LIFT-UP Scholars

Pilot Title: Investigation of Immuno-Senescence as a Driver of Metabolic Disease and Non-Alcoholic Steatohepatitis

Pilot Title: Insurance Design to Address Racial & Socioeconomic Disparities in Obesity

Pilot Title: Pericyte Proliferation in the Progression of Diabetes-Associated Microvascular Disease

Pilot Title: Hybrid Closed Loop Insulin Pumps in Poorly Controlled Type 1 Diabetes

Pilot Title: A Community-Based Exploration of the Influence of Parental Mental Health on Infant Nutrition in California

Pilot Title: Race, Obesity and the Tumor Microenvironment in Prostate Cancer Disparities

Pilot Title: The Role of Adipose Tissue Macrophages-Derived miR-690 on Adipocyte Precursor Cell Maintenance and Adipogenesis

Pilot Title: Neural Control of Thermoregulatory Changes Accompanying Pregnancy

Pilot Title: Determining Activated Enhancers in Obesity and Exercise as a Treatment Strategy for Obesity

Pilot Title: Exploring How Spanish-Speaking Latinos Navigate Pharmacologic Treatment Options for Diabetes

Pilot Title: A GWAS-in-a-Dish Approach Using Human iPSC-Derived Adipocytes to Identify Metabolic Risk Variants Associated with Obesity and Diabetes.

Pilot Title: Decoding a Bottom-Up Midbrain-Subthalamic Circuit in Compulsive and Eating-Related Disorders

Pilot Title: Role of Lipid-Associated Inflammation in Type 2 Diabetes in Minority Health Populations

Pilot Title: CHOICE (to formally test whether active choice leads to better weight management outcomes and engagement among ethnically and racially diverse participants. Avoid and Resist Strategies for Weight Management

Pilot Title: Optimizing diabetes treatment strategies in breast cancer survivors

Pilot Title: Investigation of DNA Methylation Biomarkers and Their Role in T2D Risk in Native Hawaiians, Japanese, and Europeans

Pilot Title: Use of Novel Diabetes Drug Classes in the Medicaid Population with Type 2 Diabetes and the Impact of California’s Single-Formulary Policy

Pilot Title: Effect of Sleeve Gastrectomy and Glucagon Like Peptide-1 Analog Use in Mothers on Early life Adiposity and Appetitive Traits in Infants and its Determinants

Pilot Title: Novel CNS Mechanisms regulating Adipose Tissue Function

Pilot Title: Novel exercise-induced molecular pathways to address health disparities in exercise intervention