Harry M. Zweig Memorial Fund for Equine Research—

2003 Research Awards

New
$57,700 to Dorothy Ainsworth for “Airway Epithelial Cell Contributions to the Immunopathogenesis of Heaves—Preliminary Investigations”
$50,000 to Lisa Fortier for “The Establishment of Equine Embryonic Stem Cell Lines”
$54,750 to Nikolaus Osterrieder for “The Importance of Equine Herpesvirus Type I Glycoproteins for Replication, Virulence, and Vaccine Efficacy”
$16,314 to J. Brett Woodie and Brad Njaa for “The Role of Cecal Histamine in the Pathogenesis of Acute, Alimentary Laminitis”
$69,457 to Norm Ducharme and J. Brett Woodie for “Laryngeal Hemiplegia: Do We Have the Wrong Treatment?”

Renewal
$52,577 to Douglas Antczak for “Horse Genome Project: Functional Genomics of the Equine Immune System”
$55,000 to Alan Nixon for “Growth Factor Gene Enhanced Cartilage Repair Using Adeno-Associated Viral Vectors”