This federal Project Grant award from the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (CFDA 93.847 - Diabetes, Digestive, and Kidney Diseases Extramural Research) provides $147,459 to the University of California, Berkeley to conduct research addressing racial and ethnic disparities in diabetes risk following varying glycemia levels during pregnancy. The key objectives are to: 1) Ascertain the risk of future diabetes after gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM) and...
This $448,441 federal Project Grant awarded by the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) under the Child Health and Human Development Extramural Research program (CFDA 93.865) will support research at Emory University to investigate the role of mediobasal hypothalamic gliosis in gestational weight gain and visceral fat accretion. The primary aim is to provide foundational data on a potential neural mechanism underlying dysregulated or pathological weight gain during...
The federal Project Grant award R01DK142026, in the amount of $1,089,491, was granted by the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK) under the Diabetes, Digestive, and Kidney Diseases Extramural Research program (CFDA 93.847). The award aims to deliver novel statistical methods, computational algorithms, and user-friendly software to study individual health trajectories relevant to disease onset and progression for biobank-scale real-world data. The research will...
This $310,000 Project Grant award from the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK), under the Diabetes, Digestive, and Kidney Diseases Extramural Research program (CFDA 93.847), will support a feasibility study for an adaptive intervention to improve food security and maternal-child health. The study aims to determine the feasibility of recruitment and retention, as well as the potential effectiveness of interventions, including WIC referrals, care navigation,...
This federal Project Grant award from the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK) under CFDA 93.847 - Diabetes, Digestive, and Kidney Diseases Extramural Research program provides $585,232 to Brigham & Women's Hospital Inc. to conduct research on the neurobiobehavioral underpinnings of intergenerational obesity. The award will support two complementary studies: (1) a secondary analysis of a pre-birth cohort to assess the impact of pre-pregnancy obesity on...
This federal Project Grant award from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD), under the Child Health and Human Development Extramural Research program (CFDA 93.865), is providing $2,468,757 to the University of Texas at Austin to conduct research on using magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) to assess maternal and fetal pancreas size and growth over the course of pregnancy. The research aims to establish a model for how maternal pancreas growth interacts with the...
The National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK) awarded a $1,600,000 Project Grant under the Diabetes, Digestive, and Kidney Diseases Extramural Research program (CFDA 93.847) to the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. The project, titled "Decoding Endocrine and Paracrine Communication Through Mammokines," aims to discover new signaling molecules from the mammary gland that influence metabolic function and the progression of obesity and type 2...
The National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK) awarded a $659,199 Project Grant under the Diabetes, Digestive, and Kidney Diseases Extramural Research program (CFDA 93.847) to the University of Pittsburgh. The grant, awarded on February 25, 2025, supports research to investigate a novel pathway by which hepatocyte-derived growth differentiation factor 15 (GDF15) can improve obesity-associated insulin resistance independent of changes in body weight and the GDF15...
This federal Project Grant award from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD), under the Child Health and Human Development Extramural Research program (CFDA 93.865), provides $513,294 to the University of Pittsburgh to investigate the role of insulin receptor substrate 1 (IRS1) in regulating beta-cell function and adaptation during pregnancy. The goal is to gain mechanistic insights into the etiology of gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM), a common obstetrical...
This $147,486 Project Grant awarded by the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (CFDA 93.847) will support research to investigate the impact of type 2 diabetes on the vaginal microbiome and its influence on susceptibility to the bacterial pathogen Group B Streptococcus (GBS). The research aims to define the homeostatic characteristics of the vaginal microenvironment in type 2 diabetes, and characterize how the diabetic vaginal microbiome interacts with GBS and...