The Pathway to Stop Diabetes program is designed to transform diabetes research by attracting innovative scientists, physicians, and researchers through financial support and professional mentorship.
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Research & Grants
Previous Pathway Awardees
2025
Christina Astley MD, ScD
Boston Children's Hospital
Sagar Bapat MD, PhD
University of California, San Francisco
Jessie Barra PhD
University of Florida
Marissa Burgermaster PhD
University of Texas at Austin
Tinashe Chikowore PhD
Brigham and Women's Hospital
Angela Trude PhD
New York University
2024
Rebecca Voorhees PhD
California Institute of Technology
Ilia Droujinine PhD
The Scripps Research Institute
Rachel Goode PhD, MPH, MSW
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Daniel Seung Kim MD, PhD, MPH
Stanford University
David Merrick MD, PhD
University of Pennsylvania
2023
Chelsea Hepler PhD
University of Michigan
Debora Rodrigues Sobreira PhD
David Geffen School of Medicine at University of California, Los Angeles
Lu Wang PhD
Tufts University
2022
Lisa Beutler MD, PhD
Northwestern University Medical School
Anna Kahkoska MD, PhD
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
2020
Judith Agudo PhD
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
Maxence Nachury PhD
University of California, San Francisco
2019
Ebony Carter MD
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Sarah Tishkoff PhD
University of Pennsylvania
Matthew Webber PhD
University of Notre Dame
2018
John Campbell PhD
University of Virginia
Samie Jaffrey MD, PhD
Joan & Sanford I.Weill Medical College of Cornell University
Alexander Nectow MD, PhD
Columbia University
Michael Stitzel PhD
The Jackson Laboratory
Randi Streisand PhD
Children's Research Institute
Jonathan Sweedler PhD
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
2017
Paul Cohen MD, PhD
Rockefeller University
Jonathan Flak PhD
Indiana University School of Medicine
Aleksandar Kostic PhD
Joslin Diabetes Center
Sumita Pennathur PhD
University of California, Santa Barbara
David Spiegel MD, PhD
Yale University School of Medicine
Sarah Stanley MD, PhD
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
2016
Daniel Ceradini MD
New York University School of Medicine
Zachary Knight PhD
University of California, San Francisco
Andrew Scharenberg MD
Seattle Children's Hospital
Praveen Sethupathy PhD
Cornell University
Sui Wang PhD
Stanford University School of Medicine
Phillip White PhD
Duke University
2015
Mayland Chang PhD
University of Notre Dame
Thomas Delong PhD
University of Colorado Denver
Zhen Gu PhD
University of California, Los Angeles
Marie-France Hivert MD
Harvard Pilgrim Health Care
Celine Riera PhD
Cedars-Sinai Medical Center
Stephanie Stanford PhD
University of California, San Diego
2014
Michael Dennis PhD
Pennsylvania State University
Kathleen Page MD
University of Southern California
Stephen Parker PhD
University of Michigan
Wolfgang Peti PhD
University of Arizona
Joshua Thaler MD, PhD
University of Washington
More About ADA's Research
Committed to Diabetes Research
Research is the cornerstone of advancing the American Diabetes Association’s mission to prevent and cure diabetes and to improve the lives of all people affected by diabetes.
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Current Funding Opportunities
The American Diabetes Association remains committed to providing critical funding to support innovative scientific discovery that translates to better treatment, healthier lives, and eventual cures.
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Pathway to Stop Diabetes®
The program seeks to identify a new generation of innovative scientists, and researchers and provide the financial support and professional mentorship they need to advance their diabetes research.
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Research at the Scientific Sessions
The world’s largest diabetes meeting, where leading physicians, scientists, researchers, and health care professionals come to learn about the latest findings in diabetes research, and prevention.