Funded Investigators

Investigators

Year Funded

Proposal Title

Ayca Erkin-Cakmak MD

Ana Maria Mora-Wyrobrek MD, PhD (UC Berkeley)

NORC-EaRTH Joint Funding

 

2022

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

Joshua Robinson PhD 

NORC-EaRTH Joint Funding

2022 Investigating the role of perfluorinated alkylated substances in diglyceride acyltransferase inhibition and lipid metabolic dysfunction
John Yoon PhD (UC Davis) 2021 Control of systemic energy balance via brown fat mitochondrial regulation
Cristin Kearns DDS 2021 Sugar Industry Influence on B Vitamin Research and Policy: A Pilot Study
Isha Jain PhD 2021 Metabolic Inspiration from Yeast: SREBP1 as a Mammalian Oxygen Sensor
Candice Price PhD (UC Davis) 2020 Exploring the association between circulating microRNA and the development of insulin resistance in Black and White women of the National Growth and Health Study (NGHS)
Emily Goldberg PhD 2020 Neutrophilic Control of Metabolism during Lipotoxicity
Maria Chondronikola PhD (UC Davis) 2020 The Effect of Time-Restricted Eating in Cardiometabolic Health in People with Obesity and Prediabetes
Sagar Bapat MD PhD 2020 Mechanistic Elucidation of Obesity-Associated Asthma
Martin Valdearcos Contreras PhD 2019 Exploring the gut microbiota-microglia interaction in early-life metabolic programming of obesity
Martina Steurer-Mueller MD 2019 The impact of type of nutrition on the metabolome of preterm infants
Qili Liu, PhD 2019 Homeostatic regulation of protein intake and its role in obesity
James Bayrer MD, PhD 2019 Nuclear hormone regulation of enteroendocrine cell development and metabolic homeostasis
Elena Flowers, PhD, RN 2018
Novel Integration of Multiple Aspects of Transcriptome Data to Explore Mechanisms that Underlie Risk Factors Associated with Obesity
Kaveh Ashrafi, PhD                                            2017 The kynurenine pathway as a link between metabolic state and neural disorders
Markus Delling, PhD 2017 Calcium signaling in hypothalamic primary cilia and its role in obesity
James Olzmann, PhD (UC Berkeley) 2017 Mechanizms of lipid droplet proteome regulation in brown adipocytes
2016
Do host microbiome interactions contribute to the efficacy of weight loss diets?
2016
Walnut intake to achieve lasting Nutrition to prevent Diabetes (Walnut-Diabetes)
2016
Role of metabolic dysfunction in the gut microbiome, in driving severe asthma
2016
Incentive salience in sensory inputs to dopamine neurons
Ari Molofsky, MD, PhD 2015 Impact of infections on adipose tissue immune composition and metabolic function
Kirstin Aschbacher, PhD
2014
Presurgical Biobehavioral Predictors of Adiposity Change among Obese Patients Following Bariatric Surgery
2014
Rapid sensory regulation of AgRP and POMC Neurons
2014
SIK3-HDAC4 signaling in adipocyte lineage development
2012
Modulation of triacylglycerol storage and breakdown: tools to control fatty acid-stimulated inflammation in diet-induced obesity
2012
Bone marrow fat, bone mineral density, and body composition during gastric bypass -induced weight loss
Shingo Kajimura, PhD
2012
A structural approach to induce browning of white fat

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