Spring 2017 Awardees

Academic Senate Awardees (AS)

Family Support Award

Julie Schallhorn, MD
Randomized, Controlled Trial to Evaluate the Role of Oral Azithromycin in the Treatment of Symptomatic Meibomian Gland Disease and its Effect on the Ocular Surface Microbiome
SOM: Ophthalmology

Pilot for Established Investigators in Basic and Clinical/Translational Sciences

Nisha Acharya, MCR, MPH, MS, MD
First-line Topical Treatments for Uveitic Macular Edema Trial
SOM: Ophthalmology

Bertil Damato, PhD, MD (FRCOphth)
Development and Evaluation of Virtual-reality Oculo-kinetic Perimetry
SOM: Ophthalmology

Adam R. Ferguson, PhD, MS
Neuronal Plasticity Resulting from Limb Disuse-induced Spinal Deconditioning as a Mechanism for Low Back Pain and Muscle Spasticity
SOM: Neurological Surgery

Edward Hsiao, PhD, MD
Linking Innate Immune Dysfunction to Abnormal Bone Formation
SOM: Medicine

Susan Lynch, PhD
Dysbiosis of the Inter-kingdom Gut Microbiota: Implications for Nonalcoholic Fatty Liver Disease Severity
SOM: Medicine

Neil Pravin Shah, PhD, MD
Multiparameter Single Cell Analysis to Identify Immune Cell States that may Contribute to Successful Treatment Discontinuation in Patients with Chronic Myeloid Leukemia
SOM: Medicine

Keith Yamamoto, PhD
Molecular Analysis of Glucocorticoid-Resistant Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia
SOM: Cellular & Molecular Pharmacology

Pilot for Junior Investigators in Basic and Clinical/Translational Sciences

Susanna Fryer, PhD
Modulation of Cognitive Control Brain Responses by Reward in Early Illness Schizophrenia
SOM: Psychiatry

Theodore Nicolaides, MD*
Targeting LAT1 in Diffuse Intrinsic Pontine Glioma
SOM: Pediatrics

Team Science Grant

Geeta Narlikar, PhD
Targeting Nucleosome Conformation with Small Molecules to Control Epigenetic States
SOM: Biochemistry & Biophysics

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

Gilead HIV Cure Mentored Scientist Award

Leonard Chavez, PhD
Replenishment of the HIV Reservoir Following Reactivation of Latent HIV
UCSF: Gladstone Institute of Virology & Immunology

Andrea Gramatica, PhD
Identifying Potent, Non-Toxic Latency Reversing Agents that Function Through the mTOR Pathway
UCSF: Gladstone Institute of Virology & Immunology

Cancer Center Mt. Zion Health Fund (MZHF)

Integrative Cancer Pilot Award

Elizabeth Michelle Melisko, MD
Expansion and Evaluation of the Pathways for Survivors at the UCSF Breast Care Center
SOM: Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center
 

UCSF Center for AIDS Prevention Studies (CAPS)

CAPS-HIV Innovative Grants

Phillip O. Coffin, MD
HIV Patient Experience with Pain Management after Opioid Reduction (PEPOR)
SOM: Medicine

Hong-Ha M. Truong, PhD, MCR, MPH, MS
Assessing Key Factors Influencing Willingness to Consider PrEP in Order to Improve Delivery of HIV Prevention Interventions among Racial and Sexual Minorities in a High HIV Prevalence Setting
SOM:Medicine

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

Pilot for Established Investigators in Basic and Clinical/Translational Sciences

Kathryn A. Phillips, PhD
Building the Evidence Base for Appropriate and Equitable Reimbursement of New Genomic Testing Technologies: A Pilot Study on Tumor Profiling Tests and the UCSF500 Test
SOP: Clinical Pharmacy

Pilot for Junior Investigators in Basic and Clinical/Translational Sciences

Aaron Diaz, PhD
Gain-of-Function Deletions in PDGFRA as Targets and Predictive Biomarkers in Cancer
SOM: Neurological Surgery
 

Core Center for Musculoskeletal Biology and Medicine (CCMBM)

Pilot for Junior Investigators in Basic and Clinical/Translational Sciences

Amnon Sharir, PhD, DVM
The Role of HRAS Signaling in Skull Base Synchondroses Formation
SOD: Orofacial Sciences
 

Cancer Center- Radiology and Biological Imaging (CC-RBI)

Pilot Award in Precision Imaging of Cancer and Therapy

Yan Li, PhD, MD
Evaluation of Immunotherapy in low grade glioma using multi-parametric advanced MR imaging
SOM: Radiology
 

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

International Mentored Scientist Award Program in HIV/AIDS

Omid Madadgar, PhD
Reactivation of HIV Transcription from Latently Infected Cells by Some Iranian Herbal Extracts
SOM: Medicine

Stephen Okoboi, MPH, MS, RN
HIV Self-testing and Linkage to Care among Men Having Sex with Men (MSM). A Trial of Distribution through MSM Networks in The Aids Support 0rganization (TASO)
SOM: Medicine

Maricianah Atieno Onono, MD. MSc
Understanding the Impact of an Income Generating Agricultural Intervention on Sexual Behaviour and Psychological Well Being of Adolescent Girls and Young Women Living in a High HIV Urban Setting in Western Kenya
SOM: Medicine

Mentored Scientist Award Program in HIV/AIDS

Eytan Herzig, PhD
Understanding how trafficking of blood CD4 T cells into HIV-infected lymphoid tissues triggers sensitivity to pyroptotic cell death
UCSF: Gladstone Institute of Virology & Immunology

Louise Elizabeth Hogan, PhD
CD30/CD30L signalling pathways in HIV-1 mediated B cell dysfunction
SOM:Medicine

Kawthar Machmach Kesmy, PhD
Cellular targets of early viral replication in RhCMV/SIV-vaccinated macaques with Mamu-E-
restricted T cell responses

SOM: Microbiology & Immunology

Kartika Palar, PhD
Impact of a novel multicomponent nutrition intervention on cardiovascular disease risk factors among food-insecure adults with HIV in the Dominican Republic
SOM: Medicine

Glenn-Milo Santos, PhD
The SUPrEME Study: Substance Use and PrEP adherenace among Men who have sex with Me
SON: Community Health Systems

Judy Tan, PhD, MA
Developing a Mobile Application for Optimizing HIV Care and Treatment and Healthy Aging Outcomes in Older Men of Color Living with HIV
SOM:Medicine

Pilot Award for Investigators New to HIV

Hugh Sturrock, PhD
Estimating the Effect of Indoor Residual Spraying on Maternal Morality, Low-Birthweight and Perinatal Mortality Among HIV-Infected Pregnant Women Living in the HAART Era
SOM: Epidemiology & Biostatistics
 

Research Resource Program (CORE-RRP)

Institutional Matching Instrumentation Award

Francesca Aweeka, PharmD
Ultra performance liquid chromatography tandem mass spectrometer: advancing drug analysis for HIV, malaria and tuberculosis using state-of-the-art analytical capabilities
SOP: Clinical Pharmacy

Benjamin Braun, PhD, MD
Ultra performance liquid chromatography tandem mass spectrometer: advancing drug analysis for HIV, malaria and tuberculosis using state-of-the-art analytical capabilities
SOM: Pediatrics

Eric Chow, PhD
Illumina NovaSeq for large-scale genomic projects
SOM: Biochemistry & Biophysics

Galateia Kazakia, PhD
Maintaining UCSF’s dominance in Skeletal Imaging: Upgrading the High Resolution peripheral Quantitative Computed Tomography (HR-pQCT) Scanner
SOM: Radiology

Matthew Krummel, PhD
A Shared Clinical-Translational Live-Biopsy Multiphoton Microscope
SOM: Pathology
 

Clinical & Translational Science Institute – Pilot Awards (CTSI)

Digital Mental Health Award Track

Johannes Thrul, PhD
Context sensing to support smoking cessation: A smartphone pilot study
SOM:Medicine

Family Support Award

Eileen Marie Foy, PhD, MD
Defining the structural elements mediating the interaction between the Enterovirus 71 VP4 capsid protein and cIAP1
SOM:Pediatrics

Erin Gordon, MD
Understanding the Molecular Mechanisms and Causal Variants of Asthma GWAS Loci: IL1RL1 and IL33
SOM: Medicine

Carolyn Hendrickson, MA, MD, MPH
Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome after Isolated Traumatic Brain Injury: Platelet Biology, Endothelial Activation, and Mechanical Ventilation
SOM: Medicine

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

One-Year Innovation Award in Prematurity Research

Lihong Mo, PhD, MD
Predicting response to progesterone therapy in women with high risk for spontaneous preterm birth using machine learning on electronic medical records
SOM: Obstetrics, Gynecology & Reproductive Science

Pilot for Junior Investigators in Basic and Clinical/Translational Sciences

Christine Therese Ferrara, PhD, MD
Characterization of Lipid Metabolism in Type 1 Diabetes and Relationship to Blood Sugar Control
SOM: Pediatrics

Elaine Ku, PhD, MD
Pilot to Examine Risk and Feasibility Of Remote MANagement of blood pressure from CKD to ESRD (PERFORMANCE) study
SOM: Medicine

Jennifer Cindy Lai, MD, MBA
The Strength Training Intervention for Liver Transplant Candidates (STRIVE-LT): A Pilot Randomized Clinical Trial
SOM: Medicine

Alexis Allyson Melton, PhD, MD
Pilot study to investigate the pharmacokinetics (PK) of Thiotepa and TEPA in pediatric patients undergoing hematopoietic cell transplantation (HCT).
SOM: Pediatrics

Theodore Nicolaides, MD*
Targeting LAT1 in Diffuse Intrinsic Pontine Glioma
SOM: Pediatrics

Amit Sabnis, MD
Augmenting proteostasis inhibitor therapy in rhabdomyosarcoma..
SOM: Pediatrics

Yongmei Wang, PhD, MD
The Role of IGF-I Signaling in Regulating Post-Traumatic Osteoarthritis Development
SOM: Medicine

Team Science Grant

Wendy Katzman, PT, DSc
Technology-assisted postural training (TAPT) in older community-dwelling adults
SOM: Physical Therapy & Rehab Science

Under-represented Faculty in Clinical and Translational Research Awards

Juan Carlos Montoy, PhD, MD
Prescribing patterns among emergency department physicians: Can a small intervention decrease opioid prescribing?
SOM: Emergency Medicine
 

Global Cancer

Global Cancer Pilot Awards

Dianna L. Ng, MD
Validation of the GeneXpert Breast Cancer Assay for rapid analysis of breast cancer biomarker status from fine needle aspiration (FNA) biopsies in Tanzania
SOM: Laboratory Medicine
 

Mt. Zion Health Fund (MZHF)

Family Support Award

Catherine Lee Chen, MS, MCR, MPH, MD
Postoperative Opioid-Prescribing Patterns, Multimodal Analgesia, and the Prescription Opioid Epidemic
SOM: Anesthesia & Perioperative Care
 

Pilot for Established Investigators in Basic and Clinical/Translational Sciences

Young-wook Jun, PhD
Mechanogenetic Interrogation of Synaptogenesis
SOM: Otolaryngology
 

Pilot for Junior Investigators in Basic and Clinical/Translational Sciences

Marlys S Fassett, PhD, MD
Defining an IL-31 signature in psoriatic inflammation
SOM: Dermatology

Brian James Malone, PhD
Contributions of Inhibitory Interneurons to Temporal Processing in Mouse Auditory Cortex
SOM: Dermatology
 

National Center of Excellence in Women’s Health

Family Support Award

Stephanie Lina Valderramos, PhD, MD
Vertical Transmission of Zika Virus: Histopathological Investigations at the Maternal- Fetal Interface
SOM: Obstetrics, Gynecology & Reproductive Science
 

Pilot for Established Investigators in Basic and Clinical/Translational Sciences

Dennis Martin Black, PhD
RA cohort
SOM: Epidemiology & Biostatistics

Heather Huddleston, MD
Pilot study to evaluate effects of insulin resistance and obesity on executive functions in women with polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS)
SOM:Obstetrics, Gynecology & Reproductive Science
 

Pilot for Junior Investigators in Basic and Clinical/Translational Sciences

M. Antonia Biggs, PhD
Preparing for Abortion Legalization in Chile
SOM: Obstetrics, Gynecology & Reproductive Science

Alison Bigham Comfort, PhD
Men’s beliefs about women’s pregnancy status: Implications for pregnancy testing, contraceptive use and antenatal care seeking
SOM: Obstetrics, Gynecology & Reproductive Science

Katrina Kimport, PhD
Assessing Pregnancy Intentions in the Contraceptive Counseling Visit
SOM: Obstetrics, Gynecology & Reproductive Science
 

Osher Center

Integrative Cancer Pilot Award

Erin Van Blarigan, ScD
A complementary physical activity intervention using digital health tools for colorectal cancer patients during chemotherapy
SOM: Epidemiology & Biostatistics

Integrative Dementia Pilot Award

Wolf E. Mehling, MD
Optimizing an integrative movement program for people with dementia and their care partners
SOM: Osher Center for Integrative Medicine

Pilot for Junior Investigators in Basic and Clinical/Translational Sciences

Elizabeth W. Dzeng, MD, PhD, MCR, MPH, MS
Identifying contributing factors to burdensome treatments in older adults with advanced dementia near the end of life
SOM: Medicine
 

Pancreas Center

Pilot Award for Pancreas Cancer

Scott Andre Oakes, MD
A Novel Form of Hereditary Pancreatitis: A Major Pancreatic Cancer Susceptibility Syndrome
SOM: Pathology

Rushika Perera, PhD
Transcriptional regulation of amino acid transporters in pancreatic cancer
SOM: Anatomy
 

Precision Medicine in Rheumatology (PREMIER)

Pilot for Junior Investigators in Basic and Clinical/Translational Sciences

Sharon Chung, MD, MCR, MPH, MS
Using integrative genomics to identify predictors of cyclophosphamide response
SOM: Medicine
 

Pre-Term Birth Initiative California (PTBi – CA)

One-Year Innovation Award in Prematurity Research

Aric A. Prather, PhD
Identifying biological drivers of preterm birth among women with insomnia
SOM: Psychiatry

Sarah Roberts, DrPH
Drug use and pregnancy policy study (D-APPS)
SOM: Obstetrics, Gynecology & Reproductive Medicine
 

Psychiatry

Digital Mental Health Award Track

Aoife O'Donovan, PhD
Remote RePS: An entirely remote study of an attention bias modification training “app” for posttraumatic stress disorder
SOM: Psychiatry
 

Research Evaluation & Allocation Committee (REAC)

Family Support Award

Miller Huang, PhD
Identification of novel cooperating partners of MYCN in neuroblastoma tumorigenesis
SOM: Neurology
 

Global Cancer Pilot Award

Justin S White, PhD, MSPH, MA
Commitment Contracts and School Competition for Smoking Prevention in Indonesia
SOM: Epidemiology & Biostatistics
 

Pilot for Established Investigators in Basic and Clinical/Translational Sciences

R. Adams Dudley, MD, MBA
Analysis of the Association between Adoption of Commercial EMR Systems and Clinical Outcomes
SOM: Medicine

Helen Kim, PhD
PET Characterization of Inflammation in Patients with Cerebral Cavernous Malformations
SOM: Anesthesia & Perioperative Care

Anthony Shum, MD
Functional Analysis of SLC7A2 as the Cause of a Novel Mendelian Disorder of Pediatric Respiratory Failure
SOM: Medicine
 

Pilot for Junior Investigators in Basic and Clinical/Translational Sciences

Judith Ashouri, MD
Capturing arthritogenic T cells in rheumatoid arthritis
SOM: Medicine

Chelsea Shields Bahney, PhD
Bimodal therapeutic application of LIF for regulating chondrogenic fate
SOM: Orthopaedic Surgery

Rebecca Brown, MD, MPH
Low Socioeconomic Status and Premature Functional Impairment
SOM: Medicine

Irfan Shiraz Kathiriya, MD, PhD
Development of the Interventricular Septum at Single Cell Resolution
SOM: Anesthesia & Perioperative Care

Paul Joseph Krezanoski, MD
Development of the Interventricular Septum at Single Cell Resolution
SOM: Anesthesia & Perioperative Care
 

Shared Instrument Awards

Leor Weinberger, PhD
Analysis of HIV therapeutic strategies utilizing high-throughput screens in CD4+ T-cells
SOM: Biochemistry & Biophysics
 

Center for Tobacco Control Research and Evaluation

Informing Tobacco Product Regulation

Kevin Delucchi, PhD
Psychometric Evaluation of Advertising Exposure and Its Relationship with Intentions to use and Risk Perception.
SOM: Psychiatry

Hai-Yen Sung, PhD
The Association between Reduced Cigarette Consumption and the Use of Other Tobacco Products.
SON: Institute for Health & Aging

Maya Vijayaraghavan, MD
The Risk perceptions, response to marketing, and poly-tobacco use among homeless adults
SOM: Medicine

*Co-funded award: Academic Senate (50%) and CTSI-Pilot Awards (50%)