P&F Studies

2012
Pilot Awardee	Center	Pilot Study
Ann-Marie Rosland MD	University of Michigan	Reducing diabetes risk by supporting patients' informal caregivers through clinical interactions and technology
Natalie D Shaw MD	Boston Area	Short sleep duration is known to be detrimental to multiple endocrine axes in adults
David J Steger PhD	University of Pennsylvania	Genome-wide Approaches for Determining Transcriptional Pathways Driving Adipocyte Differentiation
Elizabeth Sztul PhD	University of Alabama at Birmingham	Targeting the GLUT4 trafficking pathway in diabetes
Chongren Tang MD PhD	University of Washington	The Roles and Mechanisms of ABCA1 in Diet-induced Inflammation and Insulin Resistance
Xin Tong MD PhD	University of Michigan	Regulation of lipid metabolism by DDB1-CUL4A E3 ligase in liver steatosis
Kathryn E Wellen PhD	University of Pennsylvania	Role of ATP-Citrate Lyse in Glucose-Regulated Gene Expression
Kyoung-Jae Won PhD	University of Pennsylvania	Integrative Analysis of the Gene Regulation in Brown and White Adipocyte Tissues
Hilda Ye PhD	Albert Einstein College of Medicine	BCL6 as a Novel Regulator of Glucose Metabolism
Sakeneh Zraika PhD	University of Washington	Acute Regulation of Insulin and Glucagon Secretion by Neprilysin

2011
Pilot Awardee	Center	Pilot Study
April Carson MSPH PhD	University of Alabama at Birmingham	Evaluating a Novel Method to Assess Cumulative Glycemic Burden Among African-American Adults with Type 2 Diabetes
Sumant Singh Chugh MD	University of Alabama at Birmingham	Treatment of proteinuria due to diabetic nephropathy with sialic acid precursors
Abhinav Diwan MD	Washington University in St Louis	Intermittent Fasting as a Strategy to Treat Diabetes
Christine Duarte PhD	University of Alabama at Birmingham	A Structural Equation Modeling (SEM) framework for explaining racial disparities in diabetes: Strategies for incorporating genomic variables