Outstanding Manuscript Awards
This award is intended for an Assistant Professor, Instructor, or Post-Doctoral Fellow who has made a significant scientific contribution as First Author of a manuscript in nutrition, obesity, or metabolism.
2024 Recipients
Maarten Hulsmans, MS, PhD
Assistant Professor of Radiology, Harvard Medical School
Hulsmans M*, Schloss MJ, Lee IH, Bapat A, Iwamoto Y, Vinegoni C, Paccalet A, Yamazoe M, Grune J, Pabel S, Momin N, Seung H, Kumowski N, Pulous FE, Keller D, Bening C, Green U, Lennerz JK, Mitchell RN, Lewis A, Casadei B, Iborra-Egea O, Bayes-Genis A, Sossalla S, Ong CS, Pierson RN, Aster JC, Rohde D, Wojtkiewicz GR, Weissleder R, Swirski FK, Tellides G, Tolis G Jr, Melnitchouk S, Milan DJ, Ellinor PT, Naxerova K, Nahrendorf M. Recruited macrophages elicit atrial fibrillation. Science. 2023 Jul. PMID: 37440641
Suman Srinivasa, MS, MD
Assistant Professor of Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital
Srinivasa S*, Abohashem S, Walpert AR, Dunderdale CN, Iyengar S, Shen G, Jerosch-Herold M, deFilippi CR, Robbins GK, Lee H, Kwong RY, Adler GK, Tawakol A, Grinspoon SK. Mineralocorticoid Receptor Antagonism by Eplerenone and Arterial Inflammation in HIV: The MIRABELLA HIV Study.JAMA Cardiol. 2024 Feb. PMID: 38090987
Franziska Plessow, PhD
Neuroendocrine Unit, Department of Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital
Plessow F*, Kerem L, Wronski ML, Asanza E, O’Donoghue ML, Stanford FC, Eddy KT, Holmes TM, Misra M, Thomas JJ, Galbiati F, Muhammed M, Sella AC, Hauser K, Smith SE, Holman K, Gydus J, Aulinas A, Vangel M, Healy B, Kheterpal A, Torriani M, Holsen LM, Bredella MA, Lawson EA. Intranasal Oxytocin for Obesity.NEJM Evid. 2024 May PMID: 38815173
Anthony Verkerke, PhD
Research Fellow, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
Verkerke ARP*, Wang D, Yoshida N, Taxin ZH, Shi X, Zheng S, Li Y, Auger C, Oikawa S, Yook JS, Granath-Panelo M, He W, Zhang GF, Matsushita M, Saito M, Gerszten RE, Mills EL, Banks AS, Ishihama Y, White PJ, McGarrah RW, Yoneshiro T, Kajimura S. BCAA-nitrogen flux in brown fat controls metabolic health independent of thermogenesis. Cell. 2024 May PMID: 38653240
Past Recipients
2023 Recipients
Rachel Kim, MD, PhD
Instructor in Psychiatry, Massachusetts General Hospital
Kim R*, Lauze M, Slattery M, Perrlis RH, Holsen LM, Breithaupt L, Stern CM, Fava M, Thomas JJ, Lawson EA, Misra M, Eddy KT. Association Between Ghrelin and Body Weight Trajectory in Individuals with Anorexia Nervosa. JAMA Netw Open. 2023 Mar. PMID: 36961462
Josephine Li, MD
Assistant Professor of Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital
Li JH*, Perry JA, Jablonski KA, Srinivasan S, Chen L, Todd JN, Harden M, Mercader JM, Pan Q, Dawed AY, Yee SW, Pearson ER, Giacomini KM, Giri A, Hung AM, Xiao S, Williams LK, Franks PW, Hanson RL, Kahn SE, Knowler WC, Pollin TI, Florez JC. Identification of Genetic Variation Influencing Metforming Response in a Multi-Ancestry Genome-Wide Association Study in the Diabetes Prevention Program (DPP). Diabetes 2022 Dec. PMID: 36525397
Kacey Prentice, PhD
Research Associate, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
Prentice K*, Saksi J, Robertson LT, Lee GY, Inouye KE, Eguchi K, Lee A, Cakici O, Otterbeck E, Cedillo P, Achenbach P, Ziegler AG, Calay ES, Engin F, Hotamisligil GS. A hormone complex of FABP4 and nucleoside kinases regulates islet function. Nature 2021 Dec. PMID: 34880500
Samuel Schnittman, MD
Research Fellow in Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital
Schnittman SR*, Jung W, Fitch KV, Zanni MV, McCallum S, Lee JS, Shin S, Davis BJ, Fulda ES, Diggs MR, Giguel F, Chinchay R, Sheth AN, Fitchtenbaum CJ, Malvestutto C, Aberg JA, Currier J, Lauffenburger DA, Douglas PS, Ribaudo HJ, Alter G, Grinspoon SK. Effect of host factors and COVID-19 infection on the humoral immune repertoire in treated HIV. JCI Insight 2023 Mar. PMID: 36805331
2022 Recipients
Jordi Merino, PhD
Center of Genomic Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital
Merino J*, Hassan DS, Sarnowski C, Lane JM, Todorov PV, Udler MS, Song Y, Wang H, Kim J, Tucker C, Campbell J, Tanaka T, Chu AY, Tsai L, Pers Th, CHasman DI, Rutter MK, Dupuis J, Florez JC, Saxena R. Genetic analysis of dietary intake identifies new loci and functional links with metabolic traits. Nat Hum Behav. 2022 Jan;6(1):115–63. PMID: 34426670
Tracey Simon, MD, MPH
Division of Gastroenterology, Massachusetts General Hospital
Simon TG*, Roelstraete B, Hastrom H, Sundstrom J, Ludvigsson JF. Non-alcoholic fatty liver disease and incident major adverse cardiovacular events: results from a nationwide histology cohort. Gut 2022 Sept. PMID: 34489307
2021 Recipients
Izzuddin M. Aris, PhD
Department of Population Medicine, Harvard Medical School and Harvard Pilgrim
Hu J*, Aris IM*, Lin PD, Rifas-Shiman SL, Perng W, Woo Baidal JA, Wen D, Oken E. Longitudinal associations of modifiable risk factors in the first 1000 days with weight status and metabolic risk in early adolescence. Am J Clin Nutr. 2021 Jan;113(1):113–22. PMID: 33184628
Russell P. Goodman, MD, DPhil
Department of Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital
Goodman RP*, Markhard AL, Shah H, Sharma R, Skinner OS, Clish CB, Deik A, Patgiri A, Hsu YH, Masia R, Noh HL, Suk S, Goldberger O, Hirschhorn JN, Yellen G, Kim JK, Mootha VK. Hepatic NADH reductive stress underlies common variation in metabolic traits. Nature. 2020 Jul. PMID: 32461692
Fatima Cody Stanford, MD, MPH, MPA, MBA
MGH Weight Center and Endocrine Division, Massachusetts General Hospital
Stanford FC*, Cena H, Biino G, Umoren O, Jimenez M, Freeman MP, Shadyab AH, Wild RA, Womack CR, Banack HR, Manson JE. The association between weight-promoting medication use and weight gain in postmenopausal women: findings from the Women’s Health Initiative. Menopause. 2020 Oct. PMID: 32665534
2020 Recipients
Joanne B. Cole, PhD
Diabetes Unit and Center for Genomic Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital
Cole, J. B.*, Florez, J. C., & Hirschhorn, J. N. (2020). Comprehensive genomic analysis of dietary habits in UK Biobank identifies hundreds of genetic associations. Nature Communications, 11(1), 1-11.
PMID: 32193382.
Lindsay T. Fourman, MD
Metabolism Unit and Neuroendocrine Unit, Massachusetts General Hospital
Stanley TL*, Fourman LT*, Feldpausch MN, Purdy J, Zheng I, Pan CS, Aepfelbacher J, Buckless C, Tsao A, Kellogg A, Branch K, Lee H, Liu CY, Korey KE, Chung RT, Torriani M, Kleiner DK, Hadigan CM, Grinspoon SK. Effects of tesamorelin on non-alcoholic fatty liver disease in HIV: a randomized, double-blind, multicentre trial. Lancet HIV. 2019. 6(12): e821-830. *Co-first authors. PMID 21611038.
Jingyi Qian, PhD
Research Fellow in Medicine, Sleep Disorders Division, Brigham and Women’s Hospital
Qian J*, Morris CJ, Caputo R, Wang W, Garaulet M, Scheer FAJL. Sex differences in the circadian misalignment effects on energy regulation. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 116, no. 47 (2019): 23806-23812. PMID: 31685618.