Dr. Frankie Heyward Receives BNORC Pilot & Feasibility Award
Dr. Frankie Heyward, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Evan Rosen Lab in the Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes, and Metabolism at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center has received a Pilot and Feasibility award for his project entitled “Determining the Direct Transcriptional Targets of IRF3 in AgRP Neurons”. This project seeks to optimize and ultimately harness CUT&RUN, a low-input alternative to ChIP-seq, […]
P&F Award
Dr. Donato Rivas, Scientist II, Jean Mayer USDA Human Nutrition Research Center and Assistant Professor, Tufts University has received a Pilot and Feasibility award for his project entitled “Impact of adipocyte-derived miRNA on age-associated metabolic capacity and muscle atrophy”. The overall goal of the research plan is to determine how aging impacts adipocyte miRNA expression […]
Pilot and Feasibility Funding Awarded to Dr. Lidia Minguez-Alarcon
Lidia Minguez-Alarcon, PhD, MPH, Lecturer, Channing Division of Network, Brigham and Women’s Hospital has received a BNORC Pilot and Feasibility funding for a project entitled “Diet, ovarian reserve and cardiometabolic health”. The project has been initially funded for 12-months beginning July 1, 2021.
Pilot and Feasibility Funding Awarded to Dr. Clemens Wittenbecher
Clemens Wittenbecher, PhD, Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Nutrition at Harvard TH Chan SPH has received a BNORC Pilot and Feasibility funding for a project entitled “Metabolomics profiles’ 10-year changes linking diet, obesity and genetics to subsequent T2D risk”. The project has been initially funded for 12-months beginning July 1, 2021.
Pilot and Feasibility Funding Awarded to Dr. Danielle Haslam
Danielle Haslam, PhD, Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Brigham and Women’s Hospital has received a BNORC Pilot and Feasibility funding for her project “Multi-omic signatures of sugar and artificially-sweetened beverages and changes in body weight”. The project has been initially funded for 12-months beginning July 1, 2021.
Pilot and Feasibility Funding Awarded to Dr. Natalia Machado
Natalia Machado, MS, PhD, Staff Scientist, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and Instructor in Neurology, Harvard Medical School recently received BNORC Pilot and Feasibility funding for her project “A master switch in the regulation of body temperature and metabolic rate”. The project has been initially funded for 12-months beginning July 1, 2021.