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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