BNORC Small Grants Program
The Center’s small grants program has been discontinued as of June 2022. Please contact Donna Gibson (dgibson@bu.edu) with any questions.
BNORC Small Grant Recipients
(periodically updated)
| Adipose Tissue Biology and Nutrient Metabolism Core | |
| Investigator | Project Title |
| Matthew Layne | Role of ACLP in Adipocyte Determination and Fibrosis |
| Alice Lichenstein | Tissue Inflammation in the Ossabaw Pig and Human Adipose Tissue |
| Barbara Nikolajczyk | Does salt drive a human immune profile in a mouse model of obesity? |
| Cafer Ozdemir | Regulation of Egr1 translation in human adipocytes |
| Rucha Patel | Biosynthetic Regulation of a novel class of lipids with anti-diabetic and anti-inflammatory effects |
| Richard Taylor Pickering | Adipose tissue fibrosis, liver stiffness, and circulating markers of collagen metabolism |
| Kristy Townsend | Investigation of the neural innervation of adipose depots |
| Yan Zhu | Novel mechanism linking Retinol-Binding Protein 4 to insulin resistance |
| Epidemiology and Genetics Core | |
| Investigator | Project Title |
| Ying Bao | Obesity, physical activity and gastric and esophageal cancers |
| Rachel Bleiweiss-Sande | An investigation of the role of processed foods in Children’s Health |
| Paulette Chandler | Body weight and physical activity at time of cancer diagnosis and all-cause mortality |
| Mengxi Du | Ultra-Processed Food Consumption and Obesity Risk in Children and Adolescents: A Prospective Cohort Study |
| Meghan Garvey | The Associations between Bone Health, Physical Activity, and Body Composition |
| Arielle Korn | Validating a novel multi-method survey to assess Stakeholder-driven Community Diffusion of childhood obesity prevention efforts |
| Lynn Moore | Yogurt, Blood pressure and Cardiovascular Risk in Three Prospective Cohorts |
| Mercedes Sotos Prieto | Feeding America’s Bravest: Mediterranean Diet-Based Interventions to change Firefighters’ Eating Habits and Improve Cardiovascular Risk Profiles |
| Deirdre Tobias | Lifestyle Modifications from Menarche to First Pregnancy and Risk of Breast Cancer |
| Functional Genomics and Bioinformatics Core | |
| Investigator | Project Title |
| Z. Gordon Jiang | Single-cell driven spatial transcriptomics of nonalcoholic and alcoholic fatty liver disease |
| Benjamin Kugler | identification of Transcriptomic Changes in Dynamin Related Protein1 Depleted Obese Human Myotubes |
| Jennifer Lee | Molecular Basis for Enteroendocrine Cell Dysfunction in Type 2 Diabetes |
| Libin Liu | Adipocyte cellular lifespan turnover |
| Mary-Elizabeth Patti | Dissecting Epigenetic Mechanisms Responsible for Heptic Glucotoxicity |
| Guilio Romeo | Profiling of allopurinol-dependent transcriptome in obesity |
| Anna Santoro | Genes important for the metabolism of novel anti-diabetic and anti-inflammatory lipids |
| Francesca Seta | Role of Bcl11b in Vascular Function |
| Ismail Syed | A Novel Class of Mammalian Lipids as Potential Therapeutic Agents to Prevent Type 1 Diabetes and Promote beta-cell Survival |
| Andrew Wilson | Elucidation of Thyroid Hormone Signaling Mechanisms in Human Tissue |
| Kai Zou | Identification of Novel Transcriptomic Changes in Human Myotubes following Roux-en-Y gastic Bypass Surgery |
| Transgenic Core | |
| Investigator | Project Title |
| Sandeep Datta | Probing the Molecular Mechanisms of Lipid Detection |
| Young-Bum Kim | Generarion of a mouse model carrying a homozygous mutation of human ROCK1 gene using the Cas9-CRISPR system |
| Dong Kong | A Novel Method to Use CRISPR to Generate Conditional Gene-targeted Mice |
| Dong Kong | Use NgAgo Endonuclease System to Generate Gene-targeted Mice |
| Matthew Layne | Generation of a novel transgenic mouse line for studying adipose tissue fibrosis |
| Pavlos Pissios | Conditional deletion of nicotinamide N-methyltransferase |
| Susana Rovira-Llopis | Study of the mechanisms involved in exercise-induced adipokine secretion by generation of a CRISPR transgenic mouse |
Click here for the small grant application . Please fill out the information below and upload the completed application as a single PDF file. Please contact the Center Administrator for information.