Fall 2022 Awardees

Academic Senate Awardees (AS)

Family Support Award

Eva Raphael, MD, MPH*
Novel self-reported risk factors for drug-resistant community-onset urinary tract infections in women of diverse backgrounds
SOM: Epidemiology & Biostatistics
* Diversity Supplement Awardee

Global Cancer Pilot Award

Hannah Leslie, PhD, MPH+
Design and evaluation of the effectiveness of a digital health intervention to improve health care and outcomes for breast cancer patients in Mexico
SOM: Medicine
+ (Co-funded by Global Cancer)

Pilot for Early Career Investigators

Jessica Shantha, MD, MSc
Leveraging Ocular Tissues in Uveitis Study
SOM: Ophthalmology

Catherine Sun, MD
Improving Clinical Outcomes in Neovascular Glaucoma
SOM: Ophthalmology

Elizabeth Theusch, PhD
Transcriptomic and cardiometabolic changes after mouse ovarian follicle depletion
SOM: Pediatrics

Pilot for Established Investigators

Donna Ferriero, MD, MPH
HIF signaling pathways in neonatal hypoxia ischemia neuroprotection
SOM: Pediatrics

Noelle L’Etoile, PhD*
Long and short range decision making in a natural neural network in aging
SOD: Cell and Tissue Biology
* Diversity Supplement Awardee

Neil Shah, MD, PhD
Identification and validation of oncogene-specific alterations on the cell surfaceome to facilitate novel immunotherapeutic approaches in myeloid malignancies
SOM: Medicine

Torsten Wittmann, PhD
Synthetic human neuron networks with defined topology
SOD: Cell and Tissue Biology

The Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center (ADRC)

Coline Arnould, PhD
Genomic characterization of the role of DNA double-strand breaks and chromatin organization in Alzheimer’s disease
SOM & SOP: Bioengineering & Therapeutic Sciences

UCSF AIDS Research Institute (ARI-GILEAD)

Gilead HIV Cure Mentored Scientist Award

Francisco Zapatero Belinchón, PhD*
Development and delivery of next-generation epigenome editors for long-term HIV silencing
SOM: Microbiology & Immunology
* Diversity Supplement Awardee

Pilot for Established Investigators

Jenny Liu, PhD
Empowering adolescent girls and young women with PrEP: Integrating linkages to HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis into the Queen Club intervention in Tanzania
SON: Institute for Health & Aging

Bixby Center for Global Reproductive Health

Pilot for Early Career Investigators

Ariana Thompson-Lastad, PhD+*
Caring for the Parent-Infant Dyad: Maternal Health in Postpartum Group Medical Visits
SOM: Family & Community Medicine
+ (Co-funded by MZHF) * Diversity Supplement Awardee

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

Pilot for Established Investigators

Charles Kogan, MD
Perinatal cytomegalovirus infection as an etiological factor for childhood ALL
SOM: Laboratory Medicine

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

Gilead HIV Cure Mentored Scientist Award

Prerna Dabral, PhD
Modulating Interleukin-2-Inducible T-cell Kinase (ITK) to Target HIV Persistence
SOM: Laboratory Medicine

Mentored Scientist Award Program in HIV/AIDS

Andrew Kerkhoff, MD, MPH
Systematic testing for HIV and tuberculosis among community members attending social drinking venues in Lusaka, Zambia
SOM: Medicine

Tongcui Ma, PhD
Deep analysis of SARS-CoV-2-specific serological and T cell responses in people living with HIV
EVCP: Scientist

Megan McLaughlin, MD, MPH
Hyperlipidemia and Primary Prevention of Cardiovascular Disease Among Persons Living with HIV in East Africa
SOM: Medicine

Scott Hyman, MD, MPH*
PrEP Choice: Developing a PrEP decision support tool for young men who have sex with men
SOM: Medicine
* Diversity Supplement Awardee

UCSF Clinical Pharmacology Research Laboratory (CPRL)

Under-represented Faculty in Clinical and Translational Research Awards

Marissa Raymond-Flesch, MD, MPH+
Psilocybin Therapy for Treatment-Refractory Anorexia Nervosa in Young Adults, a Novel Clinical Trial
SOM: Pediatrics
+ (Co-funded by REAC)

Core Center for Musculoskeletal Biology and Medicine (CCMBM)

Family Support Award

Tiffany Kim, MD
Bone marrow fat and skeletal health in type 2 diabetes
SOM: Medicine

Research Resource Program (CORE-RRP)

Core Award for Research and Development (CARD-RRP)

Emanuela Zacco, PhD
Expanding NanoString GeoMx Digital Spatial Profiling in the LCA-Genome Core Facility
SOM: Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center

Institutional Matching Instrumentation Award (IMIA-RRP)

Alexis Combes, PhD
Acquisition of a CosMx Spatial Molecular Imager for spatial transcriptomics and proteomics studies on archived tissue
SOM: Pathology

Nitasha Kumar, PhD
Full spectral cytometry sorting for infectious diseases samples at ZSFG
UCSF: Gladstone Institute of Virology & Immunology

Global Cancer Program

Global Cancer Pilot Award

James Ford, MD
Combined Hepatitis B Virus and Hepatocellular Carcinoma Screening in the Emergency Department: A Multicenter Study
SOM: Emergency Medicine

Hannah Leslie, PhD, MPH+
Design and evaluation of the effectiveness of a digital health intervention to improve health care and outcomes for breast cancer patients in Mexico
SOM: Medicine
+ (Co-funded by Academic Senate)

Mount Zion Health Fund (MZHF)

Pilot for Early Career Investigators

Manju Sharma, PhD
Cone Beam CT Image Analysis to Predict Head and Neck Radiotherapy Toxicities for Adaptive Radiotherapy
SOM: Radiation Oncology

Po-Yi Paul Su, MD
The functional role of sensory neuron ATF3 in regulating acute and persistent postsurgical pain
SOM: Anesthesia & Perioperative Care

Ariana Thompson-Lastad, PhD+*
The functional role of sensory neuron ATF3 in regulating acute and persistent postsurgical pain
SOM: Family & Community Medicine
+ (Co-funded by Bixby Ctr. for Global Reproductive Health)  * Diversity Supplement Awardee

UCSF Pancreas Center Program

Mentored Scientist Award in Pancreas Cancer

Joanna Kovalski, PhD
Regulating Oncogene Expression in Pancreas Cancer
SOM: Urology

Mirunalini Ravichandran, PhD
Targeting iron dependency to overcome therapy resistance in pancreatic cancer
SOM: Anatomy

Qinheng Zheng, PhD
Targeting pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma with covalent K-Ras(G12D) inhibitors
SOM: Cellular & Molecular Pharmacology

Precision Medicine in Rheumatology (PREMIER)

Pilot for Early Career Investigators

Renuka Nayak, MD, PhD
The role of the human gut microbiome in methotrexate toxicity
SOM: Medicine

Research Evaluation & Allocation Committee SOM (REAC)

Pilot for Early Career Investigators

David Blair, MD, PhD
Resolving Diagnostic Uncertainty in Marfan Syndrome Using Real-World Clinical Data
SOM: Pediatrics

John Chorba, MD
Deep Learning of Heart Sounds to Detect Cardiac Disease and Improve Clinical Outcomes
SOM: Medicine

Fei Jiang, PhD
Development of MEG/EEG platform for epilepsy surgery planning
SOM: Epidemiology & Biostatistics

Yan Li, MD, PhD
A Pilot Study of Assessing Dynamic Glucose Metabolism in Major Depressive Disorder
SOM: Radiology

Pilot for Established Investigators

Theresa Allison, MD, PhD*
Removing barriers to research participation: Assessing acceptability of family interpreters in the study of everyday music engagement and memory loss
SOM: Medicine
* Diversity Supplement Awardee

James Bayrer, MD, PhD
Intestinal epithelial control of bile acids and host metabolism
SOM: Pediatrics

Mallar Bhattacharya, MD
P2rx4 regulates fibroblast IL6 in acute lung injury
SOM: Medicine

Daniel Bickle, MD, PhD
The impact of abaloparatide on stem cell function during fracture repair
SOM: Medicine

Alison El Ayadi, ScD
Landscape Analysis of Global Fistula Reintegration Programming
SOM: Obstetrics, Gynecology & Reproductive Science

Diana Laird, PhD
The Role of Peripheral Nerves in Ovarian Folliculogenesis
SOM: Obstetrics, Gynecology & Reproductive Science

Julie Saba, MD, PhD
Validating absolute lymphocyte count and plasma sphingosine-1-phosphate as biomarkers of sphingosine phosphate lyase insufficiency syndrome in anticipation of a pyridoxine clinical trial
SOM: Pediatrics

David Toczyski, PhD
Exploring the role of the CUL5-WSB2 complex in downregulating apoptosis
SOM: Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center

Scott Zamvil, MD, PhD
Single cell T cell receptor repertoire analysis in MOG antibody-associated disease (MOGAD)
SOM: Neurology

Shared Technology Awards

Rachel Rutishauser, MD, PhD
High-throughput gene editing in human primary immune cells to study host-pathogen interactions
SOM: Medicine

Team Science Grant

Joan Hilton, ScD, MPH
Assessment of risk and prevalence of schistosomiasis-pulmonary arterial hypertension
SOM: Epidemiology & Biostatistics

Under-represented Faculty in Clinical & Translational Research

Christopher Allen, PhD
Testing a mechanism for the elimination of human IgE plasma cells
SOM: Anatomy

Ezequiel Goldschmidt, MD, PhD
Understanding molecular mechanisms driving meningioma induced hyperostosis
SOM: Neurological Surgery

Marissa Raymond-Flesch, MD, MPH
Psilocybin Therapy for Treatment-Refractory Anorexia Nervosa in Young Adults, a Novel Clinical Trial
SOM: Pediatrics
+ (Co-funded by CPRL)

Center for Tobacco Control Research & Education

Informing Tobacco Product Regulation

Janet Wojcicki, PhD, MPH
COVID-19 Infection and Secondhand Smoke Exposure and Avoidance Among Latinx Families in the Bay Area
SOM: Pediatrics