2012 Spring Symposium Poster Winners

Basic Science Poster Winners

43. Glucagon acutely stimulates glutamine utilization as a gluconeogenic substrate. Russell A. Miller, Wenyun Lu, Julio Cardenas, Kevin Foskett, Joshua Rabinowitz, Morris J. Birnbaum.

56. Hepatic Hdac3 promotes gluconeogenesis by repressing lipid synthesis and sequestration. Zheng Sun, Russell A. Miller, Rajesh T. Patel, Jie Chen, Ravindra Dhir, Hong Wang, Dongyan Zhang, Mark J. Graham, Terry G. Unterman, Gerald I. Shulman, Carole Sztalryd, Michael J. Bennett, Rexford S. Ahima, Morris J. Birnbaum, and Mitchell A. Lazar.

Patient-Oriented Research Winners:

17. Detection of a Focal Lesion of Congenital hyperinsulinism using 18F-DOPA PET/CT scan: Lessons learned from 100 consecutive studies with histological confirmation performed at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia. Lisa States, MD, Susan Becker, RN, N. Scott Adzick, MD, Charles A. Stanley, MD, Hongming Zhuang, MD & Congenital Hyperinsulinism Center, The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia.

47. Idiopathic hypoglycemia of infancy maps to chromosome 10q22: A novel form of autosomal dominant congenital hyperinsulinism. S.E. Pinney, K. Ganapathy, J. Bradfield, D. Stokes, A. Sasson, K. Mackiewcz, K. Snider, N. Hughes, S. Becker, S. Givler, C. Macmullen, D. Monos, A. Ganguly, H. Hakonarson, C.A. Stanley.