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Dr. Stephan Witt's Bio Info


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.
   
   
ACADEMIC AWARDS AND HONORS
   
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
  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


F
EDERAL 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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