University of California, San Francisco

Teresa Chen, MD, MHS

Assistant Professor, Medicine, School of Medicine, UCSF
Dates of Funding: 2023 – 2024

Contributions of Body Composition to Cystatin C Versus Creatinine-based GFR Estimation in South Asian Adults

Amanda E. Downey, MD

Assistant Professor, Pediatrics, School of Medicine, UCSF
Dates of Funding: 2023 – 2024

Changes in Body Composition During Nutritional Rehabilitation by 3-dimensional Optical Imaging

Joni Nikkanen, PhD

Department of Nutritional Sciences and Toxicology, UC Berkeley
Dates of Funding: 2023 – 2024

Neuronal Regulation of Systemic Lipid Metabolism

Ana Paula Arruda PhD

Assistant Professor, Nutritional Sciences and Toxicology, UC Berkeley
Dates of Funding: 2022 – 2023

Regulation of adipocyte calcium dynamics in physiology and metabolic disease

Mustafa G. Aydogan, PhD

Assistant Professor, Professional Researcher, Biochemistry and Biophysics, UCSF School of Medicine
Dates of Funding: 2022 – 2023

Unravelling a Mitochondrial Oxidant Signal that Acts as a Metabolic Switch at the Onset of Morphogenesis

Ayca Erkin-Cakmak, MD, MPH

Assistant Professor, Pediatrics, UCSF School of Medicine

Ana Maria Mora-Wyrobrek, MD, PhD

UC Berkeley, School of Public Health

NORC-EaRTH Joint Funding
Dates of Funding: 2022 – 2023

Prenatal and Mid-childhood Exposure to Mixtures of Persistent Organic Pollutants and Cardiometabolic Health in Mexican-American Young Adults from the CHAMACOS Cohort

Marrie Heffern, PhD

Associate Professor, Department of Chemistry, UC Davis
Dates of Funding: 2022 – 2023

Determining the Interplay C-peptide and Copper Deficiency in Non-Alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease

Diana Kuo, PhD

Assistant Professor, Neurobiology, Physiology and Behavior, UC Davis
Dates of Funding: 2022 – 2023

Investigating the Systemic Benefits of Gc Inhibition

Rachel M. Radin, PhD

Assistant Professor, Psychiatry, UCSF School of Medicine
Dates of Funding: 2022 – 2023

Continuous Glucose Monitoring, Binge Eating, and Metabolic Profiling: A Feasibility Study

Joshua Robinson, PhD

Associate Professor, Ob/ Gyn, Reproductive Sciences, UCSF School of Medicine
NORC-EaRTH Joint Funding
Dates of Funding: 2022 – 2023

Investigating the Role of Perfluorinated Alkylated Substances in Diglyceride Acyltransferase Inhibition and Lipid Metabolic Dysfunction

Neel Singhal, MD, PhD

Associate Professor, Neurology, UCSF Weill Institute for Neurosciences
Dates of Funding: 2022 – 2023

Uncovering the role of PATJ in Energy homeostasis

Isha Jain, PhD

Assistant Professor, Biochemistry and Biophysics, UCSF School of Medicine
Dates of Funding: 2021 – 2022

Metabolic Inspiration from Yest: SREBP1 as a Mammalian Oxygen Sensor

Cristin Kearns, DDS, MBA

Associate Professor, Preventative and Restorative Dental Science
Dates of Funding: 2021 – 2022

Sugar Industry Influence on B Vitamin Research and Policy: A Pilot Study

John Yoon, PhD

Assistant Professor, Division of Endocrinology, UC Davis
Dates of Funding: 2021 – 2022

Control of Systemic Energy Balance via Brown Fat Mitochondrial Regulation