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Harvard Medical School

Chien Wen Su, PhD

Instructor in Pediatrics, Massachusetts General Hospital Mucosal Immunology and Biology Research Center
Dates of Funding: 2018

Helminth infection confers resistance to high fat diet-induced obesity

Sara Looby, PhD

Assistant Professor of Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospita
Dates of Funding: 2018

Exploring sweetener knowledge and consumption in people living with HIV

Andrea Edlow, MD, MSc

Assistant Professor of Obstetrics, Gynecology, and Reproductive Biology, Massachusetts General Hospital
Dates of Funding: 2018

Fetal origins of obesity and metabolic syndrome

Samir Softic, MD, MSc

Instructor in Pediatrics, Boston Children’s Hospital
Dates of Funding: 2018

Pathways of Fructose Metabolism

Vibha Singhal, MD, MSc

Instructor of Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital
Dates of Funding: 2018

Determinants of Beta Cell Function Following Sleeve Gastrectomy in Adolescents

Christian Rask-Madsen, MD, PhD

Assistant Investigator, Joslin Diabetes Center
Dates of Funding: 2017

Endothelial Dysfunction in Obesity and Intestinal Stem Cell Function

Seth Rakoff-Nahoum, MD, PhD

Seth Rakoff-Nahoum, MD, PhD
Dates of Funding: 2017

Development of Ecologically-Rational Nutribiotics and Probiotics for the Pre-term Gut Microbiome

Changzheng Yuan, BM, MSc, ScD

Postdoctoral Fellow, Harvard School of Public Health
Dates of Funding: 2017

Obesity over the adult life course and late-life subjective cognitive function

Mengyao Ella Li, BS, MS, PhD

Research Fellow, Joslin Diabetes Center
Dates of Funding: 2017

Contribution of gut microbiome to exercise training-generated beneficial effects

Pouneh K. Fazeli, MD, MPH

Assistant Professor of Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital
Dates of Funding: 2017

Changes in Marrow Adipose Tissue in Response to Estradiol Cyclicity

Markella Zanni, MD Assistant

Professor of Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital
Dates of Funding: 2017

Testing a Novel Hormonal Strategy to Reduce Myocardial Steatosis and Improve Cardiac Function among People Living with HIV

Sarbattama Sen, MD

Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, Brigham and Women’s Hospital
Dates of Funding: 2017

Maternal Obesity, Breastmilk Composition and Offspring Growth

Marie-France Hivert, MD, MMSC

Associate Professor, Harvard Pilgrim Healthcare
Dates of Funding: 2017

How to reach women of reproductive age with obesity to support weight loss before pregnancy?

Ida Hatoum, ScD

Instructor in Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital

Dates of Funding: 2016

Intergenerational Effects of Roux-en-Y Gastric Bypass

Abdelfattah El Ouaamari, PhD

Instructor in Medicine, Joslin Diabetes Center
Dates of Funding: 2016

Unraveling the Neuro-Anatomy of the Endocrine Pancreas

Maureen Leonard, MD

Instructor of Pediatrics, Mass General Hospital for Children
Dates of Funding: 2016Early Environmental Factors Predictive of Autoimmunity in Infants at Risk of Celiac Disease

Deirdre Tobias, DSc

Instructor of Medicine
Associate Epidemiologist, Harvard Medical School
Brigham and Women’s Hospital

Dates of Funding: 2016

Joint Relationships Between Obesity and Cardiometabolic Risk with Postmenopausal Breast Cancer Risk

Kriston Ganguli, MD

Instructor in Pediatrics, Massachusetts General Hospital

Dates of Funding: 2016

The Use of Probiotic Metabolites in Reducing the Risk Factors for Necrotizing Enterocolitis

Chien Wen Su, PhD

Instructor in Pediatrics, Massachusetts General Hospital Mucosal Immunology and Biology Research Center

Dates of Funding: 2016

Helminth Infection Confers Resistance to High Fat Diet-Induced Obesity

Karen Bernstein, MD

Instructor in Radiation Oncology, Massachusetts General Hospital

Dates of Funding: 2015

Effects of Caloric Restriction on Post-Operative Complications in Sarcoma Patients Treated with Pre-Operative Radiation Therapy

Lauren Gehler Fiechtner, MD

Instructor in Pediatrics, Boston Children’s Hospital
Dates of Funding: 2015

Emerging Early Life Risk Factors for Childhood Obesity: An Examination of Diet and Antibiotics in Infants

Elizabeth L. Hohmann, MD

Associate Professor of Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital
Dates of Funding: 2015

Therapeutic Targeting of Gut Microbiota for Human Obesity and Metabolism

Janet Lo, MD

Assistant Professor of Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital
Dates of Funding: 2015

Nutritional and Gastrointestinal Factors in Low Bone Density of HIV Disease

Kathleen Joan Sweadner, PhD

Associate Professor of Cellular and Molecular Physiology and Neurosurgery, Massachusetts General Hospital
Dates of Funding: 2015

Metabolism in a Mutant Mouse with Elevated Muscle Activity

Kathleen Corey, MD

Instructor in Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital
Dates of Funding: 2014The Impact of Weight Loss Surgery in Adolescents on Fatty Liver Disease

Elizabeth Lawson, MD

Assistant Professor of Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital
Dates of Funding: 2014
Oxytocin Effects on Food Motivation Pathways

Hideo Makimura, MD, PhD

Assistant Professor of Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital
Dates of Funding: 2014
Metabolomic Assessment of Obese Insulin Resistant Subjects After Acipimox

Alex Soukas, MD, PhD

Assistant Professor of Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital
Dates of Funding: 2014

Geoffrey Walford, MD

Instructor in Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital
Dates of Funding: 2014
Augmentation of Metformin in Response in Humans Through Dietary Tryptophan Exposure

Irina Stavrovskaya, MD

Instructor in Neurosurgery, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center

Dates of Funding: 2014

Cardiolipin Contribution in Mitochondrial Dysfunction in Obesity

Vidhu Thaker, MD

Instructor in Pediatrics, Boston Children’s Hospital

Dates of Funding: 2014

Genetics of Early Childhood Obesity (GECO)

Elaine Yu, MD

Assistant Professor of Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital

Dates of Funding: 2014

Bariatric Surgery and Bone Marrow Adiposity

Laura Holsen, PhD

Associate Research Associate, Brigham and Women’s Hospital
Assistant Professor of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School
Dates of Funding: 2013
Neural Mechanisms of Food-Related Emotion Regulation in Predicting Bariatric Surgery Outcomes

Bridget Horn, MD

Children’s Hospital Boston
Dates of Funding: 2013

Effects of an Anti-Inflammatory Diet on Pulmonary Function in Pediatric Asthma

Javier Irazoqui, PhD

Associate Immunologist, Program in Developmental Immunology, MGHFC
Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School
Dates of Funding: 2013

TFEB as a Central Regulator of Hepatocyte Lipid Homeostasis

Suman Srinivasa, MD

Research Fellow in Medicine
Dates of Funding: 2013

Irisin/FGF21 and Browning of White Adipose Tissue in HIV-Infected Patients

Amir Tirosh, MD

Associate Physician, Brigham and Women’s Hospital
Instructor in Medicine, Harvard Medical School
Dates of Funding: 2013

Effects of the Food Preservative Propionic Acid on Postprandial Metabolic Milieu

Martin Torriani, MD

Director, Musculoskeletal Imaging Research Core, Massachusetts General Hospital
Assistant Professor of Radiology, Harvard Medical School
Dates of Funding: 2013

Non-Invasive Lipid Profiling of Human Adipose Tissue

Qin Yang, MD, PhD

Instructor in Medicine, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
Dates of Funding: 2013

Adipocytes as Regulators of Energy Expenditure

Miguel Alonso-Alonso, MD

Dates of Funding: 2012

Neurobehavioral Contribution to Weight Loss Maintenance: An Interdisciplinary Experimental Study with Noninvasive Brain Modulation

Katherine E. Gregory, PhD, RN

Assistant Professor, Boston College
Nurse Scientist, Brigham and Women’s Hospital
Dates of Funding: 2012

Fecal Lipidomics Associated with Necrotizing Enterocolitis in Premature Infants

Richard Hodin, MD

Chief, Endocrine Surgery, Surgical Director, MGH Center for Inflammatory Bowel Disease
Dates of Funding: 2012

IAP Regulating the Gut Flora: Implications for the Metabolic Syndrome

Rajashri Iyengar, MD, MPH

Clinical Instructor in Pediatric Allergy/Immunology, Massachusetts General Hospital
Dates of Funding: 2012

The Mucosal Response to Breast Milk Factors in Allergic Colitis

Hideo Makimura, MD, PhD

Assistant Professor of Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital
Dates of Funding: 2012

Metabolomic Assessment of Obese Insulin Resistant Subjects After Acipimox

Natalie Shaw, MD, MMSc

Instructor, Clinical and Research Fellow, Reproductive Endocrine Unit, Department of Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital
Dates of Funding: 2012

Defining the Cause of Obesity in Narcolepsy

Anne Thorndike, MD

Department of Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital
Dates of Funding: 2012

Intervention to Increase Availability of Produce in a Low-Income Latino Community

John Yoon, MD

Diabetes Center, Massachusetts General Hospital
Dates of Funding: 2012

Effects of Activating the Wnt Signaling Pathway on Skeletal Muscle Adiposity

Elaine Yu, MD, MMSc

Department of Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital
Dates of Funding: 2012

Bariatric Surgery and Bone Marrow Adiposity

Kamryn Eddy, PhD

Assistant Professor of Psychology and Psychiatry, Massachusetts General Hospital
Dates of Funding: 2011-2010Inhibitory Control and Reward Processing in Adolescent Anorexia Nervosa

Amy Fleischman, MD, MMSc

Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School and Boston Children’s Hospital
Dates of Funding: 2010-2011

Validation of Peripheral Blood Mitochondrial Metabolic Markers in Humans

Jeremy Goverman, MD

Assistant Professor of Surgery, Massachusetts General Hospital
Dates of Funding: 2010-2011

Metabolic Benefit of Anti-Oxidant Peptide SS-31 on Glucose Homeostasis After Burn Injury

Elizabeth Lawson, MD

Assistant Professor of Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital
Dates of Funding: 2010-2011

The Genetics of Appetite Regulation and Stress Hormones in Anorexia Nervosa

Emily Oken, MD, MPH

Assistant Professor of Population Medicine, Harvard Pilgrim Healthcare
Dates of Funding: 2010-2011

Fish Consumption Intervention and Maternal DHA Levels in Pregnancy

Katherine E. Gregory, PhD, RN

Assistant Professor, Boston College
Nurse Scientist, Brigham and Women’s Hospital
Dates of Funding: 2010-2011

Metabolic Aspects of Necrotizing Enterocolitis in Premature Infants

Ho-Jin Koh, PhD

Instructor in Medicine, Harvard Medical School
Research Associate, Joslin Diabetes Center
Dates of Funding: 2010-2011The Effects of Type 2 Diabetes on SNARK in Skeletal Muscle

Elizabeth A. Lawson, MD

Instructor in Medicine, Harvard Medical School
Assistant in Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital
Dates of Funding: 2010-2011

The Genetics of Appetite-Regulation and Stress Hormones in Anorexia Nervosa

Di Meng, MD, PhD

Instructor in Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School
Research Associate, Massachusetts General Hospital
Dates of Funding: 2010-2011

Mechanism of UEA1 Oral Therapy from Recovery from Intestinal Inflammation

Yaakov Nahmias, PhD

Instructor in Surgery and Bioengineering, Harvard Medical School
Department of Surgery, Massachusetts General Hospital
Dates of Funding: 2010-2011

Study of the Hepatitis C Virus (HCV) Antiviral Properties of Polymethoxyflavones

Amy DiVasta, MD, MMSc

Staff Physician, Children’s Hospital Boston
Instructor in Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School
Dates of Funding: 2008-2009

Biochemical Stimulation and Skeletal Health in Adolescents with Anorexia Nervosa

Michael Donnino, MD

Assistant Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School
Director Division of Critical Care, Department of Emergency Medicine, Beth Israel Deaconess Center
Dates of Funding: 2008-2009
Thiamine Deficiency in the Critically Ill Patient with Sepsis

Debora Duro, MD

Division of Gastroenterology and Nutrition, Children’s Hospital
Instructor of Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School
Dates of Funding: 2008-2009
13C-methionine Breath Test to Assess Liver Diseases in Short Bowel Syndrome

Madhusmita Misra, MD, MPH

Assistant in Pediatrics, Neuroendocrine Unit/ Pediatrics Massachusetts General Hospital
Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School
Dates of Funding: 2008-2009
Bone Metabolism in Female Adolescents

Yaakov Nahmias, PhD

Instructor in Surgery and Bioengineering, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School
Dates of Funding: 2008-2009
Grapefruit Flavonoid Naringenin for the Treatment of HCV Infection

Eduardo Villamor, MD, DrPH

Assistant Professor of International Nutrition, Harvard School of Public Health
Dates of Funding: 2008-2009

Vitamin D Status and Risk of Overweight in School Children

Shawn Fagan, MD

Assistant Professor, Harvard Medical School
Medical Director, Division of Burns, Massachusetts General Hospital
Dates of Funding: 2008-2009
Metabolic Benefit of Tight Glycemic Control Utilizing GLP-1 Hormonal Therapy

Bobby J. Cherayil, MD

Associate Professor of Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School
Associate Immunologist, Department of Pediatrics, Massachusetts General Hospital for Children
Dates of Funding: 2006-2007
The Hyperferriteinemia (Hfe) Gene in Innate Immunity

Michael Donnino, MD

Clinical Instructor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School
Director Critical Care, Department of Emergency Medicine, Beth Israel Deaconess Center
Dates of Funding: 2006-2007
Thiamine Deficiency in the Critically Ill Patient with Sepsis

Roland Kupka, ScD

Research Associate, Department of Nutrition, Harvard School of Public Health
Dates of Funding: 2006-2007
Prevalence, Predictors and Consequences of Iron Deficiency Among Children Born to HIV-Infected Mothers

Irina G. Stavrovskaya, PhD

Instructor, Harvard Medical School
Department of Neurosurgery, Brigham and Women’s Hospital
Dates of Funding: 2006-2007
Effect of Omega-3 Fatty Acids Enriched Diet on Brain Mitochondrial Functions

Yu-Hua Tseng, PhD

Instructor in Medicine, Harvard Medical School
Assistant Investigator, Joslin Diabetes Center
Dates of Funding: 2006-2007
Role of Morphogenic Proteins in Human Obesity

Corrine K. Welt, MD

Assistant Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School
Department of Medicine, Division of Reproductive Endocrine, Massachusetts General Hospital
Dates of Funding: 2006-2007
The Effect of Prolactin in the Nutritional and Immune Properties of Breast Milk