Pilot Funding

2021 M3C Pilot and Feasibility Funding Projects

The Metabolomics Consortium Coordinating Center is committed to offering pilot and feasibility funding for projects that support the advancement of metabolomics.


Congratulations to M3C P&F Awardees!

Ali Akgul, Ph.D, University of Florida


“Using metabolomics to develop oral therapy for Sjögren’s syndrome”

Gustavo Maegawa, Ph.D, University of Florida

“Investigation and optimization of exosome isolation as biomarkers of a lysosomal disorder”

Guillaume De Lartigue, Ph.D, University of Florida

“Systemic Metabolomic and Lipidomic Profiling of Novel Bardet Biedl Syndrome in mice model”

Sumit Monu, Ph.D, Henry Ford Health System

“Effect of hyperinsulinemia on renal metabolites in obesity”

Nosha Farhadfar, M.D., University of Florida



“Metabolomic markers of fatigue: Association between circulating metabolome and persistent fatigue in Hematopoietic stem cell transplant survivors”

Reyhan Marcus Westbrook, Ph.D., Johns Hopkins

“Kynurenine Pathway Measurement in Mouse Models of Frailty”

Diana Gomez Manjarres, M.D., University of Florida

“Metabolomics as a diagnostic tool in fibrotic hypersensitivity pneumonitis”

Maria Zajac-Kaye, Ph.D., University of Florida

“Metabolic pathways in Kras-driven pancreatic cancer”

Kevin Zwezdaryk, Ph.D., Tulane University

“Metabolic phenotype of amniotic fluid during cytomegalovirus infection”


2020 M3C Pilot and Feasibility Funding Projects

The Metabolomics Consortium Coordinating Center is committed to offering pilot and feasibility funding for projects that support the advancement of metabolomics.


Congratulations to M3C P&F Awardees!

Christy Carter, Ph.D, University of Alabama

“Targeting age-related muscular lipotoxicity using MALDI MS Imaging”

Karen Esser, Ph.D, University of Florida

“Analysis of skeletal muscle metabolomic profile and its influence on mouse survival”

Melissa Jones, Ph.D, University of Florida

“Determining the impact of murine norovirus interactions with E.cloacae on the metabolomic and lipidomic profiles of outer membrane vesicles”

Hilary Vernon, M.D, Ph.D, Johns Hopkins University

“Modification of cardiomyocyte cardiolipin as a treatment for cardiomyopathy in Barth Syndrome”

Antonis Zervos, Ph.D, University of Central Florida

“The role of mitochrondrial MUL 1 in the regulation of metabolism.”

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