Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR)
and Technology Transfer (STTR) Grants

• No.:  N43-ES-41003
  Agency:  NIEHS
  Dates:  September 1994 – November 1995 
    
  Title: 
  Assay of carcinogenic potential of environmental chemicals using transgenic mice expressing epidermis-directed oncogenes.

Collaborating scientists:
Dennis R. Roop, Ph.D.
David A. Greenhalgh, Ph.D.
Thomas J. Slaga, Ph.D.                                   
John DiGiovanni, Ph.D.
Claudio, J. Conti, D.V.M., Ph.D.

Collaborating institutions: 
Baylor College of Medicine and The University of Texas Health Science Cancer Center at San Antonio

• No.:  1 R41 ES-07597-01
  Agency:  NIEHS
  Dates:  September 1996 – October 1996
  
  Title: 
  Carcinogenic assay using transgenic keratinocytes.

Collaborating scientists:       
Dennis R. Roop, Ph.D.
David A. Greenhalgh, Ph.D.
Thomas J. Slaga, Ph.D.
John DiGiovanni, Ph.D.
Susan M. Fischer, Ph.D.

Collaborating institution: 
Baylor College of Medicine

• No.:  1 R41 ES11235-01
  Agency:  DHHS/NIH
  Dates:  September 2001 – December 2002

Title: 
Gene expression in engineered human skin.

Collaborating scientists:     
David L. Mitchell, Ph.D.
Michael MacLeod, Ph.D.
Mahmoud Roauabhia, Ph.D.
Claudio J. Conti, D.V.M., Ph.D.
John DiGiovanni, Ph.D.

Collaborating institution: 
The University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center

• No.:  1 R41 CA101441-01 
  Agency:  DHHS/NIH
  Dates:  May 2003 – April 2004

Title: 
Triplex-directed control of epidermal hyperproliferation.

Collaborating scientists:      
Karen Vasquez, Ph.D.      
John DiGiovanni, Ph.D.

Collaborating institution: 
The University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center