Title: Adherence to the NAGCAT and Injury Risk Reduction
Sponsor: The National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
Description: The purpose of this study is to evaluate the effectiveness of the North American Guidelines for Children’s Agricultural Tasks (NAGCAT) as an approach to the primary prevention of childhood agricultural injury. The study is designed to answer two questions. First, to what extent can compliance to the NAGCAT be maximized through a theory-based dissemination strategy? Second, to what extent can compliance with the NAGCAT actually reduce the risk of work-related injury among farm youth?
Faculty: Wilkins (Principal Investigator)
Title: Allergic Condition Biomarkers and Glioma Risk
Sponsor: National Institutes of Health /National Cancer Institute
Description: The Purpose of this proposed study is to determine whether allergy gene polymorphisms are inversely associated with glioma risk.
Faculty: Schwartzbaum (Principal Investigator)
Title: Center for Prevention and Early InterventionSponsor: National Institutes of Mental Health and Drug Abuse
Description: Center for Prevention and Early Intervention, Johns Hopkins University
Faculty:
Murray (Advisor)
Title: Community Youth Development Project
Sponsor: NIH
Description: A randomized controlled trial of the Communities that Care (CTC) operating system for youth development. The study involves 24 communities across seven states and is examining the impact of the Communities that Care system on community levels of risk and protection, drug use, crime, and academic outcomes.
Faculty: Murray (Co- Investigator)
Title: Cytokine production, polymorphisms and PTLD
Sponsor: NIH/NCI
Description: The principal objective of the Biostatistics Core will be to provide statistical expertise to investigators.
Faculty: Ferketich (Co-Principal Investigator)
Award P.I.: Van Buskirk
Title: Decreasing Weight Gain in African American Preadolescent Girls
Sponsor: NIH/National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute
Description: This is an unusual collaborative agreement in which the two field centers have different interventions, somewhat different designs, and some differences in measurements, but collaborate on other measurements, on some sub-studies, and on some analyses across projects. The first 2.5 years were for Phase I planning activities, and that work was completed in 2002. We began Phase II in fall 2002, and it will continue for 4 years, through 2006. I am working on analyses of baseline data now, and will start working on the end of study data when it is available this summer.
Faculty: Murray (Co-Investigator)
Title: Dental Project
Description: A dentist-based intervention to reduce intake of high calorie beverages and snacks among youth.
Faculty: Murray (Co-Investigator)
Title: Iron and atherosclerosis
Sponsor: National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute
Description: The aims of this study are to 1) perform noninvasive imaging to measure iron in the carotid artery; 2) validate the imaging assessment with a true measure of vascular iron; and 3) compare the presence and extent of atherosclerosis and iron in symptomatic versus asymptomatic patients.
Faculty: Ferketich (Co-Principal Investigator)
Award P.I.: Raman
Title: Multi-Ethnic Drug Abuse Prevention Center
Sponsor: NIH/National Institute on Drug Abuse
Description: Cornell University’s Multi-Ethnic Drug Abuse Prevention Center
Faculty: Murray (Co-Investigator)
Title: Reducing cervical cancer in Appalachia
Sponsor: NIH /National Cancer Institute
Description: The objective of this center grant is to conduct two interventions aimed at reducing cervical cancer rates and also examine strains of HPV among women in Appalachia.
Faculty: Paskett (Principal Investigator), Wewers (Co-Principal Investigator)
Title: Trial of Activity for Adolescent Girls
Sponsor: NIH/National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute
Description: National research study focusing on physical activity of middle school girls. TAAG's goal is to reverse the current decline in physical activity when girls reach middle school age.
Faculty: Murray (Co-Investigator)
Title: WeCan
Description: This is an R21 application to support development and feasibility testing of a worksite smoking cessation intervention and of methods to evaluate that intervention.
Faculty: Murray
Title: What are the cancer-related lifestyle factors among the non-Amish in the Holmes County, Ohio Region?
Description: The objective of this study is to examine health behaviors among the non-Amish in the Holmes County Amish region.
Faculty: Katz (Principal Investigator), Ferketich (Co-Principal Investigator)
Award P.I.: Paskett
IL-15: Characterization through Experimental Immunology
Description: The objectives of this study are to determine the identity of the IL-15 producing cell that is responsible for increased death rate due to acute GVHD and to determine the identity and origin of cells that are the direct recipient of IL-15 signaling in acute GVHD.
Faculty: Ferketich (Co-Principal Investigator)
Prevention of Post-Transplant Lymphoproliferative Disorder
Description: This translational grant is focused on developing and testing a vaccine to prevent post-transplant lymphoproliferative disorder.
Faculty: Ferketich (Co-Principal Investigator)
