Endocrine Society honors 2015 Helmsley Award winners

• Shivani Agarwal of the University of Pennsylvania Health System, "A Multivariate Model of Demographic and Psychosocial Predictors of HbA1C in Adolescents with Type 1 Diabetes"
  
  
• Sophia Ali, MD, of the State University of New York at Buffalo, "Reversal of Effects of Liraglutide As Additional Treatment to Insulin in Patients with Type 1 Diabetes after Cessation of Therapy"
  
  
• Shipra Bansal of SUNY Downstate Medical Center, "Knowledge, Attitudes and Practices of US Residents Regarding Insulin Pump in Diabetics"
  
  
• Sena Cantas Orsdemir, MD, of Baystate Medical Center in Springfield, MA, "Are Families of Children with Type 1 DM Ready for Televisits?"
  
  
• Julia Cartaya, MD, of Joslin Diabetes Center in Boston, MA, "Predictors of Visits with a Registered Dietitian (RD) for Youth and Young Adults with Type 1 Diabetes (T1D)"
  
  
• Tamara Casteels of CeMM Research Center for Molecular Medicine of the Austrian Academy of Sciences in Austria, "Epigenome-Wide Screen for Alpha to Beta Cell Transdifferentiation"
  
  
• E. Danielle Dean, PhD, of Vanderbilt University Medical Center, "Hepatic-Derived Factor Stimulates Alpha Cell Proliferation"
  
  
• Aoife Egan, MB, BCh, BAO, of National University of Ireland Galway, "A Regional Prepregnancy Care Program for Women with Pregestational Diabetes: Is It Worthwhile?"
  
  
• Mohamed I. Husseiny Elsayed, PhD, of Beckman Research Institute of City of Hope, Duarte, CA, "Methylation-Specific PCR Assay for Detection of Beta Cell Death in Newly Onset Type 1 Diabetes"
  
  
• Manivel Eswaran, MD, MS, of the University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston, TX, "Type 1 Diabetes and Bone Marrow Transplantation"
  
  
• Sana Hasan, DO, University of Nebraska Medical Center, "The Effect of All Trans Retinoic Acid on Insulitis and Beta Cell Apoptosis in NOD Mice"
  
  
• Mark Huising, PhD, University of California, Davis, "Urocortin3 Triggers Somatostatin-Mediated Negative Feedback to Control Insulin Secretion"
  
  
• Chad Hunter, PhD, University of Alabama at Birmingham, "Single-Stranded DNA Binding Protein 3 (SSBP3) Participates in Ldb1 and Islet-1 Mediated Transcriptional Complexes in Pancreatic Beta Cells"
  
  
• Philippe Klee of University Hospitals of Geneva, Switzerland, "Choline Protects Human and Murine Beta-Cells in Vitro Against Cytokines By Decreasing Mitochondrial Permeability Transition"
  
  
• Michelle Mangual, MD, of San Juan City Hospital in Puerto Rico, "Type 1 Diabetes Mellitus Related to Acute Liver Failure: a Challenging Diagnosis"
  
  
• Sara McMillin, PhD, of Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, "Assessing the Relative Contributions of Three Transcriptional Co-Activators to Hepatic Gluconeogenesis in Vivo"
  
  
• Geetha Mukerji, MD, MSc, of Women's College Hospital Institute for Health System Solutions and Virtual Care in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, "Improving Transitions of Care in Young Adults with Type 1 Diabetes"
  
  
• Kadapalakere Reddy, MBBS, of State University of New York at Buffalo, "Metastatic Germ Cell Testicular Tumor with High Testosterone Levels. Is That True?"
  
  
• Kanika Shanker, MD, of Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia, "Autoimmune Hypoglycemia in a Young Girl with Autoimmune Overlap Syndrome"
  
  
• David Weber, MD, MSCE, of the University of Rochester in Rochester, New York, "Sex Differences in Bone Density and Body Composition in Children Newly Diagnosed with Type 1 Diabetes"
  
  
• Feng Wu, MD, of the Center for Stem Cell Biology, Roger Williams Medical Center, Boston University School of Medicine, "Bone Marrow Stem Cells Support Human Islet Beta-Cell Function in an Encapsulated Microenvironment"
  
  
• Mingfeng Zhang, PhD, of Beckman Research Institute of City of Hope, "Induction of Mixed Chimerism for Cure of Overt Type 1 Diabetes in NOD Mice, Using Clinically Available Reagents without Radiation"
  
  

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