Diabetes & Obesity Research Priority Area

Grants and Contracts

Grants and Contracts per year 1996 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2025

• 47 Active
• 389 Finished

Grants and Contracts per year

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• SBIR: Dose-Ranging Safety and Efficacy Studies to Advance Novel Mechanism-of-Action Drug Candidates to Reverse Age-Related Muscle Degeneration

  Fry, C.

  Ridgeline Therapeutics

  7/1/19 → 3/31/21

  Project: Research project

• Wellcare CDSMP and DMSP Project - Increase Access to Care Phase 3

  Feltner, F. & Baker, W.

  Comprehensive Health Management Incorporated

  7/1/19 → 6/30/20

  Project: Research project

• Medically Complex Training Program (MCTP) - FY20/TRC

  Segress, M. & Miller, J.

  Eastern KY University

  7/1/19 → 6/30/20

  Project: Research project

  • Training 100%
  • Foster Parent 68%
  • Child 54%
  • Community-Based 36%
  • Service Industries 36%

• Cardiovascular Consequences of Gestational Diabetes; Role of Amylin

  Despa, S. & Despa, F.

  American Heart Association

  7/1/19 → 6/30/20

  Project: Research project

  • Gestational Diabetes 100%
  • Amylin 100%
  • Pregnancy Diabetes Mellitus 100%
  • Child 33%
  • Heart 20%

• Sugar Metabolism in Fatty Liver Disease

  Softic, S.

  NASPGHAN Foundation

  7/1/19 → 7/30/21

  Project: Research project

  • Carbohydrate 100%
  • Fat 66%
  • Obesity 60%
  • Fructose 53%
  • Metabolism 46%

• Biosynthetic Pathways in Cardiac Remodeling

  Fan, W.

  University of Louisville

  8/1/19 → 8/1/19

  Project: Research project

  • Metabolomics 100%
  • Stable Isotope 100%
  • Carbon 13 100%
  • Derivatization 100%
  • Analysis 50%

• Developing a Mobile App to Increase Physical Activity During and After Pregnancy

  Schoenberg, N.

  Western Kentucky University

  8/1/19 → 3/30/20

  Project: Research project

  • Woman 100%
  • Pregnancy 33%
  • MHealth 25%
  • Time 25%
  • Development 16%

• Aberrant Glycogen is a Metabolic Vulnerability of Ewing's Sarcoma

  Sun, R.

  8/1/19 → 7/31/20

  Project: Research project

  • Ewing Sarcoma 100%
  • Glycogen 93%
  • Combination Therapy 18%
  • Hydroxymethylglutaryl Coenzyme A Reductase Kinase 18%
  • Protein 18%

• Virginia Food Pantry Evaluation

  Burnett, C.

  8/1/19 → 8/13/21

  Project: Research project

  • Food Pantries 100%
  • Food Pantry 100%
  • Food Bank 88%
  • Foods 50%
  • Food Choice 22%

• Preclinical Evaluation of Tacrolimus in a Canine Model of Alzheimer's Disease

  Norris, C., Powell, D. & Lin, A. L.

  University of California Irvine

  8/1/19 → 5/31/22

  Project: Research project

  • Calcineurin 100%
  • Alzheimer Disease 88%
  • Tacrolimus 66%
  • Beagle 44%
  • Human 22%

• Myonuclear Epigenetics of Skeletal Muscle Mass Regulation with Age

  Murach, K., Fondufe-Mittendorf, Y., McCarthy, J. & Peterson, C.

  National Institute on Aging

  8/1/19 → 7/31/21

  Project: Research project

  • Muscle 100%
  • Epigenomics 69%
  • Epigenetics 69%
  • Skeletal Muscle 61%
  • Aging 46%

• Aberrant Glycogen is a Metabolic Vulnerability of Ewing's Sarcoma

  Sun, R.

  8/1/19 → 3/31/20

  Project: Research project

  • Ewing Sarcoma 100%
  • Glycogen 93%
  • Combination Therapy 18%
  • Hydroxymethylglutaryl Coenzyme A Reductase Kinase 18%
  • Protein 18%

• Hydroxychloroquine for Prevention of Abnormal Glucose Tolerance and Diabetes in Individuals At-Risk for Type 1 Diabetes Mellitus

  Thrailkill, K.

  University of South Florida

  8/13/19 → 5/12/20

  Project: Research project

  • Monitoring 100%
  • Glucose Tolerance 100%
  • Hydroxychloroquine 100%
  • Controlled Clinical Trial 100%
  • Placebo 100%

• SCH: INT: Collaborative Research: "RehabBuddy" Extending Individualized Physical Rehabilitation Beyond the Clinic Using Wearable Technology to Empower Patients

  Uhl, T.

  National Science Foundation

  8/15/19 → 7/31/22

  Project: Research project

  • Patient 100%
  • Exercise 57%
  • Feedback System 28%
  • Rehabilitation Engineering 21%
  • Time 14%

• The Role of Gamma Delta - T Cells in Age-Associated Adipose Tissue Inflammation

  Starr, M., COHEN, D. & Stromberg, A.

  National Institute on Aging

  9/1/19 → 8/31/21

  Project: Research project

  • Adipose Tissue 100%
  • Mouse 54%
  • T Cell Receptor 45%
  • Inflammation 45%
  • Interleukin-6 36%

• Advancing Modern Wheat Nutrition to Sustain Both Yield and the Economics of Production

  Grove, J., Ritchey, E. & Shockley, J.

  Kentucky Small Grain Growers Association

  9/1/19 → 6/30/21

  Project: Research project

  • Wheat 100%
  • Economics 80%
  • Human Nutrition 40%
  • Yield 40%
  • Production 40%

• Detecting, Understanding, and Reducing Diabetes Belt Preventive Care Disparities

  Sohn, M.

  University of Virginia

  9/1/19 → 1/31/23

  Project: Research project

  • Diabetes 100%
  • Preventive Medicine 34%
  • Disparity 30%
  • Rest 15%
  • Complications of Diabetes Mellitus 15%

• NTAE Catalyst

  Henning, J.

  eXtension Foundation

  9/1/19 → 9/1/19

  Project: Research project

  • Professional 100%
  • Initiative 100%
  • System 50%
  • Online 50%
  • Frame-work 50%

• Assessment of the Clinical Importance of Insulin Resistance & Steroid-Associated Hyperglycemia in Relapsing Multiple Sclerosis

  Sohn, M.

  Virginia Commonwealth University

  9/1/19 → 9/1/19

  Project: Research project

  • Glucose Blood Level 100%
  • Multiple Sclerosis 60%
  • Steroid 60%
  • Relapse 40%
  • Person 40%

• NTAE Catalyst

  Henning, J.

  eXtension Foundation

  9/1/19 → 6/30/20

  Project: Research project

  • Professional 100%
  • Initiative 100%
  • System 50%
  • Online 50%
  • Frame-work 50%

• Countermeasure Activities to Support Empowerment of Youth (CASEY) HEALTH

  Plasencia, J., Carlson, C., Darville, A., Grubbs, A. & Miller, C.

  Robert Wood Johnson Foundation

  9/15/19 → 12/31/22

  Project: Research project

  • Health 100%
  • Curriculum 83%
  • Youth 66%
  • Tobacco 50%
  • Marketing 50%

• NRSA Fellowship for Farmer: Astrocyte Lipid Droplets as a Novel Mechanism for Impaired Glucose Metabolism in the E4 and AD Brain

  Johnson, L., El Khouli, R., Farmer, B., Gentry, M., Morris, A. & Nelson, P.

  National Institute on Aging

  9/29/19 → 9/28/20

  Project: Research project

  • Diseases 100%
  • Glucose Uptake 83%
  • Glucose Transport 83%
  • Lipid Droplet 83%
  • Apolipoprotein E 66%

• 2019-2022 UK-Spec Crop-Plate it Up

  Norman-Burgdolf, H., Brewer, D., Hunter, J., Pennell, K. & Stephenson, T.

  KY Department of Agriculture

  9/30/19 → 9/29/22

  Project: Research project

  • Ecodevelopment 100%
  • Project 100%
  • Kentucky 85%
  • Kit 85%
  • Recipes 85%

• Core Competencies for Land Grant Nutrition Education

  Mullins, J.

  Colorado State University

  10/1/19 → 1/31/21

  Project: Research project

  • Nutrition 100%
  • Simulation Mode 100%
  • Nutrition Education 83%
  • SNAP 50%
  • Personnel 50%

• Development of High w-3 Soybean Germplasm

  Hildebrand, D.

  United Soybean Board

  10/1/19 → 9/30/20

  Project: Research project

  • Soybean 100%
  • Seeds 37%
  • Germplasm 37%
  • Fatty Acids 25%
  • Linolenic Acid 25%

• Fat Nerve Recording in Mice

  Loria Kinsey, A.

  American Physiological Society

  10/1/19 → 10/31/21

  Project: Research project

  • Fat 100%
  • Capsaicin 62%
  • Hypertension 37%
  • Sympathetic Tone 25%
  • Calcitonin Gene Related Peptide 25%

• Barnstable Brown Diabetes Center - Cooperative Extension System Diabetes Prevention Program

  Hieronymus, L.

  11/1/19 → 10/31/21

  Project: Research project

• Treatment of Lafora Disease with an Antibody-Enzyme Fusion.

  Gentry, M. & Pauly, J.

  National Institute of Neurological Disorders & Stroke

  12/15/19 → 8/12/22

  Project: Research project

  • Lafora Disease 100%
  • Myoclonus Epilepsy 100%
  • Patient 47%
  • Glycogen 29%
  • Glycogen Storage Disease Type II 23%

• Understanding the Effect of Calorie Menu Labels on Obesity: Producer and Consumer Responses to the ACAs Calorie Posting Requirement

  Courtemanche, C.

  University of Iowa

  1/1/20 → 12/31/20

  Project: Research project

  • Project 100%
  • Obesity 100%
  • Change 83%
  • Consumers 66%
  • Behavior 50%

• Healthy Communities

  Mullis, L.

  1/1/20 → 3/31/20

  Project: Research project

  • Athletes 100%
  • Exercise 60%
  • Diabetes 20%
  • Health 20%
  • Wellbeing 20%

• NRSA Fellowship for Davis Englund: Determining the Fiber Type-Specific Requirements for Satellite Cells During Skeletal Muscle Hypertrophy

  Peterson, C., Liu, J. & McCarthy, J.

  National Institute Arthritis Musculoskeletal & Skin

  2/24/20 → 7/25/20

  Project: Research project

  • Growth 100%
  • Satellite Cell 100%
  • Muscle 66%
  • Therapeutic Procedure 33%
  • Health 33%

• Lafora Disease CSF

  Gentry, M.

  3/5/20 → 7/31/22

  Project: Research project

• Contribution of plasmablasts in the conversion of transverse myelitis to multiple sclerosis

  Stowe, A.

  University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center

  4/1/20 → 6/30/20

  Project: Research project

  • Neuron 100%
  • In Vitro 66%
  • Excitotoxicity 33%
  • Endothelium 33%
  • Immunohistochemistry 33%

• Aberrant Glycogen Modulates Cerebral Glucose Metabolism in Aging and Alzheimer's Disease

  Sun, R., Gentry, M., Johnson, L., Nelson, P., Van Eldik, L. & Wang, C.

  National Institute on Aging

  4/15/20 → 10/31/22

  Project: Research project

  • Glycogen 100%
  • Brain Metabolism 30%
  • Alzheimer's Disease 20%
  • Therapeutic Procedure 20%
  • Aging 20%

• Diabetes, Glucose Metabolism, and Neuroplasticity in the Vagal Complex

  Smith, B. & Gerhardt, G.

  National Institute Diabetes & Digestive & Kidney

  4/15/20 → 7/31/21

  Project: Research project

  • Glucose 100%
  • Diabetes 100%
  • Neuron 50%
  • Gamma-Aminobutyric Acid 30%
  • Neuroplasticity 20%

• Understanding the Effects of Varying Nutrient Content in Forage on Postprandial Insulin Responses in Equine Metabolic Syndrome horses

  Adams, A.

  Morris Animal Foundation

  5/1/20 → 5/31/22

  Project: Research project

  • Horse 100%
  • Insulin 92%
  • Equus 18%
  • Laminitis 14%
  • Incretin 11%

• Brain Glycogen - Metabolism, Mechanisms, and Therapeutic Potential

  Gentry, M., Johnson, L., Nelson, P., Sun, R., Vander Kooi, C. & Zhu, H.

  National Institute of Neurological Disorders & Stroke

  5/15/20 → 4/30/21

  Project: Research project

  • Glycogen 100%
  • Glucose 71%
  • Brain 71%
  • Epilepsy 28%
  • Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis 28%

• Developing a novel therapy for CLN3 disease-associated neurological deficits

  Wang, Q., Norris, C., O'Hara, B. & Sunderam, S.

  2/1/21 → 1/31/22

  Project: Research project

• Developing a novel therapy for CLN3 disease-related neurological deficits

  Wang, Q., Norris, C., O'Hara, B., Sunderam, S. & McLouth, C.

  12/1/21 → 11/30/22

  Project: Research project