2015-16 Awards
2015-16 was the inaugural year for the Research Seed Funding Program. In that year we held two separate competitions, one in fall and one in spring, in the following categories (click on each to scroll quickly to those sections):
Single and Multi-investigator Research Projects (Spring 2016)
AWARDEE(S)
PROJECT TITLE
Mohammad Al Faruque
Critical Infrastructure Forensics (CIF)
Janet Baulch
Human Stem Cell Derived Microvesicle Cargo That Protect the Brain From Clinical Radiotherapy
Brandon Gaut
Grape Genomics: Closing the Gaps
Horacio Legras
Marie Langer, The Life of Our Times
Hartmut Luecke
Biochemical and In Vivo Validation of Novel P53 Reactivating Compounds
Zoran Nenadic
An Implantable Brain-Computer Interface System for Restoring Lower Extremity Movement and Sensation After Neural Injuries
Feng Qiao
Role of Shelterin Components in Telomerase-independent Telomere Maintenance
Cascade Sorte
Effects of Multiple Aspects of Climate Change on Marine Biodiversity and Ecosystem Functioning
Single and Multi-investigator Research Projects (Fall 2015)
AWARDEE(S)
PROJECT TITLE
Bernard Choi
Intraoperative Blood-Flow Imaging During Pediatric Intestinal Surgery
Asantha Cooray
Probing First Galaxies In the Universe with the New Tomographic Ionized-Carbon Mapping Experiment (TIME)
Sergei Grando
Elucidating the Role of Eosinophil Degranulation Proteins on the Basement Membrane: Identifying a Direct Pathogenic Mechanism of Eosinophils in Bullous Pemphigoid
Allon Hochbaum
Thin Film Thermoelectrics for Wearable Power and Cooling
Jennifer Martiny
The Evolutionary Ecology of the Human Virome
Laura Mitchell
Networks and Data Using Present-Day Knowledge Networks to Investigate Historical Social Networks
Jodi Quas
Understanding and Altering Maltreated Children’s Trajectories of Risk
Suzanne Sandmeyer
Bioreactor for Bioengineering and Metabolomics of Microbial Systems
Research Center Proposal Development Projects
AWARDEE(S)
PROJECT TITLE
Bogi Andersen
Skin Biology Resource-Based Center at UCI
John Lowengrub
A U54 Center for Cancer Systems Biology
Xiaoqing Pan
Center of Artificially Engineered Materials (CAEM)
James Randerson
Catastrophic Events, Ecosystem Collapse, and Unanticipated Future Change: Developing the Science Basis for Identifying and Avoiding the Loss of Important Global Ecosystems
Marcelo Wood
UC Irvine Center for Addiction Neuroscience (ICAN)
Technology Development Innovation Fund
AWARDEE(S)
PROJECT TITLE
Michael Demetriou
Glycan-Dependent Immunotherapeutic Molecules
Aimee Edinger
Sphingolipid Drugs Active Against Solid Tumors
Ahmed Eltawil
Self-Interference Cancellation in Full-Duplex System
Jeffrey Krichmar
A Neuromorphic Robot that Interacts with People Through Tactile Sensing and Bi-Directional Learning
Abraham Lee
Integrated Microfluidic System for Sample Enrichment and Concentration
Malcolm Leissring
Peptide Inhibitors of Insulin-Degrading Enzyme