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James R. Bain

Professor in Medicine
Medicine, Endocrinology, Metabolism, and Nutrition
Duke Box 104775, Durham, NC 27710
300 North Duke Street, Room 48-201, Duke Molecular Physiology Institute, Durham, NC 27701-2047

Selected Grants


Fibro/Adipogenic Progenitor Metabolic Reprogramming for Age-Related Muscle Fibrosis

ResearchCo-Mentor · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 2024 - 2029

Elucidating racial and ethnic differences in functional effects of the vaginal microbiome in ovarian cancer

ResearchAdvisor · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 2024 - 2027

Biomarkers of Dietary Intake and Exposure Data Coordinating Center

ResearchCo Investigator · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 2021 - 2026

Duke Women's Reproductive Health Research Scholars

Inst. Training Prgm or CMEMentor · Awarded by Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development · 2020 - 2025

Predicting Newborn and Childhood Adiposity: An Integrated Omics Approach

ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by Northwestern University · 2018 - 2025

Serotonin as a Novel Biomarker for Progression to Type 2 Diabetes in Obese Adolescents

ResearchCollaborator · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 2018 - 2023

Metabolomic & Radiographic Markers of Fracture Risk Among Older Adults with Diabetes (K23)

ResearchCo-Mentor · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 2018 - 2023

Home Transplant to Preserve the Microbiota and Decrease GVHD

ResearchCollaborator · Awarded by American Society of Hematology · 2019 - 2022

Metagenomic Studies of the Gut Microbiomes of Obese and Lean Twins

ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by Washington University in St. Louis · 2014 - 2021

AZD9668 and Neutrophil Elastase Inhibition to Prevent Graft-versus-Host Disease

ResearchCo Investigator · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 2018 - 2019

Growth Failure in Extremely Preterm Infants: Microbiomic and Metabolomic Analysis

ResearchCollaborator · Awarded by Gerber Foundation · 2014 - 2018

Maternal Obesity and Gestational Diabetes: Impact on the Metabolome

ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by Northwestern University · 2014 - 2018

Metabolomics of low-trauma fracture among older women with diabetes

ResearchCollaborator · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 2014 - 2017

Metabolic Regulators of Insulin Secretion and Insulin Resistance

ResearchCollaborator · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 2013 - 2015

Integration of Oncogenic Networks in Cancer Phenotypes

ResearchResearch Scientist · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 2004 - 2011

External Relationships


  • Agilent Technologies Inc.

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