Fall 2015 Awardees

Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center (ADRC)

Jennifer Yokoyama
Contribution of cardiovascular risk factors to Alzheimer’s disease in Chinese Americans
SOM: Neurology


Academic Senate Awardees (AS)

Digital Health Research

Sabrina Darrow
Personalizing a transdiagnostic approach to young adult mental health assessment via technology
SOM: Psychiatry

 

Pilot for Junior Investigators in Basic and Clinical/Translational Sciences

Shingo Kajimura
Molecular links between BAT and bone: physiological roles of beige fat beyond heat-generation
SOD: Cell & Tissue Biology

Guo Huang
Molecular control of mammalian organ regenerative potential
SOM: Physiology

David Quigley
Sensitizing cells to PARP inhibition by conditional BRCA haploin sufficiency
SOM: Epidemiology & Biostatistics

Yin Shen
Dissecting the regulatory networks controlling SOX2 expression during neurodevelopment
Other

Thuy Doan
Identification of pathogens in ocular specimens by next-generation sequencing
SOM: Ophthalmology

Pilot for Established Investigators in Basic and Clinical/Translational Sciences

Samuel Goldman
Parkinson’s Disease concordance and heritability in the NAS/NRC World War II veteran twins cohort
SOM: Neurology

Nancy Hessol
Risk of second cancers among people with HIV/AIDS
SOP: Clinical Pharmacy

Yun-Fai Chris Lau
Sexual dimorphisms in Hischsprung Disease
SOM: Medicine

Manish Aghi
Defining alterations in the retinoblastoma pathway in pituitary adenomas
SOM: Neurological Surgery

Re-entry

Olivier Danhaive
Genetic causes and molecular mechanisms of lung developmental vascular disorders
SOM: Pediatrics

Team Science Grant

Torsten Wittmann
Taxane-resistant metastatic prostate cancer organoids
SOD: Cell & Tissue Biology

Michael Evans
Measuring MYC activity in double hit lymphoma with 68Ga-citrate
SOM: Radiology


Cancer Center – CCSG

Pilot for Junior Investigator in Basic and Clinical/Translational Sciences

Gabriele Bergers
Inducing high endothelial venules (HEVs) in glioblastoma to enhance immunity and tumor cell death
SOM: Neurological Surgery

Benjamin Braun
Developing a new method for measuring Ras activation in single cells
SOM: Pediatrics

Natalia Jura
Molecular basis for the activation of Met receptor in lung cancer by mutations in the juxtamembrane segment
SOM: Cellular & Molecular Pharmacology

Under-Represented Faculty in Clinical and Translational Research Awards

Dexter Hadley
Precision diagnosis of melanoma and other skin lesions from digital images
SOM: Pediatrics


Cancer Center – MZHF

Pilot for Junior Investigators in Basic and Clinical/Translational Sciences

David Quigley
Sensitizing cells to PARP inhibition by conditional BRCA haploin sufficiency
SOM: Epidemiology & Biostatistics


Center for AIDS Research (CFAR)

Mentored Scientist Award Program in HIV/AIDS

John Sauceda
Substance use and depression in a national cohort of HIV+ Latinos in HIV care
SOM: Medicine

Shahzada Khan
Determining the role of TGF-b signaling in maintaining HIV latency in the gut
Other

Pilot Award Program in HIV/AIDS

Marielle Cavrois
Impact of V1/V2 length and cysteine composition on env function and neutralization
SOM: Medicine

Ali Mirzazdeh
Designing and pilot testing methods for a cohort study of people who inject drugs for future HIV and HCV prevention research in Iran
SOM: Epidemiology & Biostatistics

Basic Science Award Program in HIV/AIDS

David Gordon
Rapid genetic interaction mapping of HIV-1 host factors in cultured T-cells
SOM: Cellular & Molecular Pharmacology

International Mentored Scientist Award Program in HIV/AIDS

Allan Buzibye
Development and validation for an HPLC-UV multiplex assay for therapeutic drug monitoring of antiretroviral drugs in Uganda
Other


Clinical Translational Science Institute – Strategic Opportunities Support (CTSI-SOS)

Digital Health Research

Jennifer Graves
Application of a wearable biosensor for track limb dysfunction in multiple sclerosis patients
SOM: Neurology

New Child Leave

Hannah Glass
Outcomes after neonatal seizures
SOM: Neurology

Pilot for Junior Investigators in Basic and Clinical/Translational Sciences

Jyoti Mishra
A real-time closed loop to optimize fronto-parietal cortical networks underlying attention
SOM: Neurology

Under-Represented Faculty in Clinical and Translational Research Awards

Jorge Arroyo Palacios
A pilot study with wearable devices to detect atrial fibrillation
SON: Physiological Nursing

Cassie Kline
The role of KLOTHO as a biomarker for neurocognitive outcomes in pediatric brain tumor patients
SOM: Pediatrics

Ricardo Lamy
Ultrasound-enhanced corneal drug delivery
Other

Team Science Grant

Vanessa Grubbs
Molecular evidence to support a link between periodontal disease and chronic kidney disease
SOM: Medicine


Core Center for Musculoskeletal Biology and Medicine

Pilot for Established Investigators in Basic Science and Clinical/Translational Sciences

Doug Gould
Characterizing skeletal defects in Col4a1 mutant mice
SOM: Ophthalmology


National Center of Excellence in Women’s Health

New Directions

Karen Smith-McCune
Exploring hormonal regulation of cervical mucoproteins and their role in contraceptive efficacy
SOM: Obstetrics, Gynecology & Reproductive Sciences

Pilot for Established Investigators in Basic and Clinical/Translational Sciences

Miguel Ramalho-Santos
Dissecting the interactions for line 1-derived RNA with mouse stem cell chromatin
SOM: Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Sciences

Pilot for Junior Investigators in Basic and Clinical/Translational Sciences

Rachel Kornik
Effects of inflammatory vulvovaginal disease on quality of the life of affected women
SOM: Dermatology

Meghana Gadgil
Prediction of gestational diabetes mellitus by circulating microRNA Pattern
SOM? Medicine


Pre Term Birth Initiative East Africa

East Africa Award in Preterm Birth

John Ategeka
The prevalence of chorioamnionitis among HIV infected and uninfected pregnant Ugandan women and its association with preterm birth
Other

Doris Kwesiga
Kangaroo mother care in eastern Uganda: A feasibility study to assess the factors influencing uptake, adherence, and acceptability into routine healthcare
Other

Theodore Ruel
Feasibility and acceptability of NoviGuide – a mobile health device for the management of neonates in resource-constrained settings of sub-Saharan Africa
SOM: Pediatrics


Research Evaluation & Allocation Committee (REAC)

Digitial Health Research

Danielle Ramo-Larios
Designing a Facebook intervention for young sexual and gender minority smokers
SOM: Psychiatry

Danielle Schlosser
Going to scale: evaluating the feasibility of disseminating a novel mobile intervention to treat depression using a natural language processing clinical trial tool and dashboard
SOM: Psychiatry

New Direction Awards

Sophia Vinogradov
Improving auditory working memory in schizophrenia via neuromodulation for superior temporal cortex
SOM: Psychiatry

Pilot for Established Investigators in Basic Science and Clinical/Translational Sciences

Galen Joseph
Adaptation of a genetic risk education tool for low literacy Chinese patients
SOM: Anthropology, History & Social Medicine

Pilot for Junior Investigator in Basic and Clinical/Translational Sciences

Ruth Dubin
Doxycycline: A novel treatment for Cardiorenal Syndrome
SOM: Medicine

Olga Tymofiyeva
A network approach to study brain plasticity in children with cognitive training
SOM: Radiology

Shared Instruments

Spencer Behr
RadioMedixTM 50 mCi cGMP Ge68/Ga68 gallium generator for multidisciplinary research studies with novel 68gallium position emission tomography (PET) agents in oncology
SOM: Radiology

Susan Fisher
High performance liquid chromatography system dedicated to protein/peptide separation: A shared resource for the UCSF Campus and affiliated institutions

Peter Stock
Human research islet processing core: COBE 2991 cell processor
SOM: Surgery

Team Science Grant

Adam Ferguson
Big-data analytics for biomarkers and cognitive plasticity in schizophrenia
SOM: Neurological Surgery

Sunitha Kaiser
The PIPA (pediatric inpatient patient pathways for asthma) Study: Optimizing quality of hospital care for children with asthma
SOM: Pediatrics


Center for Tobacco Control Research and Evaluation

Informing Tobacco Product Regulation

Farzad Moazed
A pilot study of the acute pulmonary toxicity of electronic cigarettes
SOM: Medicine

Matthew Springer
Effect of secondhand smoke in the context of diabetes
SOM: Medicine