Virginia Kraus Elected Member of Association of American Physicians
Four School of Medicine faculty members were inducted into the Association of American Physicians (AAP) during a joint April 6 meeting of the AAP, the American Society for Clinical Investigation (ASCI) and the American Physician-Scientists Association (APSA).
Katie Garman, MD receives Borden Scholar Award
Katie Garman, MD is the 2019 recipient of the Borden Scholar award. The gift is a one-year award that allows selected DMPI faculty to test new, emergent ideas with translational implications for which alternative sources of funding are not yet available.
Gentzon Hall receives 2019 ASCI Young Physician-Scientist Award
DMPI faculty member Gentzon Hall, MD, PhD has received a 2019 ASCI Young Physician-Scientist Award from the American Society for Clinical Investigation.
An EPA Oscar
Several DMPI investigators including Simon Gregory, Beth Hauser, Bill Kraus, Svati Shah, Colette Blach, Elaine Dowdy, and Carol Haynes, were honored with a rarely awarded Level I Scientific and Technical Achievement Award (STAA) from the Environmental Protection Agency for a series of studies conducted with a former graduate student, Cavin Ward-Caviness.
Diabetologia Editor's Choice
A publication authored by DMPI researchers and fellow researchers in Chicago, “Maternal metabolites during pregnancy are associated with newborn outcomes and hyperinsulinaemia across ancestries” is a featured Editor’s Choice selection in the March, 2019 edition of Diabetologia.
Retrotranslation of metabolomic signatures of mitochondrial overload to underlying mitochondrial biology
More than a decade ago, DMPI faculty members Drs. Debbie Muoio and Tim Koves teamed with Drs. Robert Stevens, Olga Ilkayeva, and James Bain in the DMPI metabolomics lab to report on accumulation of incompletely oxidized lipid species (in the form of even-chain acylcarnitines) in skeletal muscle of obese and insulin resistant rodents and humans