Consortia: Consortium on Targeting and Regeneration
Role: Investigator
Email: MAbdulreda@med.miami.edu
Center: University of Miami
https://hirnetwork.org/about/participants#short-profile-midhat-abdulreda-phd
Consortia: Consortium on Modeling Autoimmune Interactions
Role: NIDDK Program Staff
Email: abrahamk@niddk.nih.gov
Center: National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK)
Kristin Abraham is a NIH NIDDK Program Director in the Division of Diabetes, Endocrinology, and Metabolic Diseases. Her interests are the role of the immune response in metabolic dysfunction and type 2 Diabetes, and projects that develop and validate the utility of new animal models for basic and preclinical research in diabetes, endocrinology and metabolic diseases.
Consortia: Consortium on Beta Cell Death & Survival
Role: Investigator
Email: da230@columbia.edu
Center: Columbia University
Domenico Accili a Professor of Medicine at Columbia University, Attending Physician at Columbia-Presbyterian Hospital and Director of the Columbia University Diabetes and Endocrinology Research Center in New York, New York. His research focuses on understanding how insulin-producing cells are born, live, function, and die.
https://resourcebrowser.hirnetwork.org/SearchResults/Results/?query=Domenico+Accili
Consortia: Consortium on Targeting and Regeneration
Role: Research Staff
Email: ackermanna@email.chop.edu
Center: University of Pennsylvania
Consortia: Consortium on Human Islet Biomimetics
Role: Investigator
Email: a.agarwal2@miami.edu
Center: University of Miami
Consortia: Human Pancreas Analysis Consortium, New Investigators, Opportunity Pool Projects
Role: Investigator
Email: JAlmaca@med.miami.edu
Center: University of Miami
Joana Almaça is a HIRN New Investigator and an Assistant Professor of Medicine at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine. Her current research focuses on the vasculature of the islet. In her work, Dr. Almaça is testing the hypothesis that microvascular dysfunction in the islet leads to a disturbance of hormone secretion, to glucose intolerance, and eventually to diabetes.
https://hirnetwork.org/profile-almaca
https://resourcebrowser.hirnetwork.org/SearchResults/Results/?query=Joana+Almaca
Consortia: Consortium on Human Islet Biomimetics, New Investigators
Role: Investigator
Email: Juan.Alvarez@pennmedicine.upenn.edu
Center: University of Pennsylvania
Juan Alvarez is a HIRN Emerging Leader Award Recipient and an Assistant Professor of Cell and Developmental Biology at the University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine. His research focuses on human stem cell-derived pancreatic islet organoids and mice as model systems to study islet development, physiology, and pathology, and to develop replacement therapies for insulin-dependent diabetes. We focus on the interplay between circadian rhythms, metabolism, and islet cell maturation.
https://hirnetwork.org/investigator-profile-juan-r-alvarez
https://resourcebrowser.hirnetwork.org/SearchResults/Results/?query=juan+alvarez
Consortia: Consortium on Modeling Autoimmune Interactions
Role: Investigator
Email: Mark.Anderson@ucsf.edu
Center: University of California, San Francisco
Consortia: Consortium on Beta Cell Death & Survival
Role: Investigator
Email: Charles.Ansong@pnnl.gov
Center: Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Charles Ansong was a Senior Research Scientist within the Integrative Omics group, Biological Sciences Division at PNNL. His research focused on the centers on the utilization of advanced mass spectrometry-based omics technologies and systems biology approaches to better understand complex biological systems relevant to human health and the environment. Currently, he is a Program Director at The National Institutes of Health at the National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS).
https://resourcebrowser.hirnetwork.org/SearchResults/Results/?query=Charles+Ansong
Consortia: Consortium on Targeting and Regeneration
Role: Postdoctoral Fellow
Email: ardah@stanford.edu
Center: Stanford University
https://hirnetwork.org/about/participants#short-profile-seung-kim-md-phd
Consortia: Consortium on Targeting and Regeneration, Human Pancreas Analysis Consortium
Role: Research Staff
Email: aramandla.radhika@vumc.org
Center: Vanderbilt University
https://hirnetwork.org/about/participants#short-profile-al-powers-md
Consortia: Consortium on Modeling Autoimmune Interactions, Consortium on Beta Cell Death & Survival
Role: Research Staff
Email: lucasarmitage@ufl.edu
Center: University of Colorado, Denver
Lucas Armitage first participated in the HIRN while as a graduate student in the Wallet & Brusko Labs at the University of Florida. Currently, he is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow with the Russ Lab at the University of Colorado Denver.
https://hirnetwork.org/about/participants#short-profile-prashanth-vallabhajosyula-md
https://resourcebrowser.hirnetwork.org/SearchResults/Results/?query=Lucas+Armitage
Consortia: Consortium on Human Islet Biomimetics, Consortium on Modeling Autoimmune Interactions, Human Pancreas Analysis Consortium
Role: NIDDK Program Staff
Email: arreaza-rubing@niddk.nih.gov
Center: National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK)
Guillermo Arreaza-Rubin is a NIH NIDDK Program Director in the Division of Diabetes, Endocrinology, and Metabolic Diseases. His interests are in diabetes and endocrine disease bioengineering and glucose sensing.
Consortia: Human Pancreas Analysis Consortium, Consortium on Beta Cell Death & Survival, New Investigators
Role: Investigator
Email: r.drigo@vanderbilt.edu
Center: Vanderbilt University
Rafael Arrojo e Drigo is a Gateway Award Recipient and co-Investigator on a HPAC Grant. He is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Molecular Physiology and Biophysics at Vanderbilt School of Medicine. His research focuses on understanding the mechanisms regulating post-mitotic cell homeostasis and longevity.
https://hirnetwork.org/investigator-profile-rafael-arrojo-e-drigo?hilite=%27rafael%27
https://resourcebrowser.hirnetwork.org/SearchResults/Results/?query=Rafael+Arrojo+e+Drigo
Consortia: Consortium on Beta Cell Death & Survival
Role: Investigator
Email: parvan@med.umich.edu
Peter Arvan is the Division of Metabolism, Endocrinology, & Diabetes at the University of Michigan. His research focus is to examine molecular mechanisms involved in the folding, trafficking, and targeting of newly-synthesized endocrine secretory proteins
https://resourcebrowser.hirnetwork.org/SearchResults/Results/?query=+Peter+Arvan
Consortia: Human Pancreas Analysis Consortium, Consortium on Beta Cell Death & Survival
Role: Investigator
Email: atkinson@pathology.ufl.edu
Center: University of Florida
Mark Atkinson is currently the American Diabetes Association Eminent Scholar for Diabetes Research and the Jeffrey Keene Family Professor at the University of Florida. He also is the Director of the Diabetes Institute at the University of Florida. Additionally, he is the Executive Director of the JDRF Network for Pancreatic Organ donors with Diabetes (nPOD) program and the President of Insulin for Life USA, the world’s second largest charity dedicated to providing insulin to persons living with diabetes in the developing world. His research focuses on type 1 diabetes, pancreatic pathology, immune therapy, autoimmunity, clinical trials, translational research, emerging technologies, psychosocial behaviors, and metabolism.
https://resourcebrowser.hirnetwork.org/SearchResults/Results/?query=Mark+Atkinson
Consortia: Consortium on Targeting and Regeneration
Role: Investigator
Email: danaav@mail.med.upenn.edu
Center: Hadassah-Hebrew University
Consortia: Consortium on Human Islet Biomimetics
Role: Investigator
Email: rbacher@ufl.edu
Center: University of Florida
Consortia: Consortium on Human Islet Biomimetics
Role: Postdoctoral Fellow
Email: rhbender@uci.edu
Center: University of California at Irvine
Hugh Bender is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Chris Hughes Lab at the University of California, Irvine. He is also Lead Scientist at Aracari Biosciences. Dr. Bender received his PhD in 2015 from Washington University in St. Louis. His research focuses on developing a novel micro-vascularized organ system for modeling Type I diabetes in the lab. Dr. Bender is an active member of CHIB and a member of the HIRN Technical User Group.
https://faculty.sites.uci.edu/hugheslab/
https://hirnetwork.org/staff_hbender
Consortia: Enhancement Center
Role: Administrator, HIREC Staff
Email: nberger@coh.org
Center: City of Hope
https://hirnetwork.org/hirecstaff_nberger
Consortia: Enhancement Center
Role: HIREC Staff, Administrator
Email: sbeshir@coh.org
Center: City of Hope
https://hirnetwork.org/hirec-staff-sandy-beshir
Consortia: Human Pancreas Analysis Consortium
Role: Investigator
Email: betts@mail.med.upenn.edu
Center: University of Pennsylvania
Consortia: Consortium on Human Islet Biomimetics
Role: Investigator
Email: sbhatia@MIT.EDU
Center: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Consortia: Consortium on Targeting and Regeneration
Role: External Scientific Panel
Email: Anil.Bhushan@ucsf.edu
Center: University of California, San Francisco
Consortia: Consortium on Beta Cell Death & Survival, Consortium on Targeting and Regeneration, Human Pancreas Analysis Consortium
Role: NIDDK Program Staff
Email: blondelol@niddk.nih.gov
Center: National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK)
Olivier Blondel is a NIH NIDDK Program Director in the Division of Diabetes, Endocrinology, and Metabolic Diseases. His interests lie in research that focuses on endocrine signaling, stem cell biology, organ development, regenerative medicine and biomarker discovery as it relates to diabetes (type 1 and type 2) and metabolic diseases, particularly in combination with experimental approaches such as large-scale genomics, synthetic biology, bioengineering, epigenetics, nuclear organization of mammalian genomes, chromatin biology, genome editing, gene therapy
Consortia: Consortium on Modeling Autoimmune Interactions
Role: Investigator
Email: Jeff.Bluestone@ucsf.edu
Center: University of California, San Francisco
Consortia: Consortium on Beta Cell Death & Survival
Role: Investigator
Email: bernd.bodenmiller@imls.uzh.ch
Center: University of Zurich
https://resourcebrowser.hirnetwork.org/SearchResults/Results/?query=Bernd+Bodenmiller
Consortia: Consortium on Modeling Autoimmune Interactions
Role: Postdoctoral Fellow
Email: cb2943@columbia.edu
Center: Columbia University
https://hirnetwork.org/about/participants#short-profile-megan-sykes-md
Consortia: Consortium on Modeling Autoimmune Interactions
Role: Investigator
Email: rita.bortell@umassmed.edu
Center: University of Massachusetts Medical School
Consortia: Consortium on Targeting and Regeneration, Human Pancreas Analysis Consortium
Role: Investigator
Email: RBottino@wpahs.org
Center: Allegheny Health Network
Consortia: Consortium on Human Islet Biomimetics
Role: Postdoctoral Fellow
Email: acb233@miami.edu
Center: University of Miami
Consortia: Consortium on Modeling Autoimmune Interactions
Role: Investigator
Email: michael.brehm@umassmed.edu
Center: University of Massachusetts Medical School
https://resourcebrowser.hirnetwork.org/SearchResults/Results/?query=Michael+Brehm
Consortia: Human Pancreas Analysis Consortium
Role: Collaborator
Email: linford.briant@ocdem.ox.ac.uk
Center: University of Oxford
Consortia: Human Pancreas Analysis Consortium, Consortium on Targeting and Regeneration
Role: Investigator
Email: marcela.brissova@vanderbilt.edu
Center: Vanderbilt University
https://resourcebrowser.hirnetwork.org/Contributor/Index/marcela_brissova@hirnetwork.org
Consortia: Consortium on Human Islet Biomimetics, Consortium on Modeling Autoimmune Interactions
Role: Investigator
Email: tbrusko@ufl.edu
Center: University of Florida
Consortia: Consortium on Human Islet Biomimetics, Consortium on Targeting and Regeneration
Role: Investigator
Email: pbuchwald@med.miami.edu
Center: University of Miami
Consortia: Consortium on Beta Cell Death & Survival
Role: Investigator
Email: kristin.burnum-johnson@pnnl.gov
Center: Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Kristin Burnum-Johnson is a Senior Scientist and Team Lead of the Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory's Metabolomics group at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory. Her research is dedicated to characterizing the molecular landscape of heterogeneous samples using novel mass spectrometry approaches to address specific biological, medical, and environmental research questions. These approaches involve multi-dimensional liquid chromatography and ion mobility separations in conjunction with mass spectrometry to measure proteins, lipids, and metabolites.
https://resourcebrowser.hirnetwork.org/SearchResults/Results/?query=+Kristin+Burnum-Johnson
Consortia: Consortium on Beta Cell Death & Survival
Role: Investigator
Email: lcai@caltech.edu
Center: California Institute of Technology
Long Cai is a Professor of Biology and Biological Engineering at CalTech. His research develops sequential FISH (seqFISH), MEMOIR, and RNA SPOTs, apply them to study various biological questions.
https://resourcebrowser.hirnetwork.org/SearchResults/Results/?query=Long+Cai
Consortia: Human Pancreas Analysis Consortium
Role: Investigator
Email: ACaicedo@med.miami.edu
Center: University of Miami
https://hirnetwork.org/investigator_profile_caicedo
https://resourcebrowser.hirnetwork.org/SearchResults/Results/?query=Alejandro+Caicedo
Consortia: Consortium on Beta Cell Death & Survival
Role: Investigator
Email: mct@ufl.edu
Center: University of Florida
Martha Campbell-Thompson is a Professor, Director of the Molecular Pathology Core at the University of Florida and Director of the JDRF nPOD Organ Procurement and Pathology Core. Her research interests are in beta cell biology, beta cell regeneration for type 1 diabetes, islet inflammation and neuromodulation of beta cell function.
https://resourcebrowser.hirnetwork.org/SearchResults/Results/?query=Martha+Campbell+Thompson
Consortia: Consortium on Modeling Autoimmune Interactions
Role: Research Staff
Email: src2138@cumc.columbia.edu
Center: Columbia University
https://hirnetwork.org/about/participants#short-profile-megan-sykes-md
Consortia: Human Pancreas Analysis Consortium
Role: Postdoctoral Fellow
Email: jcamunas@stanford.edu
Center: Stanford University
Role: Research Staff
Email: jcanzano@ufl.edu
Center: University of Florida
https://hirnetwork.org/about/participants#short-profile-martha-campbell-thompson-dvm-phd
Consortia: Consortium on Beta Cell Death & Survival
Role: Investigator
Email: richard.m.caprioli@vanderbilt.edu
Center: Vanderbilt University
Richard Caprioli is the Director of the Mass Spectrometry Research Center at Vanderbilt University School of Medicine and a Professor in the Departments of Chemistry and Pharmacology at Vanderbilt University. The research interests of this laboratory are aimed at the investigation of biological processes involving the synthesis, modification, storage and degradation of certain peptides and proteins using modern mass spectrometric methods of analysis to follow molecular events. In recent years there has been a great amount of interest in investigating the biochemical events involved in the metabolism of peptides, primarily in the brain and gut of mammals, encompassing the enzymatic breakdown of these peptides, their production from peptide and protein precursors, and the disruption of these processes by certain xenobiotics.
https://resourcebrowser.hirnetwork.org/SearchResults/Results/?query=Richard+Caprioli
Consortia: Consortium on Human Islet Biomimetics
Role: Research Staff
Email: fcar@sas.upenn.edu
Center: University of Pennsylvania
https://hirnetwork.org/about/participants#short-profile-paul-gadue-phd
Consortia: Consortium on Modeling Autoimmune Interactions
Role: Research Staff
Email: mcash@pathology.ufl.edu
Center: University of Florida
https://hirnetwork.org/about/participants#short-profile-mark-wallet-phd
Role: Investigator
Email: xc2248@cumc.columbia.edu
Center: Columbia University
Consortia: Consortium on Human Islet Biomimetics
Role: Investigator
Email: chencs@bu.edu
Center: Boston University
Consortia: Consortium on Beta Cell Death & Survival
Role: Investigator
Email: hchen@uthsc.edu
Center: University Tennessee
Hao Chen is an Associate Professor in the Department of Pharmacology, Addiction Science, and Toxicology at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center. His research interests are in Genetic variants influcing operant drug intake in rats, novel rat models of drug abuse, integrating computation into rodent behavioral experiments, and genomics and transcriptomics.
https://resourcebrowser.hirnetwork.org/SearchResults/Results/?query=Hao+Chen
Consortia: Consortium on Modeling Autoimmune Interactions
Role: Investigator
Email: jic24@pathology.ufl.edu
Center: University of Florida
Consortia: Consortium on Beta Cell Death & Survival
Role: Investigator
Email: shc2034@med.cornell.edu
Center: Weill Cornell Medical College
Shuibing Chen is an Associate Professor in the Department of Surgery and Department of Biochemistry at Weill Cornell Medical College. Her research interest is to manipulate stem cell fate using chemical and biological approaches and to generate functional tissues and organs that can be used for translational research.
https://resourcebrowser.hirnetwork.org/SearchResults/Results/?query=Shuibing+Chen
Consortia: Human Pancreas Analysis Consortium
Role: Research Staff
Email: joshchiou@ucsd.edu
Center: University of California, San Diego
Consortia: Consortium on Targeting and Regeneration
Role: Investigator
Email: achoud@broadinstitute.org
Center: Broad Institute
Consortia: Consortium on Human Islet Biomimetics
Role: Investigator
Email: christman@eng.ucsd.edu
Center: University of California at San Diego
Consortia: Consortium on Modeling Autoimmune Interactions
Role: Investigator
Email: rjc2150@cumc.columbia.edu
Center: Columbia University
Consortia: Consortium on Targeting and Regeneration, Human Pancreas Analysis Consortium
Role: Investigator
Email: chunhua.dai@vanderbilt.edu
Center: Vanderbilt University
Consortia: Human Pancreas Analysis Consortium
Role: Research Staff
Email: xdai@ualberta.ca
Center: University of Alberta
Consortia: Consortium on Modeling Autoimmune Interactions
Role: Investigator
Email: George_Daley@hms.harvard.edu
Center: Harvard Medical School
Consortia: Consortium on Modeling Autoimmune Interactions
Role: Investigator
Email: nmd2101@columbia.edu
Center: Columbia University
https://hirnetwork.org/about/participants#short-profile-megan-sykes-md
Consortia: Consortium on Targeting and Regeneration, New Investigators, Opportunity Pool Projects
Role: Investigator
Email: sdhawan@coh.org
Center: City of Hope
Sangeeta Dhawan is a HIRN New Investigator and an Assistant Professor in the Department of Translational Research & Cellular Therapeutics. Her research focuses on the understanding the biology of the insulin producing beta cells.
https://hirnetwork.org/profile-dhawan
https://resourcebrowser.hirnetwork.org/SearchResults/Results/?query=Sangeeta+Dhawan
Role: External Scientific Panel
Email: teresa.dilorenzo@einstein.yu.edu
Center: Albert Einstein College of Medicine
Consortia: Consortium on Modeling Autoimmune Interactions
Role: Postdoctoral Fellow
Email: xd2150@cumc.columbia.edu
Consortia: Human Pancreas Analysis Consortium
Role: Investigator
Email: nicolai@pennmedicine.upenn.edu
Consortia: Human Pancreas Analysis Consortium
Role: Investigator
Email: jdominguez2@med.miami.edu
Center: University of Miami
Consortia: Consortium on Beta Cell Death & Survival, Consortium on Targeting and Regeneration
Role: Investigator
Email: yuvald@ekmd.huji.ac.il
Center: Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Yuval Dor is a Professor of Biology at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He has worked in the past mostly on diabetes and tissue regeneration in the pancreas, but in recent years much of our focus has shifted to a new technology that we are developing, for non-invasive monitoring of cell death in humans, based on circulating DNA.
https://resourcebrowser.hirnetwork.org/SearchResults/Results/?query=+Yuval+Dor
Consortia: Enhancement Center
Role: NIDDK Program Staff
Email: eggermant@mail.nih.gov
Center: National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK)
Thomas Eggerman is a NIH NIDDK Program Director in the Division of Diabetes, Endocrinology, and Metabolic Diseases. His interests are in cystic fibrosis research and translation centers, inborn errors of metabolism, clinical trials, and islet transplantation, and inborn errors of metabolism.
Consortia: Consortium on Modeling Autoimmune Interactions
Role: Investigator
Email: de2220@columbia.edu
Center: Columbia University
Consortia: Consortium on Beta Cell Death & Survival
Role: Investigator
Email: Decio.Laks.Eizirik@ulb.ac.be
Center: University of Brussels
Decio L. Eizirik is a Professor at the ULB Center for Diabetes Research Medical Faculty, Universite Libre de Bruxells (ULB) in Brussels, Belgium. His research focuses on the molecular mechanisms regulating insulitis and beta cell apoptosis in type 1 diabetes and on the search for novel approaches to prevent the progressive loss of beta cell mass in diabetes.
https://resourcebrowser.hirnetwork.org/SearchResults/Results/?query=Decio+Eizirik%2C
Consortia: New Investigators, Consortium on Targeting and Regeneration, Opportunity Pool Projects
Role: Investigator
Email: abdelfattah.elouaamari@rutgers.edu
Center: Rutgers University
Abdelfattah El Ouaamari is a HIRN New Investigator and an Assistant Professor in Medicine at Robert Wood Johnson Medical School at Rutgers University. His research employs a multidisciplinary approach to identify local, systemic and neuronal signals regulating the number and the function of pancreatic islet insulin-producing β cells in mouse and human models of obesity and diabetes.
https://hirnetwork.org/profile-elouaamari
https://resourcebrowser.hirnetwork.org/SearchResults/Results/?query=Abdel+El+Ouaamari
Consortia: Consortium on Human Islet Biomimetics
Role: Research Staff
Email: eliseengquist@fas.harvard.edu
Center: Harvard University
Consortia: Consortium on Beta Cell Death & Survival
Role: Investigator
Email: cevansmo@iupui.edu
Center: Indiana University
https://resourcebrowser.hirnetwork.org/SearchResults/Results/?query=Carmella+Evans-Molina
Consortia: Human Pancreas Analysis Consortium
Role: Investigator
Email: feldmanm@mail.med.upenn.edu
Center: University of Pennsylvania
Consortia: Consortium on Modeling Autoimmune Interactions, New Investigators
Role: Investigator
Email: ferreirl@musc.edu
Center: Medical University of South Carolina
Leonardo Ferreira is a HIRN Emerging Leader Award Recipient and an Assistant Professor of Microbiology and Immunology at the Medical University of South Carolina. His research focuses on phenomenon of immune tolerance, his long term goal is to control how the immune system defines self and non-self. Such knowledge will allow the design and development of powerful new engineered immune cell therapies to fight autoimmune disease, cancer, and aging.
https://hirnetwork.org/investigator-profile-leonardo-m-r-ferreira
Consortia: Consortium on Beta Cell Death & Survival
Role: Investigator
Email: j.ferrer@imperial.ac.uk
Center: Imperial College of London
https://resourcebrowser.hirnetwork.org/SearchResults/Results/?query=+Jorge+Ferrer
Consortia: Consortium on Targeting and Regeneration
Role: Investigator
Email: kenichiro.furuyama@unige.ch
Center: University of Geneva
Consortia: Consortium on Human Islet Biomimetics
Role: Investigator
Email: gaduep@email.chop.edu
Center: Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
Role: Research Staff
Email: rgaetani@eng.ucsd.edu
Center: University of California at San Diego
https://hirnetwork.org/about/participants#short-profile-karen-christman-phd-faha
Consortia: Consortium on Targeting and Regeneration
Role: Postdoctoral Fellow
Email: galivo@ohsu.edu
Center: Oregon Health and Science University
https://hirnetwork.org/about/participants#short-profile-markus-grompe-md
Consortia: Consortium on Human Islet Biomimetics
Role: Postdoctoral Fellow
Email: agannon@seas.harvard.edu
Center: Harvard University
https://hirnetwork.org/about/participants#short-profile-kit-parker-phd
Role: Research Staff
Email: yuqian.gao@pnnl.gov
Center: Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
https://hirnetwork.org/about/participants#short-profile-thomas-metz-phd
Role: Research Staff
Email: Kerim.GattasAsfura@bme.ufl.edu
Center: University of Florida
https://hirnetwork.org/about/participants#short-profile-cherie-stabler-phd
Consortia: Human Pancreas Analysis Consortium
Role: Investigator
Email: kgaulton@ucsd.edu
Center: University of California, San Diego
https://resourcebrowser.hirnetwork.org/SearchResults/Results/?query=Kyle+Gaulton
Role: Investigator
Email: scgeorge@ucdavis.edu
Center: University of California, Davis
Consortia: Consortium on Beta Cell Death & Survival
Role: Investigator
Email: igerling@uthsc.edu
Center: University of Tennessee
https://resourcebrowser.hirnetwork.org/SearchResults/Results/?query=Ivan+Gerling
Consortia: Consortium on Modeling Autoimmune Interactions
Role: Investigator
Email: Ronald.gill@ucdenver.edu
Center: University of Colorado at Denver
Consortia: Consortium on Targeting and Regeneration
Role: Investigator
Email: ben.glaser@mail.huji.ac.il
Center: Hadassah-Hebrew University
Consortia: Human Pancreas Analysis Consortium
Role: Investigator
Email: agloyn@stanford.edu
Center: Stanford University
Consortia: Consortium on Modeling Autoimmune Interactions
Role: Investigator
Email: rsg2@columbia.edu
Center: Columbia University
Role: Research Staff
Email: mgolson@mail.med.upenn.edu
Center: University of Pennsylvania
https://hirnetwork.org/about/participants#short-profile-klaus-kaestner-phd
Role: Research Staff
Email: david_gonzalez@harvard.edu
Center: Harvard University
https://hirnetwork.org/about/participants#short-profile-douglas-melton-phd
Role: Research Staff
Email: bg2450@cumc.columbia.edu
Center: Columbia University
https://hirnetwork.org/about/participants#short-profile-dieter-egli-phd
Consortia: Human Pancreas Analysis Consortium
Role: Investigator
Email: dgorkin@ucsd.edu
Center: University of California, San Diego
Consortia: Consortium on Modeling Autoimmune Interactions
Role: Investigator
Email: peter.gottlieb@ucdenver.edu
Center: University of Colorado at Denver
Role: Investigator
Email: viviana@caltech.edu
Center: California Institute of Technology
Role: Postdoctoral Fellow
Email: rg2837@columbia.edu
Center: Columbia University
Consortia: Consortium on Beta Cell Death & Survival
Role: Investigator
Email: cjgreen@benaroyaresearch.org
Center: Benaroya Research Institute
Carla Greenbaum is the Director, of the Center for Interventional Immunology and the Director of the Diabetes Research Program at Benaroya Research Institute. Her research interests are in clinical investigations and trials to prevent or intervene in the diabetes autoimmune disease process.
https://resourcebrowser.hirnetwork.org/SearchResults/Results/?query=Carla+Greenbaum
Consortia: Consortium on Modeling Autoimmune Interactions
Role: Investigator
Email: Dale.greiner@umassmed.edu
Center: University of Massachusetts Medical School
Role: External Scientific Panel
Email: jgrethe@ncmir.ucsd.edu
Center: University of California at San Diego
Role: Research Staff
Email: marina.gritsenko@pnnl.gov
Center: Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
https://hirnetwork.org/about/participants#short-profile-thomas-metz-phd
Consortia: Consortium on Targeting and Regeneration
Role: Investigator
Email: grompem@ohsu.edu
Center: Oregon Health & Science University
Role: Collaborator
Email: kirk.hansen@ucdenver.edu
Center: University of Colorado at Denver
Consortia: Consortium on Beta Cell Death & Survival
Role: Investigator
Email: mhara@medicine.bsd.uchicago.edu
Center: University of Chicago
Manami Hara is a Research Professor in the Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism at the University of Chicago. Her research focus is on the developmental biology of pancreatic islets. The islet of Langerhans is a micro-organ composed of insulin-secreting beta-cells and other endocrine cells that work together to maintain glucose homeostasis.
Consortia: Consortium on Modeling Autoimmune Interactions
Role: Investigator
Email: David.Harlan@umassmemorial.org
Center: University of Massachusetts Medical School
Consortia: Consortium on Beta Cell Death & Survival
Role: Investigator
Email: chuanhe@uchicago.edu
Center: University of Chicago
Chuan He is the John T. Wilson Distinguished Service Professor in the Department of Chemistry at the University of Chicago. His research spans a broad range of chemical biology, nucleic acid chemistry and biology, epigenetics, and bioinorganic chemistry.
https://resourcebrowser.hirnetwork.org/SearchResults/Results/?query=+Chuan+He
Consortia: Consortium on Modeling Autoimmune Interactions
Role: Investigator
Email: Mhebrok@diabetes.ucsf.edu
Center: University of California, San Francisco
Consortia: Consortium on Beta Cell Death & Survival
Role: Investigator
Email: Kevan.herold@yale.edu
Center: Yale University
Kevan Herold is the C.N.H. Long Professor of Immunobiology and of Medicine at Yale School of Medicine. He studies autoimmune diseases, whether they occur naturally or as a consequence of immunomodulator therapy.
https://resourcebrowser.hirnetwork.org/SearchResults/Results/?query=+Kevan+Herold
Consortia: Consortium on Targeting and Regeneration
Role: Investigator
Email: pedro.herrera@unige.ch
Center: University of Geneva
Consortia: Human Pancreas Analysis Consortium
Role: Investigator
Email: hetzer@salk.edu
Center: Salk Institute
Consortia: Consortium on Modeling Autoimmune Interactions, Human Pancreas Analysis Consortium
Role: Investigator, External Scientific Panel
Email: dirk.homann@mssm.edu
Center: Mount Sinai Hospital
Role: Research Staff
Email: zorra@ufl.edu
Center: University of Florida
https://hirnetwork.org/about/participants#short-profile-desmond-schatz-md
Consortia: Human Pancreas Analysis Consortium, New Investigators
Role: Investigator
Email: jing.hughes@wustl.edu
Jing Hughes is a Gateway Award Recipient and an Assistant Professor of Medicine in the Division of Endocrinology, Metabolism, and Lipid Research at the Washington University School of Medicine in St Louis. Her research focuses on the islet cell-cell interactions and the regulation of islet hormone secretion.
https://hirnetwork.org/investigator-profile-jing-hughes
Consortia: Consortium on Human Islet Biomimetics
Role: Investigator
Email: cchughes@uci.edu
Center: University of California at Irvine
Consortia: Consortium on Human Islet Biomimetics
Role: Investigator
Email: huhd@seas.upenn.edu
Center: University of Pennsylvania
Role: External Scientific Panel
Email: mhuising@ucdavis.edu
Center: University of California at Davis
Consortia: Consortium on Human Islet Biomimetics
Role: NIDDK Program Staff
Email: albert.hwa@nih.gov
Center: National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK)
Albert Hwa is a NIH NIDDK Program Director in the Division of Diabetes, Endocrinology, and Metabolic Diseases. His interests are in the basic mechanisms underlying the organogenesis and regeneration of pancreatic islets during health and disease; generation of islet cells from stem cells for disease modeling and regenerative medicine.
Role: Research Staff
Email: m.ishahak@umiami.edu
Center: University of Miami
https://hirnetwork.org/about/participants#short-profile-ashu-agarwal-phd
Consortia: Consortium on Modeling Autoimmune Interactions, New Investigators, Opportunity Pool Projects
Role: Investigator
Email: ejames@benaroyaresearch.org
Center: Benaroya Research Institute
Eddie James is a HIRN New Investigator and a Principal Investigator at Benaroya Research Institute. His research involves applying tetramers to identify the chemical patters recognized by T cells in desirable protective immune responses directed against viruses (such as tetanus and HPV) and in undesirable destructive immune responses directed against self or therapeutic proteins (including GAD, insulin, and Factor VIII).
https://hirnetwork.org/profile-ejames
https://resourcebrowser.hirnetwork.org/SearchResults/Results/?query=Eddie+James
Consortia: Consortium on Modeling Autoimmune Interactions, New Investigators
Role: Investigator
Email: JOGLEKAR@pitt.edu
Alok Joglekar is a Gateway Award Recipient and an Assistant Research Professor of Immunology at the University of Pittsburgh. His research aims to examine the shifting antigenic landscape of anti-tumor T cell responses, determine the fundamental rules of TCR-pMHC interactions, and to investigate novel immunotherapies to autoimmune diseases.
https://hirnetwork.org/investigator-profile-alok-joglekar
Consortia: Enhancement Center
Role: Investigator
Email: jkaddis@coh.org
Center: City of Hope
https://hirnetwork.org/investigator_profile_jkaddis
Consortia: Consortium on Beta Cell Death & Survival, Consortium on Targeting and Regeneration, Human Pancreas Analysis Consortium
Role: Investigator
Email: kaestner@pennmedicine.upenn.edu
Center: University of Pennsylvania
Klaus Kaestner is the Thomas and Evelyn Suor Butterworth Professor in Genetics at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania and the Director of the Functional Genomics Core at the University of Pennsylvania. His research interest is in employing modern genetic, genomic and epigenomic approaches (ChIP-Seq, RNA-Seq, gene targeting, tissue-specific and inducible gene ablation, CyTOF) to understand the molecular mechanisms of organogenesis and physiology of the liver, pancreas and gastrointestinal tract. Disease areas targeted by our research include diabetes and cancer.
https://resourcebrowser.hirnetwork.org/SearchResults/Results/?query=Klaus+Kaestner
Consortia: Consortium on Modeling Autoimmune Interactions
Role: Investigator
Email: kapplerj@njc.org
Center: National Jewish Medical & Research Center
Consortia: Consortium on Human Islet Biomimetics
Role: Investigator
Email: jeffkarp@mit.edu
Center: Brigham and Women's Hospital
Consortia: Consortium on Targeting and Regeneration
Role: Investigator
Email: markay@stanford.edu
Center: Stanford University
Consortia: Consortium on Modeling Autoimmune Interactions
Role: Investigator
Email: Sally.Kent@umassmed.edu
Center: University of Massachusetts Medical School
Role: External Scientific Panel
Email: tim.kieffer@ubc.ca
Center: University of British Columbia
Consortia: Human Pancreas Analysis Consortium, Consortium on Targeting and Regeneration
Role: Investigator
Email: seungkim@stanford.edu
Center: Stanford University
Role: Research Staff
Email: yuongmo.kim@pnnl.gov
Center: Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
https://hirnetwork.org/about/participants#short-profile-thomas-metz-phd
Role: Research Staff
Email: skishore@mail.med.upenn.edu
Center: University of Pennsylvania
https://hirnetwork.org/about/participants#short-profile-paul-gadue-phd
Consortia: Consortium on Targeting and Regeneration
Role: Investigator
Email: Stephan.Kissler@joslin.harvard.edu
Center: Joslin Diabetes Institute
Consortia: Enhancement Center
Role: Administrator, HIREC Staff
Email: dko@coh.org
Center: City of Hope
https://hirnetwork.org/hirecstaff_dko
Consortia: Consortium on Human Islet Biomimetics, New Investigators
Role: Investigator
Email: hkomatsu@coh.org
Center: City of Hope
Hirotake Komatsu is a Gateway Award Recipient and an Assistant Research Professor in the Department of Translational Research & Cellular Therapeutics at City of Hope. His expertise is derived from a broad training in medicine and basic research in the fields of pancreas surgery and pancreatic islet transplantation.
https://hirnetwork.org/investigator-profile-hirotake-komatsu?hilite=%27hirotake%27
Role: Research Staff
Email: konot@iu.edu
Center: Indiana University School of Medicine
https://hirnetwork.org/about/participants#short-profile-raghavendra-mirmira-md-phd
Consortia: Human Pancreas Analysis Consortium, New Investigators
Role: Investigator
Email: VIRA.KRAVETS@CUANSCHUTZ.EDU
Center: University of Colorado, Denver
Vira Kravets is a HIRN Emerging Leader Award Recipient and a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Department of Bioengineering at the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus. She is currently leading interdisciplinary projects in search for the underlying causes for Diabetes. Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation supported Fellow, skilled in Islet Biology, Surface Plasmon Resonance, Microscopy, Optics and Public Speaking
https://hirnetwork.org/investigator-profile-vira-kavets
Consortia: Consortium on Beta Cell Death & Survival, Consortium on Targeting and Regeneration
Role: Investigator
Email: rohit.kulkarni@joslin.harvard.edu
Center: Joslin Diabetes Center
Rohit Kulkarni is Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School, Margaret A. Congleton Chair and Co-Head of the Section on Islet & Regenerative Biology at Joslin Diabetes Center. His research explores the significance of growth factor signaling mechanisms in the regulation of islet biology by creating genetic models to examine the roles of insulin/IGF-1 receptors and their substrate proteins.
https://resourcebrowser.hirnetwork.org/SearchResults/Results/?query=Rohit+Kulkarni
Role: Research Staff
Email: tk2592@cumc.columbia.edu
Center: Columbia University
https://hirnetwork.org/about/participants#short-profile-domenico-accili-md
Consortia: Human Pancreas Analysis Consortium
Role: Investigator
Email: inkusmartseva@ufl.edu
Center: University of Florida
Consortia: Consortium on Beta Cell Death & Survival
Role: Postdoctoral Fellow
Email: jennifer.kyle@pnnl.gov
Center: Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Jennifer Kyle was a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Metz Lab at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory. For her HIRN project, her responsibilities focused on refining liquid chromatography-mass spectrometry-based lipidomics analyses, including the development of novel informatics tools for confident lipid identification, and in performing lipidomics analyses of pancreatic islets.
https://hirnetwork.org/about/participants#short-profile-thomas-metz-phd
https://resourcebrowser.hirnetwork.org/SearchResults/Results/?query=+Jennifer+Kyle
Consortia: Consortium on Beta Cell Death & Survival
Role: Investigator
Email: Maggie.Lam@ucdenver.edu
Center: University of Colorado, Denver
Maggie Lam
https://resourcebrowser.hirnetwork.org/SearchResults/Results/?query=Maggie+Lam
Consortia: Consortium on Beta Cell Death & Survival
Role: Investigator
Email: jlaskin@purdue.edu
Center: Purdue University
Julia Laskin is a Professor of Chemistry at Purdue University. Her research at the interface of physical and analytical chemistry is focused on the advanced development of preparative and analytical mass spectrometry for applications in materials synthesis, imaging and chemical analysis of biological systems at a subcellular level, and environmental sciences.
https://resourcebrowser.hirnetwork.org/SearchResults/Results/?query=Julia+Laskin
Consortia: Consortium on Beta Cell Death & Survival, New Investigators
Role: Investigator
Email: LEAVENSK@EMAIL.CHOP.EDU
Center: Children's Hospital of Pennsylvania
Karla Leavens is a HIRN Emerging Leader Award Recipient and Pediatric Endocrinologist in the Division of Endocrinology at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia. She is also a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Gadue Lab.
https://hirnetwork.org/about/participants#short-profile-paul-gadue-phd
https://hirnetwork.org/investigator-profile-karla-leavens
https://resourcebrowser.hirnetwork.org/SearchResults/Results/?query=karla+leavens
Role: Investigator
Email: yl2373@ufl.edu
Center: University of Floria
https://hirnetwork.org/about/participants#short-profile-cherie-stabler-phd
Role: External Scientific Panel
Email: heiko.lickert@zimbra.helmholtz-muenchen.de
Center: Institute of Diabetes and Regeneration Research
Role: Investigator
Email: Wendell.Lim@ucsf.edu
Center: University of California, San Francisco
Consortia: Consortium on Beta Cell Death & Survival, New Investigators, Opportunity Pool Projects
Role: Investigator
Email: aklinnem@iu.edu
Center: Indiana University School of Medicine
Amelia Linnemann is a HIRN Emerging Leader Award Recipient and a HIRN New Investigator. She is an Associate Professor of Pediatrics at the Indiana University School of Medicine. Her primary research focus is to understand mechanisms of pancreatic β-cell death/survival, islet compensatory adaptation to cellular stress, and how these factors contribute to diabetes pathogenesis.
https://medicine.iu.edu/faculty/26337/linnemann-amelia
https://hirnetwork.org/profile-linnemann
https://resourcebrowser.hirnetwork.org/SearchResults/Results/?query=Amelia+Linnemann
Consortia: Human Pancreas Analysis Consortium
Role: Investigator
Email: chliu@pennmedicine.upenn.edu
Consortia: Consortium on Modeling Autoimmune Interactions, New Investigators
Role: Investigator
Email: baoyu.liu@path.utah.edu
Center: University of Utah
Bayou Liu is a Gateway Award Recipient and an Assistant Research Professor in the Department of Microbiology and Immunology at City of Hope. His expertise
https://hirnetwork.org/investigator-profile-baoyu-liu
Role: External Scientific Panel
Email: kclloyd@ucdavis.edu
Center: University of California at Davis
Consortia: Human Pancreas Analysis Consortium
Role: Investigator
Email: emma.lundberg@scilifelab.se
Center: KTH Royal Institute of Technology
Consortia: Human Pancreas Analysis Consortium
Role: Investigator
Email: pem@ualberta.ca
Center: University of Alberta
Consortia: Consortium on Modeling Autoimmune Interactions
Role: Investigator
Email: rene.maehr@umassmed.edu
Center: University of Massachusetts Medical School
Role: Postdoctoral Fellow
Email: mkm2182@cumc.columbia.edu
Center: Columbia University
https://hirnetwork.org/about/participants#short-profile-megan-sykes-md
Consortia: Consortium on Targeting and Regeneration
Role: Investigator
Email: maly@chem.washington.edu
Center: University of Washington
Consortia: Consortium on Beta Cell Death & Survival
Role: Investigator
Email: mark.mamula@yale.edu
Center: Yale University
https://resourcebrowser.hirnetwork.org/SearchResults/Results/?query=Mark+Mamula
Role: Research Staff
Email: jm33@ualberta.ca
Center: University of Alberta
https://hirnetwork.org/about/participants#short-profile-patrick-macdonald-phd
Consortia: Human Pancreas Analysis Consortium
Role: Postdoctoral Fellow
Email: annamc@kth.se
Center: KTH Royal Institute of Technology
Consortia: Consortium on Human Islet Biomimetics, Consortium on Modeling Autoimmune Interactions
Role: Investigator
Email: cxm@ufl.edu
Center: University of Florida
Role: Research Staff
Email: lmatta@ucsd.edu
Center: University of California, San Diego
https://hirnetwork.org/about/participants#short-profile-maike-sander-md
Consortia: Consortium on Beta Cell Death & Survival
Role: Investigator
Email: jason.mcdermott@pnnl.gov
Center: Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
https://resourcebrowser.hirnetwork.org/SearchResults/Results/?query=Jason+McDermott
Role: External Scientific Panel
Email: rmcindoe@augusta.edu
Center: Augusta University
Consortia: Consortium on Human Islet Biomimetics, Consortium on Modeling Autoimmune Interactions
Role: Investigator
Email: dmelton@harvard.edu
Center: Harvard University
Role: Investigator
Email: thomas.metz@pnnl.gov
Center: Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Consortia: Consortium on Targeting and Regeneration
Role: Investigator
Email: evmeyer@stanford.edu
Center: Stanford University
Consortia: Consortium on Modeling Autoimmune Interactions
Role: Investigator
Email: aaron.michels@ucdenver.edu
Center: University of Colorado at Denver
Role: External Scientific Panel
Email: jmillman@wustl.edu
Center: Washington University School of Medicine
Consortia: Consortium on Beta Cell Death & Survival
Role: Investigator
Email: mirmira@uchicago.edu
Center: University of Chicago
Raghavendra Mirmira is the Director of the Department of Medicine Translational Research Center and Professor of Medicine in the Department of Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism at the University of Chicago. His research focuses his efforts on the pathogenesis of diabetes mellitus and the biology of the islet. His laboratory is interested in three key areas: the role of mRNA translation in the cellular response of islet β cells to inflammation; the role of lipoxygenases in dysfunction of β cells in Type 1 and Type 2 diabetes; and the identification of biomarkers of β-cell stress and death in diabetes.
https://resourcebrowser.hirnetwork.org/SearchResults/Results/?query=Mirmira
Consortia: Human Pancreas Analysis Consortium
Role: Investigator
Email: jhmoore@mail.med.upenn.edu
Center: University of Pennsylvania
Consortia: Consortium on Beta Cell Death & Survival
Role: Investigator
Email: MorrisMA@evms.edu
Center: Eastern Virginia Medical School
Charles Ansong was an Associate Professor and Director of the Biomedical Sciences Graduate Program at Eastern Virginia Medical School. . Currently, she is a Scientific Review Officer at National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID).
https://resourcebrowser.hirnetwork.org/SearchResults/Results/?query=Margaret+Morris%2C
Consortia: Consortium on Beta Cell Death & Survival
Role: Investigator
Email: nadlerjl@evms.edu
Center: Eastern Virginia Medical School
Consortia: Human Pancreas Analysis Consortium, Consortium on Human Islet Biomimetics
Role: Investigator
Email: Ali.Naji@uphs.upenn.edu
Center: University of Pennsylvania
Consortia: Consortium on Targeting and Regeneration
Role: Investigator
Email: nakaih@ohsu.edu
Center: Oregon Health & Science University
Consortia: Consortium on Modeling Autoimmune Interactions
Role: Investigator
Email: maki.nakayama@ucdenver.edu
Center: University of Colorado at Denver
Consortia: Consortium on Beta Cell Death & Survival
Role: Investigator
Email: ernesto.nakayasu@pnnl.gov
Center: Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Role: Research Staff
Email: gn2242@cumc.columbia.edu
Center: Columbia University
https://hirnetwork.org/about/participants#short-profile-megan-sykes-md
Role: Collaborator
Email: chris.newgard@duke.edu
Center: Duke University
Consortia: Consortium on Human Islet Biomimetics
Role: Postdoctoral Fellow
Email: knguyenngoc@ucsd.edu
Center: University of California at San Diego
https://hirnetwork.org/about/participants#short-profile-maike-sander-md
Consortia: Consortium on Human Islet Biomimetics
Role: Postdoctoral Fellow
Email: dnicetto@mail.med.upenn.edu
Center: University of Pennsylvania
https://hirnetwork.org/about/participants#short-profile-ken-zaret-phd
Consortia: Consortium on Beta Cell Death & Survival
Role: Investigator
Email: hnick@ufl.edu
Center: University of Florida
Consortia: Enhancement Center
Role: Investigator
Email: jniland@coh.org
Center: City of Hope
Joyce Niland is the co-Principal Investigator of the Human Islet Research Enhancement Center (HIREC). She is also the Chair and Professor in the Department of Diabetes & Cancer Discovery Science within the Arthur Riggs Diabetes & Metabolism Research Institute at City of Hope. is an interdisciplinary center for research methodology involving high-complexity clinical research/phenotypic data.
https://hirnetwork.org/investigator_profile_jniland
Consortia: Consortium on Beta Cell Death & Survival
Role: Investigator
Email: j..norris@vanderbilt.edu
Center: Vanderbilt University
Consortia: Consortium on Beta Cell Death & Survival
Role: Investigator
Email: nyalwijo@evms.edu
Center: Eastern Virginia Medical School
Consortia: Consortium on Beta Cell Death & Survival
Role: Investigator
Email: soakes@uchicago.edu
Center: University of Chicago
Role: External Scientific Panel
Email: jo5je@hscmail.mcc.virginia.edu
Center: University of Virginia
Consortia: Consortium on Beta Cell Death & Survival
Role: Investigator
Email: gayla.orr@pnnl.gov
Center: Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Consortia: Consortium on Targeting and Regeneration
Role: Investigator
Email: Feroz.Papa@ucsf.edu
Center: University of California, San Francisco
Consortia: Consortium on Modeling Autoimmune Interactions
Role: Investigator
Email: Audrey.parent@ucsf.edu
Center: University of California, San Francisco
Audrey Parent is a CMAI co-Investigator and a member of the Trans-Network Committee (TNC). She is Assistant Adjunct Professor and her research is focused on immune tolerance with a particular interest in the thymus.
https://hirnetwork.org/about/participants#short-profile-mark-s-anderson-md-phd
https://resourcebrowser.hirnetwork.org/SearchResults/Results/?query=Audrey+Parent
Consortia: Consortium on Human Islet Biomimetics
Role: Investigator
Email: kkparker@seas.harvard.edu
Center: Harvard University
Consortia: Human Pancreas Analysis Consortium
Role: Investigator
Email: RPastori@med.miami.edu
Center: University of Miami
Role: Research Staff
Email: smit31@ufl.edu
Center: University of Floria
https://hirnetwork.org/about/participants#short-profile-cherie-stabler-phd
Consortia: Consortium on Targeting and Regeneration
Role: Postdoctoral Fellow
Email: hpeiris@stanford.edu
Center: Stanford University
https://hirnetwork.org/about/participants#short-profile-seung-kim-md-phd
Role: Research Staff
Email: ianpenk@vet.upenn.edu
Center: University of Pennsylvania
https://hirnetwork.org/about/participants#short-profile-ben-stanger-md-phd
Role: Investigator
Email: vladislav.petyuk@pnnl.gov
Center: Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Consortia: Consortium on Human Islet Biomimetics
Role: Investigator
Email: EPhelps@bme.ufl.edu
Center: University of Florida
Role: Research Staff
Email: greg.poffenberger@Vanderbilt.Edu
Center: Vanderbilt University
https://hirnetwork.org/about/participants#short-profile-al-powers-md
Role: External Scientific Panel
Email: Vincent.poitout@umontreal.ca
Center: Universite de Montreal
Consortia: Consortium on Human Islet Biomimetics
Role: Postdoctoral Fellow
Email: pope@seas.harvard.edu
Center: Harvard University
https://hirnetwork.org/about/participants#short-profile-kit-parker-phd
Consortia: Consortium on Targeting and Regeneration, Human Pancreas Analysis Consortium
Role: Investigator
Email: al.powers@vanderbilt.edu
Center: Vanderbilt University
Consortia: Human Pancreas Analysis Consortium
Role: Investigator
Email: spreissl@ucsd.edu
Center: University of California, San Diego
Role: Research Staff
Email: Fahd.qadir@med.miami.edu
Center: University of Miami
https://hirnetwork.org/about/participants#short-profile-juan-dominguez-bendala-phd
Role: Investigator
Email: weijun.qian@pnnl.gov
Center: Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Consortia: Human Pancreas Analysis Consortium
Role: Investigator
Email: quake@stanford.edu
Center: Stanford University
Consortia: Consortium on Beta Cell Death & Survival
Role: Investigator
Email: sramvem@uab.edu
Role: Research Staff
Email: SRawal@miami.edu
Center: University of Miami
https://hirnetwork.org/about/participants#short-profile-ashu-agarwal-phd
Role: External Scientific Panel
Email: rhodesc@medimmune.com
Center: MedImmune
Consortia: Consortium on Human Islet Biomimetics, Human Pancreas Analysis Consortium
Role: Investigator
Email: ricordi@miami.edu
Center: University of Miami
Consortia: Human Pancreas Analysis Consortium
Role: Investigator
Email: rileyj@upenn.edu
Center: University of Pennsylvania
Consortia: Consortium on Human Islet Biomimetics
Role: Investigator
Email: roper@chem.fsu.edu
Center: Florida State University
Role: Collaborator
Email: patrik.rorsman@hmc.ox.ac.uk
Center: University of Oxford
Consortia: Consortium on Modeling Autoimmune Interactions
Role: Investigator
Email: derrick.rossi@childrens.harvard.edu
Center: Children’s Hospital Corp
Consortia: Enhancement Center
Role: HIREC Staff, Administrator
Email: lrouse@coh.org
Center: City of Hope
https://hirnetwork.org/hirecstaff_lrouse
Consortia: Consortium on Modeling Autoimmune Interactions
Role: Investigator
Email: Kole.Roybal@ucsf.edu
Center: University of California, San Francisco
Role: Collaborator
Email: marjan.slakrupnik@meduniwien.ac.at
Center: Medical University of Vienna
Consortia: Consortium on Beta Cell Death & Survival, New Investigators, Opportunity Pool Projects
Role: Investigator
Email: HOLGER.RUSS@UCDENVER.EDU
Center: University of Colorado, Denver
Holger Russ is a HIRN New Investigator and an Assistant Professor of Pediatrics at the University of Colorado Denver. His research focuses on using human stem cells to generate novel sources of beta cells for transplantation and to model human T1D in a dish.
https://hirnetwork.org/profile-rholger
https://resourcebrowser.hirnetwork.org/SearchResults/Results/?query=Holger+Russ
Role: External Scientific Panel
Email: g.rutter@imperial.ac.uk
Center: Imperial College of London
Consortia: Human Pancreas Analysis Consortium, New Investigators
Role: Investigator
Email: j.werneckdecastro@med.miami.edu
Center: University of Miami
Juan Alvarez is a Gateway Award Recipient and an Assistant Research Professor in the Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine. Currently he is investigating the pathways by which thyroid hormones regulates skeletal muscle physiology and the role of type-2 deiodinase in muscle biology and its importance to plasma T3 pool.
https://hirnetwork.org/investigator-profile-joao-pedro-werneck-de-castro
https://resourcebrowser.hirnetwork.org/SearchResults/Results/?query=Joao+Pedro+Werneck+de+Castro
Consortia: Human Pancreas Analysis Consortium, Consortium on Human Islet Biomimetics
Role: Investigator
Email: masander@ucsd.edu
Center: University of California, San Diego
Consortia: Consortium on Beta Cell Death & Survival
Role: Investigator
Email: lsatin@umich.edu
Center: University of Michigan
Consortia: Consortium on Human Islet Biomimetics
Role: NIDDK Program Staff
Email: satos@extra.niddk.nih.gov
Center: National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK)
Sheryl Sato is a NIH NIDDK Program Director in the Division of Diabetes, Endocrinology, and Metabolic Diseases. Her research interest is the basic mechanisms underlying the organogenesis and regeneration of pancreatic islets during health and disease.
Role: Research Staff
Email: diane.saunders@vumc.org
Center: Vanderbilt University
Consortia: Consortium on Modeling Autoimmune Interactions
Role: Investigator
Email: alexei.savinov@sanfordhealth.org
Center: Sanford Research/Univ. of South Dakota
Consortia: Consortium on Beta Cell Death & Survival
Role: Investigator
Email: schatda@peds.ufl.edu
Center: University of Florida
Role: Postdoctoral Fellow
Email: lscudder@seas.harvard.edu
Center: Harvard University
https://hirnetwork.org/about/participants#short-profile-kit-parker-phd
Role: Research Staff
Email: hrseay@ufl.edu
Center: University of Florida
https://hirnetwork.org/about/participants#short-profile-todd-brusko-phd
Consortia: Consortium on Targeting and Regeneration
Role: Investigator
Email: PSerafini@med.miami.edu
Center: University of Miami
Consortia: Consortium on Beta Cell Death & Survival
Role: Investigator
Email: shalev@uab.edu
Center: University of Alabama at Birmingham
Anath Shalev is the chair of the Consortium of Beta Cell Death and Survival (CBDS) and a member of the Trans-Network Committee (TNC). She is the Director of the University of Alabama at Birmingham Comprehensive Diabetes Center, Professor of Medicine and Senior Scientist. Her research focuses on Molecular biology of diabetes, beta cell biology, apoptosis, oxidative stress, transcriptional regulation of gene expression, and diabetes complications.
https://hirnetwork.org/investigator_profile_shalev
https://resourcebrowser.hirnetwork.org/SearchResults/Results/?query=Anath+Shalev
Consortia: Consortium on Human Islet Biomimetics, New Investigators
Role: Investigator
Email: rsharp07@ufl.edu
Center: University of Florida
Robert Sharp is a HIRN Emerging Leader Award Recipient and a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Brusko Lab at the University of Florida. His research interests are in the area of study involves examining immunoregulation in type 1 diabetes, focusing on lymphocyte regulation genes including PTPN22 (protein tyrosine phosphatase non-receptor type 22), SIRPG (signal regulatory protein gamma), and cluster of differentiation 47 (CD47).
https://hirnetwork.org/investigator-profile-robert-c-sharp
Consortia: Consortium on Beta Cell Death & Survival
Role: Investigator
Email: shemer.ru@mail.huji.ac.il
Center: Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Role: Research Staff
Email: bdshergill@gmail.com
Center: University of California, Davis
https://hirnetwork.org/about/participants#short-profile-steven-george-md-phd
Role: Investigator
Email: tujin.shi@pnnl.gov
Center: Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Role: Research Staff
Email: kshores@g.harvard.edu
Center: Harvard University
https://hirnetwork.org/about/participants#short-profile-kit-parker-phd
Consortia: Consortium on Modeling Autoimmune Interactions
Role: Investigator
Email: lenny.shultz@jax.org
Center: The Jackson Laboratory
Role: Research Staff
Email: Dmitry_shvartsman@harvard.edu
Center: Harvard University
https://hirnetwork.org/about/participants#short-profile-douglas-melton-phd
Role: Research Staff
Email: Ruthasinger@gmail.com
Center: Columbia University
https://hirnetwork.org/about/participants#short-profile-lori-sussel-phd
Consortia: Consortium on Modeling Autoimmune Interactions
Role: Investigator
Email: hs2680@columbia.edu
Center: Columbia University
Consortia: Consortium on Beta Cell Death & Survival
Role: Investigator
Email: ssol@med.umich.edu
Center: University of Michigan
Role: Research Staff
Email: sonzh@ohsu.edu
Center: Oregon Health and Science University
https://hirnetwork.org/about/participants#short-profile-hiroyuki-nakai-md-phd
Consortia: Human Pancreas Analysis Consortium
Role: Investigator
Email: stephan.speier@tu-dresden.de
Center: Paul-Langerhans-Institute Dresden
https://hirnetwork.org/investigator_profile_speier
https://resourcebrowser.hirnetwork.org/SearchResults/Results/?query=Stephan+Speier
Consortia: Consortium on Human Islet Biomimetics
Role: Investigator
Email: cstabler@bme.ufl.edu
Center: University of Florida
https://resourcebrowser.hirnetwork.org/SearchResults/Results/?query=Cherie+Stabler
Consortia: Consortium on Human Islet Biomimetics
Role: Investigator
Email: bstanger@upenn.edu
Center: University of Pennsylvania
Ben Stanger is the chair of the Consortium of Human Islet Biomimetics (CHIB) (CTAR) and a member of the Trans-Network Committee (TNC). He is also the Director of the Penn Pancreatic Cancer Research Center (PCRC), the Hanna Wise Professor in Cancer Research, and a Professor of Cell and Developmental Biology.
https://hirnetwork.org/investigator_profile_bstanger
https://resourcebrowser.hirnetwork.org/SearchResults/Results/?query=Ben+Stanger
Consortia: Consortium on Modeling Autoimmune Interactions
Role: Investigator
Email: Lawrence.stern@umassmed.edu
Center: University of Massachusetts Medical Center
Consortia: Consortium on Targeting and Regeneration
Role: Investigator
Email: andrew.stewart@mssm.edu
Center: Mount Sinai Hospital
Consortia: Human Pancreas Analysis Consortium
Role: Investigator
Email: stoffers@mail.med.upenn.edu
Center: University of Pennsylvania
Doris Stoffers is a HPAC Investigator and a member of the Trans-Network Committee (TNC). She is a the Director of the Pancreatic Islet Cell Biology Core, Director of the Pilot Feasibility Program and a Professor of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania. Her research focuses on the embryonic development and adult regeneration of the endocrine pancreas, and the relationship of defects in these pathways to the pathophysiology of diabetes mellitus, a disease caused by a deficiency in the production or action of insulin.
Role: Collaborator
Email: andraz.stozer@um.si
Center: University of Maribor
Consortia: Consortium on Targeting and Regeneration
Role: Investigator
Email: nstrbo@umail.miami.edu
Center: University of Miami
Consortia: Consortium on Targeting and Regeneration
Role: Investigator
Email: streetep@ohsu.edu
Center: Oregon Health & Science University
Consortia: Consortium on Modeling Autoimmune Interactions
Role: Postdoctoral Fellow
Email: ls3178@cumc.columbia.edu
Center: Columbia University
https://hirnetwork.org/about/participants#short-profile-dieter-egli-phd
Consortia: Consortium on Beta Cell Death & Survival
Role: Investigator
Email: lgs2@cumc.columbia.edu
Center: University of Colorado, Denver
Consortia: Consortium on Modeling Autoimmune Interactions
Role: Investigator
Email: ms3976@cumc.columbia.edu
Center: Columbia University
Role: Research Staff
Email: atamayogarcia@med.miami.edu
Center: University of Miami
https://hirnetwork.org/about/participants#short-profile-peter-buchwald-phd
Consortia: Consortium on Modeling Autoimmune Interactions
Role: Investigator
Email: Qizhi.Tang@ucsf.edu
Center: University of California, San Francisco
Consortia: Consortium on Modeling Autoimmune Interactions
Role: Investigator
Email: terada@pathology.ufl.edu
Center: University of Florida
Consortia: Consortium on Human Islet Biomimetics
Role: Investigator
Email: lteyton@scripps.edu
Consortia: Consortium on Beta Cell Death & Survival
Role: Postdoctoral Fellow
Email: lthielen@uab.edu
Center: University of Alabama at Birmingham
Consortia: Consortium on Targeting and Regeneration
Role: Investigator
Email: fabrizio.thorel@unige.ch
Center: University of Geneva
Role: External Scientific Panel
Email: roland_tisch@med.unc.edu
Center: University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Consortia: Consortium on Beta Cell Death & Survival
Role: Investigator
Email: vahedi@pennmedicine.upenn.edu
https://resourcebrowser.hirnetwork.org/SearchResults/Results/?query=Golnaz+Vahedi
Consortia: Consortium on Beta Cell Death & Survival, New Investigators, Opportunity Pool Projects
Role: Investigator
Email: prashanth.vallabhajosyula@yale.edu
Center: Yale University
Consortia: Human Pancreas Analysis Consortium
Role: Investigator
Email: bvoight@pennmedicine.upenn.edu
Role: External Scientific Panel
Email: matthias@liai.org
Center: La Jolla Institute for Allergy and Immunology
Consortia: Consortium on Targeting and Regeneration
Role: Investigator
Email: bwagner@broadinstitute.org
Center: Broad Institute
Bridget Wagner is the chair of the Consortium of Targeting and Regeneration (CTAR) and the Trans-Network Committee (TNC). Additionlly, she is a CTAR Investigator. She is also the Director of Pancreatic Cell Biology and Metabolic Disease in the Chemical Biology and Therapeutic Sciences Program at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, where she is also an institute scientist. Her research focuses on the chemical biology of diabetes, with the aim of identifying small molecules capable of increasing pancreatic beta cell number and function and the ultimate goal of discovering new therapeutic approaches for diabetes.
https://www.broadinstitute.org/bios/bridget-wagner
https://hirnetwork.org/investigator_profile_bwagner
https://resourcebrowser.hirnetwork.org/Contributor/Index/bridget_wagner@hirnetwork.org
Consortia: Human Pancreas Analysis Consortium
Role: Postdoctoral Fellow
Email: j.walker@vanderbilt.edu
Center: Vanderbilt University
Consortia: Consortium on Modeling Autoimmune Interactions
Role: Investigator
Email: mawallet@pathology.ufl.edu
Center: University of Florida
Consortia: Consortium on Targeting and Regeneration
Role: Investigator
Email: peng.wang@mssm.edu
Center: Mount Sinai Hospital
Consortia: Consortium on Beta Cell Death & Survival, Consortium on Targeting and Regeneration
Role: NIDDK Program Staff
Email: xujing.wang@nih.gov
Center: National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK)
Xujing Wang is a NIH NIDDK Program Director in the Division of Diabetes, Endocrinology, and Metabolic Diseases. Her interests are in data science, computation modeling, integrative genomics, network biology, and genotype-phenotype relationships.
Consortia: Human Pancreas Analysis Consortium
Role: Investigator
Email: wangpaul@pennmedicine.upenn.edu
Consortia: Consortium on Beta Cell Death & Survival
Role: Investigator
Email: clive@uf.edu
Center: University of Florida
Consortia: Consortium on Beta Cell Death & Survival
Role: Investigator
Email: bobbie-jo.webb-robertson@pnnl.gov
Center: Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Consortia: Consortium on Human Islet Biomimetics
Role: Investigator
Email: ryan.white@uc.edu
Center: University of Cincinnati
Role: Postdoctoral Fellow
Email: mwortham@ucsd.edu
Center: University of California at San Diego
https://hirnetwork.org/about/participants#short-profile-maike-sander-md
Consortia: Consortium on Beta Cell Death & Survival
Role: Investigator
Email: chris.wright@vanderbilt.edu
Center: Vanderbilt University
Consortia: Consortium on Beta Cell Death & Survival
Role: Postdoctoral Fellow
Email: guanlanxu@uabmc.edu
Center: University of Alabama at Birmingham
Role: Investigator
Email: yy2324@columbia.edu
Center: Columbia University
Consortia: Human Pancreas Analysis Consortium
Role: Investigator
Email: mdyang@ufl.edu
Center: University of Florida
https://hirnetwork.org/about/participants#short-profile-mark-atkinson-phd
Consortia: Consortium on Human Islet Biomimetics
Role: Postdoctoral Fellow
Email: kisuky@mit.edu
Center: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
https://hirnetwork.org/about/participants#short-profile-jeff-karp-phd
Role: Research Staff
Email: cjyoon@bu.edu
Center: Boston University
https://hirnetwork.org/about/participants#short-profile-chris-chen-md-phd
Consortia: Consortium on Human Islet Biomimetics
Role: Investigator
Email: zaret@mail.med.upenn.edu
Center: University of Pennsylvania
Consortia: Consortium on Human Islet Biomimetics, Human Pancreas Analysis Consortium
Role: Postdoctoral Fellow
Email: c2zeng@ucsd.edu
Center: University of California, San Diego
Optimize strategies to enrich T1D-relevant cells from pancreatic tissue for ATAC-seq analysis
https://hirnetwork.org/about/participants#short-profile-maike-sander-md
Consortia: Consortium on Targeting and Regeneration
Role: Investigator
Email: jqz4001@med.cornell.edu
Center: Weill Cornell Medical College