P&F Studies

2024
Pilot Awardee	Center	Pilot Study
Gerlinde Wernig MD	Stanford University	Investigating the Mechanisms and Therapeutic Potential of SLC4A4 in Diabetic Nephropathy
Parker C Wilson MD PhD	University of Pennsylvania	Single-cell detection of somatic mosaicism in diabetic kidney disease
Xu Xiao PhD	UCSD-UCLA	Targeting Intracellular Cholesterol Distribution: Mechanisms and Therapeutic Strategies for Metabolic dysfunction-associated steatotic livers disease (MASLD)

2023
Pilot Awardee	Center	Pilot Study
Nancy Carrasco MD	Vanderbilt University	Uncovering the mechanisms of acute overnutrition-induced thyroid dysfunction
Ananta Addala MD	Stanford University	Nutrition as Medicine: The role of whole food plant-based diets in children with T2D, a pilot study
Juan Alvarez PhD	University of Pennsylvania	Linking functional maturity to the human islet inflammatory response via integrated bioelectronics & spatial transcriptomic
Edmund Arthur OD PhD FAAO	University of Alabama at Birmingham	Quantifying Differences in the Retinal Peripheral Capillary Free Zones in Diabetic Retinopathy
Joseph Baur PhD	University of Pennsylvania	Integration of glucose telemetry with indirect calorimetry
Ambre Bertholet PhD	UCSD-UCLA	A thermogenic alternative to UCP1-dependent H+ current in brown adipose tissue
Maigen Bethea PhD	University of Colorado Denver	The Role of Gastrointestinal GLP-1R Neurons in Mediating the Glucose-Lowering and Weight Loss Effects of Oral Exendin-4
Michael Betts PhD	University of Pennsylvania	Islet-specific memory T cell responses upon autologous islet exposure
Romina Bevacqua PhD	Albert Einstein College of Medicine	Innovative Genetic Technologies For Identifying Novel Regulatory Mechanisms Controlling Human b-Cell Maturation and Function
Vijay Bjoh MD PhD	University of Pennsylvania	Evaluation of B-cell Targeted CAR T Cells to Induce Durable Beta Islet Cell Tolerance in Type-1 Diabetes
Fernando Bril MD	University of Alabama at Birmingham	Hyperglycemia-induced Hepatic Mitochondrial Dysfunction Explains Worse Liver Histology in Patients with Nonalcoholic Fatty Liver Disease and Type 2 Diabetes