P&F Studies

2024
Pilot Awardee	Center	Pilot Study
Md Wasim Khan PhD	University of Chicago	The role of the novel hexokinase, HKDC1, in metabolic-associated steatohepatitis (MASH) progression
Charles LeDuc PhD	Columbia University	Assessing the effects of placental insulin signaling on the offspring
Mindy Lee MD PhD	Stanford University	Fine-Tuning of Patient Facing Messaging Using LLMs to Increase Engagement with Remote Patient Monitoring
Talia N Lerner PhD	University of Chicago	Developing a theory of central predictive control to maintain body weight
Christine Limonte MD	University of Washington	Kidney Proximal Tubular Cell Ultrastructure in Type 1 Diabetes
David Lorberbaum PhD	University of Michigan	Defining the intersection of retinoic acid signaling and GATA4 during pancreas development and its impact on islet function in diabetes
Catia Martins PhD	University of Alabama at Birmingham	Impact of ketogenic diets during weight maintenance on appetite and energy metabolism in individuals with obesity.
Graham McVicker PhD	UCSD-UCLA	Regulatory genetics of type 1 diabetes risk variants in conventional and regulatory T cells
Joseph Patterson PhD	University of Michigan	Assessment of the effects of insulin resistance and hyperglycemia on synucleinopathy progression
Fabrizio Pin PhD	Indiana University	Deletion of FNDC5/Irisin protects against cancer induced cachexia in a sex dependent manner
Megan Prochaska MD MPH	University of Chicago	Links between metabolic syndrome, inflammation, and obesity in kidney stone patients
Austin Robinson PhD	Indiana University	Examining dietary fiber as a strategy to counteract the negative metabolic effects of high dietary salt
Bruno Tesini Roseguini PhD	Indiana University	Home-based heat therapy in older adults with type 2 diabetes
Frederique Ruf-Zamojski PhD	UCSD-UCLA	Regulation and control of a subset of human pituitary gonadotropes enriched in leptin receptors<p>