A dance piece using improvisational techniques to confront white supremacy and catalyze social change by developing methods of inquiry rooted in experimental performance to fuel cathartic, game-changing conversation around privilege, supremacy, economics, immigration and race.
An interdisciplinary work of dance, theater and visual art installations that explores the innate connection between creation/destruction and birth/death through the lens of queer performance and intergenerational Drag ancestry.
A contemporary evening-length dance work that will dismantle the toxic side of Catholic dogma in the Latinx/BIPOC community and present a vision for positive change.
A new theatrical work based on the stories, lives and performances created by women from UCSF’s Women’s HIV Clinic in collaboration with The Medea Project: Theater for Incarcerated Women/HIV Circle. Delving into themes of forgiveness, joy, friendship and sisterhood, this piece explores and dramatizes HIV clinic participants’ pivotal childhood memories while creating space for healing […]
A dance/music/language collaborative project by Risa Jaroslow, Rinde Eckert, Margaret Jenkins, Jon Kinzel and Vicky Shick. All artists of several different disciplines, all fully “emerged,” all over 55, most over 70, “Unstill Life” is an experiment in shedding the director role and coming together as equal partners to investigate the changing body, beauty, endurance, loss […]
The first aim of this grant was to compare the motility results provided by the GutTracker Wireless Patch System with an existing FDA cleared measurement, the Medtronic SmartPill. GutTracker results are reported in terms of the frequencies and strengths of peaks in time-based frequency spectra. These were shown to be in concordance with spectral analysis […]
In this study, we discovered the efficacy and safety of the specific wavelength and bandwidth of ultraviolet-A (UVA) light as an antimicrobial modality. In vitro safety studies using a fiber optic UVA delivery system supported by the Kenneth Rainin Foundation showed that, under specific and monitored conditions, UVA can be safely applied even at close […]
In this project, we propose to harness the antimicrobial and anti-inflammatory properties of ultraviolet-A (UVA) light to manipulate the intestinal microbiome and reduce inflammation in ulcerative colitis (UC) patients. Clinical trials for therapeutics in UC typically exclude patients with distal colitis/proctitis, and most patients do not achieve remission, even with optimized dosing of biologic therapy […]
Early studies indicate that the specific carbohydrate diet (SCD) may improve clinical symptoms and inflammatory biomarkers, but there is not enough high-quality evidence to be sure. N-of-1 (or single-subject repeated cross-over) trials are an ideal method for addressing this important research question. By focusing on the effect of diet for a single individual, N-of-1 studies […]
There is a clear unmet need for ulcerative colitis (UC) patients – only a quarter of UC patients achieve remission with present therapies. Currently, there is no standardized way that studies are conducted for UC, and each study is doing things slightly different, which makes the results hard to compare and slows drug development. The […]
