Keck School of Medicine.
“Adjuvant Therapy for Colon and Rectal Cancer in Los Angeles County: Analysis of Use, Strategies for Improvement.”

Amani Fawzi, Dept. of Ophthamology, Keck School of Medicine.
“The Use of Ultrasound to Enhance Drug Delivery to Ocular Tumors.”

Derick Han, Dept. of GI and Liver, Keck School of Medicine.
“New Strategies to Reduce Drug Induced Liver Injury.”

Jinchi Lv, Marshall School of Business.
“High Dimensional Variable Selection and Covariance Matrix Estimation.”

Nerses Sanossian, Dept. of Neurology, Keck School of Medicine.
“Dysfunctional High-Density Lipoprotein Cholesterol and the Brain.”

Dong Song, Dept. of Biomedical Engineering, Viterbi School of Engineering.
“Nonlinear Dynamic Modeling of Hippocampal System Function during Learned Behavior and Memory Formation.”

Olga Solomon, Occupational Sciences, School of Dentistry.
“Animal Assistted Therapy as Socially Assistive Technology: Implications for Autism.”

Wiebke Ziebis, Dept. of Biological Sciences, College of Letters Arts and Sciences.
“Animal-Sediment-Microbe Interactions at Pacific Methane Seeps.”

2008-09 Interdisciplinary Awards

Dowell Myers, SPPD and Manuel Pastor, College of Letters, Arts and Sciences.
“Center for the Study of Immigrant Integration."

Rob McConnell, Keck School of Medicine, John Wilson, College of Letters, Arts and Sciences and Jennifer Wolch, College of Letters, Arts and Sciences.
"Vehicle Pollution and Children's Health in Southern California."

Steven Goodman, School of Dentistry, and Steven Finkel, College of Letters, Arts and Sciences.
"Interdisciplinary Program on Microbiology."

Karen Kensek, School of Architecture and Cyrus Shahabi, Viterbi School of Engineering.
" Urban-Scale Computer-Aided Sustainable Design."

Nicos Petasis, College of Letters, Arts and Sciences, and Nouri Neamati, School of Pharmacy.
"USC Interdisciplinary Program for Molecular Research."

Jean-Pierre Bardet, Viterbi School of Engineering, and Adam Rose, School of Policy, Planning and Development.
"Toward a University Research Center on Megacities."

Lowell Stott, CLAS and Ana Chervenak, Information Sciences Institute.
“Virtual Climate Change Institute Workshop.”

Juliet Musso, SPPD and Jefferey Sellers, CLAS.
“Regenerating Urban Neighborhoods."

Solomon Behar, CHLA, Jeffrey Upperman, KSoM, and Robert Neches, VSoE.
“Computerized Pediatric Acute Critical Event Training and Simulation.”

Carl Kesselman, Information Sciences Institute.
“Bioinformatics Information Research Network.”

Tony Michaels, CLAS and Kathy Smith, School of Cinematic Arts.
“Wrigley Institute and Cinematic Arts Science/Art Conference."

Joseph Kunc, VSoE and Darrell Judge, CLAS.
“Collaborative Research Program on the Space Sciences Center and Space Engineering Research Center.”

Andy Chang, KSoM, and Travis Williams, College of Letters, Arts and Sciences.
“Application of Nanotechnology to Vesicoureteral Reflux Research.”

Katrina Edwards, College of Letters, Arts and Sciences, and Ellis Meng, VSoE.
"Center for Deep Energy Biosphere Investigations."

Richard Brutchey, College of Letters, Arts and Sciences and Noah Malmstad, VSoE.
“Microfluidic Synthesis of Ti02 Nanocrystals.”

Priya Vashishta, College of Letters, Arts and Sciences, and Rajiv Kalia, VSoE.
"Electronics and Nano-Energetics Integration."

Tuck Finch, Gerontology, and Costas Sioutas, VSoE.
"Air Pollution and Brain Aging: Mechanisms and Intervention."

Timothy Saunders, Dentistry, and Paul Debevec, Institute for Creative Technologies.
"Virtual Practice for Removable Partial Denture Design."

Jasmine Zhou, College of Letters, Arts and Sciences and Heinz-Josef Lenz, Keck School of Medicine.
"Integrated Approaches Toward Predictive Personalized Medicine."

For previous recipients of the Zumberge Individual and Interdisciplinary Awards, please click here.

Last updated: Friday, January 29, 2010, 2:44pm PDT