Dr. Larry Gray, postdoctoral fellow in the Taylor Lab, received the first place $750 travel award in the recent Pappajohn Biomedical Institute (PBI) competition for best postdoctoral fellow paper of 2015. Dr. Gray’s paper entitled “Hepatic Mitochondrial Pyruvate Carrier 1 Is Required for Efficient Regulation of Gluconeogenesis and Whole-Body Glucose Homeostasis” was published in the October 6th issue of Cell Metabolism. Dr. Gray’s research demonstrates that disrupting mitochondrial pyruvate uptake in the liver attenuates high blood sugar in models of type 2 diabetes.  Dr. Gray is also a former trainee of the Pharmacological Sciences training grant.