P&F Studies

2018
Pilot Awardee	Center	Pilot Study
Paul Titchenell PhD	University of Pennsylvania	Regulation of Systemetic Metabolism by Muscle Akt Signaling
Ty D Troutman PhD	UCSD-UCLA	Comparative Assessment of Human and Mouse Hepatic Myeloid Cell Diversity During Nonalcoholic Fatty Liver Disease
Amy Wagers PhD	Joslin Diabetes Center	Hematologic mutations as potential predictors of diabetic complications
Jeramie Watrous PhD	UCSD-UCLA	Microbial contributions to the development of human type 2 diabetes mellitus
Amanda Willig PhD	University of Alabama at Birmingham	Improving the quality of food assistance for people living with HIV and diabetes
Eiji Yoshihara PhD	UCSD-UCLA	Immune tolerance induction by transcriptional memory in hiPSC derived mature human islets like organoids
Oleg Zaslavsky PhD MHA RN	University of Washington	Glucose Targets and Functional Decline in 80 Years Old and Older with Type 2 Diabetes
Baohua Zhou PhD	Indiana University	FOXP3 Isoforms and Pathogenesis of Type I Diabetes
Zhenqi Zhou PhD	UCSD-UCLA	The impact of dynamin-related protein (Drp)1 on muscle metabolism and insulin action

2017
Pilot Awardee	Center	Pilot Study
Michael Ailion PhD	University of Washington	Proteins required for insulin secretory granule biogenesis
Justin Annes MD PhD	Stanford University	Mitochondrial Dysfunction Promotes b-Cell Failure and diabetes via a Previously Unrecognized Mechanism: Protein Hyper-Succinylation
Eric Appel PhD	Stanford University	Novel ultra-fast insulin formulations for diabetes treatment
Estela Area-Gomez PhD	Columbia University	The Role of ER-Mitochondria Contacts in the AKT Signaling Pathway
Ronadip R Banerjee PhD	University of Alabama at Birmingham	Molecular Mechanisms of Pancreatic β-cell Metabolic Adaptation During Pregnancy