2008 Research Grant Recipients

The Endocrine Fellows Foundation conducts a very successful program by which it provides support to first or second year fellows engaged in significant research. The Foundation has received approximately 900 applications since the program's inception and to date over 300 grants, totaling more than $1.85 million, have been awarded. The applications are reviewed twice yearly in the spring and fall.

The Endocrine Fellows Foundation wants to acknowledge the help of our expert reviewers. Of all of those asked to review, over 95% respond positively each cycle.

The Foundation is pleased to have received so many high-quality grants and only regrets that it was able to fund just a small portion of them. The next research grants will be awarded in November 2008. All interested Fellows are encouraged to submit applications, which will be mailed in June 2008. Please ask your Program Director for an application if you do not receive one in the mail directly.

Spring 2008 Grant Awardees are :

• Jennifer Bell, MD - Baylor College of Medicine: "Androgen Receptor Signaling in Children with Hypospaidas"
  Program Director- Morey Hammond, MD
  
  
• Marissa Grotzke, MD - University of Utah: "Association Between Iron and Adioponectin"
  Program Director- Donald McClain, MD
  
  
• Jyotsna Keni, MD – University of California- Los Angeles: "The Role of Humanin in Beta Cell Survival" Program Director- Kuk-Wha Lee, MD
  
  
• Gregory Ku, MD – University of California- San Francisco: "An RNAi Screen for Regulators of the Insulin Promoter in Pancreatic Beta Cells"
  Program Director- Michael German, MD
  
  
• Lindsey Nicol, MD – University of Wisconsin: : "Fetal Programming of PCOS by Androgen Excess: A Developmental Etiology for Changes in Islet Cell Mass and Subsequent Manifestation of Decreased Insulin Secretion"
  Program Director- David Allen, MD
  
  
• Airani Sathananthan, MD – Mayo Clinic: "OCT1 and Response to Metormin"
  Program Director- Neena Natt, MD
  
  

We thank you for participating in this very important activity of the Foundation.

The Endocrine Fellows Foundation wants to acknowledge the help of our expert reviewers. Over 90% of those requested participated in both cycles. The average number of reviews each application received was three. The next grants will be awarded in November 2008. All interested Fellows are encouraged to submit applications. 

Request for Grant Form:

Please fill in the requested information in the areas provided below. When you submit this form the information will go directly to the Endocrine Fellows Foundation at endocrinefellows@sbcglobal.net. Grant Applications are mailed in June and December. To ensure that you will receive an application, please complete the Request for Grant Form.