P&F Studies

2018
Pilot Awardee	Center	Pilot Study
Stephanie Correa PhD	UCSD-UCLA	Bypassing estrogen to manipulate a neural circuit that controls body weight
Eyal Dassau PhD	Joslin Diabetes Center	Can technology improve self-care in youth with Type-1 Diabetes?
Carmen De Miguel PhD	University of Alabama at Birmingham	The roles of miR-150 and miR-145 in adipocyte lipid metabolism and glucose homeostasis
Utkan Demirci PhD	Stanford University	An Automated, Centrifuge-Free Platform for Isolating Pancreatic Islets using Magnetic Levitation
Mauricio Dorfman PhD	University of Washington	The Role of Androgens in Diet-Induced Microglial Activation and Metabolic Disease
Faranak Fattahi PhD		Identifying molecular biomarkers for evaluation of neuropathy in diabetes
Maria Golson PhD	University of Pennsylvania	Delta-Cell Regulation of Long-Term Beta-Cell Health
Carrie A Grueter PhD	Vanderbilt University	DGAT1 as a central regulator of diet-induced obesity
Toshinori Hoshi PhD	University of Pennsylvania	The role of TMEM16A anion channels in beta-cell excitability
Joanne Hsieh PhD	Columbia University	Role of TTC39B in Mediating NAFLD in Insulin-Resistant States
Erik Ingelsson MD PhD	Stanford University	Pooled CRISPR Screens to Established Causal Genes for Insulin Resistance
Erkan Karakas PhD	Vanderbilt University	Structural characterization of inositol-1,4,5-triphosphate receptors
Sun H Kim MD	Stanford University	Real-time Continuous Glucose Monitoring to Aid Weight Loss in Prediabetes: Building on expertise within SDRC
Sarah Knox PhD		Determining the Influence of the Peripheral Nervous System on Pancreatic Organogenesis