ITI Seed Grants 2016-18
The Stanford Institute for Immunity, Transplantation and Infection (ITI)
Announcing the Recipients of the 2016-18 ITI Seed Grants and Young Investigator Awards
funded by:
- The Marion Avery Family Seed Grant Endowment for ITI
- The Dean's office, Stanford School of Medicine
- CHRI Funding
- The Institute for Immunity, Transplantation and Infection (ITI)
Grants for Faculty Researchers
The following faculty researchers each received $50,000 to fund their projects:
| Eric A. Appel, Ph.D. Assistant Professor of Materials Science & Engineering and Mark M. Davis, PhD |
Development of Single Injection Vaccines by Leveraging Biomaterial Technologies |
| Eugene Butcher, MD, Pathology and Juliana Idoyaga, PhD, M&I |
Branching developmental pathways through high dimensional single cell analysis in trajectory space: application to tissue-tropic dendritic cell development and the blood endothelial response to immunization |
| Shirit Einav, MD, M&I, Stephen Quake, PhD, Bioengineering, Purvesh Khatri, PhD, ITI | Identification of patients at risk of developing severe dengue infection |
| Stephen Galli, MD, Pathology | Detection and quantification of basophil activation during allergic reactions using a new avidin-based diagnostic tool |
| Desiree Labeaud, MD, Pediatrics ID, Holden Maecker, PhD, M&I, Scott Boyd, MD, Pathology | Characterizing the Effects of Antenatal Parasitic Infection on Fetal Immune System Development |
| Matthew P Lungren MD MPH, Radiology, Christopher Contag PhD, M&I | In-vivo imaging of phage therapy kinetics in eradication of biofilm-associated pseudomonas aeruginosa lung infection |
| Emmanual Mignot, MD, PhD, Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences | Genetics of T cell response to trivalent flu vaccination and relevance to narcolepsy |
Grants for Young Investigators
The following young investigators each received $25,000 to fund their projects:
| Siyuan Ding, PhD, M&I | Genetic Interrogation of Host Factors Essential to Rotavirus Infection |
| Eliver Ghosn, PhD, Genetics | Regenerative potential of human fetal versus adult HSC transplantation: B lymphocytes and macrophages heterogeneity |
| Hedwich Kuipers, PhD, Infectious Diseases | Heparan sulfate – IL-2 interactions in the control of autoimmunity |
| Marc Lucia Perez, PhD, Surgery | Defining the CD8+ T-cell receptor and functional profile in T cell-mediated allograft rejection |
| Vamsee Mallajosyula, PhD, ITI | Delineating how the CD4+ T cell response to influenza vaccination in humans relates to the antibody response |
| Brooke Ann Napier, PhD, M&I | Determining the diagnostic and therapeutic power of complement-receptor C3aR in human sepsis |
| Nicole Paulk, PhD, Pediatrics | Sexually dimorphic viral-host interactions in pediatric liver diseases |
| Heshan Peiris, PhD, Developmental Biology | Targeted immunosuppression and delivery of therapeutics to human pancreatic islets with chimeric antigen receptor T regulatory cells |