P&F Studies

2019
Pilot Awardee	Center	Pilot Study
Jeremy Pettus MD	UCSD-UCLA	The Metabolic Effects of Disrupted Glucagon Signaling in Type 1 Diabetes
Caroline Presley PhD	University of Alabama at Birmingham	Mindfullness, Emotional Distress, and Diabetes Self-management Behaviors in Adults with Type 2 Diabetes
James Priest MD	Stanford University	Dissecting mechanisms of maternal diabetic risk for congenital heart disease in offspring
Louis Ptacek MD		Nutrient Sensing in Circadian Control
Robert Raffai PhD		Macrophage Exosomes in Obesity & Diabetes Control
Sasanka Ramanadham PhD	University of Alabama at Birmingham	Linking Novel Lipid-Signaling with Transcriptional Events
Lucia Russo PhD	University of Michigan	Study of cholesterol 25-hydroxylase in the regulation of adipose tissue inflammation using human approaches
Dhruv Sareen PhD	UCSD-UCLA	Functional Human iPSC-Derived Pancreatic Islets in Co-culture with Isogenic Vascular endothelial Cells
Jarrad Scarlett MD PhD	University of Washington	Hypothalamic Mechanisms Mediating Sustained Glucose-Lowering by FGF1 Action in the Brain
Diana Stanescu MD	University of Pennsylvania	The role of SLC38A5 in pancreatic α cell development
Nathan O Stitziel MD PhD	Washington University in St Louis	Characterizing the metabolic effects of a novel coronary artery disease gene
Lina Sui PhD	Columbia University	Understanding mechanisms of novel diabetes genes and risk variants using hiPS cells
Qizhi Tang PhD		Expansion of Antigen-Specific Tregs Using DNA-Scaffolded Biomaterials
Christoph Thaiss PhD	University of Pennsylvania	Microbiome-clock interactions in metabolic disease