Pilot & Feasibility Award Recipients
2005-2010
NEW YORK OBESITY NUTRITION RESEARCH CENTER
2005-2006 & 2006-2007
Christoph Buettner, MD, Ph.D.
Instructor
Department Medicine/Division Endocrinology
Albert Einstein College of Medicine
"Regulation of adipose tissue metabolism by central leptin”
2005-2006 & 2006-2007
Young-Hwan Jo, PhD
Instructor
Department Medicine/Division Endocrinology
Albert Einstein College of Medicine
"Testing the synaptic excitability of melanin-concentrating hormone in the lateral hypothalamus”
2005-2006 & 2006-2007
Lori Zeltzer, PhD
Assoc. Research Scientist
Department biochemistry & Molecular Biophysics
Columbia University
"Hypothalamic feeding circuits in mouse models of gestational diabetes"
2006-2007 & 2007-2008
Kathleen Keller, PhD, & Wendy Chung, MD, PhD
Research Associate
New York Obesity Research Center
St. Luke’s-Roosevelt Hospital
"CD36: A putative taste Receptor for dietary fat in humans"
2007-2008 & 2008-2009
Wei Shen, MD
Associate Research Scientist
New York Obesity Research Center
St. Luke’s-Roosevelt Hospital
"Dixon imaging method in quantifying bone marrow fat, liver and pancreas fat"
2008-2009 & 2009-2010
Christopher Ochner, PhD
Research Associate
New York Obesity Research Center
St. Luke’s-Roosevelt Hospital
"Effects of Roux-en-Y gastric bypass surgery on brain activation in fasted and fed conditions"
2009-2010 & 2010-2011
Clémence Blouet, PhD
Research Associate
Department Medicine/Division Endocrinology
Albert Einstein College of Medicine
"Role of mediobasal hypothalamic Crtc 1 in the regulation of energy balance in mouse"
2009-2010
Edward Colt, MD
Attending
Department Medicine/Division Endocrinology
St. Luke’s-Roosevelt Hospital
"Comparing the ability of high resolution peripheral HR-pQCT
with DXA for measuring bone mineral density in obese patients"
2009-2010
Kevin Kalinsky, MD
Assistant Professor of Medicine
Columbia University Medical Center
"Pre-surgical intervention study to evaluate the effect of metformin on breast cancer proliferation"