The IBIS Steering Committee is pleased to announce the IBIS grant awards for the 2007 cycle. The total awarded amount is $723,834 and acts as seed funding to develop further research projects. For this grant cycle, IBIS received 20 start-up and 4 travel grant applications.

After careful deliberation, the following proposals were selected for awards this cycle (listed in alphabetical order by last name of the principal investigator):

• Benndorf, Goetz
  The Methodist Hospital
  Hemodynamics in Intracranial Stents Studied With CHD
  
• Fox, Donald
  University of Houston
  Metabolic Dysfunciton in the Retina and Retinocortical Pathway: Biomarker for ALS
  
• Henkel, Jenny
  Methodist Neurological Institute
  Imaging of Protective Stem Cells Expressing IGF, VEGA and IL4 in an AD Model
  
• Jansen, Ben
  University of Houston
  Travel - Functional Brain Imaging: Joint Methods Development and Application to Neuropsychiatric Disease
  
• Kakadiaris, Ioannis
  University of Houston
  In-vivo Identification of Neovascularization using Radiofrequency Ultrasound Data
  
• Karmonik, C.
  Methodist Hospital, University of Houston
  Hemodynamics in Untreated and Treated Cranial Aneurysms
  
• Kouri, Donald
  University of Houston
  Coronay Arterial Wall Detection Using Clinical CT Angiography
  
• Li, King
  Methodist Hospital Research Institute
  Nanoparticle system for identification, monitoring and treatment of vulnerable plaques
  
• Miller, John H., Jr.
  University of Houston
  Scanning Nonlinear Impedance Microscope for Nanoscale Imaging of Enzyme Activity in Live Cells and Organelles
  
• Voss, Henning
  Weill Cornell Medical College
  Developmental Neuroimaging and Neurobehavioral Analysis of Songbird Models of Dysfluency
  
• Wang, Yi
  Weill Cornell Medical College
  Travel
  

The following process was used for the initial review of the proposals:

1. Members of the Steering Committee who were involved in any of the proposals did not serve as reviewers to eliminate the appearance of conflict of interest.
2. Members of the Steering Committee who were not involved in any of the proposals will serve as reviewers.
3. Grants were scored using the preferences stated in the IBIS grant solicitation:
   • Meritorious science
   • Interrelationships between component projects (if applicable)
   • Synergistic interactions between participating institutions
   • Likelihood of extramural support in the future
   • Impact of project as a function of cost

After the initial scoring the proposals that received largely discrepant scores were sent back to the reviewers for further discussions and final scores were sent to the IBIS Steering Committee.