2016 ADI Pilot Project Funding Recipients

29 July 2016

Congratulations to the 2016 ADI Pilot Project awardees.

2016 ADI Pilot Project (ADF)

Applicant Co-Applicants Project Title
Jason Dyck Resveratrol-mediated changes in the gut microbiota and insulin resistance
Patrick MacDonald Variable islet responses to Exendin4 in humans and in a mouse model of impaired islet secretory compensation
Jane Yardley Roseanne Yeung/Peter Senior T1D boot camp 360

C.F. "Curly" and Gladys B. MacLachlan and Paddy and Ken Webb and Family Fund (UHF)

Applicant Co-Applicants Project Title
Jean Buteau Greg Korbutt

Novel strategies to optimize neonatal pig islet xenotransplantation

Porylo Diabetes/Cancer Fund (UHF)

Applicant Project Title
Jeffrey Johnson Diabetes, glucose-lowering therapies and cancer risk: evaluating detection bias at the time of glucose-lowering therapy starts
Richard Lehner

Role of insulin resistance-mediated hyperlipidemia in cancer growth


Thank you to the , C.F. "Curly" and Gladys B. MacLachlan and Paddy and Ken Webb and Family Fund and the Porylo family (both administered by ) for supporting excellence in diabetes research at the ¾ÅÐãÖ±²¥ Diabetes Institute.