Pilot/Feasibility Study Grant Program Awardees
2008
- Peter Dempsey, PhD, Associate Professor, Pediatric Gastroenterology, "Role of ErbB4 receptor signaling in the Central Regulation of Energy Metabolism"
- Carey Lumeng, MD, PhD, Assistant Professor, Pediatrics, “Depot-specific differences in adipose tissue macrophages – Michigan Macrophages in Adipose Tissue”
- Sandeep Pandit, PhD, Professor, Internal Medicine-Cardiology, “Arrhythmogenesis in Type-1 Diabetes”
- Rodica Pop-Busui, MD, PhD, Assistant Professor, Internal Medicine, “Stress Induced Hyperglycemia: A Predictor of Long-Term Glucose Abnormalities in Patients Undergoing Cardiovascular Surgery?”
- Bhumsoo Kim, PhD, Research Assistant Professor, Neurology, “Animal models of increased Alzheimer's disease progression with diabetic background”
2007
- Maria Dolors Sans Gili, PhD, Assistant Professor, Molecular and Integrative Physiology, “Insulin, Diabetes and the Regulation of Pancreatic Digestive Enzymes”
- Ming Liu, MD, PhD, Research Investigator, Internal Medicine, “Dominant negative effects of misfolded proinsulin in pancreatic beta cells”
- Ayyalusamy Ramamoorthy, PhD, Associate Professor of Chemistry, “Solid-State NMR Studies on Human Islet Amyloid Polypeptide and its Role in Beta-Cell Membrane Disruption”
- Allison Rosen, MD, MPH, ScD, Assistant Professor, Internal Medicine and Health Management and Policy Clinical Director, Center for Value-Based Insurance Design, “Trends in the Cost of Diabetes Care in the United States: 1996-2004”
2006
- Patrick J. Hu, M.D., Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Internal Medicine, “A novel endocrine pathway regulating insulin-like signaling in C. elegans”
- Jiandie Lin, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Cell & Developmental Biology and Life Sciences Institute, “Genome-wide analysis of transcription factors in the regulation of mitochondrial biogenesis by PGC-1α”
- Julie C. Lumeng, M.D., Assistant Research Scientist and Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, “Factors impacting maternal beliefs and feeding practices in mothers of low-income African American Preschoolers”
- Heike Muenzberg, Ph.D., Research Investigator, Internal Medicine, “Leptin signaling in the DMH and its role in feeding circuits”
- Subramaniam Pennathur, M.D., Assistant Professor of Medicine, “Molecular mechanisms of pancreatic β-cell failure in vivo”
