New Federal Grants Awarded to UCLA Department of Medicine Faculty in FY 22-23UCLA
PI NAME
SPONSOR NAME
AWARD TITLE
BUDGET PERIOD TOTAL
Agak, George Wasonga
NIH-NIAMS National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases
Th17 Extracellular Trap-Mediated Antimicrobial Host Defense in Acne Vulgaris
$437,013
Ajijola, Olujimi A
NIH-NHLBI National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute
Antiarrhythmic Mechanisms of Chronic Vagal Nerve Stimulation in Sympathetic Neurons
$779,796.00
Ardell, Jeffrey Laurence
NIH-NHLBI National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute
Bioelectric Monitoring and Neuromodulation of the Heart
$867,081.00
Bostrom, Kristina
NIH-NHLBI National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute
Mechanism of Matrix Gla Protein (MGP); Adipose Fibrosis
$585,359.00
Cai, Xinjiang
NIH-NHLBI National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute
Regulation of Vascular Calcification by Adventitial Endothelial Cells
$187,056.00
Clark, Jesse Lawton
Gorbach, Pamina Mae (MPI)
NIH-NIMH National Institute of Mental Health
Postdoctoral Training in Global AIDS Prevention Research
$536,614.00
Crandall, Carolyn
Bui, Alex (MPI)
NIH-NIAMS National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases
Predicting Who Will Fracture: Exploration of Machine Learning in the Observational Women's Health Initiative Study Dataset
$168,874.00
Currier, Judith Silverstein
NIH-NIAID National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases
AIDS Clinical Trials Group (ACTG) for Research on Therapeutics for HIV and Related Infections (YR 17)
$12,582,518.00
Duru, Obidiugwu Kenrik
Mangione, Carol (MPI)
NIH-NIDDK National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases
LIFT-UP (Leveraging Institutional Support for Talented, Underrepresented Physicians and/or Scientists)
$424,561.00
Fernandes, Priyanka
DHHS-HRSA Health Resources and Services Administration
Building Physician Leaders in Prevention, Health Equity and Public Health by Addressing Social Determinants of Health
$900,000.00
Fernandes, Priyanka
DHHS-HRSA Health Resources and Services Administration
UCLA Preventive Medicine Training Program: A Pipeline to Physician Workforce Diversity
$399,999.00
Fulcher, Jennifer
Cheng, Quen J. (MPI)
NIH-NIAID National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases
Mechanisms of Trained Immunity in HIV Immune Responses
$234,000.00
Gukovskaya, Anna S
NIH-NIDDK National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases
Dysregulated Cholesterol Homeostasis, Caused by Lysosomal/Autophagy Dysfunction, Mediates Pancreatitis
$354,816.00
Heaney, Anthony P
NIH-NCI National Cancer Institute
Development of a Patient-derived Tumoroid Culture System to Explore Novel Medical Treatments for Refractory Prolactinomas
$218,790.00
Hidalgo, Marco Armando
Chen, Diane (MPI)
Ehrensaft, Diane (MPI)
NIH-NICHD National Institute of Child Health and Human Development
Gender Nonconformity in Prepubescent Children: A Longitudinal Study
$625,609.00
Hotez, Emily Rose
DHHS-HRSA Health Resources and Services Administration
Investigating the Role of Chronic Stressors in Obesity Among Autistic Adolescents and Emerging Adults
$119,901.00
Leuchter, Richard Kemper
NIH-NHLBI National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute
Using Machine Learning and Patient-Reported Outcomes to Identify Unnecessary Hospitalizations
$111,866.00
Leung, Lucinda B J
NIH-NIMH National Institute of Mental Health
Telehealth Policy Expansion’s Impact on Patient Care & Mental Health During COVID
$2,790,468.00
Li, Zhaoping
USDA-DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR FOOD AND AGRICULTURE (NIFA)
Pilot Study to Determine the Effect of Walnut on Cognitive Function of Long COVID
$294,000.00
Meriwether, David
NIH-NIDDK National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases
Dysregulation of Inflammation Resolution as Therapeutic Target for IBD
$163,122.00
Modlin, Robert L
NIH-NIAMS National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases
Acne: a Disease of Lipid Metabolism, Microbiome and the Immune Response
$1,568,723.00
Nguyen, Kim-lien
NIH-NHLBI National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute
Cardiac MRI for Reperfusion Spatial Mapping to Improve Heart Failure Outcomes
$686,676.00
Norris, Keith C
NIH-NIDDK National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases
UCLA Short-Term Research Experience to Unlock Potential (UCLA STEP-UP)
$236,224.00
Packard, Rene R S
NIH-NHLBI National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute
Dissecting Mechanisms of Anthracycline-Induced Cardiotoxicity
$390,000.00
Shackelford, David B
DOD-DA-U.S. ARMY MEDICAL RESEARCH ACQUISITION ACTIVITY (USAMRAA)
Targeting Mitochondrial Defects in Kidney Cancer
$961,089.00
Shackelford, David B
NIH-NCI National Cancer Institute
Imaging Mitochondrial Heterogeneity in LKB1 Mutant Lung Cancer
$429,306.00
Shieh, Albert
NIH-NIAMS National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases
Menopause-Related Increase in Gut Leak and Its Relation to Immune Activation, Bone Density Decline and Fractures
$687,633.00
Shover, Chelsea Leigh
Goodman, David (MPI)
NIH-NIDA National Institute on Drug Abuse
Predicting Fatal and Non-Fatal Overdose in Los Angeles County With Rapid Overdose Surveillance Dashboard to Target Street-Based Addiction Treatment and Harm Reduction Services
$1,624,120.00
Singh, Rajat
NIH-NIA National Institute on Aging
Integrative Regulation of Lipid Sensing by mTOR
$319,800.00
Vallim, Thomas Aguiar
Tarling, Elizabeth (MPI)
NIH-NHLBI National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute
Targeting the Gut-liver Axis in Cardiovascular Disease
$745,258.00
Wang, Jessica J
NIH-NHLBI National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute
Investigating the Role of MYH14 in Tension-Dependent Cardiomyocyte Hypertrophy
$78,000.00
Yang, Otto Orlean
Hoffman, Risa
Nielsen, Karin (MPI)
NIH-NIAID National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases
Addressing Evolving Infectious Threats
$372,099.00
Yokota, Tomohiro
NIH-NHLBI National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute
Novel Signaling Mechanism in Chamber-Specific Postnatal Heart Growth
$390,000.00
Zhou, Jin
NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION (NSF)
SCH: Statistical Foundation and Predictive Modeling for Personalized Diabetes Management: Continuous Glucose Monitoring (CGM), Electronic Health Records (EHR), and Biobanks
$1,200,000.00
The total cumulative direct costs
of these new awards:
$32,470,371
Total Cumulative Funding Attributed to These New Awards = $175,980,127.00
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