Harvard Medical School

Janet Chou, MD

Associate Professor of Pediatrics, Boston Children’s Hospital
Dates of Funding: 2023 – 2024

Mechanism of Autoimmunity in Children and Adolescents with Obesity

Natalia Machado, PhD

Instructor in Neurology, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
Dates of Funding: 2023 – 2024

Identification of Preoptic Neurons that Control Energy Expenditure

Juan Matute, MD

Instructor in Pediatrics, Massachusetts General Hospital
Dates of Funding: 2023 -2024

Intestinal Intelectin-1 in Obesity Pathogenesis

Allison Wu, MD

Instructor in Pediatrics, Boston Children’s Hospital
Dates of Funding: 2023 – 2024

Intervening in Food Insecurity to Reduce and Mitigate (InFoRM) Childhood Obesity (Renewal)

Xia Xiao, PhD

Instructor in Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital
Dates of Funding: 2023 – 2024

Role of Hepatocyte SMAD1/5/8 – Mediated wntless in NAFLD/NASH Fibrosis

Mehmet Furkan Burak, MD

Instructor, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
Dates of Funding: 2022 – 2023

Identification of Immunometabolic Alterations in Adipo-Pulmonary Axis to Treat Obesity-Related Asthma (Renewal)

Yang Hu, ScD

Research Associate, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
Dates of Funding: 2022 – 2023

Metabolic Signatures of Artificial Sweetener Intake, Human Gut Microbiome, and Body Weight in Free-Living Individuals

Lydia Lynch, PhD

Associate Professor, Harvard Medical School, Brigham and Women’s Hospital
Dates of Funding: 2022 – 2023

Investigating if the Source of Dietary Fat, Rather than Obesity, Dictates Anti-Tumor Immunity (Renewal)

Jordi Merino, PhD

Instructor of Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital
Dates of Funding: 2022 – 2023

Clinical and Physiological Characterization of Genetic Variation Influencing Dietary Intake (Renewal)

Lorena Sonia Pacheco, PhD, MPH, BS

Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
Dates of Funding: 2022 – 2023

Description of the Home Kitchen Environment in Hispanic/Latinos in Boston, MA

Tracey Simon, MD, MPH

Assistant Professor of Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital
Dates of Funding: 2022 – 2023

Diet-and Gut-Derived Metabolite Profiles of Hepatocellular Carcinoma in Patients with Cirrhosis

Allison Jane Wu, MD, MPH

Instructor in Pediatrics, Boston Children’s Hospital
Dates of Funding: 2022 – 2023

Intervening in Food Insecurity to Reduce and Mitigate (InFoRM) Childhood Obesity

Chika Anekwe, MD, MPH

Instructor in Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital
Dates of Funding: 2021 – 2022

Feasibility Study of an Intensive Nutrition Therapy Program for Improvement of Obesity and diabetes in a Low-Income Population

Frankie Heyward, PhD

Clinical Fellow in Pediatrics, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
Dates of Funding: 2021 – 2022

Determining the Direct Transcriptional Targets of STAT3 in AgRP Neurons (Renewal)

Lydia Lynch, PhD

Lecturer on Medicine, Brigham and Women’s Hospital
Dates of Funding: 2021 – 2022

Investigating if the Source of Dietary Fat, Rather than Obesity, Dictates Anti-Tumor Immunity

Lidia Mínguez-Alarcón, PhD

Lecturer on Medicine, Brigham and Women’s Hospital
Dates of Funding: 2021 – 2022

Serum n3PUFA, urinary phthalates and reproductive health in women

Armen Yerevanian, MD

Instructor in Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital
Dates of Funding: 2021 – 2022

Caloric Restriction Mimicry and Metabolic Reprogramming via Riboflavin Depletion

Yanjia Jason Zhang, MD, PhD

Clinical Fellow in Pediatrics, Boston Children’s Hospital
Dates of Funding: 2021 – 2022

Microbe-derived Bioactive Lipids that Affect Host Satiety Signaling and Eating Behaviors