Spring 2016 Awardees

Academic Senate Awardees (AS)

Family Support Award        

Kirsten Kangelaris, MD, MCR, MPH, MS  

Testing the Association Between Olfactomedin 4 and Lipocalin 2 and Respiratory Failure and Shock Among Adults with Sepsis     

SOM: Medicine

 

Pilot Award Program in HIV/AIDS 

Christopher Stauffer, MD

The Effects of Intranasal Oxytocin on Mixed HIV Sero-Status, Methamphetamine-Using Men Who Have Sex with Men

SOM: Psychiatry

 

Pilot for Established Investigators in Basic and Clinical/Translational Sciences       

Kim Baltzell, MCR, MPH, MS, PhD, RN, FAAN    

Provider Practices in Non-Malarial Fevers: A Pilot Study in Malawi

SON: Family Health Care Nursing

 

Sara Newmann, MD, MPH  

Investigating a Masculinities-based Approach to Increase Male Acceptance of Family Planning in Kenya

SOM: Obstetrics, Gynecology & Reproductive Science

 

 Pilot for Junior Investigators in Basic and Clinical/Translational Sciences

Huimin Geng, PhD   

Genetic and Epigenetic Biomarkers and Pathways in CNS Lymphoma Invasion   

SOM: Laboratory Medicine

 

Eleni Linos, MD, MCR, MPH, MS   

Online Advertising for Melanoma Prevention

SOM: Dermatology

 

Monika Sarkar, MD, MCR          

Androgens and Nonalcoholic Steatohepatitis: The Role of “Male” Sex Hormones in Women with NASH  

SOM: Medicine

 

Team Science Grant

Anne Slavotinek, PhD, MBBS        

Genomic Variation in Structural Eye Defects

SOM: Pediatrics

 


Academic Senate Awardees (AS) and Research Evaluation & Allocation Committee (REAC)

Pilot for Established Investigators in Basic and Clinical/Translational Sciences

Steven Cheung, MD

Motor Planning and Control in Unilateral Vocal Fold Paralysis         

SOM: Otolaryngology


Cancer Center – CCSG

Re-entry        

Li Zhang, PhD          

Identification of the SNPs and Their Interaction with Environmental Factors in Esophageal Cancer in Tanzania

SOM: Medicine

 

Pilot for Junior Investigators in Basic and Clinical/Translational Sciences    

Erin Van Blarigan, ScD       

Dietary Supplement Use After Diagnosis and Risk of Prostate Cancer Progression         

SOM: Epidemiology & Biostatistics


Cancer Center – MZHF

Pilot for Established Investigators in Basic and Clinical/Translational Sciences

            Pamela Munster, MD           

Preventing Breast Cancer by Delivering Hormone Therapy Locally Using a Silastic Implant

SOM: Medicine


Center for AIDS Research (CFAR)

Basic Science Award Program in HIV/AIDS        

Koh Fujinaga, PhD  

Transcriptome Analysis of HIV Latently Infected Cells        

SOM: Medicine

 

Judd Hultquist, PhD

The Role of LEDGF in Establishing HIV Latency in Primary CD4+ T Cells

 

Mentored Scientist Award Program in HIV/AIDS

Emily Dauria, PhD, MPH     

PrEP Awareness and Acceptability Among Women Involved in the Criminal Justice System       

SOM: Psychiatry

 

Pamela Odorizzi, PhD         

Investigating the Impact of In Utero HIV or Malaria Exposure on CD4+ T Cell Development         

 

Thomas Packard, PhD        

Does Non-Pyroptotic IFI16 Signaling Promote HIV Pathogenesis by Recruiting New Target Cells to Die?           

 

Rachel Rutishauser, MD, PhD        

Assessing HIV-Specific CD8+ T Cell Exhaustion During Antiretroviral Therapy    

SOM: Medicine

 

Priya Shete, MD       

Targeted Behavioral Incentives for Improving Tuberculosis (TB) Diagnostic Evaluation Outcomes          

SOM: Medicine

 

Pilot Award Program in HIV/AIDS

Chia-ching Wang, MD         

Addressing Sexual Dysfunction in Anal Cancer Survivorship for HIV-Infected Men Who Have
            Sex with Men 

SOM: Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center

 


Clinical Translational Science Institute – CTSI Pilot Awards

Digital Mental Health Award Track           

Marina Tolou-Shams, PhD 

Text Messaging to Enhance Mental Health and Substance Use Treatment Engagement Among Juvenile Justice Youth

SOM: Psychiatry

 

Family Support Award        

Riley Bove, MD        

Harnessing the Power of Telemedicine to Improve Patient Outcomes in Multiple Sclerosis

SOM: Neurology

 

Annesa Flentje, PhD

Gene Expression Outcomes Among Sexual Minority Men  

SON: Community Health Systems

 

Aras Mattis, MD, PhD          

Modeling Fatty Liver Disease Using Human iPS-Derived Hepatocytes      

SOM: Pathology

 

Pilot for Junior Investigators in Basic and Clinical/Translational Sciences    

Matthew Amans, MD, MSc

Venous Pulsatile Tinnitus Benchtop Model and Flow Disruption Device Development       

SOM: Radiology

 

James Bayrer, MD, PhD      

Creating a Pediatric Inflammatory Bowel Disease Intestinal Organoid Biorepository for Personalized Therapeutic Discovery

SOM: Pediatrics

 

Michele Pelter, PhD, RN     

Cardiac Response to Sleep Disordered Breathing in Patients with Acute Coronary Syndrome     

SON: Physiological Nursing

 

Daniel Vogt, PhD      

The Contributions of Human NF1 Mutations to Autism        

SOM: Psychiatry

 

Team Science Grant

Lea Grinberg, MD, PhD       

Caspases and Proteasome as Opposite Neuron Fate Determinants in Alzheimer’s Disease        

SOM: Neurology

 

Diana Laird, PhD      

Molecular and Embryonic Origins of Saccrococcygeal Teratomas (SCTs)

SOM: Obstetrics, Gynecology & Reproductive Sciences

 

Under-Represented Faculty in Clinical and Translational Research Awards 

Diana Alba, MD        

Discovering Macrophage-Encoded Markers of Diabetes Risk across Ethnicities  

SOM: Medicine

 

Jin Kim, PhD

Understanding Factors that Influence Cigarette Smoking Among Individuals with Food Insecurity

SOM: Psychiatry


Core Center for Musculoskeletal Biology and Medicine

Pilot for Junior Investigators in Basic and Clinical/Translational Sciences    

Sergey Magnitsky, PhD      

Preclinical MR Imaging and Spectroscopy of Bacteria Infection in Spinal Disk

SOM: Radiology

 

Pilot for Established Investigators in Basic and Clinical/Translational Sciences       

Wenhan Chang, PhD           

Central Regulation of Ion Transport and Skeletal Mineralization by FGF23 and Klotho       

SOM: Medicine


National Center of Excellence in Women’s Health

Pilot for Established Investigators in Basic and Clinical/Translational Sciences       

Marco Conti, MD      

Compromised Translation Program in Aging Oocytes as a Cause of Infertility       

SOM: Obstetrics, Gynecology & Reproductive Sciences

 

Laura Esserman, MD, MBA

A Precision Medicine Based Approach to Assist Women with Decisions about Unilateral vs. Bilateral Mastectomy   

SOM: Surgery

 

Judith Walsh, MD, MCR, MPH, MS

Preview and the Electronic Medical Record

SOM: Medicine

 

Pilot for Junior Investigators in Basic and Clinical/Translational Sciences

Jocelyn Chapman, MD        

Early Detection of Ovarian Cancer in BRCA Mutation Carriers       

SOM: Obstetrics, Gynecology & Reproductive Sciences

 

Ushma Upadhyay, MCR, MPH, MS, PhD  

Using Google AdWords to Study Abortion Access: A Pilot Study   

SOM: Obstetrics, Gynecology & Reproductive Sciences


Osher Center

Pilot in Integrative Medicine           

Maria Chao, DrPH, MPA

Pilot RCT of Integrative Nutritional Counseling to Improve Diet Self-Management Among Chinese Americans with Type 2 Diabetes 

SOM: Osher Center for Integrative Medicine

 

Eve Ekman, PhD, MSW       

EmoTrak, Daily Training in the Mindful Management of Emotion to Reduce Resident Burnout      

SOM: Osher Center for Integrative Medicin

Burcu Hasdemir, PhD         

An Integrative Approach to Women's Health - a Study of the Placenta and Umbilical Cord Blood 

SOM: Osher Center for Integrative Medicine


Pre Term Birth Initiative California (PTBi – CA)

Pilot Award in Prematurity Research       

Joan Casey, PhD, MA         

Is Preterm Birth Associated with Air Pollution From Oil and Gas Power Plants in California? A Natural Experiment     

SOM: Psychiatry

 

Laura Frame, PhD   

Informing Model Articulation by Eliciting the Family Experience: A Pilot Study of the Special Start Neonatal Follow Up Program    

 

Miriam Kuppermann, PhD, MPH   

Periviable GOALS: Formative Research to Create a Decision Support Tool for Periviable Decision-Making           

SOM: Obstetrics, Gynecology & Reproductive Sciences

 

Jacqueline Torres, PhD      

Testing Exposure to Local Immigration Enforcement as a Structural Determinant of Preterm Birth Disparities in California Counties 

 

Two-Year Innovation Award in Prematurity Research   

Christine Dehlendorf, MD, MCR, MPH, MS          

Postpartum Contraceptive Decision Support Tool    

SOM: Family & Community Medicine

 

Jeffrey Fineman, MD           

OMX, A Novel Oxygen Carrying Protein, For Resuscitation in Preterm Delivery Secondary to Placental Under-Perfusion States         

SOM: Pediatrics

 

Rebecca Jackson, MD         

San Francisco Preterm Fetal Infant Mortality Review (SF PFIMR)  

SOM: Obstetrics, Gynecology & Reproductive Sciences

 

Audrey Lyndon, PhD, RN   

Exploring the Dual Burden of Severe Maternal Morbidity and Preterm Birth in California

SON: Family Health Care Nursing

 

Monica McLemore, MCR, MPH, MS, PhD, RN     

Stress, Resilience and Coping in Hispanic Women in Fresno: The SOLARS Study Expansion    

SON: Family Health Care Nursing

 

Takako Tabata, PhD

Persistent Human Cytomegalovirus Infection of the Amnion in Preterm Birth and Intrauterine Growth Restriction      

SOD: Cell & Tissue Biology

 

Melanie Thomas, MD, MS   

Using Community Health Workers for PTB Prevention        

SOM: Psychiatry


Pre Term Birth Initiative California Alternative (PTBi – CA Altern)

Pilot Award in Prematurity Research       

Linda Franck, PhD, RN      

Clinical Accuracy of a New Method to Wirelessly Monitor Skin Temperature in Preterm Neonates Using Adhesive-Imbedded Sensors

SON: Family Health Care Nursing

 

Danielle Hessler, PhD         

Social Determinants of Health, Adversity and Resilience (SOAR) Factors 

SOM: Family & Community Medicine

 

Two-Year Innovation Award in Prematurity Research   

Leslie Dubbin, MCR, MPH, MS, PhD, RN

Qualifying Risk: Exploring How Life Course Stress Experiences Influence the Risk of Preterm Birth Among Black Women

SON: Social & Behavioral Sciences

 

Marta Jankowska, PhD      

Visualization of Individual and Environmental Risks and Protectors for Preterm Birth in Fresno County   

SOM: Family & Community Medicine

 

Laura Jelliffe, PhD    

Cumulative Risk for Preterm Birth by Characteristics and Biomarkers Across Pregnancies in African-American Women      

SOM: Epidemiology & Biostatistics

 

Elizabeth Rogers, MD         

Race/Ethnicity and Sociodemographic Variation in Resuscitation and Outcomes of Extreme Prematurity in a Population-Based Cohort in California          

SOM: Pediatrics

 

Martina Steurer-Muller, MD

Clinical and Metabolomic Characteristics of Pulmonary Hypertension and Respiratory Distress Syndrome in Infants Less Than 34 Weeks of Gestation and Their Predictive Effect on Chronic Lung Disease 

SOM: Pediatrics

 

Heike Thiel de Bocanegra, PhD     

Preventing Extremely Short Interpregnancy Intervals and Preterm Birth Through Post-Delivery Provision of Highly Effective Contraception          

SOM: Obstetrics, Gynecology & Reproductive Sciences

 


Department of Psychiatry

Digital Mental Health Award Track           

Sabra Inslicht, PhD 

Mobile Technology-Based Examination of Biomarkers of Treatment Response in Exposure-Based Psychotherapy for PTSD      

SOM: Psychiatry

 

Family Support Award        

Erica Lawson, MD     

Determinants of Long-term Disease Damage in Childhood-Onset Systemic Lupus Erythematosus         

SOM: Pediatrics


Research Evaluation & Allocation Committee (REAC)

Pilot for Established Investigators in Basic and Clinical/Translational Sciences

Benjamin Ma, MD    

The Effects of Exercise “Prehabilitation” on Cognitive and Functional Recovery After Surgery in Older Adults

SOM: Orthopaedic Surgery

 

Claudia Petritsch, PhD        

Investigating ASPM Regulation of Asymmetric Division for Therapeutic Opportunities

SOM: Neurological Surgery

 

Esther Kim, MD        

Point of Care Coagulation Testing in Microsurgery  

SOM: Surgery

 

Pilot for Junior Investigators in Basic and Clinical/Translational Sciences    

Saidas Nair, PhD     

Developing a Mouse Model of Myopia-Induced Glaucoma  

SOM: Ophthalmology

 

Kira Poskanzer, PhD           

Lighting Up Glia: Monoaminergic Activation of Cortical Astrocytes 

SOM: Biochemistry & Biophysics

 

Hui-Hsin Tsai, PhD  

Transcriptional Control of Spinal Cord Astrocyte Heterogeneity      

SOM: Pediatrics

 

Liping Wang, MD, PhD        

Role of Progranulin in Skeletal Homeostasis

SOM: Medicine

 

Shared Instrument Awards

Aparna Sundaram, MD       

Proposal for a 2016 Shared Instrument Award Towards Purchase of a Radnoti 12-unit Tissue Bath System           

SOM: Medicine

 

Duan Xu, PhD           

Mock MRI Scanner    

SOM: Radiology

 

Jimmie Ye, PhD        

Single-Cell RNA-Sequencing with 10X Genomics GemCode Platform       

SOM: Epidemiology & Biostatistics

 

Team Science Grant

Peder Larson, PhD 

Development of a MRI-Based Process for Radiation Therapy Treatment   

SOM: Radiology


Center for Tobacco Control Research and Evaluation

Informing Tobacco Product Regulation   

Noah Gubner, PhD  

Evaluating the Effect of Alcohol on the Abuse Potential of Electronic Cigarettes: A Human Laboratory Study

 

Jeffrey Gotts, MD, PhD       

Acute Pulmonary Toxicity of E-cigarettes   

SOM: Medicine