Funding Opportunities
The Center supports innovative and state-of-the-art approaches in the molecular and cell biology of drug addiction. Scientists who hold tenure or non-tenure track appointments in University of Minnesota are encouraged to apply for seed grants to support their unproven techniques or hypotheses in drug addiction research.
The purposes of these seed grants are to:
(1) promote new ideas in research and technology;
(2) promote new collaborative projects among members of the Center and other scientists; and
(3) encourage new investigators to test their hypotheses in drug addiction research.
The following seed grants have been awarded:
2006 recipient Dr. Kirill Martemyanov, Assistant Professor in the Department of Pharmacology, was awarded a $10,000 seed grant to determine the effect of D2 and MOR stimulation on the subcellular localization of RGS9-2; and to establish the mechanisms of RGS9-2 expression level regulation by morphine.
2006 recipient Dr. Yan Zeng, Assistant Professor in the Department of Pharmacology, was awarded a $10,000 seed grant to examine microRNA (miRNA) expression in mouse during morphine addiction.
2006 recipient Dr. Sung Wook Park, Assistant Research Professor in the Department of Pharmacology, was awrded a $10,000 seed grant to examine the role of transcription factor YY1 in expression of the kappa opioid receptor gene during differentiation of embryonal carcinoma cells to neuronal cells.
2005 recipient Dr. Dezhi Liai, Assistant Professor in the Department of Neuroscience, was awarded a $10,000 seed grant to examine the effect of opioids on the stability of the dendritic spines. Based on the preliminary studies supported by this seed grant, Dr. Liao has submitted a RO1 proposal to study the mechanism behind opioid regulation of the spine stability and the in vivo significance of such opioid effect.
2004 recipient Dr. Jordan Holtzman, Professor in the Department of Pharmacology, was awarded a $10,000 seed grant to investigate the role of ERp57 in the transduction of opioid response.
2003 recipient Dr. Jonathan Marchant, Assistant Professor in the Department of Pharmacology, was awarded a $20,000 seed grant to examine the potential of total internal reflectance (TIR) microscopy as an imaging strategy to resolve the near-membrane behavior of fluorescent protein tagged opioid receptors under different conditions of cell stimulation, in order to understand how receptor insertion and retrieval events are regulated real-time in live cells.
For more details about the seed grants program, please see our proposal guidelines or contact Dr. P.Y. Law at: lawxx001@umn.edu
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