Congratulations to the 2007 Sandler Postdoctoral Research Fellows!

The Sandler Postdoctoral Research Fellowships are designed to encourage creative and independent research driven by postdoctoral scholars. The fellowships support UCSF postdocs who wish to explore biomedical research directions that are not directly linked to the research interests of their postdoctoral mentor and require the engagement of an additional collaborator or co-mentor.

These one year fellowships consist of $15,000 research allowance for meetings, courses, or research expenses. A panel of nine UCSF faculty decided the winners.

The Sandler Fellows were recently recognized in a feature article on the School of Medicine Website.

The 2007 Awardees are:

Basic Research Fellowships:

Franklin Hays-  "Molecular basis of chloroquine resistance in Plamodium falciparum"

Charles Harris- "Molecular dissection of glucocorticoid action in metabolic syndrome"

Edward Hsiao- "G-protein signaling in bone healing"

Lawrence LeClaire- "Regulation and significance of Arp2 phosphorylation in motile cells"

Susanne Rafelski- "Mitochondrial morphology and dynamics: a computational imaging approach"

Jan Siemens- "Influence of peripheral temperature detection on core body temperature regulation"

Stefan Taubert- "Identifying targets and genetic interactions of Mediator subunits in a metazoan"

Alejandro Villarino- "Understanding the role of microRNAs in T Cell tolerance and auto-immunity"

Gwendolyn Wilmes- "Investigating a role for the proteosome in mRNA export"

Xiahong Xu- "Role of estrogen signaling in the arcuate nucleus of hypothalamus in regulation of feeding behavior"

Translational Research Fellowships:

Elaine Lau- "Evaluating GRK2 kinase inhibition as a novel strategy for treating cardiac hypertrophy and failure"

Thadeus Allen- "Investigating the role of Notch signaling in bronchiolitis obliterans/organizing pneumonia (BOOP)"

Tzu-Hsuan Huang- "Functional analysis of miR-21 involvement in HER2/neu-mediated cancer cell invasion"

Timothy Verstynen- "Noise or adaptive tuning? Measuring directional tuning in human motor planning areas and their contribution to movement variability using fMRI "

The next call for applications will be in August 2008. Please send inquiries to Tracy Kress, kresst@medsch.ucsf.edu.