awardees

Stephen G. Henry, MD, MSc, Internal Medicine

“Low-barrier, generalist model of care to improve treatment for complex patients with opioid use disorder”

Janine M. LaSalle, Ph.D., Department of Medical Microbiology and Immunology

“Precision biomarkers of fetal neurodevelopment and maternal dietary interventions in the Perinatal Origins of Disparities”

Aijun Wang, Ph.D., Department of Surgery

“Extracellular Vesicle Theranostics in the Central Nervous System”

David Segal, Ph.D., Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Medicine 

“An Academic Center for Interventional Genetics” 

Irva Hertz-Picciotto, MPH, Ph.D., Department of Public Health Sciences

“Human Health Impacts from Climate Change”

 Lee Miller, Ph.D. Department of Otolaryngology

“A Speech Brain-Computer-Interface dynamically optimized for Intelligibility” 

Andreas Bäumler, Ph.D., Department of Medical Microbiology & Immunology

“Preventing Invasive Candidiasis by Restoring Gut Epithelial Hypoxia” 

Anna La Torre, Ph.D., Department of Cell Biology & Human Anatomy

“On-Sight (Optic Nerve Special Interest Group for Human Therapeutics): Developing Novel Models of Retinal Ganglion Cell Degeneration” 

Yuanpei Li, Ph.D., Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Medicine

“Overcoming therapy resistance in cancers with new-chemical-entity nanomedicine: from bench to clinic” 

Suma Shankar, M.D., Ph.D., Department of Pediatrics

“An Integrative Approach to Advancing Precision Medicine for Autism and Neurodevelopmental Conditions” 

Amy R. Brooks-Kayal, M.D., F.A.A.N., F.A.N.A., F.A.E.S., Department of Neurology 

"Neuronal STAT3 knock-out to mitigate OP-induced seizures"

Robert Canter, M.D., Department of Surgery 

"Placental-Derived Natural Killer (NK) cells to target high grade gliomas in dogs"

 Stephen McSorley, Ph.D., Department of Anatomy, Physiology & Cell Biology

"The female reproductive tract microbiota and protection against sexually transmitted infection and negative reproductive outcomes"

Kimber Stanhope, Ph.D., R.D.

"Randomized controlled clinical trial to gauge the effects of dietary erythritol on platelet reactivity and vascular inflammation"

Kermit Carraway, Ph.D., Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Medicine 

"Wnt/PCP signaling contribution to glioblastoma malignancy"

Resmi Ravindran, Ph.D., Department of Pathology & Lab Medicine 

"Characterization of Canine Hepatocellular Carcinoma (HCC) leading to treatment"

Hannah Savage, D.V.M., Ph.D., Department of Pathology, Microbiology & Immunology

"Preventing invasive candidiasis by restoring gut epithelial hypoxia"

Sara Thomasy, Ph.D., D.V.M., Department of Surgical & Radiological Sciences 

"Advancing optogenetic therapy for Sudden Acquired Retinal Degeneration Syndrome (SARDS)"

Paramita Ghosh, Ph.D., School of Medicine Department of Urologic Surgery

"Determine the role of mitochondria transfer in tumor-fibroblast stromal interaction and metastasis to bone- a multi-omics approach"

Nicholas Kenyon, M.D., M.A.S., School of Medicine Department of Internal Medicine 

“TET1 Activity and VOC Production in Asthmatic Airways Following Wildfire PM2.5 Exposure.”

Amir Kol, D.V.M., Ph.D., School of Veterinary Medicine Department of Pathology, Microbiology and Immunology 

“Establishing a Canine Cortical Organoid Model for Epilepsy Research through SCN1A Knockout.”

Ji-Hey Lim, D.V.M., Ph.D., D.A.C.V.I.M., School of Veterinary Medicine, Department of Surgical & Radiological Sciences 

“Evaluation of LLP2A/LXW7-Modified Collagen Scaffolds for Spinal Defect Repair in Dogs with Naturally Occurring Spina Bifida”

Christopher Lucchesi, Ph.D., School of Medicine Department of Urologic Surgery

“Advancing Canine Bladder Cancer Treatment: Integrating Neem-Derived Therapeutics with 3D Tumor Modeling for Precision Oncology.”

Lisa Miller, Ph.D., School of Veterinary Medicine, Department of Anatomy, Physiology and Cell Biology

“Impact of Ambient Wildfire Smoke PM₂.₅ Exposure on Antibiotic Use in Pediatric Populations.”

Sean Adams, Ph.D., Department of Surgery, School of Medicine

“Probiotic-derived extracellular vesicles enriched in anti-inflammatory xenometabolites: therapeutic potential for IBD”

Kristen Aiemjoy, Ph.D., Department of Public Health Sciences, School of Medicine

“Modeling correlations in antibody response dynamics to enhance diagnostic accuracy and Improve infectious disease surveillance”

Steven George, Ph.D., M.D., Department of Biomedical Engineering, College of Engineering

“Matrix-bound extracellular vesicles: spatial cues for macrophage migration”

Wolf-Dietrich Heyer, Ph.D., Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, College of Biological Sciences

 “Improved detection of structural variants in tumor genomes and their association with metastatic pancreatic cancer and Lynch Syndrome”

Yi Wang, Ph.D., Department of Biological and Agricultural Engineering, College of Engineering

“Impact of high-fat diet post-antibiotic treatment on susceptibility to clostridioides difficile Infection and the effectiveness of 5-ASA as a treatment measure”

Glenn Yiu, Ph.D., M.D., Department of Ophthalmology, School of Medicine

“Deep learning of retinal phenotype-genotype relationships in age-related macular degeneration”

Anthony F. Jerant, M.D., Department of Family and Community Medicine

REV: PC: A Summit on Revitalizing Primary Care to Recenter Relationships and Enhance Health 

Amy Brooks-Kayal, M.D., F.A.A.N., F.A.N.A., F.A.E.S., Department of Neurology

Kia Shahlaie, M.D., Ph.D., F.A.A.N.S., Department of Neurological Surgery

UC Davis SOM Connection Symposium. “Sleep-Wake and Cognition – A Light in the Dark for Neurological Disorders”

Donald M. Bers, Ph.D.,  Department of Pharmacology

Systems Approach to Understanding Cardiovascular Diseases

Andreas Baumler, Ph.D., Department of Medical Microbiology & Immunology

Microbial Pathogenesis in the Microbiome Era

Tonya Fancher, M.D., M.P.H., Department of Internal Medicine – General Medicine

Activating Evidence-Based Policymaking to Improve Health and Health Equity

Gene Gurkoff, Ph.D., Department of Neurological Surgery

UC Davis SOM Connection Symposium - Building Bridges in Traumatic Brain Injury Research – Collaborating to Solve a Complex Clinical Disease

Lorenzo Nardo, M.D., Ph.D., Department of Radiology

“Quantitative imaging for mCRPC Lu-177 PSMA dosimetry”

Audrey Fan, Ph.D., Department of Neurology, Department of Biomedical Engineering

“Total-body dynamic amyloid PET of the brain-liver axis in dementia”

Tianhong Li, M.D., Ph.D., Department of Internal Medicine“Assessing Total-Body Dynamics of T Cell Activation After Immune Checkpoint Inhibitor Immunotherapy Using Multiparametric [ 18F]F-AraG PET Imaging”

Jaehwan Kim, M.D., Ph.D., Department of Dermatology

 “Pretreatment biomarker discovery for psoriasis biologics treatment response prediction in Veterans”

Vladimir Yarov-Yarovoy, Ph.D., Department of Physiology & Membrane Biology

“De novo design of proteins targeting sodium channels as novel therapeutics to treat chronic pain”

Amir Zeki, M.D., Department of Internal Medicine

 “Evaluating metabolic heterogeneity within intact lung tissue at single-cell resolution”