Grant Awards

[1]   PI, Indiana University – Purdue University Indianapolis Signature Center Initiative (01/01/2008-12/31/2011), $150,000, “Indiana Center for Systems Biology and Personalized Medicine”.

[2]   Co-PI, Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation (03/01/2008-02/29/2010), ~$1M, “Koman Tissue Bank at Indiana University Simon Cancer Center”. PI: Sue Clare.

[3]   Co-PI, Indiana University Research Support Funds Grant (RSFG) (01/01/2008-12/31/2008), $35,000, “Protein Phosphotases in Pancreatic Center Studies”. PI: Pamela Crowell.

[4]   Co-PI, Department of Defense (10/01/2007-09/30/2009), ~$1M, “Warfighter Cancer Care Engineering”. PI: Marietta Nagel.

[5]   PI, Canary Foundation Bioinformatics Dissemination Award, (06/01/2007-05/31/2008), $25,000, “Central Indiana Proteomics Analysis Pipeline”.

[6]   PI, Indiana Lung Cancer Working Group Grant, (11/1/2006-10/31/2008), $174,000, “Predictive Lung Cancer Systems Biology towards Improved Postoperative Survivals”.

[7]   PI of Indiana University subcontract, Program co-PI, and Director of Informatics, National Cancer Institute Clinical Proteomics Technology Assessment Program (U24) Grant, (10/01/2006-09/31/2011), $6,986,506, “APT: the Analytical Proteomics Team”, Program PI: Fred Regnier.

[8]   PI, Indiana University Research Support Funds Grant (RSFG) (09/01/2006-08/31/2007), $30,000, “A Computational Method to Discover Disease-relevant Proteins in Protein Interaction Networks”.

[9]   PI, Indiana University – Purdue University Indianapolis International Development Fund (07/01/2006-08/31/2007), $9,000. For leading research collaboration with the Department of Computer Science and Technology of Tsinghua University, Beijing, China on the project titled “Human Disease Bibliome Mining”.

[10] PI, Indiana University – Purdue University Indianapolis NIH Roadmap Initiative Seed Grant (09/01/2005-08/31/2007), $60,000. “Custom Development of an Integrative Proteomics Platform Suitable for Collaborative Efforts in Systems Biology Studies”.

[11] PI, Purdue Research Foundation Summer Faculty Grant (06/30/2005-08/01/2005), $7,500. “A Computational Study of Protein Interaction Network Hubs in Available Protein Interactomes”.

[12] PI, Purdue Research Foundation International Travel Grant (April 2005), $1,000. For organizing International Workshop on Biomedical Data Engineering (BMDE) at the 21st International Conference on Data Engineering (2005), Tokyo, Japan.

[13] PI, Indiana University School of Informatics Research Initiation Grant (07/01/2004-06/30/2006), $60,000. “Development of Systems and Network Biology Informatics”, Indiana University Purdue University, Indianapolis, Indiana.

[14] PI, Indiana University International Exchange Affiliation Program (07/01/2004-06/30/2006), $6,000. “Building a Bioinformatics Collaboration Program with Centre of Bioinformatics of Peking University”, Indiana University Purdue University, Indianapolis, Indiana.

[15] PI, Shanghai Science and Technology Bureau Development Grant (06/2002 – 12/2004), 1.5 million Chinese RMB (approximately $180,000 USD). “Developing a Bioinformatics Database Infrastructure for Functional Genomics Studies”. Shanghai Bioinformatics Institute, Shanghai, China.

Other Scholarly Awards and Honors

[1]   IUPUI Chancellor’s Honors Convocation Recognition: for obtaining external awards at IUPUI (2008).

[2]   IUPUI Translational Research into Practice (TRIP) Scholar: for research in translational systems biology at IUPUI (2008)

[3]   Indiana Small Business Grant Preparation Award: for preparation of STTR grant applications at Indianapolis, IN (2007).

[4]   Indiana Economic Development Scholarship: for participation in the National Small Business Innovation Research Conference at Louisville, KY (2006).

[5]   NIH Travel Fellowship Awards: for presenting at Pacific Symposium of Bio-computing, Maui, HI (2006).

[6]   Indiana University International Travel Award: for presenting at the International Workshop on Bioinformatics, Nankin, China (2005).

[7]   Microsoft New Faculty Fellowship Nominee: for representing IU-Purdue Indianapolis (2005).

[8]   IU-Purdue Indianapolis Center for Teaching and Learning Scholarship: for participation in new forms of scholarly communication at the university level (2004).

[9]   Affymetrix Project Achievement Awards: for outstanding project contribution to the Human U95, Murine U74, Rat U34, and EASI software designs (1999 & 2000).

[10] University of Minnesota Computer Science Department Outstanding Graduate Research Awards: (1998).

[11] ISCB Travel Fellowship Awards: for presenting at ISMB ‘96, St. Louis, MO (1996) and ISMB ‘98, Montreal, Canada (1998).

[12] USENIX Travel Fellowship Awards: USENIX Annual Technology Conference, Portland, OR (1997).

[13] Biographical Inclusions: Who’s Who in America (60th edition), Who’s Who in Science and Engineering (9th edition), Who’s Who of Emerging Leaders (2006), International Who’s Who in Information Technology (1999), etc.