P&F Studies

2022
Pilot Awardee	Center	Pilot Study
Michael Betts PhD	University of Pennsylvania	Islet-specific memory T cell responses upon autologous islet exposure
James Bibb PhD	University of Alabama at Birmingham	Antibiotic Treatment of Stress-High Sugar Diet-Linked Anxiodepression
Diego Bohórquez PhD	North Carolina	Gut-Brain Neurotransmission for the Treatment of Type 2 Diabetes
Daniel Castro PhD	Washington University in St Louis	Investigating the Role of Endogenous Opioids in Pancreatic Islets and Metabolism
Virginia Cornish PhD	Columbia University	Treatment of diabetic foot ulcers via Live yeast secreting wound-healing factors
Meaghan Creed PhD	Washington University in St Louis	Targeting the Ventral Pallidum to Reduce Individual Susceptibility to Diet-Induced Obesity
Stephanie Eid PhD	University of Michigan	Schwann cell-derived extracellular vesicles in prediabetic neuropathy: Role in nerve insulin signaling and function
Nikki Farnsworth PhD	University of Colorado Denver	Engineered Nanocapsules for Targeted Drug Delivery to the β-Cell in T1D
Daniel Ferguson PhD	Washington University in St Louis	Macrophage Mitochondrial Pyruvate Metabolism in Nonalcoholic Steatohepatitis
Maria Cristina Foss De Freitas MD PhD	University of Michigan	A truncating mutation of EBF2 disrupts adipocyte differentiation in lipodystrophy: an example of a discovery from a clinical translational pipeline
Maria B Grant MD, FARVO	University of Alabama at Birmingham	The role of hypothalamic somatostatin in the regulation of the brain-adipose axis in the high fat diet (HFD) mouse model
Edward Greenfield PhD	Indiana University	Diabetes/Metabolic syndrome impairs outcomes of orthopaedic implant ifection in mice
David Hill MD PhD	University of Pennsylvania	Contribution of novel adipocyte progenitor cell populations to metabolic disease
Heba Ismail PhD	Indiana University	The gut microbiome in children with type 1 diabetes with obesity and novel mechanism of action of metformin