P&F Studies

2017
Pilot Awardee	Center	Pilot Study
Ali Javaheri MD PhD	Washington University in St Louis	https://diabetesresearchcenter.wustl.edu/pilot-and-feasibility-grant-program/currently-funded-pilot-feasibility-projects/
Jenny E Kanter PhD	University of Washington	Myeloid cell production of versican and atherosclerosis in diabetes
Ju Youn Kim PhD	UCSD-UCLA	New Role of Caspase 2 in SREBP activation and de novo Lipid Synthesis via S1P cleavage
Ulrike Klueh PhD	University of Michigan	Development of blood biomarkers for clinical management of diabetic foot ulcers
Jennifer Lee PhD	Stanford University	Diabetes Precision Phenotyping & Outcomes Prediction in Health Care
Robert Lee PhD	University of Pennsylvania	Sweet Receptor Regulation of Airway Glucose Transport and Relevance to Upper Respiratory Infections in Diabetes Mellitus
Sarah Lessard PhD	Joslin Diabetes Center	Mechanisms of exercise resistance in diabetes
Marc Liesa-Roig PhD	UCSD-UCLA	A novel mitochondrial target determining hepatic insulin sensitivity in the obese
Margaret Lippincott MD	Boston Area	Kisspeptin as an Insulin Secretagogue
Rolanda Lister MD	Vanderbilt University	Maternal hyperglycemia induces changes in DNA methylation in the developing heart
James C Lo MD PhD	Columbia University	Transcriptional regulation of pancreatic beta cell failure by single cell RNA-Seq
Thomas F McElrath MD	Joslin Diabetes Center	Circulating SerpinB1 and Vulnerability to Gestational Diabetes
Salim Merali PhD	University of Pennsylvania	Anti-GLUT4 Carbonyaltion Agents for Treating Insulin Resistance
Everett Meyer MD PhD	Stanford University	Therapeutic targeting of islet-infiltrating invariant NKT cells in diabetes to promote islet tolerance