RAP Spring 2009 Awardees

SOS Awardees

Pilot Research Awards for Junior Investigators

• Bryan Greenhouse, MD
  Effect of malaria chemoprevention on naturally acquired humoral responses to malaria
• Anthony Kim, MD
  A Retrospective Cohort Study to Determine the Incidence of Adverse Cerebrovascular and Cardiovascular Outcomes after an Emergency Department Visit for Dizziness
• Payam Nahid, MD
  A pilot evaluation of serum-based biomarkers for predicting response to tuberculosis treatment in a CDC-sponsored clinical trial
• Midori Kato-Maeda, MD
  In vitro fitness cost of moxifloxacin resistant M. tuberculosis
• Jeffrey Sall, MD, PhD
  Isoflurane Anesthesia Alters Hippocampal Development
• Jennifer Gibbs, DDS, PhD
  Natural History of Pain in Patients with Osteonecrosis of the Jaw
• Margaret Fang, MD
  Literacy, Numeracy, and Risk Perception Among People Taking Warfarin
• Sunil Parikh, MD
  Killer Immunoglobulin-like Receptor (KIR) Allelic Diversity in East Africans and Susceptibility to Malaria
• Utku Kandemir, MD
  Measurement of continuous tissue oxygenation during acute compartment syndrome in a dog model
• Suil Kim, MD, PhD
  Role of COX-2 Feedback Pathway in EGFR-Dependent Cell Proliferation in Lung Cancer

Under-represented Faculty

• Lilliam Pinzon, DDS, MS
  Stainless steel crown restorations cemented in caries-affected primary teeth
• Yoshimi Fukuoka, RN, PhD
  Evaluation of Mobile Intervention - Cell phone based physical activity program in sedentary women

Shared Instrument

• Kurt Thorn, PhD
  Multidimensional Video Rate Spinning Disk Confocal Microscope for Live Cell Imaging
• W. Michael Korn, MD
  High-throughput Luminex technology for protein detection and quantitation
• Andrew Bullen, PhD
  Hexapod stage for extended 2P microscopy in live animals

Multidisciplinary Research Project Planning

• Paul Newacheck, DPH
  Preventing and Ameliorating Income Inequalities in Childhood Chronic Conditions

REAC Awardees

Pilot Research Awards for Junior Investigators

• Harold Collard, MD
  The Role of Microaspiration in Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis
• L. Elizabeth Goldman, MD
  Evaluating Present-On-Admission for Performance Reporting
• Lauren Weiss, PhD
  A Sex-Specific Dissection of Autism Genetics
• Suma Konety, MD
  Impact of Coronary CT angiography on procedural volume of invasive coronary angiography and patient outcomes among Medicare Beneficiaries
• John Kornak, PhD
  Quantifying Spatial Variation in the Hemodynamic Response Function Specific to Alzheimer's Disease
• Wen Shen, MD
  Using matrix metalloproteinase gene and protein expression profiles to determine the risk of central neck lymph node metastases in papillary thyroid cancer
• Jan Hirsch, MD
  Tobacco smoke exposure - a predisposing factor to ventilator induced lung injury and damage to the alveolar epithelial type II cell?

New Direction

• Sophia Vinogradov, MD
  Functional Connectivity Analyses of Neural Activity in Schizophrenia Before and After Cognitive Training
• Wallace Marshall, PhD
  Pattern Formation & Regeneration in a Single Cell
• Anna-Barbara Moscicki, MD
  Epigenomic events of cervical tissue associated with oral contraception & cigarette use c. trachomatis and human papillomavirus infections
• Jeanette Brown, MD
  Oxidative Stress and Urinary Incontinence

Shared Instrument

• Holger Willenbring, MD, PhD
  Cryostat for the liver research community at the UCSF Parnassus campus
• Jeroen Roose, PhD
  Fujifilm Life Science LAS-4000 imaging system
• Gabriele Bergers, PhD
  Shared cryostat, Helen Diller Family Cancer Center
• Katja Brueckner, PhD
  High-resolution imaging of thick three-dimensional specimens
• William Weiss, MD, PhD
  Shared Microscope, Diller Building

CFAR Awardees

General Pilot Award Program in HIV/AIDS

• Lisa Butler, PhD, MPH
  Prevalence, Incidence and Correlates of Kaposi's Sarcoma-Associated Herpesvirus Infection in HIV-Infected and HIV-Uninfected Ugandan children
• Carol Camlin, MPH, PhD
  Sex Differences in Patterns of Migration and HIV Risk in Western Kenya
• Shari Dworkin, PhD
  Laying the groundwork to test a science based gender transformative HIV prevention intervention with heterosexually active men in South Africa
• Janet Molzan Turan, PhD, MPH
  Formative Research for the Adaptation of an Intervention for HIV/AIDS Service Providers on Gender-Based Violence in Rural Western Kenya

Basic Science Award Program in HIV/AIDS

• Lewis Lanier, PhD
  Do human Natural Killer cells acquire immune memory to viral infections?

Fogarty International Training Awards in HIV/AIDS

• Edward Murphy, MD, MPH
  Training in clinical research: minimizing HIV infection of the blood supply in resource-limited countries
• Janet Molzan Turan, PhD, MPH
  Enhancement of clinical research and data analysis skills for the analysis of the effects of women's HIV/AIDS knowledge, attitudes and testing status on their infant feeding intentions and practices.

International Mentored Scientist Award Program in HIV/AIDS

• Vivek Jain, MD
  Inflammatory Biomarkers in Acute and Early HIV Infection
• Patrick Unemori, MD
  Immunosenescence Profiles: A Comparison of Remitters and Non-remitters in HIV-realted Kaposi Sarcoma before and after Highly Active Antiretroviral Therapy

CTSI-Health Policy Awardees

Pilot Award Program in T2

• Grace Lin, MD
  Constructing a Conceptual Framework for Overuse and Appropriateness Measurement for Coronary Artery Disease
• Dorothy Apollonio, PhD
  Research translation by policymaker key informants
• Elizabeth Fair, PhD, MPH
  Yield and Cost Effectiveness of Tuberculosis Contact Investigation in Tanzania
• Mai Nguyen-Huynh, MD
  Personalized Stroke Education for Patients (STEPS) Trial