Seed Grant Winner Fall 2025
Joy Okoro, PhD
Department: Experimental Medicine (Early-Stage Investigator)
Project: Spatial Transcriptomic Mapping of CMV-Mediated TB Susceptibility in Mouse Lung
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Seed Grant Winners Spring 2026
Salil Soman, MD
Department: Radiology
Collaborator: Michael Peluso, MD (HIV, Infectious Diseases & Global Medicine, UCSF)
Project: Brain Oxygen Extraction MRI in Neuro-PASC: A Metabolic Readout of Spike Persistence
Natasha Spottiswoode, MD
Department: Infectious Diseases (Early-Stage Investigator)
Collaborator: Jonathan Liu, MD (Radiology)
Project: Computed Tomography Imaging and Plasma Metagenomic Sequencing for Lower Respiratory Tract Infection
Jeff Whitman, MD, PhD
Department: Laboratory Medicine (Early-Stage Investigator)
Collaborator: Henry VanBrocklin, PhD (Radiology)
Project: Discovery of Molecular Imaging Targets for Chagas Cardiomyopathy
Alex Mohapatra, MD
Department: Experimental Medicine / Pulmonology (Early-Stage Investigator)
Collaborator: Joel Ernst, MD (Experimental Medicine)
Project: Localization and Ontogeny of Differentiating Macrophages in Mtb-Infected Mice
Marta Calvet i Mirabent, PhD
Institution: Gladstone Institute of Virology (Early-Stage Investigator)
Collaborator: Tim Henrich, MD (Experimental Medicine)
Project: Cross-Tissue Single-Cell Spatial Analysis of the San Francisco Patient, a Natural Controller of HIV