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Dr. Karin Bornfeldt, PhD, has been awarded the 2013 Russell Ross Memorial Lectureship in Vascular Biology. The lecture was delivered at the American Heart Association’s Annual Sessions in Dallas on November 19th.

Dr. Michael Schwartz is first author of a review in Nature, titled “Cooperation between brain and islet in glucose homeostasis and diabetes.

Dr. Joshua Thaler receives 2013 Research Royalty Award for his project “The Role of Hypothalamic Atypical Protein Kinase C in Body Weight Regulation and Glucose Homeostasis”.

Dr. Laura den Hartigh has been awarded an NIH K01 to examine the mechanisms by which 10,12CLA confers resistance to diet-induced weight gain in mice.

Dr. Karin Bornfeldt is the recipient of a Pilot and Feasibility award from the NIDDK-sponsored Diabetic Complications Consortium for her project ‘Diabetes and miRNA’.

Dr. Ian Sweet is the recipient of the 2013 Gail Patrick Innovation Award from the ADA. This award is granted to Innovation award applications to the ADA that receive the highest priority score.

Dr. Joshua Thaler is the 2013 recipient of the Fialkow Award. The Fialkow Award is awarded annually to recognize the outstanding achievements of junior faculty in medicine in research, teaching, clinical work, and academic citizenship.

Dr. Joshua Thaler has been selected as the recipient of a 2013 Early Investigators Award by The Endocrine Society. The Early Investigators Awards provide monetary support to assist in the development of early career investigators and recognition of their accomplishments in endocrine research.

Dr. Christiane Hampe, PhD, is the recipient of a 4-year research award from the US-Israel Binational Science Foundation (BSF) for her project entitled “Depletion of autoreactive-B lymphocytes through anti-idiotypic antibodies coupled to cytotoxins: a new approach for the prevention of Type 1 Diabetes”.

Dr. Christiane Hampe, PhD, has been awarded an NIH R01 for her project entitled “Islet Cell Membrane Antibodies in Diabetes”.