Projects Awarded

2023

Janet Chou, MD, Associate Professor of Pediatrics, Boston Children’s Hospital 
Mechanism of autoimmunity in children and adolescents with obesity 

Natalia Machado, PhD, Instructor in Neurology, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
Identification of preoptic neurons that control energy expenditure

Juan Matute, MD, Instructor in Pediatrics, Massachusetts General Hospital
Intestinal Intelectin-1 in Obesity Pathogenesis

Allison Wu, MD, Instructor in Pediatrics, Boston Children’s Hospital 
Intervening in Food Insecurity to Reduce and Mitigate (InFoRM) Childhood Obesity (Renewal)

Xia Xiao, PhD, Instructor in Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital 
Role of hepatocyte SMAD1/5/8-mediated wntless in NAFLD/NASH fibrosis

2022

Mehmet Furkan Burak, MD, Instructor, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health 
Identification of immunometabolic alterations in adipo-pulmonary axis to treat obesity-related asthma (Renewal)

Yang Hu, ScD, Research Associate, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health 
Metabolic signatures of artificial sweetener intake, human gut microbiome, and body weight in free-living individuals. 

Lydia Lynch, PhD, Associate Professor, Harvard Medical School,  Brigham and Women’s Hospital
Investigating if the source of dietary fat, rather than obesity, dictates anti-tumor immunity (Renewal)

Jordi Merino, PhD, Instructor of Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital 
Clinical and physiological characterization of genetic variation influencing dietary intake (Renewal)

Lorena Sonia Pacheco, PhD, MPH, BS, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health 
Description of the home kitchen environment in Hispanic/Latinos in Boston, MA

Tracey Simon, MD, MPH, Assistant Professor of Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital 
Diet-and Gut-Derived Metabolite Profiles of Hepatocellular Carcinoma in Patients with Cirrhosis

Allison Jane Wu, MD, MPH, Instructor in Pediatrics, Boston Children’s Hospital 
Intervening in Food Insecurity to Reduce and Mitigate (InFoRM) Childhood Obesity 

2021

Chika Anekwe, MD, MPH, Instructor in Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital
Feasibility study of an intensive nutrition therapy program for improvement of obesity and diabetes in a low-income population

Frankie Heyward, PhD, Clinical Fellow in Pediatrics, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
Determining the Direct Transcriptional Targets of STAT3 in AgRP Neurons (Renewal)

Lydia Lynch, PhD, Lecturer on Medicine, Brigham and Women’s Hospital
Investigating if the source of dietary fat, rather than obesity, dictates anti-tumor immunity

Lidia Mínguez-Alarcón, PhD, Lecturer on Medicine, Brigham and Women’s Hospital
Serum n3PUFA, urinary phthalates and reproductive health in women

Armen Yerevanian, MD, Instructor in Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital
Caloric Restriction Mimicry and Metabolic Reprogramming via Riboflavin Depletion

Yanjia Jason Zhang, MD, PhD. Clinical Fellow in Pediatrics, Boston Children’s Hospital
Microbe-derived bioactive lipids that affect host satiety signaling and eating behaviors