Dr. Karin Bornfeldt is the recipient of a Pilot and Feasibility award from the NIDDK-sponsored Diabetic Complications Consortium. Her project, entitled Diabetes and miRNA,  studies the role of microRNAs in monocyte and macrophage activation in diabetic mouse models. Dr. Bornfeldt is a Professor of Medicine in the Division of Metabolism, Endocrinology and Nutrition.