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POD Scientific Investigators (updated June 25, 2010)
| Category | Investigator | Institution | Grant Title |
|---|---|---|---|
Disease Etiology |
Heikki Hyoty | University of Tampere | Detection of viruses in pancreas and other tissues |
| Ake Sjoholm | Karolinska Institutet |
Ljungan virus in type 1 diabetes | |
| Gerald Taborsky | University of Washington | Sympathetic neuropathy in type 1 diabetes | |
| John Todd, Vincent Plagnol & Herbert Virgin | University of Cambridge | Viral sequence discovery by high throughput DNA | |
| Steve Tracy | University of Nebraska | Enteroviral infection and type 1 diabetes | |
Eric Triplett and Martha Campbell-Thompson |
University of Florida | Gut microbiota in early type 1 diabetes | |
| Immunology | Manuela Battaglia and Ezio Bonifacio | San Raffaele Scientific Institute | Dissecting the effector/regulatory compartments in the target tissues of type 1 diabetes |
| Howard Davidson | University of Colorado | Autoantigen-specific PLN T-Cell receptors | |
| Garry Fathman | Stanford University | Microarray analysis of PLN from autoantibody positive donors | |
| Dale Greiner | University of Massachusetts |
Diabetogenic function of nPOD donor splenocytes in humanized mice | |
| Sally Kent | Harvard University | Investigation of ß cells in human islets and PLN in type 1 diabetes | |
| Jerry Nadler | Eastern Virginia Medical School | 12/15 Lipoxygenase expression in type 1 diabetes | |
| Maki Nakayama and Joe Larkin, III | University of Colorado and University of Florida | TCR utilization in type 1 diabetes insulitis | |
| Jerry Nepom | Benaroya Research Institute at Virgina Mason | TCR repertoire analysis in type 1 diabetes | |
| Alberto Pugliese | University of Miami | Beta cells and autoimmunity correlations | |
| Helena Reijonen | Benaroya Research Institute at Virginia Mason |
TCR repertoire analysis in type 1 diabetes | |
| Suparna Sarkar and Dirk Homann | University of Colorado | Pancreatic expression of chemokinesin human type 1 diabetes | |
| Jo Spencer | King's College London School of Medicine |
Phenotype, specificity, diversity and clonal spread of ß cells in type 1 diabetes | |
| Matthias von Herrath | University of California, San Diego |
Tetramer staining of pre-diabetic pancreata MHC | |
| Garth Warnock | University of British Columbia |
T cell costimulatory molecules in pancreata from IAPCD | |
| Clive Wasserfall and Mark Pescovitz | University of Florida | Humoral immunity in type 1 diabetes | |
| Islet and Pancreas Pathology | Martha Campbell Thompson and Mark Atkinson |
University of Florida | Pancreatic immunologic and metabolic parameters |
| Roberto Gianani and Mark Atkinson | University of Colorado and University of Florida |
Histopathology of type 1 diabetes | |
| Akihisa Imagawa | Osaka University | Histological Differences Between Japanese and Western type 1 diabetes | |
| George King and Susan Bonner-Weir | Harvard University | Joslin Medalist Study | |
| Rudolph Leibel and Nao Wakae | Columbia University | E-cadherin mediates developmental effects of the proliferation and the function of ß-cells in the islet of Langerhans | |
| Paolo Maddedu and Costanza Emanueli | University of Bristol | Microangiopathy in diabetic bone marrow | |
| Brad Marsh | University of Queensland | 3D characterization of islet dysfunction/destruction |
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| Sara Michie | Stanford University | Tissue-selective Chemokines and Adhesion Molecules in type 1 diabetes | |
| Al Powers | Vanderbilt University | Islet biology and vascularization | |
| Lydia Sorokin and Eva Korpos | University of Muenster | Peri-capsular basement membrane degredation during leukocyte penetration into the pancreatic islet during development of human T1D | |
| Metabolic and Developmental | Jake Kushner | University of Pennsylvania | Do de-granulated ß-cells persist in type 1 diabetes? |
| Douglas Melton | Harvard University | Generation of tools to distinguish human pancreatic cell populations | |
| Christopher Rhodes | University of Chicago | "Empty Beta Cells" in type 1 diabetes | |
| New JDRF Funded Investigators | Mark Stuart Anderson | University of California, San Francisco | Identification of extrathymic Aire-expressing cells in human lymph nodes |
| Ivan Gerling | University of Tennessee, Memphis | Sequencing the islet transcriptome | |
| Dolores Jaraquemada | Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona | Tracing effector and regulatory T-cell populations in type 1 diabetes | |
| Richard David Leslie | University of London | Risk of autoimmune diseases in human self-antigen expression | |
| Clayton Mathews | University of Florida | Islet resistance to T1D | |
| Bart Roep | Leiden University | Detection of islet autoreactive CD8 T-cells in insulitis versus periphery | |
| Charmaine Simeonovic | Australian National University | Heparan sulfate levels mark the health status of human islet ß cells | |
| Ranjeny Thomas | University of Queensland | Pathological changes associated with chronic Re1B activation in T1D | |
| Thomas Wight | Benaroya Institute at Virginia Mason | Extracellular matrix involvement in type 1 diabetes pancreatic destruction |