Please join us in congratulating our Pilot Project Awardees!!!
2024
Environmental Health Research Pilot Awards
Dara Torgerson, PhD, MSc, Associate Professor, UCSF, Epidemiology & Biostatistics
Environmental Toxins and Immunological Response to Viral Respiratory Infections in American Indian Children with Asthma (using DTSC Environmental Chemical Laboratory)
2023
Environmental Health Research Pilot Awards
Stephanie Gaw, MD, PhD, Associate Professor, UCSF, Ob/Gyn and Reproductive Sciences
Application of laser capture microdissection and mass spectrometry to identify placental biomarkers of wildfire smoke exposure (using Proteomics)
Hannah Shapiro, MD, UCSF, Pediatrics
Association Between Wildfire Smoke Exposure and Emergency Department Visits for Headache in Children and Adolescents (using TRSC)
Carly Hyland, PhD, MS, Assistant Professor, UC Berkeley
Mitigating Pesticide Exposure Risks among Pregnant Farmworkers: Enhancing Medical Providers' Knowledge and Support (using TRSC)
2022
Environmental Health Research Pilot Awards
Laura Koth, MD, MA, Professor, UCSF, Medicine
Effects of Air Pollution Constituents on Human Immune Cell Function in an Immune-Mediated Disease called Sarcoidosis (using IHSFC)
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Vivek Rudrapatna, MD, PhD, Assistant Professor, UCSF, Medicine
Seema Ghandi, MD, Professor, UCSF, Anesthesia
A Comparative Environmental Impact Analysis of Methods for Colorectal Cancer Screening
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Elliot Stieglitz, MD, Associate Professor, UCSF, Pediatrics
Investigating Environmental Causes of Juvenile Myelomonocytic Leukemia using Metabolomic Profiling of Newborn Blood Spots (using DTSC Environmental Chemical Laboratory)
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Environmental Health, Nutrition & Obesity Pilot Awards co-sponsored with the UCSF P30 Nutrition & Obesity Research Center (NORC)
Ayca Erkin-Cakmak, MD, MPH, Pediatric Advance Research Fellow, UCSF, Pediatric Endocrinology.
Ana María Mora-Wyrobek, MD, PhD (co-PI), UC Berkeley
Prenatal and mid-childhood exposure to mixtures of persistent organic pollutants and cardiometabolic health in Mexican-American young adults from the CHAMACOS cohort" (using TRSC)
Joshua Robinson, PhD, Assistant Professor, UCSF, Ob/Gyn & Reproductive Sciences
Investigating the role of perfluorinated alkylated substances in diglyceride acyltransferase inhibition and lipid metabolic dysfunction (using DTSC Environmental Chemical Laboratory)
2021
Environmental Health Research Pilot Awards
Paige Bracci, PhD, MPH, MS, Professor, UCSF, Epidemiology & Biostatistics
Exposome Analyses and Glioma Mutational Signatures in Firefighters in the Adult Glioma Study (using TRSC and DTSC Environmental Chemical Laboratory)
Neeta Thakur, MD, Assistant Professor, UCSF, Medicine
Deadline Characterizing mobility patterns to assess microenvironment air pollution exposure and associations with respiratory symptoms in adolescents (using TRSC)
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Cancer and Environmental Health Research Pilot Award co-sponsored with the UCSF Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center (HDFCCC)
Max Aung, PhD, MPH, Associate Research Scientist, UCSF, Ob/Gyn and Reproductive Sciences
Multi-pollutant profiles of hormonally mediated cancers and endogenous hormones in men and women
2020
Environmental Health Research Pilot Awards
Raquel Chamorro-Garcia, PhD, Assistant Professor, UC Santa Cruz, Microbiology and Environmental Toxicology
Proteomic profiling of primordial germ cells upon preconception exposure to environmental factors (using HTCS and Proteomics)
Aras Mattis, MD, PhD, Assistant Professor, UCSF, Pathology, Joshua Robinson, PhD (co-I)
Environmental Chemical Exposures and Liver Developmental Toxicity (using Proteomics)
Amy Padula, PhD, Associate Professor, UCSF, Ob/Gyn and Reproductive Sciences, Stephanie Gaw, MD, PhD (co-I), Joshua Robinson, PhD (co-I)
Wildfire smoke in pregnant people in San Francisco Bay Area (using TRSC)