SDRC PILOT AND FEASIBILITY AWARDS
2020 Pilot and Feasibility Awards
Based on our recent Pilot and Feasibility request for applications, we received 32 project proposals. With the support of MCHRI to complement the NIH P30 funding, the Stanford Diabetes Research Center (SDRC) proudly announces the following 10 awardees.
SDRC is committed to providing support for the most innovative and unique research proposals related to diabetes in all disciplines. Our goal is to support, enhance and foster new ideas that will improve how we understand, diagnose, treat and care for diabetes and its complications. The P&F program is a DRC hallmark designed to meet this goal.
Thank you to all applicants for their submissions, and congratulations again to this year's awardees.
Monique Barakat MD | Assistant Professor, Pediatrics
Collaborator: Peter Jackson
“Morphological and Molecular/Cellular Profiling of Pancreatic Primary Cilia Across the Human Lifespan and in Pancreatitis”
Yair Blumenfeld, MD | Associate Professor, Obstetrics and Gynecology
Collaborators: Yasser El-Sayed, MD and Stephanie Leonard, PhD
“Fasting versus Fed: Effect of oral intake prior to the glucose tolerance test in pregnancy”
Danny Chou, PhD | Assistant Professor, Department of Pediatrics
Collaborator: Possu Huang, PhD
“Next-generation Insulin Therapeutics Enabled by Computational Protein Design”
Seema Dangwal, PhD | Instructor, Cardiovascular Institute
Collaborators: Kari Nadeau, MD PhD and Ronglih Liao, PhD
“Endothelial Dysfunction: Connecting T2DM and COVID19-associated Organ Injury”
Joshua Knowles, MD PhD | Assistant Professor, Department of Medicine (Cardiovascular Medicine)
Collaborator: Anna Gloyn, PhD
“Discovery and validation of novel causal genes for T2D-associated GWAS signals through advanced colocalization and perturbation analyses in metabolic cell types”
Jin Billy Li, PhD | Associate Professor, Department of Genetics
Collaborator: Seung Kim, MD PhD
“Impaired dsRNA editing as a cause of islet autoinflammation and type 1 diabetes”
David Myung, MD PhD | Assistant Professor, Department of Ophthalmology
Collaborators: Theodore Leng, MD and Marilyn Tan, MD
“Artificial Intelligence-Based Image and Data Interpretation for the Screening and Monitoring of Diabetic Eye Disease”
Alan C Pao, MD | Assistant Professor, Department of Medicine (Nephrology)
Collaborators: Dylan Dodd, MD PhD and Sun H Kim MD
“Mechanisms Underlying Obesity-Related Hyperoxaluria”
Kari Nadeau, MD PhD | Professor, Department of Medicine and Pediatrics
Collaborators: Tracey McLaughlin, MD and Michael Snyder, PhD
“Studying the impact of COVID-19 on diabetes onset and progression”
Richard Zare, PhD | Professor, Department of Chemistry
Collaborators: Justin Annes, MD PhD
“Development and Validation of an Enabling Methodology for Measuring Islet-Specific Drug Delivery in vivo”
The 2020 Pilot and Feasibility Program has been generously co-sponsored by the Maternal and Child Health Research Institute and the Department of Pediatrics