| Pilot | Midhat H. Abdulreda | University of Miami | Immune Cell Dynamics During Destruction of Human Pancreatic Islets | 3/11/11 | 12/31/12 |
| Pilot | Melissa Brown | PVLSI/UMass-Amherst/ | Role of TGF Beta Ligand Superfamily in Regulation of Human Islets | 2/15/11 | 12/31/13 |
| Pilot | Alejandro Caicedo | University of Miami | The Role of Innervation for Hormone Secretion in Human Islets | 3/11/11 | 2/29/12 |
| Pilot | Shuibing Chen | Weill Medical College of Cornell University | Deriving Functional Human Islets Using Chemical and Biological Approaches | 8/1/11 | 12/13/13 |
| Pilot | Dawn B. Davis | University of Wisconsin, Madison | Mechanisms of Beta Cell Proliferation | 3/11/11 | 7/31/14 |
| Pilot | Paul Harris | Columbia University | Dopaminergic Regulation of GSIS in T2DM | 4/13/11 | 3/30/12 |
| Pilot | Raimund Herzog | Yale University School of Medicine | The Role of GSAP in the Pathophysiology of Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus | 3/11/11 | 1/12/13 |
| Pilot | Yumi Imai | Eastern Virginia Medical School | Type 2 Diabetes and Local Immune Response in Human Islets | 2/16/11 | 4/30/12 |
| Pilot | David A. Jacobson | Vanderbilt University | Modulation of Glucose Homeostasis by Pancreatic Islet Two-Pore-Domain Potassium | 3/11/11 | 7/31/13 |
| Pilot | Aleksandar Jeremic | George Washington University | Molecular Determinants of Amylin Trafficking and Toxicity in Human Islets | 3/11/11 | 6/30/14 |
| Pilot | Aleksey V. Matveyenko | University of California, Los Angeles | The Role of Melatonin Receptor Signaling in Regulation of Beta-Cell Survival and Function in Type 2 Diabetes | 2/15/11 | 12/30/12 |
| Pilot | Show-Ling Shyng | Oregon Health & Science University | Pharmacological Chaperones of B-cell KATP Channels | 7/14/11 | 6/30/14 |
| Pilot | Roland Tisch | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill | Genetic Modification of Human Beta Cells | 12/12/11 | 12/31/12 |
| Pilot | Kalpana Velmurugan | Denver VA Medical Center | Targeting Phosphodiesterases in Beta Cells | 2/16/11 | 12/31/13 |
| Pilot | Christopher Fraker | Diabetes Research Institute | Novel cytoprotective polymer formulations for islet cell encapsulation. | 8/13/12 | 8/31/14 |
| Pilot | A. Osama Gaber | Methodist Hospital Research Institute | BioMEMS for Pancreatic Islet Revascularization for Transplantation | 5/8/12 | 12/31/16 |
| Pilot | Emma Heart | Marine Biological Laboratory | Automated Single Islets Metabolite Profiling via Non-Invasive Electrochemical Detection | 1/6/12 | 12/31/14 |
| Pilot | Malek El Muayed | Northwestern University | Gene-Environment Interaction of ZnT8 and Cadmium - A Link to Diabetes Mellitus? | 1/30/12 | 12/30/13 |
| Pilot | Yoko Mullen | Beckman Research Institute of the City of Hope | Pilot Study to Test a New In Vitro Environment to Protect Human Islet Destruction Before and After Transplantation | 6/7/12 | 9/30/12 |
| Pilot | Jenna Rickus | Purdue University | Biosilicification of Pancreatic Islets for Treatment of Diabetes | 6/6/12 | 9/1/13 |
| Pilot | Yaron Tomer | Mount Sinai School of Medicine | Cytokine Effects on Human Islets | 2/9/12 | 3/31/14 |
| Pilot | Nicholas Zavazava | University of Iowa | STEM CELL-DERIVED INSUIN PRODUCING CELLS CORRECT HYPERGLYCEMIA IN DIABETIC MICE | 11/21/12 | 10/30/15 |
| Pilot | Jan Czyzyk | University of Rochester Medical Center | The role of anti-serpin antibodies in human islet transplant survival | 12/2/13 | 6/30/16 |
| Pilot | Weijun Shen | Calibr | In vivo ß cell proliferation via targeted delivery of Gsk3b inhibitors | 10/9/13 | 9/1/15 |
| Pilot | Mark Ungrin | University of Calgary | Optimizing islet survival and function | 12/19/13 | 10/31/19 |
| Pilot | Chad S. Hunter | University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) | Transcriptional Complexes in Pancreatic Islet Function | 10/6/14 | 12/31/19 |
| Pilot | Eynav Klechevsky | Washington Univeristy in St. Louis | Antigen presentation in T1D | 12/2/14 | 8/24/20 |
| Pilot | Mitchell Knutson | University of Florida | Molecular mechanisms of iron uptake by pancreatic beta cells and their contribution to the development of diabetes | 7/17/14 | 12/31/15 |
| Pilot | Xuelin Lou | Medical College of Wisconsin | Insulin granule trafficking in pancreatic beta cells | 4/9/14 | 10/10/16 |
| Pilot | David L. Morris | Indiana University | Characterization of islet-associated macrophages and neutrophils in diabetes | 8/27/14 | 6/30/17 |
| Pilot | Roberto Gaetani | University of California, San Diego | Evaluation of human islets extracellular matrix components for tissue engineering applications. | 12/11/15 | 6/30/18 |
| Pilot | Senta K. Georgia | Children's Hospital Los Angeles | Developing a personalized approach to beta cell replacement for a patient with a genetic form of diabetes | 10/16/15 | 12/31/18 |
| Pilot | Liora Katz | Mount Sinai School of Medicine | T3 and glucose signaling in ß-cells and their effect on ChREBP mediated proliferation | 7/27/15 | 6/30/18 |
| Pilot | Sudhakar Muthyala | Emory University | Effect of hypoxia and human cytokines on free versus encapsulated human islets | 11/30/15 | 11/15/16 |
| Pilot | Michael Rudnicki | Ottawa Hospital Research Institute | Induction of Pancreas Regeneration by Periostin | 7/15/15 | 6/30/17 |
| Pilot | Gaetano Santulli | Columbia University | Targeting intracellular calcium leak as novel therapy for diabetes | 6/16/15 | 11/30/17 |
| Pilot | Emily Sims | Indiana University School of Medicine | Beta Cell Derived miR-21 as an Intrinsic Protective Response and Biomarker in Type 1 Diabetes | 7/29/15 | 12/31/16 |
| Pilot | Marika Bogdani | Benaroya Research Institute | The determination of the molecular size of hyaluronan in human islets. | 7/27/16 | 12/31/18 |
| Pilot | Gregory H. Hockerman | Purdue University | L-type Ca2+ channels in Beta Cell Dysfunction | 3/15/16 | 6/30/17 |
| Pilot | Rejji Kuruvilla | Johns Hopkins University | Neurotrophins as new regulators of islet biology | 4/13/16 | 7/4/16 |
| Pilot | Hui Li | University of Virginia | Chiemerci fusion RNAs in pancreas islet cells and association with disease | 3/17/16 | 12/31/19 |
| Pilot | Sasanka Ramanadham | University of Alabama | Role of lipid-signaling in beta-cell apoptosis | 3/1/16 | 10/31/16 |
| Pilot | Santiago A. Rodriguez-Segui | Institute of Physiology, Molecular Biology and Neurosciences (IFIBYNE) | INGAP and the control of beta cell mass and function: transcriptional and epigenomic effects | 3/15/16 | 4/1/19 |
| Pilot | Erik Shapiro | Michigan State University | MRI of Islet Transplant | 5/25/16 | 12/31/16 |
| Pilot | Sherry Voytik-Harbin | Purdue University | Engineering an Islet Bioinstructive Microenvironment for Improved Survival, Function, Protection, and Delivery | 1/13/16 | 12/31/17 |
| Pilot | Florence Anquetil | La Jolla Institute | Pathophysiological role of IDO1 in beta cells and impact of its impairment in type 1 diabetes | 4/18/17 | 11/1/18 |
| Pilot | Holger A. Russ | Barbara Davis Center UC Denver | Identifying neo-antigens and investigating their formation in human beta cells | 3/13/17 | 2/28/19 |
| Pilot | Natalia Tamarina | University of Chicago | Growth Hormone-Releasing Hormone mediated effects on insulin secretion. | 3/13/17 | 12/31/17 |