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
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
Dates of Funding: 2016Early Environmental Factors Predictive of Autoimmunity in Infants at Risk of Celiac Disease
Deirdre Tobias, DSc
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
Dates of Funding: 2016
The Use of Probiotic Metabolites in Reducing the Risk Factors for Necrotizing Enterocolitis
Chien Wen Su, PhD
Dates of Funding: 2016
Helminth Infection Confers Resistance to High Fat Diet-Induced Obesity
Karen Bernstein, MD
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
Dates of Funding: 2014The Impact of Weight Loss Surgery in Adolescents on Fatty Liver Disease
Elizabeth Lawson, MD
Dates of Funding: 2014
Hideo Makimura, MD, PhD
Dates of Funding: 2014
Alex Soukas, MD, PhD
Assistant Professor of Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital
Dates of Funding: 2014
Geoffrey Walford, MD
Dates of Funding: 2014
Augmentation of Metformin in Response in Humans Through Dietary Tryptophan Exposure
Irina Stavrovskaya, MD
Dates of Funding: 2014
Cardiolipin Contribution in Mitochondrial Dysfunction in Obesity
Vidhu Thaker, MD
Dates of Funding: 2014
Genetics of Early Childhood Obesity (GECO)
Elaine Yu, MD
Dates of Funding: 2014
Bariatric Surgery and Bone Marrow Adiposity
Laura Holsen, PhD
Assistant Professor of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School
Dates of Funding: 2013
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
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
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
Director Division of Critical Care, Department of Emergency Medicine, Beth Israel Deaconess Center
Dates of Funding: 2008-2009
Debora Duro, MD
Instructor of Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School
Dates of Funding: 2008-2009
Madhusmita Misra, MD, MPH
Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School
Dates of Funding: 2008-2009
Yaakov Nahmias, PhD
Dates of Funding: 2008-2009
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
Medical Director, Division of Burns, Massachusetts General Hospital
Dates of Funding: 2008-2009
Bobby J. Cherayil, MD
Associate Immunologist, Department of Pediatrics, Massachusetts General Hospital for Children
Dates of Funding: 2006-2007
Michael Donnino, MD
Director Critical Care, Department of Emergency Medicine, Beth Israel Deaconess Center
Dates of Funding: 2006-2007
Roland Kupka, ScD
Dates of Funding: 2006-2007
Irina G. Stavrovskaya, PhD
Department of Neurosurgery, Brigham and Women’s Hospital
Dates of Funding: 2006-2007
Yu-Hua Tseng, PhD
Assistant Investigator, Joslin Diabetes Center
Dates of Funding: 2006-2007
Corrine K. Welt, MD
Department of Medicine, Division of Reproductive Endocrine, Massachusetts General Hospital
Dates of Funding: 2006-2007