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Dr. Joshua Thaler (MTE) has been awarded a Beginning Grant-in-Aid Award from the American Heart Association entitled “The Role of CNS Inflammation in Insulin Resistance and Diabetes”. This two-year project focuses on the potential contribution of high-fat diet-induced inflammation in the hypothalamus on susceptibility to insulin resistance.

Dr. Vincenzo Cirulli (MTE) has been awarded a Basic Science Award from the American Diabetes Association entitled “Adhesive and migratory cues for islet cells”. This three-year project focuses on the function of a neural protein named Slit-2 that his team has found to be expressed in the developing pancreas, and that appears to function as a migratory cue for pancreatic ductal cells marked by the expression of the progenitor marker Sox9.

Chongren Tang, MD PhD, an Acting Assistant Professor in the Division of Metabolism, Endocrinology and Nutrition was awarded a four- year AHA Scientist Develpoment Grant for his proposal entitled “Mechanisms

Dr. Michael Schwartz (MTE) has been awarded an NIH R01 for his proposal entitled “Hypothalamic Inflammation and Energy Homeostasis.”  This research focuses on the brain’s role in high-fat diet-induced weight

Dr. Michael Schwartz (MTE) has been named the Robert H. Williams Endowed Chair in Medicine. Established in 1980, this was the first endowed chair in the UW School of Medicine,

David Cummings, MD, has been named the 2010 Pfizer Visiting Professor in Obesity at the City of Hope National Medical Center.  Pfizer, Inc. awarded 8 Visiting Professorship in Obesity Awards

Michael Schwartz, MD, has been named the 2010 Pfizer Visiting Professor in Obesity at the Baylor College of Medicine. Pfizer, Inc. awarded 8 Visiting Professorship in Obesity Awards in 2010

David Cummings has been awarded an NIH R01 for his proposal entitled “Feasibility, Efficacy, and Mechanisms of Surgical vs Medical Diabetes Treatment.”  This project focuses on mechanisms of the effect of bariatric

Joshua Thaler has been awarded a K08 award from the NIH/NIDDK for his proposal entitled “Cellular Mechanisms of Hypothalamic Inflammation in High Fat Diet-Induced Obesity.”  The goal of this research

Michael W. Schwartz (MTE) has received one of eight 2010 Pfizer Visiting Professorship in Obesity Awards from Pfizer Inc. These $7500 grants support three days of educational activities with a distinguished visiting expert.