George and Judy Marcus Awards
Marcus Program in Precision Medicine Innovation
2018 Awardees
The Marcus Program in Precision Medicine Innovation is pleased to announce the results of the 2018 call for innovative collaborative project proposals for the Seeding Bold Ideas and Transformative Integrated Research Initiatives. We received a total of 39 excellent and potentially transformative trans-disciplinary research proposals from faculty across UCSF. 17 cross-disciplinary teams submitted proposals to the Seeding Bold Ideas (SBI) Initiative and 22 teams submitted to the Transformative Integrated Research (TIR) Initiative.
A committee of researchers representing basic, clinical, computational health, and social/behavioral sciences reviewed, discussed, and selected 7 SBI projects and 4 TIR projects for funding.
The awardees for the Marcus Program in Precision Medicine Innovation 2018 Seeding Bold Ideas (SBI) Initiative are:
Team |
Proposal Title |
Eric Collisson, MD |
Combination Therapy Targeting Autophagy and the MEK/ERK Pathway in Pancreatic Cancer |
Hannah Glass, MD, CM, MAS |
UCSF NSR-GENE (University of California, San Francisco Neonatal Seizure Registry, GEnetics of post-Neonatal Epilepsy) |
Bo Huang, PhD |
Oncogenic signaling by intracellular kinase protein granules |
R. Katie Kelley, MD |
Hepatitis B Virus-associated mechanisms of immune escape and resistance to immunotherapy in HCC |
A. Hunter Shain, PhD |
Mutation burden of individual keratinocytes as a biomarker to predict squamous cell carcinoma |
Joseph Shieh, MD, PhD |
Essential Genes and Early Disease Diagnostics |
Doris Wang, MD, PhD |
Using chronic brain implants to understand and enhance motor learning in Parkinson's disease |
The awardees for the Marcus Program in Precision Medicine Innovation 2018 Transformative Integrated Research (TIR) Initiative are:
Team |
Proposal Title |
Eric Collisson, MD |
Tailored, Real-time Models of Rare Driver Mutations in Human Cancer |
Robert Blelloch, MD, PhD |
Suppression of exosome biogenesis as a means of overcoming resistance to immunocheckpoint inhibitors |
Andrei Goga, MD, PhD |
Understanding Nerve-Tumor Cell Interactions in Oral Cancer Perineural Invasion and Metastasis |
Jimmie Ye, PhD |
Single cell RNA and Protein Profiling to Monitor Lupus Flares and Response to Treatment |