Asian Health Institute Pilot Grant

• Hilary Seligman, MD, MCR/MPH/MS
  SOM: Medicine
  Feasibility and Acceptability of an Integrative, Chinese Medicine Diet for Chinese Americans with Type 2 Diabetes

Basic Science Award Program in HIV/AIDS

• Xin Geng, PhD
  Gladstone Institute
  Mechanisms Underlying CD4 T-Cell Depletion and Inflammation During AIDS Progression

• Ryan Hernandez, PhD
  SOM & SOP: Bioengineering & Therapeutic Sciences
  Intrapatient Coevolution Between the Antibody Repertoire and HIV Populations

• Ruth Huttenhain, PhD
  SOM: Cellular & Molecular Pharmacology
  Investigating the interface between HIV-1 proteins and the host cellular ubiquitin machinery

• Pingyang Liu, PhD
  SOM: Microbiology & Immunology
  The anti-HIV mechanism of human Piwil2

CC-AMC Pilot Awards in HIV-Associated Malignancies

• Joel Palefsky, MD
  SOM: Medicine
  Investigating the role of cidofovir in preventing anal epithelial invasion using a novel model of HPV 16-positive transformed anal epithelium

Digital Health Research

• Mozziyar Etemadi, PhD
  SOM & SOP: Bioengineering & Therapeutic Sciences
  In-Home Pilot Study of Heart Failure Exacerbation Prediction Device

• Roeland Hancock, PhD
  SOM: Psychiatry
  Early mobile screening for reading disorder risk

• Danielle Schlosser, PhD
  SOM: Psychiatry
  PRIME-d: Enhancing motivation and health outcomes in individuals with depression

Global Health Basic Science Award Program

• Michelle Boyle, PhD
  SOM: Medicine
  The impact of exposure level and age on T cell responses to malaria in naturally exposed children

• Jyoti Mishra, PhD
  SOM: Neurology
  Remediation Of Cognition in Kids to Overcome Neglect (ROCK-ON!)

Global Health Policy Award Program

• Dhruv Kazi, MD, MCR/MPH/MS
  SOM: Medicine
  Cost-Effectiveness of Echocardiographic Screening of School-Age Children in India for Rheumatic Heart Disease: The India RHD Policy Model

• Melissa Morgan, MD, MCR/MPH/MS
  SOM: Pediatrics
  Pulse oximetry to guide oxygen therapy in neonates born at a resource-limited hospital in Nairobi, Kenya

Mentored Scientist Award Program in HIV/AIDS

• Sanjiv Baxi MD,MCR/MPH/MS
  SOM: Division of Infectious Diseases
  Evaluating Genetic Factors Associated with Tenofovir Exposure in HIV-Infected Women Undergoing Intensive Pharmacokinetic Monitoring

• Amy Conroy, PhD, MCR/MPH/MS
  Medicine: Prevention Science
  Exploring Relationship Factors and Engagement in HIV Care in South Africa

New Direction

• Jae Lee, MD
  SOM: Anesthesia & Perioperative Care
  Therapeutic Use of Microvesicles for Breast Cancer with Lung Metastases

• Joachim Li, MD, PhD
  SOM: Microbiology & Immunology
  Does Replication Timing Help Specify Epigenetic Chromatin States?

• Susan Miller, PhD
  SOP: Pharmaceutical Chemistry
  Exploring Thiopeptide Biosynthetic Machinery For New Antibiotic Production

• Matthew Thomson, PhD
  SOM: Cellular & Molecular Pharmacology
  Characterizing the microarchitecture and electrical activity patterns of embryonic stem cell derived neural circuits

Novel Clinical Methods/Translational Technology Development Awards

• Henrik Bengtsson, PhD, MCR/MPH/MS
  SOM: Epidemiology & Biostatistics
  Parallel methods for low-cost shallow DNA-Seq data

• Jason Adam Cunha, PhD
  SOM: Radiation Oncology
  Bringing 3D printing to the clinic for patient-specific radiotherapy delivery

Pilot Award Program in HIV/AIDS

• Elvin Geng, MD, MPH
  SOM: Medicine
  Qualitative evaluation of a large "test and treat" trial: Characterizing baseline community contexts and implementation processes in SEARCH

• Jennifer Price, MD
  SOM: Medicine
  HIV, HCV and Fatty Liver Disease: Host, Virus, or Genes?

• Ma Somsouk, MD, MCR/MPH/MS
  SOM: Medicine
  Reconstitution of the gut microbiome in HIV-infected immunology non-responders

Pilot for Established Investigators

• Sergio Baranzini, PhD
  SOM: Neurology
  Analysis of the gut microbiome in multiple sclerosis

• Yoshimi Fukuoka, PhD,RN
  SOM: Institute for Health & Aging
  An Innovative Weight Loss Program for Spanish-Speaking Latinos at High Risk for Type 2 Diabetes

• Renee Hsia, MD, MSc
  SOM: Emergency Medicine
  Changes in Access to Urban Trauma Centers on Patient Outcomes: A Case Study from Los Angeles County

• Laura Jelliffe-Pawlowski, PhD
  SOM: Epidemiology & Biostatistics
  Prenatal Prediction of Critical Congenital Heart Defects: Consideration of the Interplay between Nuchal Translucency and Other Lymphatic Markers

• Constance John, PhD, RPh
  SOM: Laboratory Medicine
  SAMDI-TOF Mass Spectrometry for Drug Discovery

• Wolfgang Korn, MD
  SOM: Medicine
  Therapeutic targeting of tumor heterogeneity in pancreatic cancer

• Yun-Fai Lau, PhD
  SOM: Medicine
  The Sex Determining Gene as a Male-specific Epigenetic Modifier in Neurodevelopment

• Jon Levine, MD,PhD
  SOD: Oral & Maxillofacial Surgery
  Role of the Endothelium in Vascular Pain

• Marguerita Lightfoot, PhD
  SOM: Medicine
  Networked home HIV testing

• Daniel Mathalon, MD,PhD
  SOM: Psychiatry
  Toward Optimization of a Visual High Frequency Stimulation Paradigm for Assessment of LTP-like Cortical Plasticity in Humans

• Judith Moskowitz, PhD
  SOM: Osher Center for Integrative Medicine
  Optimizing Resilience and Coping in HIV through Internet Delivery: A Pilot Feasibility Test of an Online Positive Affect Intervention for People Living with HIV and Depression

• Corey Raffel, MD, PhD
  SOM: Neurological Surgery
  Establishing Murine Models of Medulloblastoma and DIPG in Immune Competent Mice

• Youngho Seo, PhD
  SOM: Radiology
  Molecular imaging of de novo lipogenesis in murine models of hepatocellular carcinoma

• Richard Souza, PhD, PT
  SOM: Physical Therapy & Rehab Science
  Effects of exercise on prevention of knee osteoarthritis

• Jody Steinauer, MD, M.A.S.
  SOM: Obstetrics, Gynecology & Rep Sci
  Risk Factors for Complication After Uterine Evacuation: A Retrospective Cohort Study

Pilot for Junior Investigators

• Sarah Doernberg MD, MCR/MPH/MS
  SOM: Medicine
  Comparative efficacies and impacts on Clostridium difficile risk of different regimens for community-acquired pneumonia

• Ruth Dubin, MD
  SOM: Medicine
  Characterizing Heart Failure in End-Stage Renal Disease: A Pilot Study

• Scott Greysen, MD
  SOM: Medicine
  Tablet Computers for Hospitalized Older Adults: a novel approach to increasing patient engagement with their electronic Personal Health Records

• Rintaro Hashizume, MD, PhD
  SOM: Neurological Surgery
  Targeting histone H3.3-K27M mutation for the treatment of diffuse intrinsic pontine gliomas

• Fumiko Hoeft, MD/PhD
  SOM: Psychiatry
  Human Intergenerational Neuroimaging of Emotion Regulation: A Feasibility Study

• Eva Ihle, MD,PhD
  SOM: Psychiatry
  The Link between Time Perspective and Resiliency in Adolescent Girls

• Jennifer Kerns, MD
  SOM: Obstetrics, Gynecology & Rep Sci
  Development of OPT (Options for Pregnancy Termination), a decision aid for women undergoing second-trimester termination of pregnancy for fetal anomalies

• Erica Lawson, MD
  SOM: Pediatrics
  Transition to Independence: Optimizing Outcomes in Childhood-onset Lupus

• Yan Leykin, PhD
  SOM: Psychiatry
  Internet-based micro-interventions for depression

• Elysa Marco, MD
  SOM: Neurology
  Bringing together laboratory and clinical measures of attention to assess children with neurodevelopmental disabilities

• Zachary Miller, MD
  SOM: Neurology
  Language Lateralization Mechanisms in Neurodegenerative Disease

• Judy Pa, PhD
  SOM: Neurology
  The effect of exercise on functional brain networks in community-dwelling older adults

• Farzana Perwad, MD
  SOM: Pediatrics
  Role of Egr-1 in the pathogenesis of X-linked hypophosphatemia

• Claudia Petritsch, PhD
  SOM: Neurological Surgery
  Epigenetic regulation of cell fate switches in brain tumors

• Wito Richter, PhD
  SOM: Obstetrics, Gynecology & Rep Sci
  Mapping the PKA phosphorylome of airway epithelial cells.

• Jeroen Roose, PhD
  SOM: Anatomy
  RasGRP-mTOR signals in mammary gland development and breast carcinoma

• Luika Timmerman
  HDFCCC
  Potentiation of Chemotherapeutics and Radiation Therapy by xCT Inhibition in Breast Cancer

• Jess Waldura, MD, MCR/MPH/MS
  SOM: Family & Community Medicine
  Health Information for Positive Sexuality (HIPS): A pilot study to improve detection of female sexual dysfunction in peri- and post-menopausal women in a safety-net primary care setting

Pilot in Integrative Medicine

• Larissa Duncan, PhD
  SOM: Osher Center for Integrative Medicine, UCSF Dept. of Family and Community Medicine
  A pilot randomized controlled trial of Training of Attention and emotion Regulation in Adolescents (TARA) with depression

Shared Instrument

• Janine Lupo, PhD
  SOM: Radiology
  An MRI Compatible CinemaVision System for 3 Tesla and 7 Tesla Research Studies

 Under-represented Faculty

• Melinda Bender, PhD, RN
  SOM: Institute for Health & Aging
  Motivate to Eliminate Type 2 Diabetes Risks in Filipino Americans