Microbiome Research Program - 2020 Awardees | The Benioff Center for Microbiome Medicine

We are thrilled to announce the awardees of the 2020 Microbiome Research Program.

Trainee Pilot Awards

Trainee pilot awards were each granted $10,000 for a one-year project.

Joel Babdor

Postdoc, PI: Spitzer

Integrative analysis of the metabolome and the immune system in patients with solid organ transplantation and immunosuppressant therapy – a biological framework to explore the impact of the microbiota derived metabolome on immune-mediated organ rejection.

Pauline Basso

Postdoc, PI: Noble

Interrogating the host response to gut colonization with Candida albicans.

Annamarie Bustion

Graduate student, PI: Pollard

Identifying bacterial enzymes responsible for drug metabolism in the human gut microbiome.

Miqdad Dhariwala

Postdoc, PI: Scharschmidt

Dissecting early life microbial imprinting of skin immune function.

Ying Lu

Staff, PI: Den Besten

Oral microbiome in the pathogenesis of mucosal complications and blood stream infection (BSI) in children undergoing hematopoietic cell transplant (HCT).

Elze Rackaityte

Postdoc, PI: DeRisi

Establishing a Reference Human Microbiome Peptidome for Identification of Autoantibodies.

Ryan Rampersaud

Fellow, PI: Wolkowitz, Mellon

Genotypic and Phenotypic Studies of Human Lactobacillus Isolates from Major Depressive Disorder.

Lea Sedghi

Grad student, PI: Kapila

Effect of Processed Grain Consumption on the Dentogingival Microbiome and Immune Response in Periodontal Disease.

Vaibhav Upadhyay

Fellow, PI: Turnbaugh

The Gut Microbiome in Predisposition to and as a Marker of Sars-CoV-2 Infection.

Karin Wu

Fellow, PI: Schafer

Role of the Gut Microbiome in Bone Metabolism in Severe Obesity and After Sleeve Gastrectomy.

Faculty Pilot Awards

Faculty pilot awards were each granted $150,000 for a two-year project.

Nadav Ahituv

Professor

Characterization of the interaction between breast milk supply, metabolome, maternal genetics and microbiome with the infant gut microbiome in the first year of life