Fall 2020 Awardees

Academic Senate Awardees (AS)

Pilot for Established Investigators in Basic and Clinical/Translational Sciences

Josh Woolley, MD, PhD
Psilocybin's effects on cognitive flexibility, surrogate markers of neural plasticity, and systemic inflammation; an ancillary study to a randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial in patients with Major Depressive Disorder
SOM: Psychiatry

Benjamin Breyer, MD, MAS
PERSONAL: feasibility study Protocol for placEbo-contRolled, randomized n-of-1 trialS Of tamsulosiN for Lower urinary tract symptoms.
SOM: Urology

Scott Zamvil, MD, PhD
Prevotella copri, a commensal gut bacterium that may reduce susceptibility to CNS autoimmune diseases
SOM: Neurology

Jason Gestwicki, PhD
Harnessing the E3 Ubiquitin Ligase, CHIP, for Inducible Degradation
SOP: Pharmaceutical Chemistry

Ulrike Muench, RN, PhD
Pain and Opioid Prescribing Patterns in Medicare beneficiaries with Alzheimer’s Disease and Related Dementias
SON: Social & Behavioral Sciences

Robert Hiatt, MD, PhD, MCR, MPH, MS
The Social Determinants of Cancer and New Pathways to Prevention
SOM: Epidemiology & Biostatistics

Najwa El-Nachef, MD
The Impact of Fecal Microbiota Transplant on Antibiotic Resistance Gene Prevalence in Patients with Chronic Pouchitis
SOM: Gastroenterology
*(Co-funded by: MZHF)  

Pilot for Junior Investigators in Basic and Clinical/Translational Sciences

Sharad Wadhwani, MD, MCR, MPH, MS
Social & Contextual Impact on children undergoing Liver Transplantation (SOCIAL-Tx)
SOM: Pediatrics

Rafael Diaz-Flores, PhD
Validating mutant p53 as a promising therapeutic target in high-risk childhood leukemia
SOM: Pediatrics

Michael Jacob, MD, PhD
Testing the assumptions of resting-state fMRI: A cardiac-EEG analysis of the fMRI environment
SOM: Psychiatry

Re-entry

Benjamin Rosner, MD, PhD
Leveraging Patient Generated Health Data to Close the Hospital Readmission Information Gap
SOM: Medicine

Shared Technology Award

Victor Cheuy, PhD, MS
Electromechanical Dynamometer for Clinical Research of Skeletal Muscle Function
SOM: Physical Therapy & Rehabilitation Science

Team Science Grant

Luca Della Santina, PhD, PharmD, MCR, MPH, MS
Eyemeter: Automatic detection of ocular and periocular diseases from clinical photos and selfies
SOM: Opthalmology

The Alzheimer Disease Research Center (ADRC)

Alzheimer Disease Research Center (ADRC) Developmental Projects

Kristen Berendzen, MD, PhD
Genetic models of social attachment behavior in aging and neurodegeneration
SOM: Psychiatry

Bixby Center for Global Reproductive Health

Pilot for Established Investigators in Basic and Clinical/Translational Sciences

Alison El-Ayadi, ScD
Quality Improvement Process Metrics for Cesarean Section in a Lower-resource Setting: Development and Feasibility Assessment
SOM: Obstetrics, Gynecology & Reproductive Science

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

Pilot for Junior Investigators in Basic and Clinical/Translational Sciences

Ross Okimoto, MD
Genetic and functional dissection of the ERF-CIC codeletion in human prostate cancer
SOM: Medicine

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

Pilot Award in Precision Imaging of Cancer and Therapy

Robert Flavell, MD, PhD
Treatment of Prostate Cancer using a Novel Radioligand Therapy Method
SOM: Radiology

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

International Mentored Scientist Award Program in HIV/AIDS

Frank Mulindwa, MD
Changes in insulin kinetics in HIV infected patients diagnosed with dolutegravir associated diabetes in Uganda
SOM: Medicine

Mentored Scientist Award Program in HIV/AIDS

Emma Bainbridge, MD, MPH
Urogenital and rectal Mycoplasma genitalium in men who have sex with men and transgender women at high risk for STIs: a pilot study of prevalence and antibiotic resistance
SOM: Medicine

Amelia Deitchman, PhD, PharmD
Targeting Viral Reservoirs through PET-Informed Dosing of Curative Agents
SOP: Clinical Pharmacy

Under-represented Faculty in Clinical & Translational Research Awards

Orlando Harris, RN, PhD, FNP, MPH
“Our Lives Matter”: Exploring the Impact of COVID-19 on Black/African American and Latino Sexual Minority Men Access to HIV Prevention and Treatment Services, Resource Security, and Vaccination Acceptance and Uptake
SON: Community Health Systems

Core Center for Musculoskeletal Biology and Medicine (CCMBM)

Pilot for Junior Investigators in Basic and Clinical/Translational Sciences

Valentina Pedoia, PhD
Multi-Task Deep Learning to Develop Automatic Scapular Shape Extraction from Clinical MRI
SOM: Radiology

Research Resource Program (CORE-RRP)

Institutional Matching Instrumentation Award

Renuka Sriram, PhD
High Field MRI for Optimized Translational 1H Multiparametric and Multinuclear Imaging Research
SOM: Radiology

Vinh Nguyen, B.S.
Spectral Flow Cytometer Cell Sorter
VCR: Co-Labs Administration

UCSF School Dentistry Research

Team Science Grant

Sunil Kapila, DDS, PhD, MS
Local Sustained Delivery of Osteoprotegerin via Hydroxyapatite Microparticles to Enhance Post-Orthodontic Tooth Stability
SOD: Orofacial Sciences

Mount Zion Health Fund (MZHF)

Pilot for Established Investigators in Basic and Clinical/Translational Sciences

Ida Sim, MD, PhD
Piloting Scalable Device-Agnostic Remote Patient Monitoring With a Seamless Clinical Workflow (RPM-BP)
SOM: Medicine

Najwa El-Nachef, MD
The Impact of Fecal Microbiota Transplant on Antibiotic Resistance Gene Prevalence in Patients with Chronic Pouchitis
SOM: Gastroenterology
*(Co-funded by: Academic Senate) 

Pilot for Junior Investigators in Basic and Clinical/Translational Sciences

Jeffrey Cheng, MD, PhD
Spatial Mapping of Psoriatic Inflammation
SOM: Dermatology

Alon Witztum, PhD
BreathBuddy: Developing a digital intervention to improve breath-hold length and reproducibility to improve quality of radiotherapy treatment for patients with breast, thoracic, and gastrointestinal cancers
SOM: Radiation Oncology

Valy Fontil, MD
Evaluating a technology-enhanced pharmacist telehealth hypertension management intervention to improve hypertension control in African-Americans
SOM: Medicine

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

Under-represented Faculty in Clinical & Translational Research Awards

Brittany Chambers, PhD, MCR, MPH, MS
Advancing Racial Equity: Pilot testing an online training for prenatal care providers
SOM: Epidemiology & Biostatistics

Jessica Opoku-Anane, MD, MCR, MPH, MS
Comparative Analysis of Cnacer-Associated Variants in Benign and Malignant Deeply Infiltrative and Atypical Endometriosis
SOM: Obstetrics, Gynecology & Reproductive Science

Precision Medicine in Rheumatology (PREMIER)

Pilot for Established Investigators in Basic and Clinical/Translational Sciences

Jeroen Roose, PhD
Understanding T cell metabolism in SLE and RA autoimmunity*
SOM: Anatomy
*(Co-funded by: REAC)

California Preterm Birth Initiative (PTBi-CA)

Pilot Award in Prematurity Research

Sarah Garrett, PhD, MA
Multi-Stakeholder Engagement with State Policies to Advance Antiracism in Maternal Health (MEND)
SOM: Institute for Health Policy Studies

Research Evaluation & Allocation Committee SOM (REAC)

Pilot for Established Investigators in Basic and Clinical/Translational Sciences

Ushma Upadhyay, PhD, MCR, MPH, MS
Misoprostol-Alone as a ‘Missed Period Pill’: A Study to Evaluate Proof of Concept
SOM: Obstetrics, Gynecology & Reproductive Science

Marisa Medina, PhD
The role of TMEM55B in mitochondrial dysfunction and NAFLD
SOM: Pediatrics

Nina Shah, MD
Identification of Immunomodulatory Effects of Azacitidine in Enhancing the Cytotoxicity of Daratumumab in Patients with Relapsed Refractory Multiple Myeloma
SOM: Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center

Hana El-Samad, PhD
A toolbox of biomolecular circuits using de novo designer proteins
SOM: Biochemistry & Biophysics

Mignon Loh, MD
Uncovering the Genomic Landscape of Monosomy 7 B-Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia
SOM: Pediatrics

Jeroen Roose, PhD
Understanding T cell metabolism in SLE and RA autoimmunity*
SOM: Anatomy
*(Co-funded by: PREMIER)

Pilot for Junior Investigators in Basic and Clinical/Translational Sciences

Brian Malone, PhD
Cortical Solutions to the Cocktail Party Problem
SOM: Otolaryngology

Devan Jaganath, MD, MCR, MPH, MS
The Role of Artificial Intelligence to Enhance Digital Adherence Technologies for Tuberculosis
SOM: Pediatrics

Ryan Lokken, MD
Analysis and rational optimization of the immunostimulatory effects of cryoablation therapy
SOM: Radiology

Adam Numis, MD
Genetic and transcriptomic profiling in surgical epilepsy (PoISE)
SOM: Neurology

Team Science Grant

Elliott Sherr, MD, PhD
A novel gene brings novel insights for neuronal homeostasis
SOM: Neurology

Aric Prather, PhD
Insomnia and Atherosclerosis: Investigating a neuro-immune pathway
SOM: Psychiatry

Under-represented Faculty in Clinical & Translational Research Awards

Raul Andino, PhD
Impact of early and cross-reactive T cell responses on SARS-CoV-2 viral load dynamics
SOM: Microbiology & Immunology

Center for Tobacco Control Research & Education

Informing Tobacco Product Regulation

Neal Benowitz, MD
Biomarkers of Tobacco and Cannabis Exposure as Prognosticators of Severity of COVID-19 infection
SOM: Medicine

Dorothy Apollonio, PhD, MPP
Effects of local tobacco flavor bans on consumption
SOP: Clinical Pharmacy

Lawrence Fong, MD
The Impact of E-Cigarettes on Tumor Progression
SOM: Medicine