Previous Funding, Proposals Pending, and Proposals in Preparation

Previous Research Funding

1. Instrumentation Grants (Federal)

• National Science Foundation, Chemical Instrumentation Program, Purchase of a Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Data Processing Station, $105,850 (Spring 1986).

2. Private Grants

• Omicron Biochemicals, Inc. Graduate Research Fellowship in Structural Biology. October 2000-September 2001.
  
• Omicron Biochemicals, Inc. Unrestricted Grant. October 2000-September 2001.
  
• Omicron Biochemicals, Inc. Graduate Research Fellowship in Structural Biology, $10,000. October 1998-September 1999.
  
• Omicron Biochemicals, Inc. Unrestricted Grant, $8,000. October 1998-September 1999.
  
• Omicron Biochemicals, Inc. Graduate Research Fellowship in Structural Biology, $10,000. October 1997-September 1998.
  
• Omicron Biochemicals, Inc. Unrestricted Grant, $6,000. October 1997-September 1998.
  
• Omicron Biochemicals, Inc. Graduate Research Fellowship in Structural Biology, $10,000. October 1996-September 1997.
  
• Omicron Biochemicals, Inc. Unrestricted Grant, $6,000. October 1996-September 1997.
  
• Omicron Biochemicals, Inc. Equipment Grant, $1,192. October 1996.
  
• Omicron Biochemicals, Inc. Unrestricted Grant, $11,000. October 1995-September 1996.
  
• Omicron Biochemicals, Inc. Unrestricted Grant, $10,500. October 1994-September 1995.
  
• Omicron Biochemicals, Inc. Unrestricted Grant, $6,000. October 1993-September 1994.
  
• Omicron Biochemicals, Inc. Unrestricted Grant, $6,000. October 1992-September 1993.
  
• Omicron Biochemicals, Inc., Unrestricted Grant, $5,000. October 1991-September 1992.

3. Society and Foundation Grants

• ACS-PRF Grant For Scientific Education, Recent Developments in the NMR Spectroscopy of Carbohydrates, ACS Symposium, $1,500.
  
• Sigma Xi Grant-in-Aid of Research, D-Idose: A Unique Model Carbohydrate for Studies of Tautomeric Equilibria and Mutarotation by NMR Spectroscopy. With J. R. Snyder. $150.
  
• Sigma Xi Grant-in-Aid of Research, ¹³C NMR Spectroscopy of a [¹³C]-Enriched Monoclonal Antibody to Human Plasminogen. With P.C. Kline. $300.
  
• Research Corporation: Grant No. 10028. Dynamic Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Studies of the Kinetics of Furanose Tautomerization in Solution. $10,000.

4. Venture Capital Grants

• Construction of an Automated Synthesizer of D-[1-¹³C]Glucose, Imaging Products, Inc., $5,000.
  
• Construction of an Algal Growth Chamber for the Production of Uniformly [¹³C]-Labeled D-Glucose, Imaging Products, Inc., $37,000.

5. Notre Dame Grants

• J. H. Jones Faculty Research Development Fund, A Dynamic Multinuclear NMR Study of Carbohydrate Conformation and Motion in Solution,, $3,795.
• DaVinci Grant, Institute for Scholarship in the Liberal Arts, Stakeholder Mindset and Ecological Impact: Do Personal Beliefs and Values of Lake Papakeechie and Lake Wawsee Residents Influence Lake Stewardship?, $4,468 total cost (Summer 2013).
• DaVinci Grant, Institute for Scholarship in the Liberal Arts, Stakeholder Values and Lake Ecology: Motivating Adjoining Lake Communities in a Common Watershed Through Improved Communication and Best Management Practices, $4,000 total cost (Summer 2014).

6. Federal Grants

• National Cancer Institute/National Institute of General Medical Sciences, NIH, Synthesis of High-Mannose N-Glycans - Phase I SBIR; Principal Investigators: Dr. Qingfeng Pan and Dr. Shikai Zhao (Omicron Biochemicals); $299,586 total cost (September 2013-June 2014).
  
• National Science Foundation, Antifreeze Glycolipids, New Thermal Hysteresis Factors in Insects (with co-PI John Duman, Department of Biological Sciences, University of Notre Dame); $500,000 total cost (July 2010-June 2013).
  
• National Institutes of Health, M. avium GPLs in Macrophage Activation and Virulence; With PI, Jeffrey Schorey (Biological Sciences); $1,875,000 total direct (August 2010-July 2015).
  
• National Institutes of Health, Glucose Modification of Proteins in Diabetic Nephropathy; $213,000 total ND cost (sub-contract with Vanderbilt University) (July 2003-June 2008).
  
• National Institutes of Health, ¹³C-¹H and ¹³C-¹³C Spin-Couplings in Oligosaccharides; $916,500 total cost (May 2001-April 2005).
  
• National Institutes of Health, General Medical, GM 33791-04 (1988-1991). Biologically Important Furanosyl Rings. $284,440, three years, direct costs.
  
• National Institutes of Health, General Medical, GM 33791-01. (1985-1988). Biologically Important Furanosyl Rings. $191,748, three years, direct costs.

7. Industrial Contracts

• Gliatech, Inc. Research Contract on Dextran Sulfate Synthesis. January-June 1993. $17,201.
  
• Gliatech, Inc. Research Contract on Dextran Sulfate Synthesis. July-December 1993. $17,701.
  
• Gliatech, Inc. Research Contract on Dextran Sulfate Synthesis. January-June 1994. $22,500.
  
• Gliatech, Inc. Research Contract on Dextran Sulfate Synthesis. July-December 1994. $23,900.
  
• Undergraduate Summer Research Grant, Cambridge Isotope Laboratories, $3,000, June-August 1994.
  
• Gliatech, Inc. Research Contract on Dextran Sulfate Synthesis. January-June 1995. $24,100.
  
• Gliatech, Inc. Research Contract on Dextran Sulfate Synthesis. July-December 1995. $26,875.
  
• Gliatech, Inc. Research Contract on Dextran Sulfate Synthesis. January-June 1996. $15,000.
  
• Gliatech, Inc. Research Contract on Dextran Sulfate Synthesis. June-December 1996, $10,081.

Proposals Pending

• National Cancer Institute/National Institute of General Medical Sciences, NIH, Synthesis of High-Mannose N-Glycans - Phase II; With PI Dr. Qingfeng Pan (Omicron Biochemicals); $1,000,000 total cost (24 months).

Proposals In Preparation (July 2015)

• National; Institutes of Health (R01), Conformational Properties of Biologically Important Furanosyl Rings (multi-PI project involving investigators in the US and India).