August 26, 2024 - Bhagirath Chaurasia, PhD, assistant professor in the Division of Endocrinology and Metabolism and a member of the Fraternal Order of Eagles Diabetes Research Center, has received a three-year, $450,000 grant from the Roy J. Carver Charitable Trust. The grant will fund Chaurasia’s research program “Role of serine in development of obesity-induced insulin resistance.”
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August 14, 2024 - Samuel Stephens, PhD, Associate Professor in Endocrinology and Metabolism, has been awarded a three-year, $1.3M R01 from the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK) for his project, Defining the contribution of mitochondrial redox metabolism to support proinsulin folding in the endoplasmic reticulum (ER).
August 13, 2024 - Emma Stapleton, PhD, research assistant professor in the Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care, and Occupational Medicine, earned a one-year, $15,000 Environmental Health Sciences Research Center (EHSRC) Career Development Award (CDA). Contingent on her progress in Elucidating the...
August 8, 2024 - Miles Hagner, MD, instructor in the Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care, and Occupational Medicine, was recently awarded a two-year FSR Sarcoidosis Research Fellowship Grant in the amount of $150,000 for his project, The Role of Airway Epithelial Responses in Sarcoidosis Pathophysiology.
August 5, 2024 - Wenjie Yu, PhD, a postdoctoral fellow in the Welsh Lab in the Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care, and Occupational Medicine, earned a Catalyst Award from the American Lung Association (ALA) in the amount of $50,000 per year for two years for his project, Submucosal Gland Hypertrophy in a Porcine Model of PCD: Histological, Cellular, and Pathophysiological Features.
July 23, 2024 - A multidisciplinary team led by primary investigators Nabeel Hamzeh, MD and Karin Hoth, PhD has earned a two-year, $575,000 grant from the Ann Theodore Foundation to study cognitive dysfunction in people with sarcoidosis. Co-investigators are Jacob Simmering, PhD, Vincent Magnotta, PhD.
July 23, 2024 - Elissa Faro, PhD, assistant professor in General Internal Medicine, leads a 5-year, $3.79M R01 project funded by the National Institute for Mental Health (NIMH) aims to improve maternal mental health care through a combination of innovative methods with a foundation in social justice focused on centering the experiences of birthing people, families, and front-line professionals.
June 7, 2024 - Breakthrough T1D (formerly JDRF) has awarded Samuel Stephens, PhD, associate professor in Endocrinology and Metabolism, a three-year research grant totaling up to $750,000 for the project, Role of β-cell Golgi dysfunction in Type 1 diabetes pathogenesis.
June 6, 2024 - After a national search, Upinder Singh, MD, has been selected to serve as chair and department executive officer of the Department of Internal Medicine.
May 22, 2024 - Manasa Nayak, PhD, research assistant professor in Hematology, Oncology and Blood & Marrow Transplantation, was a finalist for the American Heart Association’s (AHA’s) Kenneth M. Brinkhous Early Career Investigator Prize in Thrombosis.