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| Dr. Stephan Witt's Bio Info |
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EDUCATION
| 1976-1979 |
B.F.A. Fine Arts, Tufts University, Medford, Massachusetts. |
| 1979-1981 |
B.S. Chemistry, Union College, Schenectady, New York. |
| 1982-1988 |
Ph.D. Biophysical Chemistry, California Institute of
Technology, Pasadena, California. |
| 1988-1993 |
Postdoctoral Fellow, Immunochemistry,
Stanford University, Stanford, California. |
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| ACADEMIC AWARDS AND HONORS |
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| 1981 |
Honors degree in Chemistry |
| 1981 |
Graduated Magna Cum Laude (Union College) |
| 1981 |
Elected to membership in Phi Beta Kappa (Union College) |
| 1981 |
Elected to membership in Sigma Xi (Union College) |
| 1981 |
Awarded the Charles B. Hurd prize in physical chemistry (Union College) |
| 1988 |
Awarded a Damon Runyon-Walter Winchell Cancer |
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Fund Postdoctoral Fellowship (1988-1991) |
| 1992 |
Awarded a Postdoctoral Fellowship from the Stanford University Training Program in Immunology |
| 1995 |
American Cancer Society Junior Faculty Award |
| 2002- |
Member, Editorial board of Cell Stress & Chaperones |
GRANT SUPPORT (Federal)
Ongoing:
National Institutes of Health (NIH/NINDS)1R21 NS053678-01 (P.I.: Witt)
“A novel method to discover genes that protect cells from alpha-synuclein.”
1/10/06 – 12/31/07
Total: $325,525
Completed:
National Institutes of Health
R01 GM51521 (P.I.: Witt)
"Kinetics and Mechanism of the Heat Shock-70 Protein DnaK."
8/1/99 to 7/31/03
Total: $836,000
National Institutes of Health
R29 GM51521 (P.I.: Witt)
"Kinetics and Mechanism of the Heat Shock-70 Protein DnaK."
8/1/94 to 7/31/99
Total: $500,000
American Cancer Society
Junior Faculty Research Award #JFRA-583 (P.I.: Witt)
“Kinetics and Mechanism of the Heat Shock-70 Protein DnaK.”
7/1/95 to 6/30/98
Total: $90,500
National Institutes of Health
Shared Instrumentation Grant, 1 S10 RR 12031 (P.I.: Witt)
“Pharmacia BIAcore 2000 Optical Biosensor”
3/97 to 2/98
Total: $215,000
Other:
LSUMC Intramural Grant (P.I.: Witt)
“Structure-function analysis of the yeast nucleotide exchange factor, Mge1p.”
7/03 to 6/04
Total: $25,000
LSUMC Intramural Grant (P.I.: Witt)
“Solid State NMR Studies of the Molecular Chaperone DnaK.”
7/98 to 6/99
Total: $5,000
LSUMC Intramural Grant (P.I.: Witt)
“Kinetics and Mechanism of the Heat Shock-70 Protein DnaK.”
11/93 to 11/94
Total: $5,000
Special Parkinson’s Disease Resource Award (P.I.: Witt)
“The Parkinson’s disease-related protein alpha synuclein triggers programmed cell death in a yeast model of Parkinson’s disease.”
1/05 to 12/05
Total: $7,500
LSU Board of Regents
Superior Graduate Students (P.I.: Giordano; co-PIs: Smith & Witt)
$176,000
7/2005 – 6/2009
FEDERAL ADVISORY PANELS
Ad Hoc Member, NIH Shared Instrumentation Program Study Section, Biosensors, 1997-2000
Ad Hoc Member, NIH Shared Instrumentation Program Study Section, Microbiology, 1999
Ad Hoc Member, NIH ZRG1 IMM-G (10) (Immunology: Small Business Grant Applications), 2002 - 2005
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