Postdoctoral Fellowships 2022/2023
BBDC Postdoctoral Fellowships
BBDC Fellowship In Diabetes Care (Funded By Eli Lilly)
D.H. Gales Family Charitable Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowship
Sellers Postdoctoral Fellowship
Application Deadline Date: February 22, 2022
The following have been offered funding:
| Award Recipient | Supervisor(s) | Title of Research | Award |
| Hammoud, Rola | Dr. Daniel Drucker | Elucidating the role of the central nervous system as a metabolic target for agonists and antagonists of the glucose-dependent insulinotropic polypeptide receptor (GIPR) | Sellers Postdoctoral Fellowship |
| Syed Abdul, Majid Mufaqam | Dr. Gary Lewis | Intravital imaging of intestinal lipid mobilization | BBDC Fellowship |
| Yau, Kevin | Dr. David Cherney and Dr. Ron Wald | GLP-1 Receptor Agonists in Chronic Kidney Disease and Maintenance Dialysis Patients | BBDC Fellowship |
| Usmani, Shirine Elizabeth | Dr. Minna Woo | Determining the role of Bc16 in diabetes and skeletal muscle function | BBDC Fellowship |
| Van, Julie Anh Dung | Dr. Michael Wheeler | Mining the circulatory proteome for early signals for the progression to type 2 diabetes in women with a history of gestational diabetes | BBDC Fellowship |
| Lyons, Sulayman Aslan | Dr. Jacqueline Beaudry | Effects of acute and prolonged high levels of glucocorticoid exposure on white and brown fat lipid metabolism | DH Gales Family Charitable Foundation Fellowship |
| Meerasa, Ameena (Declined) | Dr. Satya Dash | Genetic Determinants of Type 2 Diabetes Remission | DH Gales Family Charitable Foundation Fellowship |
| Singh, Raghunath | Dr. Margaret Hahn | Role of the gut microbiome in metabolic alterations associated with antipsychotics | DH Gales Family Charitable Foundation Fellowship |
| Mukherjee, Tapas (Declined) | Dr. Dana Philpott | Unraveling the pathophysiological link between type-2 diabetes and Crohn’s diseases | DH Gales Family Charitable Foundation Fellowship |
| González Rellán, María Jesús | Dr. Daniel Drucker | Elucidation of the role(s) of the vascular smooth muscle GLP-1 receptor | Fellowship in Diabetes Care (funded by Eli Lilly) |
| Prayitno, Khairunnadiya | Dr. Mamatha Bhat | How does diabetes epigenetically modulate progression of non-alcoholic steatohepatitis? | BBDC Fellowship |