P&F Studies

2015
Pilot Awardee	Center	Pilot Study
Babak Razani MD PhD	Washington University in St Louis	Use of a novel sugar to treat obesity and diabetes
Timo Rieg MD	UCSD-UCLA	Role of leptin in the regulation of intestinal sodium glucose co-transporter 1
Paolo Rinaudo MD PhD		Embryonic Manipulation and Diabetes Risk
Marianna Sadagurski PhD	University of Michigan	Role of growth hormone receptor (GHR) in nutrient-sensing leptin receptor expressing neurons (LEPR-B) in physiology and neuronal function
Dmitri Samovski PhD	Washington University in St Louis	Regulation of insulin and AMPK signaling by saturated fatty acids
Erin Seifert PhD	University of Pennsylvania	Role of Acyl-CoA thioesterase-2 in systemic and muscle glucose homeostasis
Emily K Sims MD	Indiana University	Circulating Extracellular Vesicle miRNAs as a biomarker of Type 1 Diabetes Development
Julie Sneddon PhD		Engineering the Functional Beta Cell Niche
Kathleen J Sweadner PhD	Boston Area	Resistance to diabetes and hypertension in the Fxyd2 knockout mouse: role of AT2R
Takamune Takahashi MD PhD	Vanderbilt University	Diabetic nephropathy (DN) is a major diabetic complication that determines the morbidity and mortality of the diabetic patients
Qizhi Tang PhD		Platform Technology for Identification of Islet-Antigen-Specific T cells in Autoimmune Diabetes mice
Elizabeth Tarling PhD	UCSD-UCLA	Regulation of glucose and lipid homeostasis by the ubiquitin ligase RNF130
Sherry L Voytik-Harbin PhD	Indiana University	Engineering an Islet Bioinstructive Microenvironment for Improved Survival, Function, Protection, and Delivery
Mark Yore PhD	Boston Area	Identification pathways of enzymes involved in biosynthesis of a novel class of anti-diabetic lipids