P&F Studies

2019
Pilot Awardee	Center	Pilot Study
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
Avnesh Thakor MD PhD	Stanford University	Facilitating pancreatic islet survival and function following transplantation using mesenchymal stem cells
Paul Titchenell PhD	University of Pennsylvania	Regulation of Systemetic Metabolism by Muscle Akt Signaling
Gordana Vunjak-Novakovic PhD	Columbia University	Instability of beta cell proliferation as a trigger of the innate immune system in type 1 diabetes
Amy Wagers PhD	Joslin Diabetes Center	Hematologic mutations as potential predictors of diabetic complications
Adam Wende PhD	University of Alabama at Birmingham	Linking Novel Lipid-Signaling with Transcriptional Events
Jessica Wilson MD MS	University of Pennsylvania	Metabolic Phenotype and Type 2 Diabetes Polygenic Risk Score
Parker C Wilson MD PhD	Washington University in St Louis	Chromatin Conformation and Transcriptional Regulation in Diabetic Nephropathy
Wenting Wu PhD	Indiana University	Single Cell Transcriptomic Analysis of Peripheral Blood Mononuclear Cells in Individuals with Recent Onset Type 1 Diabetes