RAP Fall 2007 Awardees

CTSI-SOS Awardees

Translational Technology Development Awards/Shared Instrument Awards

• Mehrdad Matloubian, MD, PhD
  Improved instrumentation for multi-photon imaging during chronic deep tissue experimentation in sick and diseased animals.
• Ajay Jain, PhD
  UCDAWS: A high throughput data analysis workflow management system
• Sabrina Ronen, PhD
  Metabolomic Biomarker Discovery for Translational Research

Novel Methods Catalyst Awards

• Charles Craik, PhD
  Validation of Cell Surface Serine Protease Activity as a Novel Target for Cancer Imaging
• Gregory Simpson, PhD
  Translating for clinical use, a novel method to neurophysiologically assess cognitive dysfunction.

Multicenter Start-Up Planning Awards

• Alka Kanaya, MD
  Comparing South Asians to MESA Ethnic Groups
• Joel Palefsky, MD
  Anal neoplasia screening study planning grant

Under-Represented Faculty in Clinical and Translational Research Awards

• Jessica Gosnell, MD
  The effect of bisphosphonate therapy on bone mineral density after parathyroidectomy for primary hyperparathyroidism
• Maria Orellana, PhD, DDS
  Relationship between etched dental enamel porosity and shear strength: a pilot study

Flexible Mini-Sabbatical/Leave Awards

• Elad Ziv, MD
  Genetic Analysis of Ethnic Neutropenia Among Yemenite Jews

CTSI/SOS-REAC Awardees (Co-Funded)

Pilot Research Awards for Junior Investigators in Basic and Clinical/Translational Sciences

• Paul Brakeman, MD, PhD
  Identification of novel therapeutics for acute kidney injury using high-throughput screening of 3-dimensional Madin-Darby Canine Kidney cell culture.
• Mitchell Cohen, MD
  Mechanism of Traumatic Coagulopathy
• Ann Schwartz, PhD, MCRMPH
  Bone marrow adiposity, bone quality and fracture risk in type 2 diabetes
• Tracy Luks, PhD
  Neuroimaging of Cognitive Function with MEG and Functional MRI
• Magdalena Petryniak, MD
  Restoration of myelination in a mouse model of congenital leukodystrophy using exogenous oligodendrocyte precursor cell transplantation
• Radhika Srinivasan, PhD
  Development and evaluation of novel in-vivo biomarkers to monitor neurodegenerative disease mechanims with proton spectroscopic imaging at 7T
• Laura Koth, MD
  The Role of Natural Killer T cells in Sarcoidosis

REAC Awardees

Pilot Research Awards for Junior Investigators in Basic and Clinical/Translational Sciences

• Katja Brueckner, PhD
  A Drosophila cell-based model for epithelial plasticity and TGF-B family signaling
• Ophir Klein, MD, PhD
  Analysis of bone mineralization in Sprouty null mice
• Creg Darby, PhD
  Proteomics and genomics of the C. elegans surface
• Lutz Kockel, MCRMPH
  Dissection of amino acid signaling and its input into the Tor signal transduction pathway

Translational Technology Development Awards/Shared Instrument Awards

• Colin Collins, PhD
  Adaptation of Next Generation Sequencing Technology to Personalized Oncology

New Direction Awards

• Nigel Killeen, PhD
  Establishment of Mouse Cryopreservation Procedures
• Shehua Shen, MD
  Non-invasive assessment of human embryo implantation potential using NMR-based metabonomics

CFAR Awardees

General Pilot Award Program in HIV/AIDS

• Adithya Cattamanchi, MD
  Immunodiagnosis of Active Tuberculosis in HIV Co-infected Patients: Local versus Peripheral T-cell Interferon Gamma Responses
• Judith Hahn, PhD
  Alcohol Use and HIV Treatment Failure in Mbarara, Uganda
• Gregory M. Lee, PhD
  Identifying Novel Allosteric Inhibitors of Kaposi’s Sarcoma-associated Herpesvirus Protease.

Basic Science Award Program in HIV/AIDS

• Michael Scott Killian, PhD, MPH
  The Role of Autophagy in HIV Infection
• Xavier Contreras, PhD
  Activation of transcriptional elongation in HIV latently infected cells by SAHA

Mentored Scientist Award Program in HIV/AIDS

• Elvin Geng, MD, MPH
  The Role of Undiagnosed Opportunistic Infections in Early Mortality among HIV-infected Patients Starting Antiretroviral Therapy in Africa

Fogarty International Training Awards in HIV/AIDS

• Douglas Nixon, MD, PhD
  Immunologic profile in acute HCV infection in HIV-1-infected subjects: a training and research proposal for Dr. Elkin Hernán Bermúdez-Aza

International Mentored Scientist Award Program in HIV/AIDS

• Jane Achan, MD
  Frequency and evolution of HIV-1 drug resistance among Ugandan children receiving antiretroviral therapy

CFAR-CTSI/SOS Awardees (Co-Funded)

Translational Technology Development Awards/Shared Instrument Awards

• Teri Liegler, PhD
  Probing below the surface: Development of a molecular diagnositic assay to detect emergent viral escape variants