P&F Studies

2018
Pilot Awardee	Center	Pilot Study
Eiji Yoshihara PhD	UCSD-UCLA	Immune tolerance induction by transcriptional memory in hiPSC derived mature human islets like organoids
Oleg Zaslavsky PhD MHA RN	University of Washington	Glucose Targets and Functional Decline in 80 Years Old and Older with Type 2 Diabetes
Baohua Zhou PhD	Indiana University	FOXP3 Isoforms and Pathogenesis of Type I Diabetes
Zhenqi Zhou PhD	UCSD-UCLA	The impact of dynamin-related protein (Drp)1 on muscle metabolism and insulin action

2017
Pilot Awardee	Center	Pilot Study
Michael Ailion PhD	University of Washington	Proteins required for insulin secretory granule biogenesis
Justin Annes MD PhD	Stanford University	Mitochondrial Dysfunction Promotes b-Cell Failure and diabetes via a Previously Unrecognized Mechanism: Protein Hyper-Succinylation
Eric Appel PhD	Stanford University	Novel ultra-fast insulin formulations for diabetes treatment
Estela Area-Gomez PhD	Columbia University	The Role of ER-Mitochondria Contacts in the AKT Signaling Pathway
Ronadip R Banerjee PhD	University of Alabama at Birmingham	Molecular Mechanisms of Pancreatic β-cell Metabolic Adaptation During Pregnancy
Steven Bensinger VMD PhD	UCSD-UCLA	Determining the impact of SREBP signaling in macrophages on type I IFN-mediated inflammation and diabetes
J Nicholas Betley PhD	University of Pennsylvania	Defining the role of nutrients in gut -> brain signaling that influences hyperphagic neural circuit activity
Lisa Beutler MD PhD	UCSF	Dissecting the role of insulin in the regulation of central feeding circuits
Sushant Bhatnagar PhD	University of Alabama at Birmingham	The role of C1ql3 secreted protein in insulin secretion from pancreatic islets.
Ashay Bhatwadekar PhD	Indiana University	Modulating Circadian Rhythms to Correct Müller Cell Dysfunction in Diabetic Retinopathy