See below for our CTSI Core Voucher Award recipients. Along with viewing recent awardees, you can also search across all years.

Current Awardees (2023)

Cedars-Sinai

Cedars-Sinai

Co-Inv: Sarah Kilpatrick

Proposal Title: "Postpartum Heart Health Pilot Study"

Cedars-Sinai

Proposal Title: "Benchwork regimen to support personalized clinical trials for Cystic Fibrosis Patients of minority race"

Cedars-Sinai

Proposal Title: "PTP4A1 inhibition for scleroderma"

Cedars-Sinai

Co-Inv: Talin Haritunians

Proposal Title: "Global peptidome screen for anti-epithelial autoantibodies in IBD"

Cedars-Sinai

Co-Inv: Antonio Carlos Fuentes Fayos

Proposal Title: "Empirical determination of the in vivo immunopeptidome in high-grade glioma"

Cedars-Sinai

Proposal Title: "Lipidomic Biomarkers of Cardiac Remodeling Post-Myocardial Infarction"

Cedars-Sinai

Proposal Title: "The Intersection between Chlamydia pneumoniae infection, APOE4, and Alzheimer's Disease"

Cedars-Sinai

Proposal Title: "Single nucleus multi-omic ATAC-seq and RNA-seq of ALS patient spinal cords"

Cedars-Sinai

Co-Inv: Anna Clara Milesi Galdino

Proposal Title: "Determining mechanisms or antibiotic cross-protection using bacterial single cell RNA sequencing"

Cedars-Sinai

Proposal Title: "IL27 signaling and immune tumor microenvironement of human liver cancer"

Cedars-Sinai

Co-Inv: Marcela Haro

Proposal Title: "Characterization of novel subtypes driven by the immune landscapes of endometriosis"

Cedars-Sinai

Co-Inv: Ruchi Shah

Proposal Title: "Single cell RNA-seq of normal and diabetic corneas"

Cedars-Sinai

Co-Inv: Edward Novinbakht

Proposal Title: "A Spatial transcriptomics platform to identify hypothalamic neurons regulating metabolism"

Cedars-Sinai

Proposal Title: "Transcriptomics of commensal-reactive leukocytes in IBD"

Cedars-Sinai

Proposal Title: "Spatial profiling to characterize pancreatic beta cell dysfunction in pancreatic cancer-associated diabetes"

Cedars-Sinai

Proposal Title: "Imaging Mass Cytometry Analysis to Assess the Association of Epithelial RIPK2 Protein Expression with Immune Infiltration in Prostate Cancer"

Cedars-Sinai

Co-Inv: Ruoxiang Wang

Proposal Title: "Preclinical evaluation of a subcellular-targeted therapy for lethal prostate cancer"


Charles Drew University

Charles Drew University

Co-Inv: Juan Carlos Rivera

Proposal Title: "Transcriptional changes in hepatic steatosis induced by electronic cigarettes"


Lundquist/Harbor-UCLA

Lundquist/Harbor-UCLA

Proposal Title: "Metabolic co-dependencies of lung cancer cells treated with a preclinical NMT inhibitor to uncover combination therapy approaches"

Lundquist/Harbor-UCLA

Proposal Title: "Transcriptional networks governing A. fumigatus virulence"

Lundquist/Harbor-UCLA

Proposal Title: "Investigating sensory neuron antigen sensing profile in the lung"

Lundquist/Harbor-UCLA

Proposal Title: "Screen for similar compounds and investigation of mechanisms of genotoxicity of an FDA approved antiviral drug"

Lundquist/Harbor-UCLA

Proposal Title: "Mammalian cells associated expression of multi-drug resistant Candida auris cell wall Proteins."

Lundquist/Harbor-UCLA

Proposal Title: "Trends of Febrile Seizure Characteristics before and during the COVID-19 Pandemic"

Lundquist/Harbor-UCLA

Proposal Title: "Identifying the proteomic signature during Candida albicans  hyphae to lateral yeast growth"

Lundquist/Harbor-UCLA

Proposal Title: "Characterization of a novel mouse model for breast cancer"

Lundquist/Harbor-UCLA

Proposal Title: "Single-nuclei Analysis of Mature Sperm Cells"

Lundquist/Harbor-UCLA

Proposal Title: "In vivo spatial transcriptome of immune evasive giant islets"


UCLA

UCLA

Co-Inv: Thorsten Althoff

Proposal Title: "Structures of human Sodium Glucose Transporters by Cryo-Electron Microscopy "

UCLA

Co-Inv: Carol Mangione

Proposal Title: "Comparative Effectiveness of Lung Cancer Screening Strategies & Novel Predictors of Access"

UCLA

Co-Inv: Katie Campbell

Proposal Title: "Characterizing localized cellular signals in tumor reactive CD8 T cells using spatial transcriptomics in melanoma biopsies responding to immune checkpoint inhibitors"

UCLA

Proposal Title: "A Smart Stent Bioelectronics for Hemodynamic Sensing "

UCLA

Co-Inv: Nelson SooHoo 

Proposal Title: "Evaluation of preclinical prototypes for a novel 'compliant' implanted ankle-foot prosthesis"

UCLA

Co-Inv: David Zarrin

Proposal Title: "Validation of a Novel Ventriculoperitoneal Shunt Failure Detection System"

UCLA

Co-Inv: Gay Crooks

Proposal Title: "The role of lymphatic endothelium in the developing thymus"

UCLA

Co-Inv: Alexandra Klomhaus

Proposal Title: "Detection of Childhood-Onset Mental Health Disorders using Electronic Health Records with PheCAP and Deep Learning"

UCLA

Co-Inv: Hope Pan

Proposal Title: "Structure-based discovery of small molecules that disaggregate amyloid fibrils"

UCLA

Co-Inv: Douglas Chapski

Proposal Title: "RNA-Seq Analysis of Postoperative Atrial Fibrillation in Isolated Human Left Atrial Cardiomyocytes"

UCLA

Proposal Title: "Structure determination of 7SK RNP complexes that regulate eukaryotic and HIV-1 transcription by sequestering P-TEFb"

UCLA

Co-Inv: Elaine Hsiao

Proposal Title: "Identifying microbiome genetic adaptations in Alzheimer's disease"

UCLA

Proposal Title: "ZNF292 loss as a novel aggressive subtype of human prostate cancer"

UCLA

Co-Inv: Spyridion Hasiakos

Proposal Title: "Targeting ORAI channels to treat T cell-mediated Neuroinflammation"

UCLA

Proposal Title: "Integrative Multiomics to Uncover Novel Genes and Networks in Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension"

UCLA

Proposal Title: "Deriving dental epithelial progenitor cells to bioengineer teeth"

UCLA

Co-Inv: Julianne Yang

Proposal Title: "A Crohn's Disease-associated SLC39A8 Variant Promotes Ileal Inflammation via the Gut Microbiome"

UCLA

Proposal Title: "ATAC-seq to evaluate HIV integration sites in proliferating HIV-infected cells in vivo"

UCLA

Co-Inv: Kevyn Hart

Proposal Title: "Quantifying the Mutational Landscape and Fidelity of Retroviral Reverse Transcriptase"

UCLA

Proposal Title: "Reducing the rates of missed cancers in patients with Barrett's esophagus"

UCLA

Co-Inv: Alex Kot

Proposal Title: "Genetic determinants of endoplasmic reticulum stress in osteogenesis imperfecta"

UCLA

Co-Inv: Wei Chen

Proposal Title: "Nanoparticulate Mineralized Collagen Scaffolds with Resorbable Cerebral Protection Induce In Vivo Bone Regeneration"

UCLA

Proposal Title: "Pilot Study: Evaluating the feasibility of rTMS Treatment delivered at individual resonant frequencies for Subjects suffering from Major Depressive Disorder"

UCLA

Proposal Title: "The Validation of a Trauma and Adversity Screener"

UCLA

Co-Inv: Paul Shekelle

Proposal Title: "Understanding Veterans with Elevated Hemoglobin A1c at Time of Initial Testing"

UCLA

Proposal Title: "Single nuclei studies of Duchenne muscular dystrophy"

UCLA

Co-Inv: Edurne Mugarza Strobl

Proposal Title: "In vivo overexpression screen to identify mediators of CAR-T cell persistence in melanoma"

UCLA

Co-Inv: Nataly Naser Al Deen

Proposal Title: "Single cell spatial profiling to delineate tumor-T-cell interactions in desmoplastic melanoma treated with anti-PD-1 therapy"

UCLA

Proposal Title: "Case Series of Flashed Light Therapy and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Adolescents with ADHD and Delayed Sleep Timing"

UCLA

Proposal Title: "Community-based drug checking validation"

UCLA

Co-Inv: Songlin Li

Proposal Title: "Transcriptomic profiles of the hypocretin neurons in opiate addiction"

UCLA

Proposal Title: "Localizing mitochondrial DNA mutations in aged skin "

UCLA

Co-Inv: Alvin Chan

Proposal Title: "Manipulating bile acids to target lipid absorption for non-alcoholic fatty liver disease"

UCLA

Co-Inv: Jeffrey Harding 

Proposal Title: "In vivo gene editing for HIV cure"

UCLA

Proposal Title: "Screenings for targets that downregulate DNA mismatch repair protein MSH3 or upregulate Fanconi-associated nuclease 1 (FAN1)"

UCLA

Proposal Title: "Testing therapeutic strategies for patients with APOA5 deficiency"