P&F Studies

2016
Pilot Awardee	Center	Pilot Study
Michael Ailion PhD	University of Washington	Proteins required for insulin secretory granule biogenesis
Brady Atwood PhD	Indiana University	The impact of high fat, high sugar diet on the dorsal striatum: neuronal behavioral consequences
Amber L Beitelshees PharmD MPH		Toward Precision Medicine of Diabetes Treatment: a pilot & feasibility study of DPP4 inhibitors
Nicolas Berbari PhD	Indiana University	Conditional loss of Rpgrip1l in hyperphagia and obesity
Vivek Bhalla MD	Stanford University	Validation of cell-free RNA associated with human diabetic kidney disease
Aditi Bhargava PhD		Role of Corticotropin-Releasing Factor Receptor 2 (CRF2R) in Glucose Homeostasis and Diabetes
Joseph Bidwell PhD	Indiana University	Nmp4 is a novel regulator of beta cell mass and function
Nathan C Bingham MD PhD	Vanderbilt University	Mitigation of hypothalamic inflammation via ablation of microglial IKKbeta
Raymond D Blind PhD	Vanderbilt University	Visualizing liver nuclear receptor phospholipid membrane exchange
Kellie Breen PhD	UCSD-UCLA	Glucocorticoid Disruption of Placental Junctional Zone Endocrine Function and the Downstream Prenatal Programming of Metabolic Syndrome
Rotonya M Carr MD	University of Pennsylvania	Mechanisms of Lipid Dysregulation and Insulin Resistance in Alcoholic Liver Disease
Jennifer Cochran PhD	Stanford University	Engineering agonists of the glucagon-like peptide-1 receptor with novel pharmacological properties for the study and therapeutic control of diabetes
Brian DeBosch MD PhD	Washington University in St Louis	Mechanisms of trehalose action in modulating hepatic and extrahepatic metabolism
Carol F Elias PhD	University of Michigan	Cellular and molecular basis of diabetes-induced placental dysfunction