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2012 Camp Pendleton Grant Awardees
 
  • Albert Cerussi
    Department : Beckman Laser Institute
    A Pilot Study to Investigate Non-Invasive Metabolic Guidance for Improving Therapeutic Ultrasound Treatment of Lower Back Muscle Injuries
  • Hamid Djalilian
    Department : Otolaryngology
    Treatment of Tinnitus Using a Web-Based Sound and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
 
2012 Dean's Triumvirate Grant Awardees
 
  • Steven Cramer
    Awarded: $50,000
    Funding Period: 03/01/2013 - 02/28/2014
    Telerehabilitation To Reduce Disability After Stroke
  • Krishnansu Tewari
    Awarded: $15,000
    Funding Period: 03/01/2013 - 02/28/2014
    MOLECULAR ANALYSIS OF ALTERATIONS OF THE PI3K/AKT/mTOR PATHWAY IN LYNCH SYNDROME-ASSOCIATED ENDOMETRIAL CANCER WITH CLINICOPATHOLOGIC CORRELATION
  • Madeleine Pahl
    Awarded: $15,000
    Funding Period: 03/01/2013 - 02/28/2014
    Working for the Weekend: The Effect of Cognitive Functioning, Social Support, and the Interdialytic Interval on Disease Self-Management Among Patients on Hemodialysis
 
2012 Biomedical Informatics Data Warehouse Grant Awardees
 
  • Melanie Gironda
    Department : Family Medicine
    Fractures & Co-morbid Indicators of Elder Abuse
  • Dara Sorkin
    Department : Health Policy Research Institute; GIM
    Developing a Mobile App: Personalization in A Gestational Diabetes Self-Management System
  • Cristobal Barrios
    Department : Surgery
    Aortic Transection: Review of Techniques and Outcomes
  • Michael Stamos
    Department : Surgery
    The Role of the Academic Tertiary Medical Center in Lieu of Health Care Reform
  • Hamid Djalilian
    Department : Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery
    Evaluation and Management of Temporal Bone Fractures
  • Haiou Yang
    Department : Medicine
    Exploration of Demographic Prognostic Factors of Neck Pain Using the Cohort Discovery Tool
 
2012 ICTS TL1 Awardees
 
  • Goutham Ganesan
    Department : Pharmacology
    Awarded: $40,000
    Funding Period: 08/01/2012 - 07/31/2013
    The use of Diffuse Optical Spectroscopy in the diagnosis of vascular and adipose tissue dysfunction
 
2012 ICTS PILOT Awardees
 
  • Leslie Thompson
    Department : Psychiatry/Neurobiology and Behavior
    Awarded: $27,500
    Funding Period: 04/01/2012 - 03/31/2013
    ZFN-mediated knockdown of mutant Htt in patient-derived iPS cells
  • David Fruman
    Department : Molecular Biology & Biochemistry
    Awarded: $27,500
    Funding Period: 04/01/2012 - 03/31/2013
    Title: "mTOR kinase inhibitors: cancer therapeutics repurposed for treatment of autoimmune disease" Note: I tried to submit this earlier today using a different web browser but it didn't seem to go through. I apologize if this was submitted twice.
  • Kim Green
    Department : Neurobiology and Behavior
    Awarded: $27,500
    Funding Period: 04/01/2012 - 03/31/2013
    Treating Traumatic Brain Injuries via a novel method of brain microglia elimination
  • Hannah Park
    Department : Epidemiology
    Awarded: $27,500
    Funding Period: 04/01/2012 - 03/31/2013
    Development of plasma methylation markers for breast cancer
  • Jung-Ah Lee
    Department : Nursing Science
    Awarded: $27,500
    Funding Period: 04/01/2012 - 03/31/2013
    A Technology Driven Safety Intervention for Older Adults on Oral Anticoagulation Therapy
  • Michael V. Zaragoza
    Department : Pediatrics and Biological Chemistry
    Awarded: $27,500
    Funding Period: 04/01/2012 - 03/31/2013
    Mitochondrial and Nuclear DNA “Double Mutations” In the Progression of Cardiomyopathy to End-stage Heart Failure
 
2011 Dean's Triumvirate Grant Awardees
 
  • Peter Kaiser
    Department : Schools of Medicine and Biological Sciences
    Awarded: $50,000
    Funding Period: 03/01/2011 - 02/28/2012
    Therapeutic targets for treatment of Hereditary Inclusion Body Myopathy (IBMPFD)
  • Wendy Liu
    Department : Schools of Medicine and Biomedical Engineering
    Awarded: $15,000
    Funding Period: 03/01/2011 - 02/28/2012
    A MICROENGINEERED PLATFORM TO GENERATE FUNCTIONAL ß-CELL CLUSTERS FROM HUMAN EMBRYONIC STEM CELLS
 
2011 ICTS PILOT Awardees
 
  • Lisa Flanagan
    Department : Pathology
    Awarded: $29,400
    Funding Period: 04/01/2011-03/31/2012
    Developing a novel cell sorting technology to purify cells for transplantation
  • Arash Kheradvar
    Department : Biomedical Engineering
    Awarded: $29,400
    Funding Period: 04/01/2011-03/31/2012
    Development of a Novel Self-expandable Bioprosthetic Heart Valve for Percutaneous Delivery and Implantation
  • Dara Sorkin
    Department : Medicine, Health Policy Research Institute
    Awarded: $29,400
    Funding Period: 04/01/2011-03/31/2012
    Unidas por la Vida: United for Life
  • Gregory Evans
    Department : Plastic Surgery
    Awarded: $29,400
    Funding Period: 04/01/2011-03/31/2012
    Reprogramming of Adipose Derived Stem cells (ADSCs) to iPS and Further Differentiation to Neuronal Cells for the Treatment of Peripheral Neuropathy
  • Elizabeth Chao
    Department : Pathology
    Awarded: $22,400
    Funding Period: 04/01/2011-03/31/2012
    Early detection of prostate cancer by profiling nucleosome phase profiling in peripheral samples
  • Elliot Botvinick
    Department : Biomedical Engineering / Surgery
    Awarded: $25,000
    Funding Period: 04/01/2011-03/31/2012
    Bloodless Laparoscopic Cutting Tool
 
2010 ICTS KL2 Awardees
 
  • Hirohito Ichii, MD, PhD
    Department : Surgery
    Awarded: $100,000
    Funding Period: 12/1/2010 - 11/30/2011
  • Shahram Lotfipour, MD, MPH
    Department : Emergency Medicine
    Awarded: $100,000
    Funding Period: 12/1/2010 - 11/30/2011
  • Sarah Choi, PhD, RN
    Department : Nursing Science
    Awarded: $100,000
    Funding Period: 12/1/2010 - 11/30/2011
 
2010 ICTS TL1 Awardees
 
  • Melissa Strong, PhD Candidate
    Department : Anatomy and Neurobiology
    Awarded: $40,000
    Funding Period: 12/1/2010 - 11/30/2011
    Identifying the source of resistance to excitotoxic cell death in a mouse strain that is otherwise highly vulnerable
  • Bruce Yang, PhD Candidate
    Department : Biomedical Engineering
    Awarded: $40,000
    Funding Period: 12/1/2010 - 11/30/2011
    Real-time Laser Speckle Imaging as a Diagnostic Tool in the Treatment of Port Wine Stain Through Image-guided Laser Surgery
  • Vanessa Juth, PhD Candidate
    Department : Psychology and Social Behavior
    Awarded: $40,000
    Funding Period: 12/1/2010 - 11/30/2011
    The Interpersonal Stressors of Pediatric Cancer Care: A Transdisciplinary Focus on Patients, Families and Healthcare Providers
 
2010 Team Building Conference Grant Awardees
 
  • ICTS
    Department : ICTS
    Awarded: $4,000
    Funding Period: 06/25/2011
    Exercise As Therapy for the Wounded Warrior: Interaction of Physical Activity, Brain Injury, and PTSD
  • Steve Cramer, MD
    Department : Neurology
    Awarded: $4,000
    Funding Period: 03/01/2011
    "Applications of Stem Cell Therapies in Clinical Neuroscience"
  • Taosheng Huang, MD, PhD
    Department : Pediatrics
    Awarded: $4,000
    Pediatric Pharmacogenomic Consortium
  • Andrew Noymer, PhD
    Department : Sociology
    Awarded: $4,000
    Mathematical models of influenza: Bridging theory and data
  • Jennifer Holtzman, DDS/MPH
    Department : Beckman Laser Institute
    Awarded: $4,000
    DEVELOPMENT AND EVALUATION ON INNOVATIVE TECHNOLOGIES TO IDENTIFY CARIES RISK AND EFFECTIVENESS OF ORAL HEALTH PROMOTION PROGRAMS
  • Virginia Kimonis, MD
    Department : Pediatrics
    Awarded: $4,000
    Muscle Cell Biology/ Neuromuscular Diseases Team Building Grant
  • Terry L. Schmidt, DrHA (Oladele Ogunseitan; Zeev Kain)
    Department : Paul Merage School of Business
    Awarded: $4,000
    Unintended Consequences of Healthcare Reform on Clinical Research
  • Phil Schwartz, PhD
    Department : Molecular Biology
    Awarded: $4,000
    Stem cells for the treatment of the lysosomal stoarge diseases (LSDs)
  • Sam Bederman, MD, PhD
    Department : Orthopaedic Surgery
    Awarded: $4,000
    Funding Period: 01/21/2011
    University of California Surgical Spine Collaborative
  • Sheldon Greenfield, MD (Sherrie Kaplan; )
    Department : Health Policy Research Institute
    Awarded: $4,000
    Funding Period: 01/29/2011
    Comparative Effectiveness Research (Joint endeavor with ICTS and Healthy Policy Research Institute)
 
2010 ICTS PILOT Awardees
 
  • Annabel Wang, MD
    Department : Neurology
    Awarded: $27,500
    Funding Period: 12/6/2010 - 3/31/2011
    Predictors of Phenotype in Patients with Spinal Muscular Atrophy and Calf Hypertrophy
  • Albert Cerussi, PhD
    Department : Beckman Laser Institute
    Awarded: $27,500
    Funding Period: 12/6/2010 - 3/31/2011
    Development of Metabolic Imaging Probes Embedded into Standard Minimally Invasive Clinical Instruments for Improving Critical Care Patient Outcomes
  • Xiaolin Zi, MD, PhD. & M.Sc.
    Department : Urology
    Awarded: $27,500
    Funding Period: 12/6/2010 - 3/31/2011
    Inhibition of pro-invasive effects of anti-VEGF therapy by secreted Wnt antagonists
  • David Nolan, MD
    Department : Medicine
    Awarded: $27,500
    Funding Period: 12/6/2010 - 3/31/2011
    To determine whether oral betaine at 4 grams/day, 8g/d or 12g/d improves homeostasis model assessment of insulin resistance (HOMA-IR) in patients with impaired fasting glucose
  • Leslie Lock, PhD
    Department : Biological Chemistry and Developmental & Cell Biology
    Awarded: $27,500
    Funding Period: 12/6/2010 - 3/31/2011
    Normalizing the mutation that causes FSH muscular dystrophy in FSH induced pluripotent stem cells
  • Edwin Monuki, MD,PhD
    Department : Pathology and Laboratory Medicine
    Awarded: $27,500
    Funding Period: 12/6/2010 - 3/31/2011
    The goal of this project is to accelerate the translation of a laboratory finding into clinical applications using choroid plexus epithelial cells (CPECs)
  • Anand Ganesan, MD,PhD
    Department : Dermatology
    Awarded: $27,500
    Funding Period: 12/6/2010 - 3/31/2011
    RhoJ- A Novel Regulator of Melanoma Invasion and Chemoresistance
 
2010 Dean's Triumvirate Grant Awardees
 
  • Bernard Choi, PhD
    Department : Beckman Laser Institute and Medical Clinic
    Awarded: $50,000
    Funding Period: 03/01/2010 - 02/28/2011
    Dynamic in vivo visualization of anastomosis between a prevascularized implantable tissue constract and host circulation
  • L. Tugan Muftuler, PhD
    Department : Center for Functional Onco Imaging
    Awarded: $15,000
    Funding Period: 03/01/2010 - 02/28/2011
    Establishing an array of quantitative imaging markers that will advance our understanding of chronic discogenic pain (disrupted disc syndrome) and provide diagnostic tools for early and accurate diagnosis
  • Christopher Carpenter, PhD
    Department : The Paul Merage School of Business
    Awarded: $15,000
    Funding Period: 03/01/2010 - 02/28/2011
    The Effects Of Mammography Insurance Mandate Subprovisions Related To Referral Requirements, Deductibles/Copays, And Individual Vs. Group Plans
  • Richard Lathrop, PhD
    Department : Donald Bren School of Information and Computer Science
    Awarded: $15,000
    Funding Period: 03/01/2010 - 02/28/2011
    Reactivation of p53 in Human Cancer By Small Drug-like Molecules
2011 Mentors Awardees
  • Daniel L. Gillen, Ph.D.
    Department: Associate Professor, Dept of Statistics
    Awarded: $1,000
  • Dan Mercola
    Department: Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, UCI
    Awarded: $1,000
  • Bruce Tromberg
    Department: Beckman Laser Institute
    Awarded: $1,000
  • Kristen Kelly, M.D.
    Department: Dermatology
    Awarded: $1,000
  • Roxane Cohen Silver
    Department: Psychology and Social Behavior
    Awarded: $1,000