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.
Read MoreDr. 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.
Read MoreDr. 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”.
Read MoreDr. Christiane Hampe, PhD, has been awarded an NIH R01 for her project entitled “Islet Cell Membrane Antibodies in Diabetes”.
Read MoreDr. Christiane Hampe, PhD, is the recipient of the 2011 Neufeld Memorial Prize 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.”
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Read MoreDr. Gregory Morton has received a Novo Nordisk Diabetes Innovation Award for his proposal “Leptin, Glucagon and Diabetes.” His is one of the first such awards in the pharmaceutical firm’s new program, dedicated to supporting exploration of novel hypotheses in nonclinical diabetes and obesity research that can further the development of therapies.
Read MoreDOCE Director Michael W. Schwartz, MD (MTE) is senior author of a paper published in the Journal of Clinical Investigation that presents the first evidence of structural change in the brain in both rodents and humans associated with diet-induced obesity. DOCE researcher Dr. Josh Thaler, MD, PhD, (MTE), is the first author on the paper entitled ʽObesity Is Associated with Hypothalamic Injury in Rodents and Humansʼ which was published in the January 3rd issue.
Read MoreDr. Jay Heinecke, MD (MTE) has been awarded an NIH/NHLBI R01 for his project entitled “Quantitative Assessment of HDL Function”. The goal of the research is to identify proteins that alter HDL’s function and are selectively enriched or depleted in subjects at risk for CVD.
Read MoreDr. Savitha Subramanian, MD (MTE) is the recipient of a University of Washington Royalty Research Fund Award for her project titled “Role of hepatic macrophages in obesity”. This project will explore the changes in the liver immune microenvironment in the setting of chronic caloric excess using animal models and cell culture. Dr. Subramanian is an Assistant Professor of Medicine in the Division of Metabolism, Endocrinology and Nutrition.
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