Projects Awarded
2020
Mehmet Furkan Burak, MD, Research Fellow, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health – Identification of immunometabolic alterations in adipo-pulmonary axis to treat obesity related asthma
Andrea G. Edlow, MD, MSc, Assistant Professor of Obstetrics, Gynecology, and Reproductive Biology, Massachusetts General Hospital / Harvard Medical School – Fetal programming of mesolimbic dopamine signaling as a driver of transgenerational obesity (renewal)
Maarten Hulsmans, PhD, Instructor in Radiology, Massachusetts General Hospital / Harvard Medical School – Resolving macrophage heterogeneity of human atrial remodeling at single-cell level
Jacqueline M. Lane, PhD, Instructor in Anesthesia, Massachusetts General Hospital / Harvard Medical School – The circadian clock as a treatment for obesity: developing an accurate, easy to use, and clinically meaningful measure of circadian disruption
Carmen Monthe-Dreze, MD, Instructor in Pediatrics, Brigham and Women’s Hospital / Harvard Medical School – The Placenta and Pro-Resolving Superfamily of Mediators: New Insights into Intergenerational Obesity
Jingyi Qian, PhD, Research Fellow in Medicine, Brigham and Women’s Hospital / Harvard Medical School – Effects of Circadian Misalignment and Meal Timing on Metabolite Profiles
Margaret A Stefater, MD, PhD, Instructor in Pediatrics, Boston Children’s Hospital / Harvard Medical School – Using Intestinal Epithelial Organoids to Study Durability of and Mechanisms for Roux Limb Remodeling after Gastric Bypass Surgery
Marc Wein, MD, PhD, Assistant Professor of Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital / Harvard Medical School – The role of salt inducible kinases in obesity-associated systemic viral pathogenesis
Davene R. Wright, PhD, Faculty of Population Medicine, Harvard Pilgrim Healthcare – Decision to Initiate Lifestyle Changes for Childhood Obesity (DIsCCO)
2019
Laura Dichtel, MD, MHS Instructor in Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital / Harvard Medical School- Molecular Mechanisms of Growth Hormone Action in Nonalcoholic Fatty Liver Disease
Lindsay T. Fourman, MD Instructor in Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital/Harvard Medical School- Metabolic Sequelae of In Utero HIV Exposure: A Pilot Study
Frankie D. Heyward, PhD Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Rosen Lab in the Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes, and Metabolism, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center/Harvard Medical School- Determining the Direct Transcriptional Targets of STAT3 in AgRP Neurons
Jacqueline Marie Lauer, PhD, MPH Research Fellow, Boston Children’s Hospital- Assessing the Relationship Between Environmental Enteric Dysfunction and Poor Growth Via a Newly Developed 11-Plex Assay
Jordi Merino, RD, PhD Instructor in Medicine, Diabetes Unit and Center for Genomic Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital- Clinical and Physiological Characterization of Genetic Variation Influencing Dietary Intake
Sarbattama Sen, MD Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, Brigham and Women’s Hospital- The Role of Specialized Pro-Resolving Lipid Mediators in Linking Maternal Obesity with Offspring Asthma
2018
Andrea Edlow, MD, MSc Assistant Professor of Obstetrics, Gynecology, and Reproductive Biology, Massachusetts General Hospital – Fetal origins of obesity and metabolic syndrome
Sara Looby, PhD, ANP-BC (Co-Principal Investigator with Kathleen Fitch, MSN, FNP-BC) Assistant Professor of Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital –Exploring sweetener knowledge and consumption in people living with HIV
Samir Softic, MD, MSc Instructor in Pediatrics, Boston Children’s Hospital – Pathways of Fructose Metabolism
Vibha Singhal, MD, MSc Instructor of Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital – Determinants of Beta Cell Function Following Sleeve Gastrectomy in Adolescents
Chien Wen Su, PhD Instructor in Pediatrics, Massachusetts General Hospital Mucosal Immunology and Biology Research Center – Helminth infection confers resistance to high fat diet-induced obesity
2017
Mengyao Ella Li, BS, MS, PhD Research Fellow, Joslin Diabetes Center– Contribution of gut microbiome to exercise training-generated beneficial effects
Pouneh K. Fazeli, MD, MPH Assistant Professor of Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital– Changes in Marrow Adipose Tissue in Response to Estradiol Cyclicity
Marie-France Hivert, MD, MMSC Associate Professor, Harvard Pilgrim Healthcare– How to reach women of reproductive age with obesity to support weight loss before pregnancy?
Seth Rakoff-Nahoum, MD, PhD Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, Boston Childrens Hospital– Development of Ecologically-Rational Nutribiotics and Probiotics for the Pre-term Gut Microbiome
Christian Rask-Madsen, MD, PhD Assistant Investigator, Joslin Diabetes Center– Endothelial Dysfunction in Obesity and Intestinal Stem Cell Function
Sarbattama Sen, MD Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, Brigham and Women’s Hospital– Maternal Obesity, Breastmilk Composition and Offspring Growth
Changzheng Yuan, BM, MSc, ScD Postdoctoral Fellow, Harvard School of Public Health– Obesity over the adult life course and late-life subjective cognitive function
Markella Zanni, MD Assistant Professor of Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital– Testing a Novel Hormonal Strategy to Reduce Myocardial Steatosis and Improve Cardiac Function among People Living with HIV
2016
Abdelfattah El Ouaamari, PhD Instructor in Medicine, Joslin Diabetes Center – Unraveling the neuro-anatomy of the endocrine pancreas
Kriston Ganguli, MD Instructor in Pediatrics, Massachusetts General Hospital – The use of probiotic metabolites in reducing the risk factors for necrotizing enterocolitis
Ida Hatoum, Sc.D. Instructor in Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital – Intergenerational effects of Roux-en-Y gastric bypass
Maureen Leonard, MD Instructor of Pediatrics, Mass General Hospital for Children – Early Environmental Factors Predictive of Autoimmunity in Infants at Risk of Celiac Disease (competing renewal)
Deirdre Tobias, D.Sc. Instructor of Medicine; Associate Epidemiologist, Harvard Medical School; Brigham and Women’s Hospital – Joint relationships between obesity and cardiometabolic risk with postmenopausal breast cancer risk
Chien Wen Su, PhD Instructor in Pediatrics, Massachusetts General Hospital Mucosal Immunology and Biology Research Center – Helminth infection confers resistance to high fat diet-induced obesity
2015
Karen Bernstein, MD Instructor in Radiation Oncology, Massachusetts General Hospital — Effects of caloric restriction on post-operative complications in sarcoma patients treated with pre-operative radiation therapy
Lauren Gehler Fiechtner, MD Instructor in Pediatrics, Boston Children’s Hospital — Emerging early life risk factors for childhood obesity: an examination of diet and antibiotics in infants
Elizabeth L. Hohmann, MD Associate Professor of Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital — Therapeutic targeting of gut microbiota for human obesity and metabolism
Janet Lo, MD Assistant Professor of Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital — Nutritional and Gastrointestinal Factors in Low Bone Density of HIV Disease
Kathleen Joan Sweadner, PH.D Associate Professor of Cellular and Molecular Physiology in the Department of Neurosurgery, Massachusetts General Hospital — Metabolism in a mutant mouse with elevated muscle activity