Participants
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Kristin Abraham, PhD
Role: NIDDK Program Staff
Email: abrahamk@niddk.nih.gov
Center: National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK)
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![](https://hirnetwork.org/2021/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/Joana-Almaca.3.jpg)
![](https://hirnetwork.org/2021/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/Juan-Alvarez-modified.jpg)
Juan Alvarez, PhD
Role: Investigator
Email: Juan.Alvarez@pennmedicine.upenn.edu
Center: University of Pennsylvania
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Mark S. Anderson, MD, PhD
Role: Investigator
Email: Mark.Anderson@ucsf.edu
Center: University of California, San Francisco
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Justin P. Annes, MD, PhD
Role: Investigator
Email: jannes@stanford.edu
Center: University of California, San Francisco
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Radhika Armandla
Role: Research Staff
Email: aramandla.radhika@vumc.org
Center: Vanderbilt University
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Guillermo Arreaza-Rubin, MD
Role: NIDDK Program Staff
Email: arreaza-rubing@niddk.nih.gov
Center: National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK)
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Amish Asthana, PhD
Role: Investigator
Email: aasthana@wakehealth.edu
Center: Wake Forest University Health Sciences
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Mark Atkinson, PhD
Role: Investigator
Email: atkinson@pathology.ufl.edu
Center: University of Florida
![](https://hirnetwork.org/2021/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/Rhonda.-Bacher.jpg)
![](https://hirnetwork.org/2021/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/N.-Berger.jpg)
![](https://hirnetwork.org/2021/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/Sandy-Beshir.jpg)
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Michael Betts, PhD
Role: Investigator
Email: betts@mail.med.upenn.edu
Center: University of Pennsylvania
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Romina Bevacqua, PhD
Role: Investigator
Email: romina.bevacqua@mssm.edu
Center: Mount Sinai School of Medicine
![](https://hirnetwork.org/2021/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/Jason-Bini.-Yale.-2.jpg)
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Olivier Blondel, PhD
Role: NIDDK Program Staff
Email: blondelol@niddk.nih.gov
Center: National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK)
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Michael Brehm, PhD
Role: Investigator
Email: michael.brehm@umassmed.edu
Center: University of Massachusetts Medical School
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Marcela Brissova, PhD
Role: Investigator
Email: marcela.brissova@vanderbilt.edu
Center: Vanderbilt University
![](https://hirnetwork.org/2021/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/CMAI.-Brusko.jpg)
![](https://hirnetwork.org/2021/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/CHIB.-Buchwald2.jpg)
![](https://hirnetwork.org/2021/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/noel_burtt-2.jpeg)
![](https://hirnetwork.org/2021/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/Alejandro_Caicedo.jpg)
![](https://hirnetwork.org/2021/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/jp_cartallier.jpg)
Jean-Philippe Cartailler, PhD
Role: Investigator
Email: jp.cartailler@vanderbilt.edu
Center: Vanderbilt University
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Shuibing Chen, PhD
Role: Investigator
Email: shc2034@med.cornell.edu
Center: Weill Cornell Medical College
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Karen Christman, PhD
Role: Investigator
Email: christman@eng.ucsd.edu
Center: University of California at San Diego
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Aaron Cox, PhD
Role: Investigator
Email: racox@bcm.edu
Center: University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston
![](https://hirnetwork.org/2021/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Remi.Creusot.jpg)
![](https://hirnetwork.org/2021/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/CTAR.-Dai.jpg)
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George Daley, MD, PhD
Role: Investigator
Email: George_Daley@hms.harvard.edu
Center: Harvard Medical School
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Saumya Das, MD, PhD
Role: Investigator
Email: sdas@mgh.harvard.edu
Center: Massachusetts General Hospital
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Nicolai Doliba, PhD
Role: Investigator
Email: nicolai@pennmedicine.upenn.edu
Center: University of Pennsylvania
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Juan Dominguez-Bendala, PhD
Role: Investigator
Email: jdominguez2@med.miami.edu
Center: University of Miami
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Yuval Dor, PhD
Role: Investigator
Email: yuvald@ekmd.huji.ac.il
Center: Hebrew University of Jerusalem
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Thomas Eggerman, MD, PhD
Role: NIDDK Program Staff
Email: eggermant@mail.nih.gov
Center: National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK)
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Decio Eizirik, MD, PhD
Role: Investigator
Email: Decio.Laks.Eizirik@ulb.ac.be
Center: University of Brussels
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Carmella Evans-Molina, MD, PhD
Role: Investigator
Email: cevansmo@iupui.edu
Center: Indiana University
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Robert Babak Faryabi, PhD
Role: Investigator
Email: faryabi@pennmedicine.upenn.edu
Center: University of Pennsylvania
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Leonardo Ferreira, PhD
Role: Investigator
Email: ferreirl@musc.edu
Center: Medical University of South Carolina
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Paul Gadue, PhD
Role: Investigator
Email: gaduep@email.chop.edu
Center: Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
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Zev Gartner, PhD
Role: Investigator
Email: zev.gartner@ucsf.edu
Center: University of California, San Francisco
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Kyle Gaulton, PhD
Role: Investigator
Email: kgaulton@ucsd.edu
Center: University of California, San Diego
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Steven George, MD, PhD
Role: Investigator
Email: scgeorge@ucdavis.edu
Center: University of California, Davis
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Dale Greiner, PhD
Role: Investigator
Email: Dale.greiner@umassmed.edu
Center: University of Massachusetts Medical School
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Markus Grompe, MD
Role: Investigator
Email: grompem@ohsu.edu
Center: Oregon Health & Science University
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Manami Hara, PhD
Role: Investigator
Email: mhara@medicine.bsd.uchicago.edu
Center: University of Chicago
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David Harlan, MD
Role: Investigator
Email: David.Harlan@umassmemorial.org
Center: University of Massachusetts Medical School
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Chris Hughes, PhD
Role: Investigator
Email: cchughes@uci.edu
Center: University of California at Irvine
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![](https://hirnetwork.org/2021/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/Albert-Hwa-Headshot.jpg)
Albert Hwa, PhD
Role: NIDDK Program Staff
Email: albert.hwa@nih.gov
Center: National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK)
![](https://hirnetwork.org/2021/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/Alok-Edit-Image.jpg)
![](https://hirnetwork.org/2021/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/Kaddis_2022-scaled.jpg)
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Klaus Kaestner, PhD
Role: Investigator
Email: kaestner@pennmedicine.upenn.edu
Center: University of Pennsylvania
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Sally Kent, PhD
Role: Investigator
Email: Sally.Kent@umassmed.edu
Center: University of Massachusetts Medical School
![](https://hirnetwork.org/2021/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/CTAR.-Kim.jpg)
![](https://hirnetwork.org/2021/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/Dave-Ko.jpg)
![](https://hirnetwork.org/2021/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/Hirotake-Komatsu.jpg)
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Vira Kravets, PhD
Role: Investigator
Email: vkravets@ucsd.edu
Center: University of California, San Diego
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Rohit Kulkarni, MD, PhD
Role: Investigator
Email: rohit.kulkarni@joslin.harvard.edu
Center: Joslin Diabetes Center
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Irina Kusmartseva, PhD
Role: Investigator
Email: inkusmartseva@ufl.edu
Center: University of Florida
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Maggie Lam, PhD
Role: Investigator
Email: Maggie.Lam@ucdenver.edu
Center: University of Colorado, Denver
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Karla Leavens, MD, PhD
Role: Investigator
Email: LEAVENSK@EMAIL.CHOP.EDU
Center: Children's Hospital of Pennsylvania
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![](https://hirnetwork.org/2021/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/wenhong-Li.jpg)
Wen-Hong Li
Role: Investigator
Email: wen-hong.li@utsouthwestern.edu
Center: UT Southwestern Medical Campus
![](https://hirnetwork.org/2021/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/Chengyang_Liu.jpg)
Chengyang Liu, MD
Role: Investigator
Email: chliu@pennmedicine.upenn.edu
Center: University of Pennsylvania
![](https://hirnetwork.org/2021/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/Baoyu_Liu-scaled.jpg)
![](https://hirnetwork.org/2021/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/Jing-Liu.-IUPUI-2.jpg)
Jing Liu, PhD
Role: Investigator
Email: urraliu@iupui.edu
Center: Indiana University-Purdue University
![](https://hirnetwork.org/2021/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/jie_liu.png)
![](https://hirnetwork.org/2021/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/Renee-Maehr.-Feb2015-e1423698814995.jpeg)
Rene Maehr, PhD
Role: Investigator
Email: rene.maehr@umassmed.edu
Center: University of Massachusetts Medical School
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Dustin Maly, PhD
Role: Investigator
Email: maly@chem.washington.edu
Center: University of Washington
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Clayton Mathews, PhD
Role: Investigator
Email: clayton.mathews@pathology.ufl.edu
Center: University of Florida
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Michael McManus, PhD
Role: Investigator
Email: rna@ucsf.edu
Center: University of California, San Francisco
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Thomas Metz, PhD
Role: Investigator
Email: thomas.metz@pnnl.gov
Center: Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
![](https://hirnetwork.org/2021/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/Everett-Meyer.jpg)
![](https://hirnetwork.org/2021/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/J-Millman2.jpg)
Jeffrey Millman, PhD
Role: Investigator
Email: jmillman@wustl.edu
Center: Washington University School of Medicine
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Raghavendra Mirmira, MD, PhD
Role: Investigator
Email: mirmira@uchicago.edu
Center: University of Chicago
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Ali Naji, MD, PhD
Role: Investigator
Email: Ali.Naji@uphs.upenn.edu
Center: University of Pennsylvania
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Hiroyuki Nakai, MD, PhD
Role: Investigator
Email: nakaih@ohsu.edu
Center: Oregon Health & Science University
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Ernesto Nakayasu, PhD
Role: Investigator
Email: ernesto.nakayasu@pnnl.gov
Center: Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
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![](https://hirnetwork.org/2021/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/Scott_Oakes.jpg)
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Feroz Papa, MD, PhD
Role: Investigator
Email: Feroz.Papa@ucsf.edu
Center: University of California, San Francisco
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Audrey Parent, PhD
Role: Investigator
Email: Audrey.parent@ucsf.edu
Center: University of California, San Francisco
![](https://hirnetwork.org/2021/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/Stephen_Parker.jpg)
![](https://hirnetwork.org/2021/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Ed_Phelps.jpg)
![](https://hirnetwork.org/2021/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/TNC.-CTAR.-Al.Powers.2014.jpeg)
![](https://hirnetwork.org/2021/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/Sasanka_Ramanadham.jpg)
Sasanka Ramanadham, PhD
Role: Investigator
Email: sramvem@uab.edu
Center: University of Alabama at Birmingham
![](https://hirnetwork.org/2021/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/James_Riley.jpg)
![](https://hirnetwork.org/2021/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/CC.-Rouse.jpg)
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Nilanjana Samanta
Role: Research Staff
Email: Nilanjana.Samanta@pennmedicine.upenn.edu
Center: University of Pennsylvania
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Maike Sander, MD
Role: Investigator
Email: masander@ucsd.edu
Center: University of California, San Diego
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![](https://hirnetwork.org/2021/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/Diane.Saunders.jpg)
Diane Saunders, PhD
Role: Research Staff
Email: diane.saunders@vumc.org
Center: Vanderbilt University
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Anath Shalev, MD
Role: Investigator
Email: shalev@uab.edu
Center: University of Alabama at Birmingham
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![](https://hirnetwork.org/2021/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/Julie_Sneddon.jpg)
Julie Sneddon, PhD
Role: Investigator
Email: julie.sneddon@ucsf.edu
Center: University of California, San Francisco
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![](https://hirnetwork.org/2021/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/CHIB.-Stanger.jpg)
Ben Stanger, MD, PhD
Role: Investigator
Email: bstanger@upenn.edu
Center: University of Pennsylvania
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Lawrence Stern, PhD
Role: Investigator
Email: Lawrence.stern@umassmed.edu
Center: University of Massachusetts Medical Center
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![](https://hirnetwork.org/2021/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/D.-Stoffers.jpg)
Doris Stoffers, MD, PhD
Role: Investigator
Email: stoffers@mail.med.upenn.edu
Center: University of Pennsylvania
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Lori Sussel, PhD
Role: Investigator
Email: lori.sussel@cuanschutz.edu
Center: University of Colorado, Denver
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Qizhi Tang, PhD
Role: Investigator
Email: Qizhi.Tang@ucsf.edu
Center: University of California, San Francisco
![](https://hirnetwork.org/2021/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/Sarah_Tersey.jpg)
![](https://hirnetwork.org/2021/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/Luc_Teyton.jpg)
![](https://hirnetwork.org/2021/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/Golnaz_Vahedi.jpeg)
Golnaz Vahedi, PhD
Role: Investigator
Email: vahedi@pennmedicine.upenn.edu
Center: University of Pennsylvania
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Ben Voight, PhD
Role: Investigator
Email: bvoight@pennmedicine.upenn.edu
Center: University of Pennsylvania
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Xujing Wang, PhD
Role: NIDDK Program Staff
Email: xujing.wang@nih.gov
Center: National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK)
![](https://hirnetwork.org/2021/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/Clive-Wasserfall.jpg)
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Bobbie-Jo Webb-Robertson, PhD
Role: Investigator
Email: bobbie-jo.webb-robertson@pnnl.gov
Center: Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
![](https://hirnetwork.org/2021/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/Matthew-Wortham.-UCSD.jpeg)
Matthew Wortham, PhD
Role: Investigator
Email: mwortham@ucsd.edu
Center: University of California at San Diego
![](https://hirnetwork.org/2021/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/Wenting-Wu.jpg)
![](https://hirnetwork.org/2021/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Guanlan_Xu.jpg)
Guanlan Xu, PhD
Role: Postdoctoral Fellow
Email: guanlanxu@uabmc.edu
Center: University of Alabama at Birmingham
![](https://hirnetwork.org/2021/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/Yang-Mingder-2015.jpg)
![](https://hirnetwork.org/2021/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/CHIB.-Zaret.jpg)
Ken Zaret, PhD
Role: Investigator
Email: zaret@mail.med.upenn.edu
Center: University of Pennsylvania
![](https://hirnetwork.org/2021/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/Han_Zhu_UCSD.jpg)