Academic Senate Awardees (AS)

Pilot for Early Career Investigators

Gregory Chinn, MD, PhD
Sex Differences in Developmental Cannabidiol Neurotoxicity
SOM: Anesthesia & Perioperative Care
⁺ (Co-funded by CPRL)

Kazim Narsinh, MD
Contrast-free MRI methods for assessment of blood-brain barrier opening upon MR-guided low-intensity focused ultrasound treatment
SOM: Radiology

Adam Oskowitz, MD, PhD
The Dynamic Role of T-cells in Aortic Aneurysms
SOM: Surgery
⁺ (Co-funded by REAC)

Pilot for Established Investigators

Annette Molinaro, PhD
Investigating the association between blood-based immune profiles and immunotherapy response in glioblastoma patients
SOM: Neurological Surgery

Jennie Taylor, MD, MPH
Biomarkers of environmental exposures related to glioma risk among firefighters and controls in the UCSF Adult Glioma Study (AGS)
SOM: Neurology

Ali Mirzazadeh, MD, PhD
Health and Life Study of Afghan Refugees in California
SOM: Epidemiology & Biostatistics

Re-entry Grant

Min Kang, MD
Neuromuscular junction-on-a-chip: Interrogating spatiotemporal dynamics of synaptogenesis
SOM: Neurology

Team Science Grant

Robert Bok, MD, PhD
Development of New Hyperpolarized C-13 MRI Tools for Measuring Neuroendocrine Cancer Aggressiveness and Therapeutic Response
SOM: Radiology

Under-represented Faculty in Clinical & Translational Research

Melanie Molina, MD
PROmotion of COVID-19 BOOSTer VA(X)ccination in the Emergency Department (PROBOOSTVAXED)
SOM: Emergency Medicine

An Vu, PhD
Integration of markerless motion correction and high-temporal resolution technologies for fast, robust, sub-millimeter gSLIDER fMRI at 3T
SOM: Radiology

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

Pilot for Established Investigators

Robert Flavell, MD, PhD
Treatment of Prostate Cancer using Thorium-227 Alpha-Radioimmunotherapy Targeting CD46
SOM: Radiology

UCSF Center for AIDS Prevention Studies (CAPS)

CAPS-HIV Innovative Grants

Colette DeJong, MD
Developing a Heart Failure Polypill to Reduce Total Pill Burden Among People Living with HIV: A Pilot Crossover Randomized Controlled Trial
SOM: Medicine

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

Mentored Scientist Award Program in HIV/AIDS

Holly Nishimura, PhD
Engagement in HIV prevention and preferences for long-acting injectable cabotegravir delivery in fishing communities along Lake Victoria, Kenya
SOM: Medicine

Pilot for Early Career Investigators

Alison Comfort, PhD
Social networks and their role in early initiation of antenatal care by HIV serostatus in Uganda
SOM: Obstetrics, Gynecology & Reproductive Science

Clinical & Translational Science Institute-CTSI Pilot Awards

Pilot Award for Prevention & Treatment of Opioid Use Disorders

Alexander Bazazi, MD, PhD
Epidemiology and prevention of overdose from unintentional fentanyl exposure
SOM: Psychiatry

Pilot for Early Career Investigators

Nasim Sobhani, MD
Continuous glucose monitoring for diagnosis of gestational diabetes in pregnant individuals: a pilot study
SOM: Obstetrics, Gynecology & Reproductive Science

Karly Murphy, MD*
Leveraging Geocoded Cohorts to Increase Metabolic Screening Among Patients with Schizophrenia
SOM: Medicine
* Diversity Supplement Awardee

Changhua Mu, PhD
Development of 18F-Labeled Zinc Biosensors and PET Imaging Techniques
SOM: Radiology

Giuseppe Cullaro, MD
A Pilot Trial to Test the Feasibility of Utilizing Home Blood Pressure Monitoring to Optimize the Administration of Midodrine Among Decompensated Cirrhosis Patients
SOM: Medicine

Mohamed Abdelgadir, MD
A Fully Automated Machine Learning Pipeline to Truly Measure Quality in Colon Surgery
SOM: Surgery

Under-represented Faculty in Clinical & Translational Research

Ashraf Abugroun, MBBS
Predictors and Impact of Accelerated Biological Aging in Older Adults with Hypertension
SOM: Medicine

Antonia Biggs, PhD
Exploring the psychological, emotional, and logistical burden of abortion bans among young people considering or obtaining abortion care post-Dobbs
SOM: Obstetrics, Gynecology & Reproductive Science

Clinical & Translational Science Institute-CTSI Team Science Program

Team Science Grant

Tasce Bongiovanni, MD
Using a Community-Centered Approach to Assess Patient Acceptability of Screening for Intimate Partner Violence in Patients Following Trauma
SOM: Surgery

UCSF Clinical Pharmacology Research Laboratory (CPRL)

Pilot for Early Career Investigators

Gregory Chinn, MD, PhD
Sex Differences in Developmental Cannabidiol Neurotoxicity
SOM: Anesthesia & Perioperative Care
⁺ (Co-funded by Academic Senate)

Core Center for Musculoskeletal Biology and Medicine (CCMBM)

Pilot for Established Investigators

Brian Feeley, MD
Cellular heterogeneity and sex based differences in human ACL injuries
SOM: Orthopaedic Surgery
⁺ (Co-funded by REAC)

Research Resource Program (CORE-RRP)

Core Operational Improvement Awards (COIA-RRP)

Sunita Ho, PhD
Sustainable partnership through correlative workflows between the BBCMC and the BIDC imaging facilities
SOD: Preventive & Restorative Dental Science

UCSF School of Dentistry - Research

Pilot for Established Investigators

Elizabeth Mertz, PhD
A Comparison of dental provider type’s contribution to care  for Medicaid enrolled adults in California
SOD: Preventive & Restorative Dental Science

Mount Zion Health Fund (MZHF)

Pilot for Early Career Investigators

Tomi Nano, PhD
Smartphone-Based Surface Guidance in Radiation Therapy as an Emerging Paradigm in Personalized Cancer Care
SOM: Radiation Oncology

Maxime Kinet, MD, PhD
Comparative transcriptomics of fibroblast subsets in fibrosing skin diseases
SOM: Medicine
⁺ (Co-funded by PREMIER)

Pilot for Established Investigators

Alison Huang, MD*
A Mobile Health Program to Improve Access to Language-Concordant Training and Support for Behavioral Management of Urinary Incontinence in Latina and Chinese American Women
SOM: Medicine
* Diversity Supplement Awardee

Helen Stankiewicz Karita, MD, MPH
Burden and Correlates of Anal HSIL Among Renal Transplant Recipients
SOM: Medicine

Team Science Grant

Joyce So, MD, PhD*
The ABCDEFG (Adult Brain Cohort – Dissecting Efficacy of First-line Genome-wide sequencing) Pilot Project: exploring whole-genome sequencing as a diagnostic test in adults with complex brain disorders
SOM: Pediatrics
* Diversity Supplement Awardee

UCSF Pancreas Center Program

Mentored Scientist Award in Pancreas Cancer

Yao Wang, PhD
Restoring the effector T cells-induced cytotoxicity in pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma
SOM: Diabetes Center

Precision Medicine in Rheumatology (PREMIER)

Pilot for Early Career Investigators

Maxime Kinet, MD, PhD
Comparative transcriptomics of fibroblast subsets in fibrosing skin diseases
SOM: Medicine
⁺ (Co-funded by MZHF)

Research Evaluation & Allocation Committee SOM (REAC)

Pilot for Early Career Investigators

Matthew Durstenfeld, MD*
CArdiac REhabilitation for Building Exertional heArt Rate for Chronotropic Incompetence in Long COVID (CARE BEAR-LC): A Proof-of-Concept, Mechanistic Trial
SOM: Medicine
* Diversity Supplement Awardee

Marc Buren, MD
A dose finding study to investigate the use of a postoperative infusion of lidocaine for pain control and delirium reduction
SOM: Anesthesia & Perioperative Care

Sharad Wadhwani, MD, MPH*
Designing Equity in Pediatric Liver Transplantation: Using Human-Centered Design to Develop a Health Advocate Intervention to Support Transition of Care from Pediatric to Adult Providers
SOM: Pediatrics
* Diversity Supplement Awardee

Adam Oskowitz, MD, PhD
The Dynamic Role of T-cells in Aortic Aneurysms
SOM: Surgery
⁺ (Co-funded by Academic Senate)

Jennifer Smith, PhD, MPH
Female genital schistosomiasis: antenatal surveillance and associations with maternal and birth outcomes in Tanzania
SOM: Epidemiology & Biostatistics

Anneka Hooft, MD, MPH
Predictors of disease severity in children with non-malarial, acute febrile illness in a rural hospital in Malawi
SOM: Emergency Medicine

Pilot for Established Investigators

Xiangning Jiang, MD, PhD
A critical role for microglial cholesterol 25-hydroxylase in regulating neuroinflammation following neonatal brain hypoxia-ischemia
SOM: Neurology

Michael McManus, PhD
Relaying T cell interactions
SOM: Microbiology & Immunology

Hilde Schjerven, PhD
Molecular analysis of a novel role of Ikaros in Eosinophil cell biology
SOM: Laboratory Medicine

Catherine Oldenburg, PhD, MPH
Mother screening for relapse using mid-upper arm circumference among children recovered from severe acute malnutrition
SOM: Epidemiology & Biostatistics

Brian Feeley, MD
Cellular heterogeneity and sex based differences in human ACL injuries
SOM: Orthopaedic Surgery
⁺ (Co-funded by CCMBM)

Shared Technology Awards

Tien Peng, MD
Multiplexed and Automated Platform for Real-Time Gene Expression Analysis in Lung and Bone Biology
SOM: Medicine

Team Science Grant

Andrew Lee, MD, PhD
Identifying Networks Underlying Compulsivity in Anorexia Nervosa for Targeting with Neuromodulation
SOM: Psychiatry

Under-represented Faculty in Clinical & Translational Research

Mark Jesus Magbanua, PhD, MPH
Elucidating the clinical significance and biology of cell-free DNA shedding in high-risk early-stage breast cancer
SOM: Laboratory Medicine

UCSF Center for Tuberculosis

Mentored Scientist Award in Tuberculosis

Alexander Mohapatra, MD, PhD
Impact of Mycobacterium tuberculosis on monocyte differentiation in vivo
SOM: Medicine

Rania Bouzeyen, PhD
Development of therapeutic antibodies for tuberculosis
SOM: Medicine