P&F Studies

2019
Pilot Awardee	Center	Pilot Study
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
Deqiang Zhang PhD	University of Michigan	ChREBP acetylation by CLOCK in non-alcoholic fatty liver disease

2018
Pilot Awardee	Center	Pilot Study
Amanda Ackermann MD PhD	University of Pennsylvania	Identifying Targets to Enhance Beta Cell Response in Diabetes using Single-Cell Functional Genomics
Cristina Aguayo-Mazzucato MD PhD	Joslin Diabetes Center	Induction of beta cell senescence by high fat diet and implications for diabetes
Diane Alba MD		Determining the role of beige adipocyte precursor cells in human insulin resistance
Justin Annes MD PhD	Stanford University	Development of β-Cell-Targeted Regenerative Therapeutics using a Novel Prodrug Strategy
Luis Arnes PhD	Columbia University	Long non-coding RNAs in beta cell function