P&F Studies

2024
Pilot Awardee	Center	Pilot Study
Debra L Safer MD	Stanford University	After Tirzepatide: What happens to body composition and metabolic health?
Jason Samuels MD	Vanderbilt University	Comparison of changes in body composition as a measure of obesity improvement
Lin Shen MD PhD	University of Chicago	The impact of T cell antigen receptor signaling on the development of Type 1 diabetes
Mithun Sinha PhD	Indiana University	Spatial Transcriptomics Based Identification of Gene Networks in Diabetic Foot Ulcers
Andrew Spieker PhD	Vanderbilt University	The Role of Engagement with Mobile Health Interventions to Support Diabetes
Elizabeth A Sweeny PhD	University of Chicago	Mechanistic investigations into the role of NOX5 in mesangial dysfunction in response to high glucose
Tara Teslaa PhD	UCSD-UCLA	Measuring one carbon metabolic fluxes relevant to NAFLD PI
Vidhu Thaker MD	Columbia University	Assessing the effects of placental insulin signaling on the offspring
Daniel Tyrrell PhD	University of Alabama at Birmingham	Role of O-GlcNAc in regulating cell-cell crosstalk and inflammation in diabetic-like heart failure
Ana Valencia PhD	University of Washington	Adaptation of Mitochondria to Weight Loss, and their Impact on Energy Balance and Inflammation
Suresh K Verma PhD	University of Alabama at Birmingham	Novel treatment strategy for Diabetic Cardiomyopathy
Haiyan Wang PhD	University of Michigan	A Novel Approach to Test the Role of the Hexosamine Biosynthetic Pathway in the Reversal of the Postexercise Increase in Insulin-Stimulated Glucose Uptake by Skeletal Muscle
Sui Wang PhD	Stanford University	Dissecting diabetes-induced cell-type-specific responses in human retina
Kristen Wells PhD	University of Colorado Denver	Identification of differential isoform usage in type 1 diabetic mouse islets