Academic Senate Awardees (AS)
Family Support Award
Sabra Inslicht, PhD
Orexin: A Novel Treatment Target for PTSD
SOM: Psychiatry
Pilot for Early Career Investigators
Joline Fan, MD, MS
Network effects of transcranial low intensity focused ultrasound on the centromedian thalamus using magnetoencephalography
SOM: Neurology
Jennifer Rosenbluth, MD, PhD
Breast Organoids as Models for Cancer Interception
SOM: HDFCCC
Pilot for Established Investigators
Deborah Dean, MD, MPH
Assessing Neisseria gonorrhoeae antimicrobial resistance using Nanopore technology among high prevalence Pacific Islander populations in Fiji
SOM: Pediatrics
Soo-Jeong Lee, RN, PhD, ANP
Effect of disinfectant exposure on the gut microbiome of cleaning workers
SON: Community Health Systems
David Pearce, MD
Role of mTORC2 in the aldosterone paradox.
SOM: Medicine
JiWon Choi, RN, PhD
Synthetic human neuron networks with defined topology
SON: Institute for Health & Aging
Shared Technology Awards
Zev Gartner, PhD
Quantifying Live Tissue and Biomaterial Mechanics with a Shared-Use Nanoindenter
SOP: Pharmaceutical Chemistry
The Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center (ADRC)
Alzheimer Disease Research Center (ADRC) Developmental Projects
Tanisha Hill-Jarrett, PhD*
A multilevel framework to assess and address Black/African American participant recruitment barriers at the University of California San Francisco Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center (UCSF ADRC)
SOM: Neurology
* Diversity Supplement Awardee
Sarah Kaufman, MD, PhD
Identifying the Molecular Mechanisms that Underlie Tau Aggregation and Neurotoxicity Across Distinct Tau Strains
SOM: Neurology
Emily Paolillo, PhD
Determining utility of passive smartphone-based digital endpoints in Alzheimer’s disease
SOM: Neurology
Cancer Center- Cancer Center Support Grant (CC-CCSG)
Pilot for Early Career Investigators
Katherine Wai, MD
Defining the Immune Response to Checkpoint Inhibition in Head and Neck Cancer
SOM: Otolaryngology
Cancer Center- The Precision Imaging in Cancer & Therapy (CC-RBI)
Pilot Award in Precision Imaging of Cancer and Therapy
Arpita Desai, MD
Investigation of Hyperpolarized 13 C MRI to assess treatment response in metastatic kidney cancer
UCSF Center for AIDS Preventive Studies (CAPS)
CAPS-HIV Innovative Grants
Catherine Koss, MD
Formative behavioral research to advance engagement in cure-related studies for persons who acquire HIV on prevention modalities
SOM: Medicine
UCSF - Gladstone Institute of Virology & Immunology Center for AIDS Research (CFAR)
Mentored Scientist Award Program in HIV/AIDS
Katerina Byanova, MD, MS
CAPTURE study: CAuses and Predictors of post-TUberculosis REstrictive lung disease in people with and without HIV in Uganda
SOM: Medicine
Neia Prata Menezes, PhD
Characterizing delivery preferences and opportunities for implementing long-acting injectable cabotegravir and event-driven PrEP for transgender women in Sāo Paulo, Brazil venues in Lusaka, Zambia
SOM: Medicine
Saate Shakil, MD, MS
Early Structural Cardiovascular Disease and HIV in East Africa
SOM: Medicine
Lauren Suchman, PhD
Understanding Provider Management of Menopausal Symptoms for Women Living with HIV: A Qualitative Study in East Africa
SON: Institute for Health & Aging
Research Resource Program (CORE-RRP)
Institutional Matching Instrumentation Award (IMIA-RRP)
Jennifer Fung, PhD
High content screening system - Perkin Elmer Opera Phenix Plus
SOM: Obstetrics, Gynecology & Rep Sci
Vinh Nguyen, BS
Image-enabled Full Spectral Flow Cytometer Cell Sorter
EVCP: Specialist
Renuka Sriram, PhD
Replacement of an Obsolete Pre-clinical DNP Polarizer to Enable Higher Throughput and Improved HP 13C MR Studies
SOM: Radiology
National Center for Excellence in Women’s Health (NCOEWH)
Pilot for Established Investigators
Kimberly Baltzell, RN, PhD, MS
Measuring the mechanisms of antenatal confidence in the context of culturally centered, racially concordant midwifery care in Memphis, Tennessee
SON: Family Health Care Nursing
UCSF Pancreas Center Program
Pilot Award for Pancreas Cancer
Gregory Allen, MD, PhD
Establishing new more rigorous pancreatic tumor models for pre-clinical evaluation of next-gen CAR T cell designs
SOM: Medicine
Research Evaluation & Allocation Committee SOM (REAC)
Pilot for Early Career Investigators
Qili Liu, PhD
Cellular and molecular basis of sugar-specific appetite
SOM: Anatomy
Erin Reilly, PhD
Testing Changes in Learning and Brain-Derived Neurotrophic Factor as Processes Driving Clinical Change in Adolescent Anorexia Nervosa
SOM: Psychiatry
Pilot for Established Investigators
Manish Aghi, MD, PhD, MAS
Skull Bone Marrow Contributes Antigen Presenting Hybrid Neutrophils to the Glioblastoma Microenvironment
SOM: Neurological Surgery, Weill Institute for Neurosciences
Aaron Diaz, PhD
Targeting ZSCAN4 mediated telomere repair in pediatric brain tumors
SOM: Neurological Surgery, Weill Institute for Neurosciences
Mohsen Malekinejad, MD, MPH, DrPH
Project Identify: Digital Exposure Notification Priorities for Global Outbreak Response
SOM: Epidemiology & Biostatistics
Anjana Sharma, MD, MAS
Patient and Community Engagement in Residency Selection - A Pilot Study
SOM: Family Community Medicine
Neel Singhal, MD, PhD
Targeting PATJ to improve neuro-recovery following ischemic stroke
SOM: Neurology, Weill Institute for Neurosciences
Shared Technology Awards
Yan Li, PhD
Dual-tuned 1H/2H Head Coil for 7T MRI
SOM: Radiology
Team Science Grant
Joanne Engel, MD, PhD
Host-pathogen EM2Gen: bringing multi-scale molecular understanding to Chlamydia hijacking of its host
SOM: Medicine
Debbie Madhok, MD
Early Identification and Triage of Neurologic Causes of Cardiac Arrest for Precision Resuscitation
SOM: Emergency Medicine
Philip Rosenthal, MD
Impacts of antimalarial preventive therapy during pregnancy on the gut microbiome
SOM: Medicine
Under-represented Faculty in Clinical & Translational Research
Patience Afulani, PhD, MD, MPH
Development of a Person-Centered Postnatal Care Scale
SOM: Epidemiology & Biostatistics
Center for Tuberculosis
Mentored Scientist Award in Tuberculosis
Jonathan Budzik, MD, PhD
Determining the Mechanism of M. tuberculosis Growth Restriction in TAX1BP1-deficient alveolar macrophages
SOM: Medicine
Suzanne Dufault, PhD
Identifying the Optimal Durations of TB Therapeutics: Implementing Candidate Dose-Ranging Methods to Efficiently Model the Treatment Duration-Response Curve
SOM: Epidemiology & Biostatistics
Weihao Zhang, PhD
Epitranscriptomic regulation of Mycobacterium tuberculosis infection in macrophages
SOM: Medicine
Team Science Grant for Tuberculosis Research
Mohamad Dandan, PhD
How does kasugamycin inhibit protein translation initiation in a context-specific fashion in Mycobacterium tuberculosis?
SOM & SOP: Bioengineering & Therapeutic Sciences