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 Alberta Diabetes Foundation, C.F. "Curly" and Gladys B. MacLachlan and Paddy and Ken Webb and Family Fund and the Porylo family (both administered by University Hospital Foundation) for supporting excellence in diabetes research at the Alberta Diabetes Institute.
Alberta Diabetes Foundation University Hospital Fund