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Funded Projects

Accelerator Funded Projects: 2007-2011:


Principal Investigator(s) (School) Project Name Year of Award
Halperin, Jose and Wagner, Gerhard (HMS) Inhibitors of Translation Initiation for Cancer Therapy FY08
Harrison, Stephen (HMS) Small Molecule Viral Entry Inhibitors That Target HIV FY08
Myers, Andrew (FAS) Anticancer Agent Based on the Natural Product Avrainvillamide FY08
Sharpe, Arlene (HMS) Pd-1 Small Molecule Immune Response Screening for Treatment of MS, Diabetes and Infection FY08
Silver, Pamela (HMS) Quantitatively Designed Protein Therapeutics for Cancer FY08
Walker, Suzanne (HMS) Development of O-GlcNAc Transferase Inhibitors for Treatment of Diabetes FY08
Coen, Donald (HMS) Development of New Anti-Cytomegalovirus Compounds FY09
Glimcher, Laurie (HSPH) From Sugar to Fat: The IRE1a XBP1 Signaling Pathway Regulates Hepatic Lipogenesis FY09
Hu, Guofu (HMS) Optimization of the Therapeutic Activity of Angiogenin in the Treatment of ALS FY09
Kahne, Daniel (FAS) Development of Broad Spectrum Antibiotics for New Targets FY09
Qin, Xuebin (HMS) Abrogation of Human CD59 Function for Immune Cancer Therapy FY09
Ritter, Tobias (FAS) Late-Stage Fluorination of Biomedically-Active Molecules FY09
Rubin, Eric (HSPH) The Clp Protease as a Novel Target for Antibiotics Against Tuberculosis FY09
Whitman, Malcolm (HSDM) Design and Testing of Novel Small Molecule Th17 Regulators with Anti-fibrotic Potential FY09
Xie, Sunney (FAS) CARS Endoscopy for Biomedicine FY09
Bernhardt, Thomas (HMS) Antibacterial Discovery Using a Chemical Suppressor Screen FY10
Finley, Daniel (HMS) Small Molecule Inhibitors of the Deubiquitinating Enzymes Usp14 and Uch37 FY10
Haigis, Marcia (HMS) Identification of SIRT4 Inhibitors to Stimulate Fatty Acid Catabolism FY10
Halperin, Jose (HMS) Glycated CD59 as a Biomarker of Impaired Glucose Tolerance (Pre-Diabetes) FY10
Hotamisligil, Gokhan (HSPH) Development of a Therapeutic Antibody Against Diabetes and Related Metabolic Diseases FY10
Lory, Stephen (HMS) Development of Antimicrobial Agents Targeting Bacterial Cell Envelope Biogenesis FY10
Yuan, Junying (HMS) Development of Autophagy Inhibitors for Cancers and Acute Pancreatitis FY10
Beckwith, Jon (HMS) One Screen for Inhibitors of Both Major Disulfide Bond Formation Pathways used by Bacterial Pathogens FY11
Flanagan, John (HMS) Design and Testing of a New Approach to Promote CNS Axon Regeneration FY11
McMahon, Andy (FAS) and Rubin, Lee (FAS) Smoothened Inhibitors for Cancer Therapy FY11
Losick, Rich (FAS) and Kolter, Roberto (HMS) Developing D-Amino Acids as Anti-Biofilm Drugs FY11
Von Andrian, Uli (HMS) Using Tolerogenic Dendritic Cells to Treat Autoimmune Disorders FY11