University of Michigan
Katherine Halloran, PhD, MS
Postdoctoral Fellow, Pediatric Endocrinology
Dates of Funding: 2024-2025
Developmental Origin of MASLD in a Sheep Model of Polycystic Ovary Syndrome and Impact of Postnatal Obesity on its Severity
Bambarendage Perera, PhD
Research Assistant Professor, Environmental Health Sciences
Dates of Funding: 2024-2025
DNA Methylation-Directed Effects of Lead (Pb) Exposure in the Embryonic Mouse Brain and Potential Dietary Interventions
Erin Giles, PhD
Assistant Professor, Kinesiology
Dates of Funding: 2023-2024
Translating a novel glucose-guided eating paradigm to rodents – a P/F study
Nadejda Bozadjieva Kramer, PhD
Research Assistant Professor, Surgery
Dates of Funding: 2023-2024
Vertical sleeve gastrectomy improves hepatic steatosis and fibrosis by increasing intestinal FXR-FGF15/19 signaling
Mathia Colwell, PhD
Postdoc Fellow Environmental Health Sciences
Dates of Funding: 2023-2024
Intergenerational Epigenetic biomarkers of Metabolic Diseases Using an in utero Arsenic Exposure Mouse Model
Ramiah Jacks, PhD
Postdoc Research Fellow Department of Pediatrics
Dates of Funding: 2023-2024
Regulation of adipose tissue T cells with rapid adipose tissue remodeling
Prashant Singh, MBBS
Assistant Professor, Internal Medicine GI and Hepatology
Dates of Funding: 2022-2023
A randomized controlled trial comparing clinical efficacy of Mediterranean diet and low FODMAP diet in patients with IBS
Andriy Myronovych, MD, PhD
Assistant Research Scientist, Surgery
Dates of Funding: 2022-2023
Hepatic Steatosis and Liver Regeneration after Vertical Sleeve Gastrectomy/Partial Hepatectomy in Diet Induced Obese Mice: The Role of FGF15
Brigid Gregg, MD
Assistant Professor, Pediatric Endocrinology
Dates of Funding: 2022-2023
Changes in human milk nutrition as a complication of diabetes in pregnancy
Monica Dus, PhD
Assistant Professor of Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology, LSA
Dates of Funding: 2021-2022
Regulation of insulin biosynthesis and secretion by m6A mRNA Methylation
Melissa Elafros, MD, PhD
Instructor in Neurology, Medical School
Dates of Funding: 2021-2022
The Flint Neuropathy Study
Cristina Saenz de Miera Patin, PhD
Research Fellow, Molecular and Integrative Physiology, Medical School
Dates of Funding: 2021-2022
Prenatal photoperiodic programming of the developing metabolic hypothalamus
Sonya Wolf-Fortune, PhD
Research Fellow, Molecular and Integrative Physiology, Medical School
Dates of Funding: 2021-2022
Dysregulation of keratinocyte/macrophage axis in obesity driven diabetic wounds
Eric Buras
Assistant Professor
Dates of Funding: 2020-2021
Thrombospondin-1 promotes fibro-adipogenic remodeling and contractile dysfunction of the diaphragm in obesity
Kendrin Sonneville
Assistant Professor
Dates of Funding: 2020-2021
Piloting the impact of an intuitive eating-based workplace wellness program