Previously Awarded Seed Grants to UCLA Faculty
| 2019 | |
| Joshua Hyong-Jin Cho, MD, PhD, Assistant Professor Department of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences, UCLA; Marta Epeldegui, PhD, Assistant Professor-in-Residence, Obstetrics and Gynecology, UCLA; Richard Olmstead, PhD, Research Scientist, UCLA; Otoniel Martinez-Maza, PhD, UCLA Departments of MIMG and Epidemiology, UCLA; Roger Detels, PhD, Distinguished Research Professor of Epidemiology and Infectious Diseases, UCLA School of Public Health | “Pilot Randomized Controlled Trial of Digital Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy for Insomnia in HIVInfected Individuals” |
| 2018 | |
| Michelle Craske, PhD; Professor of Psychology, Psychiatry, and Biobehavioral Sciences; Julie Bower, PhD, Professor, Health Psychology and Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences PhD; and Steve Cole, PhD, Professor of Medicine and Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences | “Treatment for Affective Dimensions and Inflammation: Effects of Positive and Negative Affect Treatments on Inflammatory Activity” |
| Joshua Hyong-Jin Cho, MD, PhD, Assistant Professor Department of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences; Jonathan Jacobs, PhD, Assistant Professor, Department of Medicine; Sungeun Melanie Lee, MD, PhD, UCLA Psychiatry Resident | "Insomnia and Microbiome in a Human Experimental Model of Depression using Endotoxin" |
| 2017 | |
| Julienne Bower, PhD, Professor, Health Psychology and Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences, UCLA / Chloe Boyle, Graduate Student | “Stress, Inflammation and Reward Processing: Implications for Major Depressive Disorder” |
| Jennifer Silvers, PhD Assistant Professor, Development and Social Psychology | “Neuroinflammatory markers of early life stress during adolescent development” |
| Yonca Bulut, MD, Professor of Pediatrics; Denise Purdie, Assistant Professor of Pediatrics | Impact of Mindful Awareness Practices in Pediatric Residency Training |
| 2016 | |
| Kharah Ross, PhD / UCLA Health Psychology Co-Investigators: Judith E. Carroll, Ph.D. Assistant Professor, Deparmtnet fo Psychiatry; Steve Cole, PhD; Professor, Department of Medicine; Chris Dunkel Schetter, PhD, Professor, Department of Psychology | "Preconception and Prenatal Stress, Dried Blood Spot Gene Expression, and Birth Outcomes" |
| Adriana Galvan, Ph.D. Department of Psychology; Andrew Fuligni, Ph.D; Department of Psychiatry; Jessica Chiang, Graduate Student Department of Psychology | Prosocial Behavior and Inflammation During Adolescence |
| 2015 | |
| Julie Bower, PhD / Associate Professor, Health Psychology and Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences, UCLA | "Effects of Cancer Treatment on Markers of Cellular Aging and Behavioral Symptoms in Women with Breast Cancer" |
| Jennifer Kruse, MD / Clinical Instructor, Associate Director of C/L Psychiatry, UCLA | "BeVITAL: Behavior, Vitality, Inflammation, Thought and Leukemia/Lymphoma" |
| 2014 | |
| Andrew Fuligni, PhD / Professor Departments of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences and Department of Psychology, UCLA | "Early Family Stress and Inflammation: Underlying Biological and Psychosocial Mechanisms" |
| Joan Asarnow, PhD / Professor of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences, Director, UCLA Youth Stress & Mood Program | "Suicide & Self-Harm Prevention in Adolescents: Understanding Mofiable Risk Processes" |
| Teresa Seeman, PhD, Professor of Medicine & Epidemiology in the Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA | "MESA Telomere project " |
| 2013 | |
| Elizabeth Breen, PhD, Associate Professor, Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences, UCLA | “Neuroinflammation and Chronic Pain” |
| 2012 | |
| Marissa Caudill, MD, Child Psychiatry Research track Fellowship, UCLA | “Effect of sleep disturbance intervention on dendritic cell function and SNS tone in older adults” |
| Hyong Jin Cho, MD, PhD, Cousins Center for PNI Fellowship, UCLA | “Sleep Disturbance as a Vulnerability Factor for Inflammation-Induced Depressed Mood” |
| Naomi Eisenberger, PhD, Professor, Department of Psychology, UCLA and Steve W. Cole, PhD, Professor of Medicine, UCLA | “Giving thanks: Is ‘giving’ key to the health benefits of gratitude?” |
| Martie Hselton, PhD, Professor, Departments of Psychology, Communication, and Institute for Society and Genetics, UCLA University of California, Los Angeles and Steve W. Cole, PhD, Professor of Medicine, UCLA | “The human transcriptional response to intense social bonds: Immune-related gene expression in new love”, |
| James A. Waschek, PhD, Professor of Psychiatry, UCLA and Michael Fanselow, PhD, Professor, Department of Psychology, UCLA | “Sympathetic PACAP signaling in a model of post-traumatic stress disorder: Effect on stress hormone and cytokine responses” |
| 2011 | |
| David Miklowitz, PhD / Professor of Psychiatry in the Division of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at the UCLA Semel Institute | “Proinflammatory Cytokines and Upstream Signaling in Early-Onset Bipolar Disorder” |
| 2008 | |
| Randall Espinoza, MD, MPH / Clinical Professor in the Division of Geriatric Psychiatry, Department of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences at the Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA) Co-Investigator(s): Katherine Narr, PhD (Assistant Professor, Department of Neurology, Geffen School of Medicine, UCLA) | “PNI and Brain Imaging Biomarkers of ECT Response in Major Depression” |
| 2006 | |
| Julienne Bower, Ph.D. / Assistant Professor, Health Psychology and Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences, UCLA | "Predictors of inflammation in community sample of young adults: Stress, depression, and inflammatory risk factor" |
| Naomi Eisenberger, Ph.D. / Assistant Professor, UCLA Social Psychology | "Neural and immunological mechanisms linking social rejection and depression" |
| 2005 | |
| Teresa Seeman, Ph.D. / Professor, Medicine, Epidemiology, UCLA; Judith Carroll, Ph.D. / NPI / Semel Institute Dept. of Psychiatry & Biobehavioral Sciences | "Late life social isolation, sleep disturbance and telomerase activity" |
| Mary-Frances O'Connor, Ph.D. / NPI / Semel Institute Dept. of Psychiatry & Biobehavioral Sciences | "Complicated grief and gene expression in human leukocytes" |
| 2004 | |
| Steven W. Cole, PhD, Assistant Professor, Department of Psychiatry / Hematology-Oncology, UCLA | “Neuroendocrine regulation of cytotoxic T cell response to cancer” |
| Hector F. Myers, PhD, Department of Psychology UCLA | “Biobehavioral Effects of Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction in HIV-Positive Adults” |
| Andrew J. Fuligni, PhD, NPI / Semel Institute Dept. of Psychiatry & Biobehavioral Sciences | “Allostatic Load among Latino Adolescents” |
| 2002 - 03 | |
| Shelley E. Taylor, PhD, Professor, Department of Psychology, UCLA | “Family Environment and Biobehavioral Stress Responses“ |
| Jennifer L. Pike, PhD, Assistat Professor, NPI / Semel Institute | “Tai Chi Chih in the Treatment of Rheumatoid Arthritis“ |
| Bruce D. Naliboff, Ph.D., NPI / Semel Institute, Leah Fitzgerald, Ph.D., School of Nursing | “Plasma and Cerebrospinal Fluid Cytokine Concentrations in Women with Diarrhea Predominant Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS)” |
| Shelly L. Gable, Ph.D., Psychology | “Social Evaluation, Fear of Rejection, and Proinflammatory Cytokine and Cortisol Responses to Stress” |
| Daniel Furst, M.D., Medicine – Rheumatology, Sarosh Motivala, Ph.D. NPI / Semel Institute | “Sleep and Cytokines in Rheumatoid Arthritis: An Examination of the Effects of Enbrel on Objective Measures of Sleep, and Self-Reported Morning Stiffness, Pain and Fatigue” |
| Chris J. Evans, Ph.D. & Edwin Cooper, Ph.D., Sc.D., NPI / Semel Institute & BRI | “Zebrafish as a Potential Model for Analyzing Neuroimmune Mechanisms” |
| Gayle C. Baldwin, Ph.D., Hematology & Oncology | “Cocaine: Making the Connection between Nervous System Stimulation and Immune Dysfunction“ |
| Michael Irwin, M.D., NPI / Semel Institute; Co-Investigator(s): Patti Ganz, M.D., Julie Bower, PhD, Steve Cole, PhD | “Cancer Related Symptoms and Immune Activation in Breast Cancer” / Co-funded Interdisciplinary Cancer Research Grant with Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center, UCL |
| Mentored Seed Grants (2001 to present): | |
| Chloe C Boyle, PhD (Irwin- & Bower-Psychiatry & Psychology) | "Inflammation and Reward Processing Across Middle and Late Adulthood" |
| Kelly Rentscher, PhD (Carroll-Psychiatry) | "Stress and Aging Biology: Couples’ We-ness as a Protective Factor" |
| Mona Moieni, PhD (Eisenberger-Psychology) | "Can an Anti-Inflammatory Medication Reduce Loneliness?" |
| Dominique Piber, MD, PhD (Irwin-Psyciatry) | "Insomnia as a Vulnerability Factor for Inflammation-Related Depression in Older Subjects: An Experimental Biobehavioral Approach" |
| Yvette Milazzo, MD (Irwin-Psychiatry) | "Effects of Sleep Deprivation on Insulin-like-growth Factor-I" |
| Michael Jarcho, PhD (Cole- Medicine) | "An Investigation of Possible Mechanisms Linking Social Rejection and Depression: Hormonal, Neuronal and Immunological" |
| David Black, PhD (Irwin- Psychiatry) | "RCT of Mindful Awareness Practices (MAPs) to Treat Sleep Problems in Older Adults: Impact on Sleep and Inflammation" |
| Judith E Carroll, PhD (Seeman – Geriatrics) | “Subjective Social Isolation and Late Life Vulnerability To Inflammation and Cellular Aging” |
| Donald Lamkin, PhD (Sloan – Psychiatry) | “Molecular mechanisms of stress effects on leukemia” |
| Hyong Jin Cho, MD (Irwin - Psychiatry) | “Inflammatory markers and risk of depression recurrence” |
| George Slavich, PhD (Eisenberger - Psychology) | “Psychoneuroimmunology of life stress, social rejection, and depression” |
| Michael Hoyt, Ph.D (Stanton, Psychology) | “Biobehavioral Factors and Quality of Life in Men with Prostate Cancer” |
| David Creswell, PhD (Lieberman - Psychology) | “Effects of mindfulness training on neural responses to stress in older adults” |
| Mary Hamby, PhD (Sofroniew - Neuroscience | “Elucidation of the epigenetic modifications present in untreated and TGF-β1-treated astrocytes and microglia” |
| Lavinia Fiorentino, PhD (Alessi - Psychology) | “Developing a new behavioral treatment for insomnia: Effects on sleep and the immune system” |
| KaMala Thomas, PhD (Bower – Psychology / Psychiatry) | “Prostate cancer caregivers' health and quality of life” |
| Stephan Gold, PhD (Voskhul - Neuroscience) | “Neuroprotective and immunomodulatory effects of testosterone treatment in multiple sclerosis” |
| Mary-Frances O’Connor, PhD (Wellish & Stanton - Psychiatry) | “Complicated grief in older adults: Physiological underpinnings of emotion regulation” |
| Naomi Eisenberger, PhD (Irwin - Psychiatry) | “An FMRI Study of Cytokine-Associated depression and social pain” |
| Leah Fitzgerald, PhD (Martinez Maza - Obstetrics & Gynecology) | “Cytokine genetics and cancer” |
| Sarosh Motivala, PhD (Irwin - Psychiatry) | “Autonomic stress reactivity and depression in rheumatoid arthritis” |
| Arnaud Lacoste, PhD (Evans – NPI / BRI) | “Catecholaminergic immunoregulation: new perspectives come out of a shell” |
| Erica Sloan, PhD (Cole - Psychiatry / Hematology & Oncology) | “Autonomic nervous system regulation of HIV replication” |
| Alicia Collado-Hidalgo, PhD (Cole - Psychiatry / Hematology & Oncology) | “Inflammatory processes in breast cancer survivors: Implications for fatigue” |
| Roberta Mancuso, PhD (Kemeny & Dunkel Schetter - Social Psychology) | “Effects of emotion on neuroendocrine processes” |
| Anna Beylin, PhD (Fanselow & Taylor - Psychology / Neuroscience) | “Classical conditioning of immune responses” |
| Erin Jacobs, PhD (Campagnoni & Voskhul - Neuroscience) | “Regulation of a myelin protein gene in the immune and nervous systems: implications for multiple sclerosis” |
| Jonas Hannestad, MD, PhD (Licinio – Psychiatry) | “Molecular markers of inflammation in depression” |
| Julienne Bower, PhD (Ganz – Psychology) | “Psychosocial factors in the treatment of malignancies: Coping and fatigue” |
