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Collaboration Area	ASU Investigators	Partner Investigators	Research Description
Alzheimer's Disease	Graciela Gonzalez, Ph.D. Biomedical Informatics	Richard J. Caselli, MD	The Arizona Alzheimer's Disease Core Center (ADCC) is intended to capitalize on Arizona's scientific and organizational resources in the understanding, very early detection, and tracking of Alzheimer's disease (AD) and in the discovery of disease-slowing and prevention therapies
Bioengineering	Jiping He, Ph.D. School of Biological & Health Systems Engineering	Dean Wingerchuk, MD	Biomechanical gait analysis
Bioengineering	Kevin Bennett, Ph.D. David Frakes, Ph.D. School of Biological & Health Systems Engineering	Leland Hu, MD Joseph Loftus, MD	MRI based glioma invasion detection
Bioengineering	Marco Santello, Ph.D. Wei Zhang, Ph.D. School of Biological & Health Systems Engineering	Anthony Smith, MD Hand Surgery and Plastic Surgery	Sensorimotor integration underlying hand control in carpal tunnel syndrome
Bioengineering	Jeffery La Belle, Ph.D. School of Biological & Health Systems Engineering	Curtiss Cook, MD Dharmendra Patel, MD	Touch-based tear sensor for non-invasive glucose measurement
Bioimaging	Jianming Ling, Ph.D. Biomedical Informatics	Marek Belohlavek, MD, Ph.D.	To elucidate the biomechanical roles of LV twisting and, particularly, those of altered untwisting, to reduced right ventricular (RV) output during acute mild and moderate RV afterload elevation
Bioimaging	Jianming Ling, Ph.D. Biomedical Informatics	R. Todd Hurst, MD Chris Kendall, RDCS Laurence J. Miller, MD	Measurement of carotid intima-media thickness (CIMT) is a noninvasive tool to quantify subclinical atherosclerosis
Biomedical Informatics	Robert Greenes, Ph.D. Douglas Fridsma, MD Biomedical Informatics	Keith Frey, MD	Interoperable EMR Standards and E-Health exchange
Biomedical Informatics	John Black, Ph.D. School of Computing and Informatics	Ameet Patel, MD	Radiology training
Biomedical Informatics	Jianming Liang, Ph.D. Biomedical Informatics	Marek Belohlavek, MD	Pattern recognition in imaging
Cancer	Josh LaBaer, MD Ph.D. Ji Qui, Ph.D. Center for Personalized Medicine	Rafael Fonseca, MD Laurence Miller, MD	Find antigens for POEMS syndrome patients and other monoclonal diseases Establish a collaboration looking for biomarkers for breast cancer Develop a platform for identifying the target of a modified version of thalidomide
Cancer	Ariel Anbar, Ph.D. Chemistry/Biochemistry	Rafael Fonseca, MD	Calcium isotopes in diagnosis and treatment of multiple myeloma Collaboration seeks to apply new technique to the detection of bone loss and monitoring the effectiveness of treatment
Cancer	Douglas Lake, Ph.D. School of Life Sciences	Anton Decker, MD Laurence Miller, MD Joseph Lustgarten, MD Janis Blair, MD Leif Bergsagel, MD	Early biomarkers and immunotherapy, with a particular interest in pancreatic cancer
Cancer	Yung Chang, Ph.D. School of Life Sciences	Xiu-Bao Chang, MD	Overcoming drug resistance in breast cancer stem cells
Cancer	Paul Davies, Ph.D. Department of Physics	Joseph Mikhael, MD Karen Anderson, MD, Ph.D. David Fleischer, MD	Analysis of the physical nature of cancer cells, and larger conceptual challenges in the study of cancer
Cancer	Stephen Johnston, Ph.D. Biodesign Institute	Lawrence Miller, MD	Developing a prophylactic breast cancer vaccine
Cancer	Olga Idriss Davies, Ph.D. Southwest Interdisciplinary Research Institute	Marion Kelley	Outline the direction of future community dialogue in understanding and addressing breast cancer and healthcare disparities within the African American population in Phoenix, Arizona
Computational Modeling	Valentin Dinu, Ph.D. Biomedical Informatics	Andrew Bordner, MD Larry Miller, MD	Computational modeling of molecular docking to generate set of peptides that bind strongly to secretin receptor
Computational Modeling	Hans Mittelmann, Ph.D. School of Mathematics and Statistical Sciences	Andrew Bordner, MD	Structure-based epitope prediction for uncharacterized Class II MHC allotypes
Dual Energy CT Applications	Thomas Boltz, Ph.D. David Frakes, Ph.D. School of Biological & Health Systems Engineering	William Pavlicek, MD	Anthropomorphic phantom construction Evaluating Calcium burden Quantifying beam hardening reduction with monochromatic and material basis images
Dual Energy CT Applications	William Petuskey, Ph.D. Chemistry/Biochemistry	William Pavlicek, MD	Developing methods for fabricating crystalling sodium urates and uric acid of different densities for use as X-ray absorption standards in the detection and study of gout
Epidemiology	Matthew Scotch, Ph.D.	Maria Teresa Seville, MD	To understand how the diverse climate and terrain in Arizona has impacted the evolution of Influenza A within animals and humans
Healthcare Innovations	Usha Menon, Ph.D. RN College of Nursing and Health Innovation	Rafael Fonseca, MD	Cancer screen
HIV/AIDS	Flavio Marsiglia, Ph.D. Southwest Interdisciplinary Research Center	Edward Lew, MD	Culturally adapting and testing and evidence-based prevention intervention in partnership with a community agency called 1n10
Inflammation and Infectious Disease	Cheryl Nickerson, Ph.D. Center for Infectious Diseases and Vaccinology	James J. Lee, Ph.D.	Initial steps toward developing ex vivo human lung tissue, which will have important applications in the disciplines of transplantation, inflammatory and infectious disease, environmental toxicology and therapeutic development
Interventional/Orthopedic Biomaterials	Brent Vernon, Ph.D. School of Biological Health Systems Engineering	John DeBaise, MD	Investigate mucosal/buccal drug delivery in gastroparesis
Intestinal Microecology	Bruce Rittman, Ph.D. Biodesign Institute Rosa Brown-Krajmalnik, Ph.D. School of Sustainable Engineering & the Built Environment	John K. DiBaise, MD	Identification of specific microorganisms associated with chronic constipation in comparison to healthy subjects and those with C-IBS
Metabolic and Vascular Biology	Lawrence Mandarino, Ph.D. School of Life Sciences Center for Metabolic Biology	Laurence Miller, MD	Improve current understanding of syndrome pathophysiology Develop and validate pre-symptomatic diagnostic
Metabolic and Vascular Biology	Rosa Krajmalnik-Brown, Ph.D. School of Sustainable Engineering & the Built Environment	John DiBaise, MD	To understand they dynamics linking the gut-microbiome to obesity in hopes that this will lead to an ability to manage obesity in more effective, less costly ways
Software Development	Jianming Liang, Ph.D. Biomedical Informatics Lawrence Mandarino, Ph.D. School of Life Sciences Center for Metabolic Biology	Todd Hurst, MD Chris Kendall, RDCS Laurence J. Miller, MD	Develop a software system to support the measurement of carotid intima-media thickness