Diabetes Interdisciplinary Study Program (DISP) Awardees
2008
The MDRTC, the Michigan Comprehensive Diabetes Center (MCDC) and the Michigan
Institute for Clinical and Health Research (MICHR) jointly funded Elif
Oral, MD, Assistant Professor, Internal Medicine and John
D. Birkmeyer, MD, Professor, General Surgery, “Effect of
Dietary Macrocomposition on Non-Alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease in Bariatric
Surgery Candidates”
2007
Annette Chang, MD, Internal Medicine, Metabolism, Endocrinology & Diabetes and Michael Kilbourn, PhD, Radiology, “Evaluation of Human Pancreatic B-cell Mass with [11C] Dihydrotetrabenazine (DTBZ) Radioligand”
2006
Martin G. Myers, MD, Ph.D., Internal Medicine, Metabolism, Endocrinology & Diabetes, and Robert Thompson, Ph.D., Psychiatry, were awarded the MCDC/MDRTC DISP award for “Genomic analysis of novel leptin-regulated neural metabolic pathways.”
