# Mentoring Translational Scientists in Clinical Trial Immune Monitoring

> **NIH NIH K24** · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA AT DAVIS · 2021 · $187,710

## Abstract

Title: Mentoring Physician Scientists in Patient-Oriented Research
ABSTRACT
Dr. Maverakis is a physician-scientist trained in immunogenetics, glycobiology, and big data
analytics. His research focuses on the use of state-of-the-art methodologies to study patients with
autoimmunity and cancer patients receiving immunotherapy. His group constructs diagnostic
classifiers, as well as predictive classifiers to identify patients who will: experience a progression
in disease severity, respond to a particular therapy, or develop an associated disease. With this
goal in mind, Dr. Maverakis and his collaborator, Carlito Lebrilla, have created a site-specific map
of the human serum glycome for use in biomarker research and discovery. Dr. Maverakis is an
award-winning mentor with a strong track-record of training clinical-investigators. He is the
director of the UC Davis Immune Monitoring Shared Resource and in this capacity, is charged
with mentoring young clinical-scientists, especially with regards to clinical trial ancillary study
design. An NIH K24 Award will be integral to his future development as a successful mentor to
young clinical-investigators. It will ensure that he has protected time to teach and mentor clinical-
investigators from various backgrounds to help them obtain research independence. He presents
a plan for improving the quality and quantity of his mentoring, including extending his
mentoring activities to other academic institutions. In addition, Dr. Maverakis proposes to
augment his current patient-oriented-research by designing and conducting early stage clinical
studies to explore novel treatments and their biomechanisms.

## Key facts

- **NIH application ID:** 10134041
- **Project number:** 1K24AR077313-01A1
- **Recipient organization:** UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA AT DAVIS
- **Principal Investigator:** Emanual M. Maverakis
- **Activity code:** K24 (R01, R21, SBIR, etc.)
- **Funding institute:** NIH
- **Fiscal year:** 2021
- **Award amount:** $187,710
- **Award type:** 1
- **Project period:** 2021-03-01 → 2026-02-28

## Primary source

NIH RePORTER: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10134041

## Citation

> US National Institutes of Health, RePORTER application 10134041, Mentoring Translational Scientists in Clinical Trial Immune Monitoring (1K24AR077313-01A1). Retrieved via AI Analytics 2026-05-22 from https://api.ai-analytics.org/grant/nih/10134041. Licensed CC0.

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