Guive Balooch

EDUCATION

University of California, Berkeley; December 2001
BA in Molecular and Cell Biology

AWARDS & HONORS

• UC Berkeley Accelerated High School Honors Program                                                                1997-1998
  
• Department of Preventive and Restorative Dental Sciences Excellence in Research Award                        2002
  
• 1st Prize at UCSF Research Day                                                                                                             2003
  
• California Tissue Engineering Meeting (CALTEM) Travel Award                                                             2003
  
• 1st Prize at UCSF Research Day                                                                                                             2004
  
• 1st Place Prize AADR/Pfizer Hatton Competition                                                                                     2005 
  
• IADR/Unilever Travel Award                                                                                                                  2005
  
• 2nd Place Prize IADR/Unilever Hatton Competition                                                                                 2005
  
• 2nd Prize at UCSF Research Day                                                                                                            2005
  
• UCSF Fletcher Jones Fellowship                                                                                                   2005-2006              
  
• Sun Valley Workshop Alice Jee Young Investigator Award                                                                      2005
  
• UCSF GSA Earle C. Anthony Award                                                                                                      2005
  
• UCSF Graduate Student Research Award                                                                                               2005

RESEARCH EXPERIENCE

Graduate Student Researcher (PhD student)      Sept. 2002 – March 2006

University of California, San Francisco
Advisors: Prof. Robert O. Ritchie (UC Berkeley Chair of Materials Science Engineering), Prof. Grayson W. Marshall and Sally J. Marshall (UCSF Dept. of Bioengineering and Biomaterials) and Prof. Rik Derynck/Prof. Tamara Alliston (UCSF Dept. Of Cell and Tissue Biology)
Project: Effect of TGF-β signaling on bone matrix mechanical properties and composition.

Staff Research Associate I                                 Jan. 1999 – Sept. 2002         

University of California, San Francisco
Advisor: Professor Grayson W. Marshall
Project: Investigation of calcified tissue interfaces (Dentin-enamel junction and peritubular-intertubular dentin) using AFM-based nanoindentation and Dynamic Stiffness Mapping.

PUBLICATIONS

• MARSHALL GW, HABELITZ S, GALLAGHER R, BALOOCH M, BALOOCH G, and MARSHALL S.J. "Nanomechanical properties of hydrated carious human dentin." J Dent Res 80: 1768-1771 (2001).
  
• BALOOCH M., DEMOS S.G., KINNEY J.H., MARSHALL G.W., BALOOCH G. and S. J. MARSHALL “Local Mechanical and Optical Properties of Normal and Transparent Root Dentin” J. Materials Science: Materials in Medicine 12: 507 (2001).
  
• HABELITZ S, BALOOCH M, MARSHALL S.J., BALOOCH G, MARSHALL G.W. Jr. "In Situ Atomic Force Microscopy of Partially Demineralized Human Dentin Collagen Fibrils." J Struct Biol 138: 227-236 (2002).
  
• MARSHALL SJ, BALOOCH M, HABELITZ S, BALOOCH G, GALLAGHER R, and MARSHALL G.W. “The dentin–enamel junction—a natural, multilevel interface.” Journal of the European Ceramic Society 23 2897–2904 (2003).
  
• SCHULZE K.A., BALOOCH M., BALOOCH G., MARSHALL G.W., and MARSHALL S.J. “A Micro Raman Spectroscopic Investigation of Dental Calcified Tissues”. J Biomed Mater Res. 69A(2): 286-93 (2004).
  
• BALOOCH M., BALOOCH G., HABELITZ S., MARSHALL S.J., and MARSHALL G.W. “Intrafibrillar demineralization study of single human dentin collagen fibrils by AFM” Symposium W Proceedings MRS (2004).
  
• BALOOCH G., MARSHALL G.W., MARSHALL S.J., WARREN O.L., ASIF S.A.S., and BALOOCH M. “Evaluation of a new modulus mapping technique to investigate microstructural features of human teeth” Journal of Biomechanics 37 1223–1232 (2004).
  
• BALOOCH G., BALOOCH M., NALLA R.K., SCHILLING S., FILVAROFF E.H., MARSHALL, G.W., MARSHALL S.J., RITCHIE R.O., DERYNCK, R., and ALLISTON, T. “TGF-β regulates the mechanical properties and composition of bone matrix” Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 102:52 18813-18818 (2005).
  
• LANE N.E., YAO W., BALOOCH M, NALLA R.K., BALOOCH G., HABELITZ S., KINNEY J.K., AND BONEWALD, L. “A proposed mechanism for increased bone fragility in patients treated with glucocorticoids: Enlargement and hypomineralization of bone matrix surrounding osteocyte lacunae” J Bone Miner Res 2006; 21(3): 466-76 (2006).
  
• YAO W., BALOOCH G., et al. “Restoration of Bone Connectivity and Mineralization with bFGF and Sequential Risedronate Treatment in Ovariectomized Mice. (Bone: in press)
  
• AGAR J., BALOOCH G., RITCHIE R. O. “Fracture, aging and disease in bone” (Review, Journal of Materials Science: in press)
  
• BALOOCH G. et al. “Risedronate maintains bone matrix mechanical properties and mineralization in a glucocorticoid-induced osteoporosis mouse and patient model” (Nature Materials: in review)
  
• AGAR J., BALOOCH G., RITCHIE R O. “Deep-Ultraviolet Raman Spectroscopy Of Type-I Collagen In Human Bone and Teeth” (Journal of Bone and Mineral Research: in review)