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The design and evaluation of strategies to implement HIV prevention interventions for pregnant women in community pharmacy settings
PROJECT SUMMARY: Pregnant women in high HIV-burden settings such as western Kenya are at increased risk of acquiring HIV infection during pregnancy.The World Health Organization (W...
Establishing the Limits of Perceptual Inference for Visual Motion
Learned statistics about the world play an important role in dictating our sensory perception. When incoming sensory inputs carry limited information, such as in low-contrast condi...
Traditional healer-initiated HIV counseling and testing in rural South Africa
Project Summary In South Africa, HIV testing has been undermined by HIV stigma, distrust in the allopathic health system, a preference for traditional medicine, and distance to the...
Dynamics, Regulation and Function of p53 in Single Cells
The dynamics of signaling systems are critical for controlling gene expression programs and cellular outcomes. The tumor suppressor protein p53 is a transcription factor orchestrat...
Exploring neural crest stem cell-derived enteric neurogenesis in post-embryonic development and regeneration
PROJECT SUMMARY/ABSTRACT I am a gastroenterologist at UCLA, and I am committed to studying enteric neurogenesis to better inform development of therapies for enteric neuropathies s...
Unraveling strain-level variation in the induction of anti-inflammatory responses in the intestine
PROJECT SUMMARY: Inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) is an increasingly prevalent disease that currently affects ~1.3% of adults in the US. IBD is characterized by chronic inflammator...
Telehealth to Improve Prevention of Suicide (TIPS) in EDs
ABSTRACT Significance: Our study will rigorously evaluate whether synchronous, within-visit telemental health evaluation and intervention services can successfully overcome poor ac...
Mixed methods analysis of perceived social status and its influence on oral health
PROJECT SUMMARY/ABSTRACT Background and Candidate: Oral health disparities are significant in the United States and despite considerable advances in prevention, diagnosis, and trea...
Elucidating Oncogenic Mechanisms Underlying Wilms Tumor Using Kidney Organoids
PROJECT SUMMARY/ABSTRACT Wilms tumor is the most common pediatric kidney cancer. Blastemal-predominant tumors are classified as high-risk and have demonstrated resistance to chemot...
Determining the molecular basis of chemosensory behaviors in mosquito-borne filarial nematode parasites
Project Summary During infection and transmission, the larvae of mosquito-borne filarial nematode parasites perform patterned migrations, likely using a variety of sensory modalitie...
Racial/Ethnic Differences in Social Support and Health Among Individuals with Type 2 Diabetes
PROJECT SUMMARY/ABSTRACT About 1 in 10 people in the United States are currently affected by diabetes, an illness that demands constant self-management with respect to diet, physic...
Telehealth to Improve Prevention of Suicide (TIPS) in EDs
ABSTRACT Significance: Our study will rigorously evaluate whether synchronous, within-visit telemental health evaluation and intervention services can successfully overcome poor ac...
The design and evaluation of strategies to implement HIV prevention interventions for pregnant women in community pharmacy settings
PROJECT SUMMARY: Pregnant women in high HIV-burden settings such as western Kenya are at increased risk of acquiring HIV infection during pregnancy. The World Health Organization (...
Research to enable rapid development of High Temperature Superconducting magnets for fusion energy and other applications.
Tokamak Energy Ltd is a private company targeting the delivery of fusion as a clean and safe energy source by 2030. The company aims to do this by combining spherical tokamaks, whi...
Bloca - Sustainable Building Blocks
The Bloca Project is the development of a new construction method for housing. It has been developed as response to the exposed fragility of global supply chains from Covid-19\. Th...
Postdoctoral Research Fellowship in Biology: Effects of Rapid Evolution on Alternative Community States at Multiple Spatial Scales
Fellow's name: Lucas Nell Proposal number: 2209354Research title: Postdoctoral Research Fellowship in Biology: Effects of Rapid Evolution on Alternative Community States at Mu...
Next Generation 3T MRI Scanner
1. PROJECT SUMMARY/ABSTRACT This application requests a Siemens Prisma 3 Tesla MRI system to be located in the Brain Imaging Center (BIC) at the University of California, Berkeley...
Specification of Treg cells: learning from FoxP3 deficiencies
T regulatory (Treg) cells help maintain immunologic tolerance and control inflammation in many contexts. Their dysfunction leads to multi-organ autoimmunity in FoxP3-deficient mice...
Specification of Treg cells: learning from FoxP3 deficiencies
T regulatory (Treg) cells help maintain immunologic tolerance and control inflammation in many contexts. Their dysfunction leads to multi-organ autoimmunity in FoxP3-deficient mice...
Specification of Treg cells: learning from FoxP3 deficiencies
T regulatory (Treg) cells help maintain immunologic tolerance and control inflammation in many contexts. Their dysfunction leads to multi-organ autoimmunity in FoxP3-deficient mice...