P&F Studies

2014
Pilot Awardee	Center	Pilot Study
Inna Astapova PhD	Boston Area	The Role of UCP1 in Glucose Homeostasis
Alexander S Banks PhD	Boston Area	Personalized Therapy for Type 2 Diabetes: A Novel Pharmacogenetic Approach
Boris Calderon MD	Washington University in St Louis	Tracing the ontogeny and turnover rate of islet resident macrophages
Jae Hyung Chang MD	Boston Area	Role of proximal tubule injury in the pathogenesis of diabetic nephropathy
Remi J Creusot PhD	Columbia University	Deciphering and Visualizing Epitope Spreading in Autoimmune Diabetes
Laura den Hartigh PhD	University of Washington	10, 12 CLA promotes insulin resistance by antagonizing PPARγ
Daorong Feng PhD	Albert Einstein College of Medicine	A Critical Role for SNAP23 in Adipocyte Cell Viability
Brian Finck PhD	Washington University in St Louis	Mitochondrial pyruvate transport and beta cell function
Gordon Fisher PhD	University of Alabama at Birmingham	Mitochondrial dysfunction, oxidative stress, and risk for type 2 diabetes
Wenxian Fu PhD	UCSD-UCLA	Identifying the Initiating Factors in Type 1 Diabetes by Disclosing the Crosstalk among Islet Vascular Inflammation, Immune Responses and Beta Cell Death
Alla Grishok PhD	Columbia University	The AF10/DOT1 Complex, O-GlcNAc, and Transcription: From Nematodes to Mammals
Kirk M Habegger PhD	University of Alabama at Birmingham	The Gucagon-FGF21 signaling axis mediates the beneficial effects of exercise on high-fat diet-induced non-alcoholic fatty liver disease
Heidi E Hamm PhD	Vanderbilt University	Role of a2A adrenergic receptors and Gbg-SNARE interaction in impaired insulin secretion in T2D
Simon Haroutounian PhD	Washington University in St Louis	Predicting individual response to analgesic treatment in painful diabetic neuropathy and improving nonverbal assessment of pain relief