SDRC Pilot and Feasibility Awards

 
 

2025 Pilot and Feasibility Awards

Based on our recent Pilot and Feasibility request for applications, we received 20 project proposals. With the support of MCHRI to complement the NIH P30 funding, the Stanford Diabetes Research Center (SDRC) proudly announces the following 8 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.

Lay Teng Ang, PhD | Assistant Professor, Department of Urology, Stanford University Collaborator: Seung Kim, MD, PhD “Vascularized islets to improve transplantation outcomes in diabetes”

Siddharth Krishnan, PhD | Assistant Professor, Department of Electrical Engineering, Stanford University Collaborator: Seung Kim, MD, PhD “Transplantation of pseudoislets in oxygen producing cell-encapsulation devices to reverse T1D”

Michael Lin, MD, PhD | Professor, Department of Neurobiology, Department of Bioengineering, Stanford University ”Noninvasive imaging of brain-body communication in diabetes disease and treatment”

Heike Daldrup-Link, MD | Professor, Department of Radiology, Stanford University Collaborators: Nidhi Bhutani, MD, Stuart Goodman, MD, PhD, Thomas Meade, PhD “A Novel MRI Biomarker for Detection of Senescent Cells in Diabetic Osteoarthropathy”

Jessie Wong, PhD | Clinical Assistant Professor, Department of Pediatrics, Stanford University Collaborators: Rayhan Lal, MD, David Maahs, MD, PhD "Developing an Evidence-based Tool to Detect Diabetes Device Distress among People Living with Type 1 Diabetes”

Sarah Bowling, PhD | Assistant Professor, Department of Developmental Biology, Stanford University Collaborator: Seung Kim, MD, PhD “A model of gestational diabetes to investigate impacts of hyperglycemia on development”

Joseph M. DeSimone, PhD | Sanjiv Sam Gambhir Professor of Translational Medicine, Department of Radiology, Department of Chemical Engineering, Stanford University Collaborator: Avnesh Thakor, MD, PhD “Perfusable 3D-printed matrix for human islet transplantation”

Euan Ashley, DPhil, MD | Professor, Department of Medicine, Department of Genetics, Department of Biomedical Data Science, Stanford University “Uncovering non-canonical roles of the calcium sensor VSNL1 in pancreatic islet biology” Collaborators: Anna Gloyn, DPhil, Zaniar Ghazizadeh, MD