Diabetes Interdisciplinary Study Program (DISP) Awardees
2011
- Steven K. Lundy, PhD, Research Assistant Professor, Department of Internal Medicine, and Massimo T. Pietropaolo, MD, Professor of Internal Medicine, Pediatrics and Communicable Diseases, and Microbiology and Immunology, “ Targeting killer and regulatory B lymphocyte function in IDDM”
- Joshua D. Stein, MD, Assistant Professor of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences, and David W. Hutton, PhD, John G. Searle Assistant Professor of Health Management and Policy, School of Public Health and Assistant Professor of Industrial Operations, College of Engineering, “Assessing the cost effectiveness of different interventions for clinically significant diabetes macular edema”
2010
- Steve Lentz, PhD, Research Assistant Professor, Department of Internal Medicine, Division of MEND and Roni M. Shtein, MD, Assistant Professor, Department of Ophthalmology, “ In vivo corneal confocal microscopy for non-invasive assessment of diabetic peripheral neuropathy”
- Amy Rothberg, MD, Clinical Assistant Professor, Department of Internal Medicine, Division of MEND and Jon-Kar Zubieta, MD, PhD, Phil F. Jenkins Research Professor of Depression, Professor of Psychiatry and Radiology and Research Professor, Molecular and Behavioral Neuroscience Institute, “Neurohormonal & behavioral correlates of obesity”
2009
- Eva L. Feldman, MD, PhD, DeJong Professor of Neurology and Matthias Kretzler, MD, Associate Professor, Internal Medicine, and Hosagrahar V. Jagadish, PhD, Collegiate Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science “Biomarkers of Diabetic Microvascular Complications: A Bioinformatics Approach to Human Samples”
- Catherine Kim MD, MPH, Assistant Professor, Department of Internal Medicine and Obstetrics and Gynecology and Caroline Richardson, MD, Assistant Professor, Department of Family Medicine, “Pedometers in Gestational Diabetes”
- Meng HeeTan, MD Clinical Professor, Internal Medicine, and David Hanauer, MD, MS, Clinical Professor, Department of Pediatrics and Communicable Diseases, “Creating a Diabetes Research Registry to Enhance Recruitment of Patients in Clinical Trials and Studies at University of Michigan”
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.”
