Fall 2007

Huyen Le Cao, MD, Director, Cellular Immunology, Viral and Rickettsial Disease Laboratory, Immune Profile of HIV Vaccine-responses in VAX004

J. William Critchfield, PhD, Assistant Project Scientist, Department of Medical Microbiology and Immunology, UC Davis, Pilot Trial of a Synbiotic in HIV+ Patients of African and European Descent

Archana Maniar, MD, Assistant Professor of Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Infectious Disease, UC Davis, Impact of Antiretroviral Therapy on Cardiac Biomarkers

Alexander Revzin, PhD, Assistant Professor, Department of Biomedical Engineering, UC Davis, Microfabricated Cytometry Platform for Characterization of T-cell Activation in HIV Infections

Sumathi Sankaran, MBBS, PhD, Post Doctoral Researcher, Department of Medical Microbiology and Immunology, UC Davis, Role of Menopause in HIV-1 Associated Pathogenesis

David J. Segal, PhD, Assistant Professor, Genome Center, UC Davis, Imaging Latent HIV Infection on a Per-Cell Basis

Haynes Sheppard, PhD, Vial and Rickettsial Laboratory, A Point-of-Care Device for Measuring HIV Viral Load

Spring 2006

Lars Berglund, MD, PhD, Assistant Dean for Clinical Research, Professor of Medicine, UC Davis, Effects of Mixed Exercise Regime and L-Carnitine Supplementation on Kinetics of Triglyceride-rich Lipoproteins in HIV Patients on HAART

Huyen Le Cao, MD, Director, Cellular Immunology, Viral and Rickettsial Disease Laboratory, The Impact of Gender and HIV-infecting Subtype on Clinical Profiles

Jacquelyn Gervay-Hague, PhD, Professor, UC Davis, Developing New Small Molecules as HIV-1 Microbicides

Hien Nguyen, MD, Assistant Professor of Clinical Medicine, UC Davis, HIV and HCV Co-Infection in Minority Groups:  the Effect of Antiretroviral Therapy on Hepatitis C Virus Quasispecies Variability 

Fall 2005

David Asmuth, MD, Assistant Professor of Clinical Medicine, UC Davis “HBV Vaccine Responses in HIV-infected Minorities”

Lars Berglund, MD, PhD, Assistant Dean for Clinical Research, Professor of Medicine, UC Davis “L-carnitine and Metabolic Complications During Highly Active Antiretroviral Treatment”

Kathryn L. DeRiermer, PhD, MPH, Assistant Adjunct Professor, UC Davis “Immune Responses to HIV and Mycobacterium Tuberculosis Coinfection”

Alexander Revzin, PhD, Assistant Professor, UC Davis “Antibody Microarray-Based Cytometry Platform for HIV Monitoring”

The Pilot Project Core of the California Research Center for the Biology of HIV in Minorities funds meritorious scientific studies for short periods of time, allowing researchers to collect the preliminary data necessary for external peer-reviewed research applications.  One year grants up to $30,000 will fund pilot projects by junior investigators, post-doctoral fellows and established investigators. Investigators are encouraged to submit collaborative multi-disciplinary research projects. The projects that will be supported will focus on the primary goals of the Center which are to increase the understanding of the pathogenesis of HIV/AIDS by gender and in under represented minorities.  Emphasis will be placed on training and development of junior researchers, as well as women and under-represented researchers. 

There will be two requests for proposals per year and it is intended to support 7-10 proposals per year depending on the quality of the proposals and the level of funding. Proposals are limited to a maximum of five pages.  Clinical Core investigators and biostaticians are available to provide support to investigators in proposal preparation. The proposals will be peer reviewed and selected by Pilot Project Core reviewers.

The deadline to apply is May 15, 2008. 

For additional information, contact:
Satya Dandekar, Ph.D.
Professor, Microbiology and Immunology, UCD
3146 Tupper Hall
Davis, CA 95616
(530) 752-3409
sdandekar@ucdavis.edu
http://som.ucdavis.edu/departments/microbiology/announcement/

Forms to apply