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

Aaron Deutsch, MD

Instructor in Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital

Smith K, Deutsch AJ*, McGrail C, Kim H, Hsu S, Huerta-Chagoya A, Mandla R, Schroeder PH, Westerman KE, Szczerbinski L, Majarian TD, Kaur V, Williamson A, Zaitlen N, Claussnitzer M, Florez JC, Manning AK, Mercader JM, Gaulton KJ, Udler MS. Multi-ancestry polygenic mechanisms of type 2 diabetes. . Nat Med. 2024 Apr. PMID: 38443691

 

 

Magdalena Sevilla-González, PhD

Instructor in Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital

Sevilla-González M*, Smith K, Wang N, Jensen AE, Litkowski EM, Kim H, DiCorpo DA, Hsu S, Cui J, Liu CT, Yu C, McNeil JJ, Lacaze P, Westerman KE, Chang KM, Tsao PS, Phillips LS, Goodarzi MO, Sladek R, Rotter JI, Dupuis J, Florez JC, Merino J, Meigs JB, Zhou JJ, Raghavan S, Udler MS, Manning AK. Heterogeneous effects of genetic variants and traits associated with fasting insulin on cardiometabolic outcomes. .Nat Commun. 2025 Mar. PMID: 40089507

 

 

Christopher Auger, PhD

Research Fellow in Medicine, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center

Auger C*, Li M, Fujimoto M, Ikeda K, Yook JS, O’Leary TR, Caycedo MPH, Xiaohan C, Oikawa S, Verkerke ARP, Shinoda K, Griffin PR, Inaba K, Stimson RH, Kajimura S. Identification of a molecular resistor that controls UCP1-independent Ca2+ cycling thermogenesis in adipose tissue. .Cell Metab. 2025 Jun. PMID: 40199326

Past Recipients

2024 Recipients

Maarten Hulsmans, MS, PhD

Assistant Professor of Radiology, Massachusetts General Hospital

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, 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 in Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital

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

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

Assistant Professor, University of Toronto

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

Assistant Professor, Department of Population Medicine, HPHCI

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 FourmanLindsay 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.