COVID-19 Basic, Translational and Clinical Research Funding Opportunity
Applications are no longer being accepted.
Researchers across UCI are searching for ways to contribute to the effort of slowing and stopping the spread of COVID-19 and minimize its negative impacts. In order to support these efforts, a UCI Joint Research Fund—supported by multiple schools and the UCI Office of Research—was created to fund meritorious proposals.
Awarded projects and their summaries are below:
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“UCI COVID-19 Basic, Translational and Clinical Research Fund"
LIST OF AWARDEES
Serosurveillance of Blood Bank Donor Specimens for SARS-CoV-2 Antibodies during COVID-19 Outbreak using Coronavirus Antigen Microarray
- Saahir Khan, MD, PhD
- Phil Felgner, PhD
Development, Validation, and Deployment of a COVID-19 Vulnerability Scoring System (VSS) with an Explainable Artificial Intelligence Approach
- Daniel Chow, MD
- Alpesh N. Amin, MD, MBA
- Bernadette Boden-Albala, PhD, MPH
- Daniela Bota, MD, PhD
- Peter D. Chang, MD
- Jennifer E. Soun, MD
- Edwin Monuki, MD, PhD
- Jung In Park, RN, PhD
- Leslie Thompson, PhD
- Xiaohui Xie, PhD
* The second video "Identifying vulnerable populations" represents a new award that expands on the scope of the previous award described in the first video.
A Small Animal Model of COVID-19
- Donald Forthal, MD
- Alan Barbour, MD
- Anthony Long, PhD
- Ilhem Messaoudi, PhD
- Michael Buchmeier, PhD
Identifying Alternative Filter Materials and Mask Designs for the Rapid Production of Crowdsourced Medical Masks
- Jonathan Realmuto, PhD
- James Smith, PhD
- Michael Kleinman, PhD
- Terence Sanger, MD, PhD
Antibody-Dependent Enhancement of SARS-CoV-2
- Donald Forthal, MD
- Saahir Khan, MD, PhD
Surveillance at the frontlines: Prevalence of undetected COVID-19 among healthcare providers at UCI Medical Center
- Ilhem Messaoudi, PhD
- Miriam Bender, PhD, RN
- Sanghyuk Shin, PhD
- Dominik Wodarz, PhD
- Valdimir Minin, PhD
Aptamer-based detection and blocking of the SARS CoV-2 spike glycoprotein
- Andrej Luptak, PhD
- Bert Semler, PhD
- Michael Buchmeier, PhD
Cell-free, Cellular COVID-19 Vaccine
- Young Jik Kwon, PhD
- Donald N. Forthal, MD
An Unbiased Epitomic Approach to Discovering Novel Protective Antigens and Antibodies for Rapid Treatment of Novel Corona Virus COVID19
- Charles Glabe, PhD
- Donald Forthal, MD
Developing Therapeutic Aptamers to Treat COVID-19
- John C. Chaput, PhD
A surveillance-based approach to estimating uncounted COVID-19 cases
- Bernadette Boden-Albala, DrPH
- Ilhem Messaoudi, PhD
- Tim Bruckner, PhD
Structure-based development of broadly-neutralizing anti-SARS-CoV-2 antibodies
- Rongsheng Jin, PhD
Serologic Surveillance of Health Care Workers for SARS-CoV-2 Antibodies During COVID-19 Pandemic Using a Coronavirus Antigen Microarray
- Saahir Khan, MD, PhD
- Sebastian D. Schubl, MD, FACS
- Philip L. Felgner, PhD
Comprehensive Specimen Database For The Study Of Covid-19 Pathology And Outcomes
- Robert Edwards, MD, PhD
- Daniela Bota, MD, PhD
- Suzanne Sandmeyer, PhD
- Dan M. Cooper, MD
- Kai Zheng, PhD
- Frank Zaldivar, PhD
- Saahir Khan, MD, PhD
- Ilhem Messaoudi-Powers, PhD
Virus BioResistor to Detect Anti-SARS-CoV-2 Antibodies for COVID-19 Disease Status Monitoring
- Gregory Weiss, PhD
- Reginald Penner, PhD
- Philip Felgner, PhD
Detection of SARS-CoV-2 in human sewage as a marker of COVID-19 epidemic
- Sunny Jiang, PhD
Low Cost Camera Based Microarray Imager
- Philip Felgner, PhD
- Rafael Ramiro de Assis, PhD
- Per Niklas Hedde, PhD
Accelerating pipelines toward COVID-19 therapies and vaccines using high-throughput single-cell functional screening
- Weian Zhao, PhD
- Donald Forthal, MD
- Philip Felgner, PhD
Coping with cascading threats: A prospective study of responses to the COVID-19 pandemic in a nationally representative sample of Americans
- E. Alison Holman, PhD
- Roxane Cohen Silver, PhD
Rapid on-demand evolution of binding proteins against coronavirus
- Chang Liu, PhD
Targeting the coronavirus poly(A) tail as a therapy
- Yongsheng Shi, PhD
Host determinants of disease severity in SARS-CoV-2-infected patients
- Ilhem Messaoudi, PhD
- Weining Shen, PhD
- Don Forthal, MD
- Michael Buchmeier, PhD
Preparing UCI to participate in studies involving recovered COVID-19 patients' blood products for clinical application and Research
- Minh-Ha Tran, PhD
- Don Forthal, PhD
- Alpesh Amin, MD
- Dan Cooper, MD
- Daniela Bota, MD, PhD
Host determinants of disease severity in SARS-CoV-2 infected patients
- Sanghyuk Shin, PhD
- Ilhem Messaoudi, Ph.D
- Bernadette Boden-Albala, PhD
- Dominik Wodarz, PhD
- Valdimir Minin, PhD
Longitudinal surveillance of health care works for correlation of SARS-CoV-2 antibody profiles with occupational risk and clinical immunity
- Saahir Khan, MD, PhD
- Sebasitan Schubl, MD
- Phil Felgner, PhD
- Huw Daview, PhD
ER utilization among undocumented immigrants during the COVID-19 pandemic
- Annie Ro, PhD
- Tim Allen Bruckner, PhD
Healing @ Home: A Geriatric ED Feasibility Study to Reduce Hospital Admissions During the COVID-19 Pandemic
- Lisa Gibbs, MD
- Sonia Sehgal, MD
- Julie Rousseau, PhD, RN
- Jennifer Roh, MD
- Jung Ha Lee, PhD, RN
Development and validation of an improved mouse model for investigation of coronavirus infection and pathology
- Grant MacGregor, PhD
- Kim Green, PhD
- Tom Lane, PhD
- Eric Pearlman PhD
Covid 19 Unity Project: How social and economic disruption impacts trust, solidarity and risk reducing behaviors among vulnerable LatinX residents of Orange County, from before to during the pandemic - A community-engaged mixed-methods longitudinal cohort study
- John Billimek, PhD
- Vanessa Kauffman
Risk for COVID-19 Infection and Substance Use Patterns Among Substance-Using Homeless Adults
- Adey Nyamathi, PhD
- Sanghyuk Shin, PhD
- Lillian Gelberg, MD
- Alicia Chang, MD
- Saahir Khan, MD
- Ilhem Messaodi, PhD
UCI CHOC Health School Restart
- Dan Cooper, MD
- Erlinda Ulloa, MD
- Diana Stephens, MBA
Orange County Health Equity COVID-19 Community-Academic Partnership: Informing a Contact Tracing Initiative
- Alana LeBron, PhD
- Sora Park Tanjasiri, DrPH, MPH
- Salvador Zarate, PhD
- Abigail Reyes
Predicting and Preventing Behaviors that Risk the Spread of the Novel Coronavirus/COVID-19
- J. Zoe Klemfuss, PhD
Use of Self-Regulation Training with Heart Rate Variability Biofeedback via Telehealth in the Management of Stress in COVID-19 Frontilne Trainees
- Darlene Lee, ND, MSW
- Arvin Jenab, ND
- Shaista Malik, MD, MPH, PhD