Academic Senate Awardees (AS)

Family Support Award

Shylaja Srinivasan, MD
Understanding the determinants of metformin pharmacokinetics in children
SOM: Pediatrics

Pilot for Established Investigators in Basic and Clinical/Translational Sciences

Diane Barber, PhD
New Direction to Identify Regulators of Lysosome pH Dynamics
SOD: Cell and Tissue Biology

Alfred Kuo, MD, PhD
Advanced Ultrasound Techniques for the Evaluation of Total Knee Arthroplasty
SOM: Orthopaedic Surgery (co-funded award with CCMBM)

Thomas Lietman, MD
Advanced Ultrasound Techniques for the Evaluation of Total Knee Arthroplasty
SOM: Opthalmology

Naomi Schapiro, PhD
Supporting resilience among unaccompanied immigrant youth: are school-based group interventions safe and acceptable?
SON: Family Health Care Nursing

Rong Wang, PhD
Molecular Therapy for Critical Limb Ischemia
SOM: Surgery

Pilot for Junior Investigators in Basic and Clinical/Translational Sciences

Seemay Chou, PhD
Mapping the Three-dimensional Landscape of the Bacterial Cell Wall
SOM: Biochemistry and Biophysics

Tara Sigdel, PhD
Identification and validation of alloepitopes in kidney transplantation. A step forward to precision medicine in organ transplantation
SOM: Surgery

Luika Timmerman, PhD
Modeling Off Target Resistance to FLT3 Inhibitors
SOM:Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Ctr.

Josh Woolley, MD, PhD
A pharmaco-imaging approach to predicting social functioning and clinical responses to oxytocin administration in schizophrenia: right temporo-parietal junction activation during. Theory of Mind as a measure of target engagement
SOM:Psychiatry

Shared Technology Awards

Jeffrey Milush, PhD
FACS ARIA Cell Sorter BioProtective IV Biosafety Cabinet for Sorting Samples with Infectious Pathogens
SOM: Medicine

Team Science Grant

Joseph Costello, PhD
In vivo regulators of TERT promoter mutant glioblastoma
SOM: Neurological Surgery

Under-represented Faculty in Clinical and Translational Research Awards

David Pennington, PhD
Effects of Active Virtual Reality Working Memory Retraining on Heavy Drinking Veterans with Mild Traumatic Brain Injury
SOM: Psychiatry

UCSF AIDS Research Institute (ARI) & Gilead Sciences Inc. (ARI-GILEAD)

Gilead HIV Cure Mentored Scientist Award

Rachel Rutishauser, MD, PhD
Creating A High-Throughput Crystallography Pipeline For Drug Discovery In Northern California
SOM: Medicine

UCSF - Gladstone Institute of Virology & Immunology Center for AIDS Research (CFAR)

International Mentored Scientist Award Program in HIV/AIDS

Zachary Kwena, PhD, MA
Patients and peer navigators' lived experiences and drivers for creating a successful personalized adaptive care relationship to treat lapses HIV treatment retention: a longitudinal qualitative study
SON: Social & Behavioral Sciences

Mentored Scientist Award Program in HIV/AIDS

Emily Agnew, PhD
Modeling the Impacts of HIV Self-Testing among Men who have Sex with Men in South Africa
SOM: Other

Nalini Colaco, PhD
Gut metabolites and their role in diastolic dysfunction in HIV+ individuals

Annesa Flentje, PhD
Epigenetic architecture of stress among sexual minority men living with HIV
SON: Community Health Systems

Hesham Shehata, PhD
Sprouty 1 and 2 Regulation of Cytotoxicity in HIV-specific CD8+ T Cells
SOM: Other

Pilot Award for Investigators New to HIV

Charles Langelier, PhD
Pneumo-Seq Pathogen and Antimicrobial Resistance Surveillance in Ugandan HIV-positive Adults
with Pneumonia
SOM: Medicine

Cancer Center-Cancer Center Support Grant (CC-CCSG)

Pilot for Junior Investigators in Basic and Clinical/Translational Sciences

Hilde Schjerven, PhD
Role of recurrent Ikaros mutations in acute myeloid leukemia (AML)
SOM: Laboratory Medicine

Cancer Center Mt. Zion Health Fund (MZHF)

Pilot for Junior Investigators in Basic and Clinical/Translational Sciences

Carolyn Seib, MD
Postoperative cognitive dysfunction in elderly patients undergoing surgery for thyroid cancer
SOM: Surgery

Core Center for Musculoskeletal Biology and Medicine (CCMBM)

Pilot for Established Investigators in Basic and Clinical/Translational Sciences

Alfred Kuo, MD, PhD
Advanced Ultrasound Techniques for the Evaluation of Total Knee Arthroplasty
SOM: Orthopaedic Surgery (co-funded award with Academic Senate)

Dentistry Research

Team Science Grant

Licia Selleri, PhD
Genomic regulation of midfacial outgrowth variation in evolution and pathology
SOD: Orofacial Sciences

Under-represented Faculty in Clinical and Translational Research Awards

Alfa-Ibrahim Yansane, PhD
Composite Performance measures for Dental Health Care Quality
SOD: Preventive & Restorative Dental Science

Mt. Zion Health Fund (MZHF)

Mentored Scientist Award Program in HIV/AIDS

Jason Nagata, MD
Assessing the preliminary effects of a multi-sectoral agricultural intervention on the nutritional, sexual, and reproductive health of HIV-affected adolescent girls
SOM: Pediatrics

Pilot for Junior Investigators in Basic and Clinical/Translational Sciences

Grace Lin, MD
Identification and Predictors of Use of Limited Clinical Utility Therapies for Metastatic Colorectal Cancer
SOM: Medicine

Atchar Sudhyadhom, MD
A Multimodal Imaging Approach Towards the Reduction of Proton Beam Range Uncertainties
SOM: Radiation Oncology

National Center of Excellence in Women's Health (NCOEWH)

Family Support Award

Rita Hamad, MD, PhD
The Effects of Family-Centered Socioeconomic Policies on Adult and Child Health
SOM: Family & Community Medicine

Pilot for Established Investigators in Basic and Clinical/Translational Sciences

Madeline Deutsch, MD, MPH
Collecting gender identity and sexual orientation at the point of care by self-report: Implications in a diverse patient population
SOM: Family & Community Medicine

Pilot for Junior Investigators in Basic and Clinical/Translational Sciences

JiWon Choi, RN, PhD
Development of a Lifestyle Intervention for Korean American Women at Risk for Metabolic Syndrome
SON: Social & Behavioral Sciences

The Posey Family Fund 

Pilot for Established Investigators in Basic and Clinical/Translational Sciences

Michelle Hermiston, MD, PhD
Interrogating the Mechanisms of IL7-Induced Glucocorticoid Resistance in T-Cell Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia
SOM: Pediatrics

Precision Medicine in Rheumatology (PREMIER)

Pilot for Established Investigators in Basic and Clinical/Translational Sciences

Mark Anderson, MD, PhD
Endocrine Autoimmune Toxicities in Immune Checkpoint Inhibitor Therapy (PREMIER Application)
SOM: Medicine

Pre-Term Birth Initiative California (PTBi-CA)

Pilot Innovation Award in Prematurity Research

Deborah Karasek, PhD
Evaluating the effect of San Francisco’s Paid Parental Leave Ordinance on preterm birth and associated maternal and newborn outcomes
SOM: Ob/Gyn. Reproductive Sciences

Research Evaluation & Allocation Committee (REAC)

Integrative Dementia Pilot Award

Linda Chao, PhD
Examining the Impact of Photobiomodulation on Cognition, Behavior, and Biomarkers of Alzheimer’s Disease
SOM: Radiology

Pilot for Established Investigators in Basic and Clinical/Translational Sciences

Anthony Baker, PhD
Novel Therapy for Right Ventricular Failure
SOM: Medicine

Steven Batki, MDAlcohol Approach Bias Modification Effects on Alcohol Consumption: A Pilot Human Laboratory Study
SOM: Psychiatry

Katerina Christopoulos, MD
Understanding Safety-Net HIV Patient and Provider Perspectives on Long-Acting Antiretroviral Therapy
SOM: Medicine

Xiangning Jiang, MD
Regulation of cholesterol homeostasis in neonatal brain hypoxia-ischemia
SOM:Pediatrics

Kimberly Kirkwood, MD
Population-based Analysis of Neoplastic Changes in Cystic lesions of the Pancreas(PANC Cyst) Registry
SOM: Surgery

Jeanne (Jae) Sevelius PhD
A feasibility and acceptability pilot study of a cultural adaptation of the Sheroes intervention to optimize HIV prevention and treatment among transgender women in São Paulo, Brazil
SOM: Medicine

David Thom, MD, PhD, MPH
Testing an Innovative Online Health Coaching Curriculum for Content Mastery and Implementation Success
SOM: Family and Community Medicine

David Toczyski, PhD
Exploiting camptothecin sensitivity to target Indisulam-resistant tumor cells
SOM: Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center

Henry VanBrocklin, PhD
First-in-human evaluation of tumor necrosis factor alpha molecular imaging in patients with rheumatoid arthritis: advancing precision medicine
SOM: Radiology

Pilot for Junior Investigators in Basic and Clinical/Translational Sciences

Som Chatterjee, PhD
Novel signaling mechanism that controls beta-lactam resistance in Staphylococcus aureus
SOM: Medicine

Alessandro Didonna, PhD
Cell-specific microRNA profiling in experimental autoimmune encephalomyelitis
SOM: Neurology

Raquel Gardner, MD
Transforming Research in Geriatric Traumatic Brain Injury (TaRGET)
SOM: Neurology

Georgia Panagiotakos, MD
Molecular tuning of intracellular calcium in differentiating embryonic neural progenitor cells
SOM: Biochemistry & Biophysics

Renuka Sriram, PhD
Development of methodologies and probes for metabolic detection of pathogenic microorganisms using hyperpolarized magnetic resonance technology
SOM: Radiology

Shared Technology Awards

Peter Turnbaugh, PhD
Accelerating gnotobiotic research with an advanced biocontainment housing system
SOM: Microbiology & Immunology