Professional Section Quarterly - Summer 2012 - (Page 14)

Research News cont. from page 13 Junior Faculty Awards in adipocyte function and wholebody metabolism Robert V. Farese, Jr., MD The Gladstone Institutes Progranulin, inflammation, and diabetes Laurie J. Goodyear, PhD Joslin Diabetes Center Mechanisms regulating exerciseinduced improvements in glucose homeostasis Catherine C. Hedrick, PhD La Jolla Institute for Allergy and Immunology T lymphocyte activation and function in subjects with type 2 diabetes and atherosclerosis Tamas L. Horvath, DVM, PhD Yale University School of Medicine Insulin determines developmental organization of hypothalamic circuits Frank B. Hu, MD, PhD Harvard University School of Public Health Lifestyle and environmental determinants of gestational diabetes mellitus and type 2 diabetes mellitus Michael D. Jensen, MD Mayo Clinic, Rochester Causes and consequences of differences in body fat distribution Klaus H. Kaestner, PhD University of Pennsylvania Functional analysis of the diabetes gene Hhex in endocrine pancreas development and physiology George L. King, MD Joslin Diabetes Center Identification and validation of protective factors for diabetic retinopathy and nephropathy Professional Section Quarterly Timothy J. Lyons, MD University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center Lipoproteins and PEDF and the vascular complications of diabetes Latha P. Palaniappan, MD Palo Alto Medical Foundation Gestational diabetes in Asian Americans: Predictors, problems, and progression Innovation Awards Elizabeth M. Bradshaw, PhD Brigham and Women’s Hospital The T-cell-derived cytokine IL-21 in human type 1 diabetes Ashwath Jayagopal, MS, PhD Vanderbilt University Medical Center Targeted nanocarriers for therapy of diabetic retinopathy Maria P. Martinez Cantarin, MD Thomas Jefferson University Adipose tissue inflammation, kidney disease and transplantassociated hyperglycemia Matthew S. Rodeheffer, PhD Yale University School of Medicine Characterization of brown and beige adipogenesis in vivo Kathryn E. Wellen, PhD University of Pennsylvania Metabolic regulation of histone acetylation in adipocytes Mentor-Based Postdoctoral Fellowship Awards Jing Chen, PhD University of Florida Role of T-cell mitochondrial function in the pathogenesis of type 1 diabetes Patricia A. D’Amore, PhD Schepens Eye Research Institute / Harvard Medical School Notch-mediated cell-cell interactions in the pathophysiology of diabetic retinopathy Xiang He, PhD University of Pittsburgh Evaluation of skeletal muscle oxidative metabolism in type 2 diabetes by quantitative BOLD Sergei A. Novgorodov, PhD Medical University of South Carolina Mitochondrial ceramide-producing pathways in diabetes Alan Saghatelian, PhD Harvard University Proteolysis-resistant peptide hormone analogs as potential antidiabetic therapeutics Rebecca P. Seal, PhD University of Pittsburgh The role of VGLUT3 in diabetic neuropathic pain 14 David M. Altshuler, MD, PhD Broad Institute, Inc. Testing low-frequency SNPs and private loss of function variants for contributions to the regulation of glucose and insulin in humans Mark A. Atkinson, PhD University of Florida Identifying the contribution of beta-cell dysfunction and autoimmunity to the pathogenesis of type 1 diabetes Michael P. Czech, PhD University of Massachusetts Medical School Role of the STE20 kinase Map4K4

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