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University of California, San Francisco

Martin Valdearcos Contreras, PhD

Assistant Professor, Diabetes Center
Dates of Funding: 2019
Contact Information
Martin.ValdearcosContreras@ucsf.edu • Phone: (415) 476-9847
Exploring the gut microbiota-microglia interaction in early-life metabolic programming of obesity

Martina Steurer-Mueller, MD

Associate Professor, Pediatrics
Dates of Funding: 2019
Contact Information
Martina.SteurerMuller@ucsf.edu • Phone: (415) 476-5153
The impact of type of nutrition on the metabolome of preterm infants

Qili Liu, PhD

Assistant Professor, Anatomy
Dates of Funding: 2019
Contact Information
Qili.Liu@ucsf.edu • Phone:
Homeostatic regulation of protein intake and its role in obesity

James Bayrer, MD, PhD

Assistant Professor, Pediatrics
Dates of Funding: 2019
Contact Information
James.Bayrer@ucsf.edu • Phone: (415) 502-2352
Nuclear hormone regulation of enteroendocrine cell development and metabolic homeostasis

Elena Flowers, PhD, RN

Associate Professor, Physiological Nursing
Dates of Funding: 2018
Contact Information
Elena.Flowers@ucsf.edu • Phone: (415) 476-0983
Novel Integration of Multiple Aspects of Transcriptome Data to Explore Mechanisms that Underlie Risk Factors Associated with Obesity

Kaveh Ashrafi, PhD

Professor, Department of Physiology
Dates of Funding: 2017
Contact Information
Kaveh.Ashrafi@ucsf.edu • Phone: (415) 514-4102
The kynurenine pathway as a link between metabolic state and neural disorders

Markus Delling, PhD

Assistant Professor, UCSF School of Medicine
Dates of Funding: 2017
Contact Information
Markus.Delling@ucsf.edu • Phone: (415) 476-2308
Calcium signaling in hypothalamic primary cilia and its role in obesity

James Olzmann, PhD(UC Berkeley)

Assistant Professor, Department of Nutritional Sciences & Toxicology
Dates of Funding: 2017
Contact Information
olzmann@berkeley.edu • Phone: (510) 664-7018
Mechanisms of lipid droplet proteome regulation in brown adipocytes

ariAri Molofsky, MD, PhD

Assistant Professor of Laboratory Medicine
Dates of Funding: 2016
Contact Information
Email • Phone: (415) 476-1702
Impact of Infections on Adipose Tissue Immune Composition and Metabolic Function

Peter Turnbaugh, PhD

Assistant Professor of Microbiology and Immunology
Dates of Funding: 2016
Contact Information
Peter.Turnbaugh@ucsf.edu • Phone: (415) 502-3237
Do Host Microbiome Interactions Contribute to The Efficacy of Weight Loss Diets?

Meghana Gadgil, MD

Assistant Professor of Medicine
Dates of Funding: 2016
Contact Information
Meghana.Gadgil@ucsf.edu • Phone: (415) 353-7900
Walnut Intake to Achieve Lasting Nutrition to Prevent Diabetes (Walnut-Diabetes)

Michael Peters, MD 

Assistant Professor of Medicine
Dates of Funding: 2016
Contact Information
Michael.Peters@ucsf.edu • Phone: (415) 443-9255
Role of Metabolic Dysfunction in the Gut Microbiome, In Driving Severe Asthma 

Evan Feinberg, PhD

Assistant Professor of Anatomy
Dates of Funding: 2016
Contact Information
evan.feinberg@ucsf.edu • Phone: (415) 502-3619
Incentive Salience in Sensory Inputs to Dopamine Neurons

aschbacherKirstin Aschbacher, PhD

Assistant Professor of Psychiatry
Dates of Funding: 2015
Contact Information
EKirstin.Aschbacher@ucsf.edu • Phone: (415) 502-7908
Presurgical Biobehavioral Predictors of Adiposity Change Among  Obese Patients Following Bariatric Surgery

knightZachary Knight, PhD

Assistant Professor of Physiology
Dates of Funding: 2015
Contact Information
Zachary.Knight@ucsf.edu • Phone: (415) 502-2011
Rapid Sensory Regulation of AgRP and POMC Neurons

wangbBiao Wang, PhD

Assistant Professor, Cardiovascular Research Institute
Dates of Funding: 2015
Contact Information
Biao.Wang@ucsf.edu • Phone: (415) 502-2023
Impact of Infections on Adipose Tissue Immune Composition and Metabolic Function