Selected Grants
Endocrinology and Metabolism Training Program
Inst. Training Prgm or CMEMentor · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 2024 - 2029Alpha- to Beta-Cell Communication in Health and Disease
ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 2024 - 2029Targeting alpha-cell GPCRs to stimulate glucagon and counter hypoglycemia
ResearchMentor · Awarded by National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases · 2022 - 2027Training Program in Developmental and Stem Cell Biology
Inst. Training Prgm or CMEMentor · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 2001 - 2027Novel assays for proglucagon peptides to understand alpha cell function in health and diabetes
ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by Leona M. and Harry B. Helmsley Charitable Trust · 2024 - 2026The role of ubiquitination in glucagon-induced signaling bias and insulin secretion
ResearchCollaborating Investigator · Awarded by American Heart Association · 2023 - 2026Cell and Molecular Biology Training Program
Inst. Training Prgm or CMEMentor · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 2021 - 2026Preclinical studies to gain mechanistic insight into how Rejuva regulates islet function
ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by Fractyl Health · 2025 - 2026Engineered Glucose Metabolism in Insulin Secreting Cells
ResearchCo Investigator · Awarded by National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases · 2002 - 2026Leveraging glucagon activity to target hepatic steatosis, fibrosis, and inflammation
ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by Merck Sharp & Dohme · 2022 - 2025Effects of NutraMeta during and following GLP-1R-mediated weight loss
ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by Prostasis, LLC · 2024 - 2025Structure Therapeutics - Incretin small molecules
ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by Structure Therapeutics Inc. · 2024 - 2025Injectable PEG-like Conjugate for Sustained Delivery of a Peptide Drug for Type 2 Diabetes Treatment
ResearchCo Investigator · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 2020 - 2025Novel metabolic actions of GIP
ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases · 2020 - 2025Alticor Research Project: Testing compounds derived from botanicals for activity at the GLP-1R in mouse islets
ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by Alticor Global Holdings Inc · 2023 - 2024Utilization of the interaction between amino acids and glucose-dependent insulinotropic polypeptide in pancreatic alpha cells as a safeguard against insulin-induced hypoglycemia in type 1 diabetes
ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by Leona M. and Harry B. Helmsley Charitable Trust · 2021 - 2024ELI Lilly SRA
ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by Eli Lilly and Company · 2019 - 2024Mechanisms of insulin secretion mediated by alpha cells
ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 2019 - 2024Protasis
ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by Prostasis, LLC · 2018 - 2023Glucagon and insulin act cooperatively in the regulation of prandial hepatic glycogen metabolism
ResearchMentor · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 2021 - 2023The Role of Islet DPP4 for Regulation of Glucose Homeostasis
FellowshipCo-Sponsor · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 2018 - 2021External Relationships
- American Diabetes Association
- Arrowhead Pharmaceutical Inc.
- Boehringer Ingelheim
- Prostasis
- Protagonist Therapeutics
- Septerna
- Structure Therapeutics
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