Fully funds SEEDS coaching and training for OUSD K-2 tutors, City of Oakland Head Start teachers and family childcare providers, and several Oakland charter schools.

Supports the Quality Counts Campaign and other literacy-focused programming and reporting.

Supports after-school literacy interventions, leader coaching, teacher planning and family engagement for one OUSD school and two charter schools in the Sobrante Park neighborhood.

Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD) comprises incurable chronic diseases of the gut which oscillate between periods of disease worsening (i.e. relapse) and relatively normal health (i.e. remission). Whilst current medicines often reduce this see-sawing problem, their effectiveness eventually wanes to the point where a large percentage of IBD patients still need hospitalisation and major surgery during […]

We have discovered a novel single-gene defect in patients with pediatric IBD, setting the stage for new molecular and cellular discoveries to dissect biology stemming from human disease. Here, we will pursue two aims that will open new doors by leveraging the strength of preclinical models to uncover mechanisms by which the gene we identified […]