Pilot + Feasibility: Past Awardees

Two awards were made in the 2011 grant cycle:

Ana Baylin, Assistant Professor, Epidemiology
"Fatty Acids and Risk of Overweight in School-Aged Children"
$50,000

Siming Li, Assistant Research Scientist, Life Sciences Institute
"Dissecting transcriptional control of brown adipocyte development through genome-wide functional screen"
$50,000

Three awards were made in the 2010 grant cycle:

Carey Lumeng, MD, PhD and Susan Woolford, MD, Assistant Professor, Pediatric and Communicable Diseases
"Inflammatory monocytes in childhood obesity"
$33,000

Dana Dolinoy, PhD, Searle Assistant Professor, SPH Environmental Health Science
"In Utero BPA exposure: Effects on metabolic homeostasis mediated by epigenetic labile loci"
$33,000

Jorge A. Iniguez-Lluhi, PhD, Associate Professor, Pharmacology
"Novel bifunctional glucocorticoid receptor ligands with favorable metabolic profiles through the display of novel chemical functionalities"
$33,000

Two awards were made in the 2009 grant cycle:

David Lombard, MD, PhD, Assistant Professor, Dept of Pathology and Research Professor, Institute of Gerontology
"Role of acetylation in regulating the pyruvate dehydrogenase complex"
$50,000

Julie Lumeng, MD, PhD, Assistant Professor, Pediatric & Comm Diseases, Asst Research Scientist, Center for Human Growth and Development
"Diurnal salivary cortisol in association with cardiovascular risk markers and weight status in low-income preschool-aged children"
$25,000

Two awards were made in the 2006 grant cycle:

Zora Djuric, Family Medicine Principal Investigator
"Prevention of weight gain in women diagnosed with breast cancer: A pilot study in the community clinical oncology program sites"
$50,000

Peter Woolf, Engineering Principal Investigator
"A systems biology approach for analysis of metabolic changes associated with diabetes and obesity"
$100,000