Spring 2015 Awardees

Academic Senate Awardees

CC-AMC Pilot Awards in HIV-Associated Malignancies

Joel Palefsky, MD
High-throughput screening for novel human papillomavirus inhibitors
SOM: Medicine

New Direction Awards

Rahul Deo, MD, PhD
Variable expressivity in the inherited and acquired cardiomyopathies: Defining a role for cardiac autoimmunity
SOM: Medicine

Pilot for Established Investigators

Michael Steinman, MD
A nurse-led intervention to improve medication management in older adults
SOM: Medicine

Xialliang Zhang, PhD
Flexible and subject-conforming multichannel RF arrays for fast fetal MR imaging at 3T
SOM: Radiology

Pilot for Junior Investigators

John Chorba, MD
Discovery of small molecule inhibitors of PCSK9
SOM: Medicine (Division of Cardiology, SFGH)

Thomas Hope, MD
NaF and Diffusion PET/MRI for the characterization of osseous metastatic disease in prostate cancer patients being treated with Ra-223
SOM: Radiology

Shared Instrument Awards

Jody Baron, MD, PhD
Acquisition of a new quantitative Real Time PCR machine
SOM: Medicine

Stefan Habelitz, PHD
Acquisition of atomic force microscope Bruker AFM MM8
SOD: Preventive & Restorative Dental Science

Kurt Thorn, PhD
A light sheet “Ultramicroscope” for the Nikon Imaging Center
SOM: Biochemistry & Biophysics

Team Science Grant

Michael Ward, MD, PhD
Reducing retinal lipofuscinosis and inflammation via progranulin-derived biologics
SOM: Neurology

Under-represented Faculty in Clinical and Translational Research Awards

Jennifer Lucero, MD
Pilot Study: RCT intravenous nitroglycerin for the prevention of uterine hysterotomy during cesarean delivery in the second stage of labor
SOM: Anesthesia & Perioperative Care

Gideon St. Helen, PhD
Sex and race differences in volatile organic compound (VOC) exposure among adult U.S. smokers
SOM: Medicine


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

Pilot for Established Investigators

Holger Willenbring, MD, PhD
Development of a mouse model of human hepatocarcinogenesis
SOM: Surgery

Pilot for Junior Investigators

Anders Persson, PhD
Subpial zone astrocytes as the origin for cortical astrocytomas
SOM: Neurology


Cancer Center Mt. Zion Health Fund (MZHF)

Independence Support Award

Eleni Linos, MD, MPH, DrPH
Involving older adults in decision making for skin cancer
SOM: Dermatology

Pilot for Established Investigators

Mary-Margaret Chren, MD
Quality of ambulatory healthcare for cancer at a fee-for-service practice and a Veterans Affairs Clinic: The Example of Skin Cancer
SOM: Dermatology

Pilot for Junior Investigators

Hani Sbitany, MD
Breast Capsular Contracture Following Postmastectomy Reconstruction in Women Treated with the Leukotriene Inhibitor Zafirlukast
SOM: Laboratory Medicine


Cancer Malignancies

CC-AMC Pilot Awards in HIV-Associated (CC-CCSG)

Joel Palefsky, MD
High-throughput screening for novel human papillomavirus inhibitors
SOM: Medicine


Center for Tobacco Control Research & Education

Informing Tobacco Product Regulation

Jing Cheng, MD, PhD
Improved methods to understand the impact of tobacco use on the distribution of healthcare expenditures
SOD: Preventive & Restorative Dental Science

Mark Rubinstein, MD
Adolescent ENDS use, nicotine metabolism and toxicant exposure
SOM: Pediatrics


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

Digital Health Research

Courtney Lyles, PhD
Design and Validation of Tablet-Based Data Collection for Vulnerable Patients
SOM: Medicine

Ashley Mason, PhD
Reducing problematic food craving experiences: A pilot feasibility test of Eat Right Now, a smartphone-based intervention to reduce food craving indulgence among overweight people who report problematic food cravings
SOM: Osher Center for Integrative Medicine

New Child Leave Award

Chelsea Bahney, PhD
Bioactive cartilage matrix based scaffold engineered to promote vascularized bone regeneration
SOM: Orthopedic Surgery

Erica Lawson, MD
Toward the improvement of mental health care in childhood-onset Lupus: long-term depression risk and outcomes
SOM: Pediatrics

Pilot for Junior Investigators

Catherine Bliss, PhD
Translational implications of social genomics
SON: Social & Behavioral Sciences

Maureen Kohi, MD
A pilot trial of arterial embolization following cesarean hysterectomy for women with placenta accrete
SOM: Radiology

Yan Li, PhD
In vivo voxel-based MR Metabolomics of the brain
SOM: Radiology

Mercedes Paredes, MD, PhD
Late-migrating interneurons in the postnatal brain
SOM: Neurology

Jimmie Ye, PhD
Transcriptomic profiling of bulk and single cells in autoimmunity
SOM: Epidemiology & Biostatistics

Team Science Grant

Dejana Braithwaite, MCR, MPH, MS, PhD
Low dose computed tomography lung cancer screening in the San Francisco Bay Area: development of a population-based registry
SOM: Epidemiology & Biostatistics

David Wilson, MD, PhD
Metabolic imaging of bacterial infection using positron emission tomography
SOM: Radiology

Under-represented Faculty in Clinical and Translational Research Awards

Cristina Lanata, MD
DNA methylation differences between Hispanics and Caucasian patients with SLE
SOM: Medicine


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

Mentored Scientist Award Program in HIV/AIDS

Kartika Palar, PhD
Investigating the impact of food insecurity on HIV and Diabetes co-management
SOM: Medicine

Multi-Disciplinary Planning Grant

Pamela Munster, MD
Planning a P01 application to fund a Comprehensive Center for BRCA Research and Clinical Care
SOM: Medicine

New Child Leave Award

Christine Dehlendorf, MD, MCR, MPH, MS
Improving Contraceptive Decision Making: Research to Increase Understanding of the Role of Contraceptive Counseling and of Social Networks in Women’s Family Planning Choices
SOM: Family & Community Medicine

Pilot for Junior Investigators

Alison El Ayadi, ScD
Evaluating Shock Index Trajectories for Improving Management of Obstetric Hemorrhage
SOM: Obstetrics, Gynecology & Reproductive Sciences

 

Lauren Ralph, PhD
Assessing the impact of a parental notification law on minors' experience with abortion in Illinois
SOM: Obstetrics, Gynecology & Reproductive Sciences

 

Hani Sbitany, MD
Breast capsular contracture following postmastectomy reconstruction in women treated with the Leukotriene Inhibitor Zafirlukast
SOM: Surgery

Team Science Grant

Carol Dawson Rose, RN, PhD
The Impact of trauma on primary care for women living with HIV
SON: Community Health Systems

Yvonne Wu, MD, MCR, MPH, MS
Maternal Antecedents of Encephalopathy in Singleton Term Infants (MAESTRA)
SOM: Neurology


Oscher Center

Pilot in Integrative Medicine

Helen Weng, PhD
Identifying neural patterns of body awareness with the Brain Body Awareness Metric: A novel brain-based method of measuring mindfulness of body sensations
SOM: Osher Center for Integrative Medicine


Research Evaluation & Allocation Committee (REAC)

Independence Support Award

Jennifer Kerns, MD
Pilot testing of the OPT (Options for Pregnancy Termination) Decision Aid
SOM: Obstetrics, Gynecology & Reproductive Sciences

Pilot for Established Investigators

Linda Chao, PhD
Using multimodal imaging to examine the neural mechanisms of an integrative exercise program for individuals with dementia
SOM: Radiology

Benjamin Franc, MD
PET Radiopharmaceuticals for Tumor Necrosis Factor alpha (TNF-a) Imaging of Rheumatoid Arthritis
SOM: Radiology

Pilot for Junior Investigators

Benjamin Bryer, MD
Effect of vibration and oscillation experienced while cycling on the male perineum: implications for erectile dysfunction and perineal numbness
SOM: Urology

Aaron Fields, PhD
Cartilage endplate composition and disc degeneration: investigating nutrient diffusion and disc cell viability
SOM: Orthopaedic Surgery

Aoife O’Donovan, PhD
A pilot randomized controlled trial to examine the efficacy of attention bias modification training as an adjunct treatment for symptoms of posttraumatic stress disorder
SOM: Psychiatry

Insoo Suh, MD
18F-choline PET-MRI for parathyroid localization in patients with primary hyperparathyroidism
SOM: Surgery

Nam Tran, MD, PhD
The regulatory role of human testicular niche on spermatogonial stem cell fate
SOM: Obstetrics, Gynecology & Reproductive Science

Arun Wiita, MD, PhD
Single-cell transcriptomics to identify expression-level intratumor heterogeneity and extend prognostic biomarkers in multiple myeloma
SOM: Laboratory Medicine

Shared Instrument Awards

Allan Balmain, PhD
Bringing state-of-the-art digital PCR to the HDFC-Cancer Center Genome Core for increased precision and accuracy for low frequency variant detection
Other: Medicine

Anil Bhushan, MD
High throughput targeted resequencing
SOM: Medicine

Teri Liegler, PhD
Funding for a coulter AcT diff hematology analyzer
SOM: Medicine

Henry VanBrocklin, PhD
Gamma counter for molecular imaging basic and translational research
SOM: Radiology

William Weiss, MD, PhD
Use of advanced stereotactic setup for brain cancer initiation studies
SOM: Neurology

Team Science Grant

Eric Collisson, MD
Low dose computed tomography lung cancer screening in the San Francisco Bay Area: development of a population-based registry
SOM: Medicine


 

UCSF Center for AIDS Prevention Studies (CAPS)

CAPS-HIV Innovative Grants

Jae Sevelius, PhD
“We Are All Women”: Exploring the inclusion of transgender women living with HIV in care and support services for non-transgender women
SOM: Medicine

Mentored Scientist Award Program in HIV/AIDS

Kartika Palar, PhD
Investigating the Impact of Food Insecurity on HIV and Diabetes Co-management
SOM: Medicine


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

Basic Science Award Program in HIV/AIDS

Anand Pai, PhD
Quantifying the role of stochastic gene expression in HIV-1 latency establishment and reactivation
SOM: Biochemistry & Biophysics

Jason Wojcechowskyj, PhD
Genetic interaction analysis of HIV-1 Rev host regulatory networks
Affiliates: (The J. David Gladstone Institutes)

International Mentored Scientist Award Program in HIV-AIDS

Thomas Odeny, MBChB, MPH
ComHealth: Cost-effective mHealth strategy to improve long-term retention in HIV care for mother-baby pairs
Kenya Medical Research Institute; Research Care and Training Program

Mentored Scientist Award Program in HIV/AIDS

 

Joanna Hellmuth, MD
Influence of antiretroviral treatment in acute HIV on viral reservoir rormation in the CNS
SOM: Neurology

 

Grace Turyasingura, BSc
Global gene array, secretome analyses, and HIV infection analyses of foreskin epithelial cells upon exposure to cervicovaginal fluid from healthy vs. women with bacterial vaginosis!
Infectious Diseases Institute, Kampala, Uganda

 

Pilot Award Program in HIV/AIDS

Mohamed Abdel-Mohsen, PhD
Reactivation of latent HIV using recombinant Galectin-9 affiliates
SOM: Medicine

 

Sulggi Lee, MD, PhD
Immunologic and virologic response to a single dose of kansui herbal supplement in HIV-infected individuals maintaining antiretroviral therapy (ART)-mediated viral suppression
SOM: Medicine

 

Mike Reid, MD
Evaluating the effect of metformin on immune recovery in HIV patients with diabetes
SOM: Medicine

 

Pilot for Established Investigators

 

Judith Hahn, PhD
Proof of concept of a self-administered digital health screener (SASH) to increase reporting of unhealthy alcohol use by persons with HIV in care in Uganda
SOM: Medicine