Dr. Guillaume de Lartigue receives NIDDK grant

Guillaume de Lartigue, Ph.D.,  an assistant professor of pharmacodynamics, is a multiple principal investigator of a National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases R01 grant, which began July 1, 2020.

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Dr. Guillaume de Lartigue

The grant titled “Consequence and mechanism of diet-driven vagal remodeling on gut-brain feeding behavior” will assess the role of gut microbiota and local inflammatory vagal response to a high fat diet in structural remodeling of vagal afferent terminals in the hindbrain and the consequence on feeding behavior.