Fall 2018 Awardees

Academic Senate Awardees (AS)

Pilot for Established Investigators in Basic and Clinical/Translational Sciences

Andrew Brack, PhD
Antibody-directed inhibition of GDF11 to enhance aged skeletal muscle repair​
SOM: Orthopaedic Surgery

Tejal Desai
The colonic microbiome preceding Parkinson's disease: a pilot study​
SOM + SOP: Bioengineering & Therapeutic Sciences

Samuel Goldman, MD, MPH
The colonic microbiome preceding Parkinson's disease: a pilot study​
SOM: Medicine

Pilot for Junior Investigators in Basic and Clinical/Translational Sciences

Moshiur Anwar, MD, PhD
Intraoperative Imaging of Microscopic Residual Tumor Cells and Lymph Node Involvement Using an Ultra-Thin Molecular Imaging Skin​
SOM: Radiation Oncology

Judith Ashouri, MD
In depth characterization of RA synovial T cells​
SOM: Medicine

Xin Duan, PhD
Mechanisms Underlying Type II Cadherin Guided Assembly of Retinal Circuits​
SOM: Ophthalmology

Ari Molofsky, MD, PhD
Innate lymphocytes at the developing brain-immune interface​
SOM: Laboratory Medicine

Aoife O'Donovan, PhD
Effects of inflammation on cognitive impairment and brain structure in late life depression​
SOM: Psychiatry

Saidas Nair, PhD
Molecular Mechanisms Contributing to Ocular Refractive Development​
SOM: Ophthalmology

Akinyemi Oni-Orisan, PharmD, PhD
Development of an infrastructure to support precision medicine research for proprotein convertase subtilisin/kexin type 9 (PCSK9) inhibitor users​
SOP: Clinical Pharmacy

Shared Technology Award

James Fraser, PhD
A Device to Accelerate Crystal Harvesting for the Macromolecular Structure Group and the Broader UCSF Structural Biology Community​
SOM+SOP: Bioengineering & Therapeutic Sciences

Team Science Grant

Peder Larson, PhD
Hyperpolarized 13C Metabolic Imaging for Preclinical Detection of Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy​
SOM: Radiology

The Alzheimer's Disease Research Center (ADRC)

Alzheimer Disease Research Center (ADRC) Developmental Projects Award

Huinan Li​, PhD
Defining the Role of Granulin in Astrocyte Function and Neurodegeneration
SOM: Opthalmology

Bixby Center for Global Reproductive Health

Pilot for Junior Investigators in Basic and Clinical/Translational Sciences 

lsey Holt, ScD
A person-centered approach to increase access to high quality contraceptive care in rural Mississippi​
SOM: Family & Community Medicine

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

Pilot for Junior Investigators in Basic and Clinical/Translational Sciences

Robert Flavell, MD, PhD
Improved risk stratification in localized prostate cancer using hyperpolarized 13C pH imaging​
SOM: Radiology

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

International Mentored Scientist Award Program in HIV/AIDS

Alastair van Heerden, PhD
Understanding factors that facilitate effective uptake and integration of health interventions in South African primary health care clinics​
SOM: Medicine

Mentored Scientist Award Program in HIV/AIDS

Sushama Telwatte, PhD
Defining the cellular and viral factors underlying HIV latency at the single cell level​
SOM: Affiliates

Ursula​ Schulze-Gahmen, PhD
Structure-based Tat/TAR inhibitor screening for the development of novel treatments and a cure for HIV/AIDS​
SOM: Medicine

Arya Zarinsefat, MD
Improving clinical care for HIV-infected transplant patients by innovations in rejection diagnostics
SOM: Surgery

Sarah Mars, PhD
Locating perceptions of HIV acquisition and transmission risks among people who inject drugs in West Virginia​
SOM: Family & Community Medicine

Core Center for Musculoskeletal Biology and Medicine (CCMBM)

Pilot for Established Investigators in Basic and Clinical/Translational Sciences

Dennis Black, PhD
Atypical Femur Fracture (AFF): Developing a predictive tool for AFF risk and establishing AFF impact on morbidity and mortality​
SOM: Epidemiology & Biostatistics

Global Cancer Program in the Helen Diller Cancer Center (GCP-HDFCCC)

Global Cancer Pilot Award

Jyu-Lin Chen, RN, PhD, FAAN
Smartphone-Based Cancer and Obesity Prevention Program For Chinese Women: SCOPP–Chinese Women​
SON: Family Health Care Nursing

Mount Zion Health Fund (MZHF)

Pilot for Established Investigators in Basic and Clinical/Translational Sciences

Grace Lin, MD
Passport to Health: Improving decision support to encourage individualized cancer screening decisions for older adults​
SOM: Medicine

Pilot for Junior Investigators in Basic and Clinical/Translational Sciences

Bahram Razani, MD, PhD
Optogenetic control of patterned inflammation​
SOM: Dermatology

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

Pilot for Junior Investigators in Basic and Clinical/Translational Sciences

Biftu Mengesha, MD, MAS
Experiences with Racism and Discrimination; Colleagues as Allies and Teachers (ERADiCATe)
SOM: Obstetrics, Gynecology & Reproductive Sciences

California Preterm Birth Initiative (PTBi-CA)

Innovation Award in Prematurity Research

Joshua Robinson, PhD
Utilizing Systematic Screening Approaches to Identify Pesticides that Contribute to Preterm Birth
SOM: Obstetrics, Gynecology & Reproductive Sciences

Dawn Gano, MD, MAS
Coagulation and Neurodegeneration Biomarkers of Ventriculomegaly in Preterm Infants with Intraventricular Hemorrhage​
SOM: Neurology

Pilot Award in Prematurity Research

Sarah Roberts, DrPH
Coagulation and Neurodegeneration Biomarkers of Ventriculomegaly in Preterm Infants with Intraventricular Hemorrhage​
SOM: Obstetrics, Gynecology & Reproductive Sciences

UCSF School of Dentistry - Research

Pilot for Junior Investigators in Basic and Clinical/Translational Sciences

Benjamin Chaffee, DDS, MPH, PhD
Sweetened Beverage Prices, Marketing Receptivity, and Behaviors in Rural California​
SOD: Preventive & Restorative Dental Science

Research Evaluation & Allocation Committee SOM (REAC)

Pilot for Established Investigators in Basic and Clinical/Translational Sciences

Mehrdad Arjomandi, MD
Airway Macrophage Population and Function Alteration After Ozone Exposure in COPD
SOM: Medicine

Elizabeth Fair, PhD, MPH
Using mobile technologies and community health workers to find and support TB contacts in Beira, Mozambique​
SOM: Medicine

Brian Feeley, MD
Human Fibroadipoprogenitor (FAP) stem cells in rotator cuff disease: functional assessment of regenerative potential​
SOM: Orthopaedic Surgery

Larry Fong, MD
Peripheral blood immune cell profiling of cholangiocarcinoma patients undergoing immunotherapy with GM-CSF and pembrolizumab
SOM: Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center

Ellen Herbst, MD
Use of a Wearable Neuromodulation Device to Reduce Opioid Craving in Veterans with Chronic Pain​
SOM: Psychiatry

Joseph Shieh, MD, PhD
dHealth and Gene Jabber​
SOM: Pediatrics

Kathleen Tebb, PhD
Health-E Males: The Development and Pilot Testing of an mHealth App to Promote Patient-Centered Sexual Health Information and Services for Adolescent Boys
SOM: Pediatrics

Pilot for Junior Investigators in Basic and Clinical/Translational Sciences

Mallar Bhattacharya, MD
Macrophage function in lung fibrosis​
SOM: Medicine

Michael Bokoch, MD, PhD
A Randomized Controlled Trial of Mild Hypothermia to Prevent Acute Kidney Injury in Liver Transplantation​
SOM: Anesthesia & Perioperative Care

Myriam Chaumeil​, PhD
Monitoring of immune cells, lesion stage and response to therapy in a multiple sclerosis model using [18F]F-AraG PET Imaging and Hyperpolarized 13C MRSI
SOM: Radiology

Catherine Oldenburg, ScD, MPH
Azithromycin as adjunctive therapy for the treatment of uncomplicated severe acute malnutrition
SOM: Ophthalmology

Mary Prahl, MD
Transplacental transfer and early infancy immunologic effects of prenatal exposure to the pesticide bendiocarb​
SOM: Pediatrics

Danielle Roubinov, PhD
The influence of prenatal maternal depression on children’s epigenetics and physiology: Testing a model of fetal programming
SOM: Psychiatry

Jenise Wong, MD, PhD
SOY-T2 - Sensors On Youth with Type 2 diabetes: A pilot and feasibility study
SOM: Pediatrics

Shared Technology Awards

Catherine Smith, MD
High-Throughput Single Cell Sequencing to Resolve Tumor Heterogeneity
SOM: Medicine

The Posey Family Fund

Posey Family Pediatric Cancer Pilot Award

Elliot Stieglitz, MD
Defining the Role of Tumor Heterogeneity in Therapeutic Resistance in Pediatric Acute Myeloid Leukemia (AML)​
SOM: Pediatrics