Previous Research Grant Awards

2012	Avital Rodal, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Rosenstiel Basic Medical Sciences Research Center, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA	$25,000 for a continuation of the project funded by the 2010 grant.
2011	Laura E. Swan, Ph.D., Department of Cell Biology, Yale University School of Medical in New Haven, CT.	$25,000 to study the “Characterization of a novel protein interaction surface of the Lowe Syndrome phosphatase OCRL.”
2010	Avital Rodal, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Rosenstiel Basic Medical Sciences Research Center, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA	$25,000 for the study of Dissecting the Function of Drosophila OCRL in Neuronal Endosomal Traffic.
2009	Zelig S. Dolinsky, Ph. D. Biomedical Research Consultant, Manchester, CT	$18,500 Phase II: Analysis and reporting of the 2008 Comprehensive Study on Lowe Syndrome.
2008	Zelig S. Dolinsky, Ph. D. Biomedical Research Consultant, Manchester, CT	$24,000 Phase I: Scope, development, electronic design and rollout of the 2008 Comprehensive Study on Lowe Syndrome.
2008	Pietro De Camilli, M.D., Department. of Cell Biology and HHMI, Yale University School of Medical in New Haven, CT.	$25,000 for the Cell Biology of the Lowe syndrome protein, OCRL1.
2008	Ora A. Weisz, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Departments of Medicine (Renal-Electrolyte Division) and Cell Biology and Physiology, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine in Pittsburg, PA	$25,000 for the study of OCRL function in renal epithelial membrane traffic.
2007	Yuxin Mao, Ph.D., Department. of Cell Biology and HHMI, Yale University School of Medical in New Haven, CT.	$20,000 for the Structural studies of the Lowe syndrome protein, OCRL1.
2007	Ora A. Weisz, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Departments of Medicine (Renal-Electrolyte Division) and Cell Biology and Physiology, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine in Pittsburg, PA.	$20,000 for the study of OCRL function in renal epithelial membrane traffic.
2005	Maria Antonietta DeMatteis, M.D., Head of the Laboratory of Physiopathology of Secretion within the Department of Cell Biology and Oncology in Consorzio Mario Negri Sud, Chieti, Italy	$25,000 for studying the role of OCRL-1 in endocytic pathways in immortalized human cell lines and in proximal tubular cells from patients with Lowe syndrome
2003	Erik M. Jorgensen, Ph.D., and Kimberly R. Schuske, Ph.D., Department of Biology, University of Utah.	$25,000 for a continuation of the project funded by the 2002 grant.
2002	Erik M. Jorgensen, Ph.D., and Kimberly R. Schuske, Ph.D., Department of Biology, University of Utah.	$30,000 for Genetic Suppressors of 5-Phosphatase Mutants in C. Elegans.
2002	Jeremy W. Thorner, Ph.D., Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of California/Berkeley.	$30,000 for Phosphatidylinositol 4-Kinase, Pik1, Shuttles Between the Nucleus and the Cytosol: Exploring the Physiological Function of PtdIns[4]P Generation in the Nucleus.
2000	Bonnie Blazer-Yost, Ph.D., Biology Department, Indiana University/Purdue University in Indianapolis, IN.	$15,000 for Stable Expression of the OCRL1 Gene in Renal Epithelial Cells: Models for Studying the Localization, Regulation and Metabolic Role of the OCRL1 Protein.
1999	Bonnie Blazer-Yost, Ph.D., Biology Department, Indiana University/Purdue University in Indianapolis, IN.	$15,000 for The Phosphoinositide Pathway in Regulation of Ion Transport Phenomena in a Renal Distal Tubule Cell Line.
1999	Dewey Royal, Ph.D., Department of Molecular Biology and Biochemistry at Rutgers University.	$15,000 for Dissecting the Phosphatidylinositol System in C. elegans.
1999	Ti Lin, Ph.D., formerly of the Georgetown University Medical Center, currently at the National Institutes of Health in collaboration with Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center.	$15,000 for Establishing a Reliable and Accurate Molecular Method for Lowe Syndrome Carrier Screening.
1996	Richard A. Lewis, M.D., Baylor College of Medicine.	$2,000 for continuation of Refined gene mapping, carrier detection, and prenatal diagnosis of the Oculo-Cerebro-Renal Syndrome of Lowe, and to defray costs to families for molecular and biochemical analyses of the OCRL gene/enzyme.
1993	Lawrence Charnas, M.D., Ph.D., St. Mary's Hospital Cancer Research Institute.	$5,000 for An in situ and immunocytochemical localization of OCRL-1 gene product in human and mouse tissue.
1993	Lorraine C. Racusen, M.D., Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine.	$6,000 for Development of renal tubule cell lines from patients with Lowe's syndrome.
1989	Richard A. Lewis, M.D., Baylor College of Medicine.	$7,000 for Refined gene mapping, carrier detection, and prenatal diagnosis of the Oculo-Cerebro-Renal Syndrome of Lowe.
1988	Richard A. Lewis, M.D., Baylor College of Medicine.	$5,000 for Refined gene mapping, carrier detection, and prenatal diagnosis of the Oculo-Cerebro-Renal Syndrome of Lowe.