Current Research Awards

The DERC provides NIH funds to support Pilot and Feasibility projects and oversees a New Investigator Award by the University of Washington Diabetes Research and Training Program (DRTP). The DRTP also provides funds to support the McAbee Postdoctoral Fellowship. The The current awardees are:

Anne Hocking, Ph.D. (Research Assistant Professor, Department of Surgery): The Diabetic Wound: Mesencymal Stem Cells and Dermal Fibroblast Interactions (P&F)

Andy Hoofnagle, M.D., Ph.D. (Assistant Professor, Department of Lab Medicine): Lipoproteomic Biomarkers of Vascular Disease in Diabetes (P&F)

Stephanie Page, M.D., PhD. (Assistant Professor, Department of Medicine/Metabolism): The Influence of Sex Steroids on HDL Protein Composition and Inflammation in Healthy Men (P&F)

Savitha Subramanian, M.D. (Acting Instructor, Department of Medicine/Metabolism): Insulin Resistance and mTOR Inhibition (P&F)

Mark Bothwell, Ph.D. (Professor, Medicine/Physiology & Biophysics): LIG Protein Regulators of Growth Factor Signaling in Pancreatic Beta Cells (P&F)

Ian H. deBoer, M.D., M.S. (Assistant Professor, Department of Medicine): Pilot Clinical Trial of Vitamin D3 Therapy in the Metabolic Syndrome (P&F)

Karen Foster-Schubert, M.D. (Acting Instructor, Department of Medicine): Effects of Food Energy Density on Appetite Hormones (P&F)

Kathryn Aston-Mourney, PhD. (Fellow, Department of Medicine/Metabolism: Mentor: Steven Kahn, M.B., Ch.B.): The Role of Matrix Metalloproteinase-9 in Islet Amyloid Degradation (McAbee Fellowship)

Jenny Kanter, M.S. (Graduate Student, Department of Pathology, Mentor: Karin Bornfeldt, Ph.D.): What is the Role of Saturated acyl-CoAs in Insulin Resistance and Associated Atherosclerosis? (Stroum Fellowship)

Joshua Thaler, M.D., PhD. (Acting Instructor, Department of Medicine/Metabolism): The Role of Hypothalamic Inflammation in Obesity (P&F)

Kristina Utzschneider, MD. (Assistant Professor, Department of Medicine/Metabolism): Effect of Diet Composition on Liver Fat and Glucose Metabolism (P&F)