P&F Studies

2017
Pilot Awardee	Center	Pilot Study
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
TyWanda McLaurin-Jones PhD		Type 2 Diabetes Risk and Prevention Communication: Perspectives from African American Diabetic Mothers and Their Daughters
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
Roeland Middelbeek JW MD MSc	Boston Area	Mechanisms Mediating the Beneficial Effects of Exercise: Novel Circulating Factors Regulating Metabolism in Human Subjects with Type 2 Diabetes
Sara J Morgan PhD	University of Washington	Effects of a community exercise program on physical, physiological, and psychosocial health outcomes in people with diabetic foot ulcers
Latha Palaniappan MD MS	Stanford University	Elucidating the mechanisms of Diabetic Cardiomyopathy through Exosome Profiling, A Diabetes Research Center Collaborative Initiative
Suresh Palaniyandi PhD	University of Michigan	Role for ALDH2 in endothelial cell energy metabolism in diabetic cardiomyopathy: An iPSC approach