P&F Studies

2020
Pilot Awardee	Center	Pilot Study
Sirano Dhe-Paganon PhD	Joslin Diabetes Center	Structural basis of XOR activation in obesity and metabolic syndrome
Jonathan Flak PhD	Indiana University	Identifying the downstream targets from the VMN in blood glucose control
Marina Gorbatyuk PhD	University of Alabama at Birmingham	Target validation for diabetic retinopathy
Maria Grant MD	University of Alabama at Birmingham	Identifying cardiometabolic biomarkers of executive dysfunction in children
Dina Hafez Griauzde MD MSc	University of Michigan	A Mixed methods pilot randomized controlled trial of a primary care-based weight loss navigation program for adults with obesity and type 2 diabetes
Tamara Hershey PhD	Washington University in St Louis	Brain Vascular Health in T1D
Ken Inoki MD PhD	University of Michigan	Role of lysosomal cholesterol sensing machinery and obesity
Alexander W Johnson PhD	University of Michigan	Lateral hypothalamic control over cephalic insulin release
Joshua Knowles MD PhD	Stanford University	Discovery and validation of novel causal genes for T2D-associated GWAS signals through advanced colocalization and perturbation analyses in metabolic cell types
Aleksandar Kostic PhD	Joslin Diabetes Center	Designing and testing novel probiotic strategies to curtail glycemic excursion
Kok Lim Kua MD	Indiana University	Reg3g as a drug-sensitive target mediating islet dysfunction in offspring of obese mothers
Jin Billy Li PhD	Stanford University	Impaired dsRNA editing as a cause of islet autoinflammation and type 1 diabetes
Yu Kuei (Alex) Lin	University of Michigan	Establish the use of mHealth in providing education on hypoglycemia management in type 1 diabetes patients using continuous glucose monitoring systems
Matthew Lynes PhD	Joslin Diabetes Center	Genetic determinants of 12, 13-diHOME biosynthesis in human obesity