Endowed Professorships, Scholarships, Fellowships & Research
Washington University in St. Louis
Washington University School of Medicine:
Winston Fellowship in Diabetic Cardiovascular Research
Winston Fellow Award in Ophthalmology & the Visual Sciences
Lawrence Fultonberg Diabetes Research Fund
Washington University in St. Louis School of Arts & Sciences:
Permanently Endowed Undergraduate Scholarship
Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beersheva, Israel
Permanently Endowed Professorship in Chemical Engineering (Netta Vidavsky)
Wolf Trap Foundation for the Performing Arts, Vienna, Virginia
David and Deborah Winston Endowment Fund for Classical Music
Wolf Trap
Vienna, Virginia
Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
Beersheva, Israel
Washington University
St. Louis Missouri
Ophthalmology Fellowships
In December 2022, David and Deborah Winston made a generous gift to establish the Winston Fellow Award in the Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences.
This unique award will support graduate students who are receiving specific training in vision science through the Interdisciplinary Training in Vision Science Pathway. The overall goal of the program is to attract a group of gifted, well-trained biomedical scientists to careers in vision research to continue unlocking the mysteries of eye disease.
Awardees
Jade Enright & Tim Lee
Their contributions represent the cutting edge of vision science research and reflect the high caliber of work being conducted at Washington University Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences. We extend our gratitude to all participants and judges for making the 2nd Annual Winston Fellow Competition a resounding success.
Sean McCracken
Williams Lab, led by Philip Williams, PhD presented “Diversity in homeostatic calcium set points predicts retinal ganglion cell survival following optic nerve injury in vivo”
Endocrinology Fellowships
The David and Deborah Winston Fellowship in Diabetes Research was funded in 2012 for a graduate student doing research in laboratories of the Diabetes Diseases.
The fellowship is now awarded annually from the Division of Endocrinology, Metabolism and Lipid Research to an outstanding graduate student who has shown great promise in diabetes research.
Awardees
Marlie Maestas & Ilana Olin
Marlie Maestas is a 5th-year Developmental, Regenerative, Stem Cell Biology PhD student in Jeffrey R. Millman’s lab. Her research focuses on identifying transcriptional regulators of diabetic-associated stressors in primary human islets. She utilizes single-cell RNA sequencing to identify cell-type-specific responses to endoplasmic reticulum and inflammatory stress. Additionally, she is using a whole-genome CRISPR screen to improve the survival of stem cell-derived islets after transplantation into a diabetic mouse model. Throughout her graduate training, she has presented at multiple local and international conferences, is a member of the Early Career Executive Council, was a part of the Lucille P. Markey Special Emphasis Pathway in Human Pathobiology, and recently published her first, first author research and review articles.
Ilana Olin is an MD/PhD student in the Immunology program, working in the laboratory of Peggy Kendall, MD in the Division of Allergy & Immunology. Ilana’s doctoral research focuses on the roles of B cells and the microbiota in type 1 diabetes (T1D) pathogenesis. Specifically, she studies how Akkermansia muciniphila, a commensal microbe, can contribute to protection against T1D. Throughout her graduate training, she has presented her work locally and internationally through poster presentations at meetings such as the American Association of Immunologists Annual Meeting and the Immunology of Diabetes Society Congress.
Mandy Chan & Jeongmin Lee
Mandy Chan is a 6th-year Immunology PhD student in the lab of Joel Schilling, MD, PhD and an awardee for the NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program. Her doctoral research focuses on understanding the biology of liver resident macrophages during the development of metabolic dysfunction-associated fatty liver diseases. Specifically, she studies the mechanism of liver macrophage survival and interplay with lipid-laden hepatocytes during obesity. She has presented her work at local and national immunology and diabetes conferences throughout her graduate school years and has authored or co-authored 4 peer-reviewed publications.
Jeongmin Lee is a Graduate Student in Molecular Genetics and Genomics program, working in the Laboratory of David W. Piston, Ph.D., within the Department of Cell Biology and Physiology. Her research focuses on the purification and identification of secreted proteins from brown adipose tissue (BAT) that hold potential to reverse hyperglycemia and hyperglucagonemia in Type 1 Diabetes (T1D). Additionally, her project investigates the molecular mechanisms through which BAT-secreted proteins inhibit glucagon secretion in pancreatic α-cells, aiming to contribute to our understanding of islet biology and T1D management. Throughout her graduate training, she has presented her work through oral and poster presentations at the American Diabetes Association Scientific Session, the International Congress of Diabetes and Metabolism, and Diabetes Day Symposium at WashU.
Chang Gui
Meyer Muscle Lab, led by Gretchen Meyer, PhD
Chang Gui is a PhD student in the Department of Biomedical Engineering. She is working in the Meyer Muscle Lab, led by Gretchen Meyer, PhD. Chang will use the award to investigate the crosstalk between skeletal muscle and adipose tissue in diabetes.
Yiming Zhang
DeBosch Lab, led by Brian DeBosch
Yiming Zhang is a 2nd-year DBBS student in the Program in Developmental, Stem Cell, and Regenerative Biology at Washington University. He completed his undergraduate degree in Biochemistry at the University of Missouri, Columbia, after which he trained as a postbaccalaureate in the lab of Brian DeBosch. He has remained in Dr. DeBosch's laboratory now as a graduate student to continue his work studying how hepatic and systemic arginine status modulates host energy metabolism. He is grateful to the Winston Family and to the Committee for the honor of receiving the 2021 David and Deborah Winston Fellowship in Diabetes Research.
Punn Augsornworawat
Millman Lab, led by Jeffrey Millman
Arthur Sletten
Schaffer Lab, led by Jean Schaffer
Arthurs’s most recent publication is “Manifestations and mechanisms of myocardial lipotoxicity in obesity”, from Late 2018.
Last year he was featured by Thumbroll, a learning tool for all medical trainees & professionals. In exciting personal news, Arthur married fellow WUSM student, Sonya Liu in the summer of 2019.
Trent Evans
Razani Lab, led by Babak Razani
As of October 2019, Trent is a postdoctoral researcher with the Zhang Group in the department of Energy, Environmental & Chemical Engineering at Washington University. He is studying metabolic
heterogeneity in bacteria and its applications in bacterial persistence and metabolic engineering.
Jonathan Lin
Apte Lab, led by Rajendra Apte
Still working with Washington University, Jonathan is finishing up his final year in the MD/PhD Program and currently applying for ophthalmology residency. The research that he did with funding from the Winston Fellowship, “Combined SIRT3 and SIRT5 deletion is associated with inner retinal dysfunction in a mouse model of type 1 diabetes”, was just published in Scientific Reports in March of 2019.
Jonathan said that he is thankful for the opportunity the Winstons provided him to pursue this line of research during his graduate training.
Rebecca Schugar
Crawford Lab, led by Peter Crawford
Rebecca spent October of 2014 through June of 2019 as a research associate with the Cleveland clinic, where she was first author on the paper
“Microbiome Influences Obesity” in 2017.
She has just recently transitioned to the Department of Endocrinology at Stanford University as a research Scientist.
Marlie Maestas
Ilana Olin
Awardees
Marlie Maestas & Ilana Olin
Marlie Maestas is a 5th-year Developmental, Regenerative, Stem Cell Biology PhD student in Jeffrey R. Millman’s lab. Her research focuses on identifying transcriptional regulators of diabetic-associated stressors in primary human islets. She utilizes single-cell RNA sequencing to identify cell-type-specific responses to endoplasmic reticulum and inflammatory stress. Additionally, she is using a whole-genome CRISPR screen to improve the survival of stem cell-derived islets after transplantation into a diabetic mouse model. Throughout her graduate training, she has presented at multiple local and international conferences, is a member of the Early Career Executive Council, was a part of the Lucille P. Markey Special Emphasis Pathway in Human Pathobiology, and recently published her first, first author research and review articles.
Ilana Olin is an MD/PhD student in the Immunology program, working in the laboratory of Peggy Kendall, MD in the Division of Allergy & Immunology. Ilana’s doctoral research focuses on the roles of B cells and the microbiota in type 1 diabetes (T1D) pathogenesis. Specifically, she studies how Akkermansia muciniphila, a commensal microbe, can contribute to protection against T1D. Throughout her graduate training, she has presented her work locally and internationally through poster presentations at meetings such as the American Association of Immunologists Annual Meeting and the Immunology of Diabetes Society Congress.
Mandy Chan & Jeongmin Lee
Mandy Chan is a 6th-year Immunology PhD student in the lab of Joel Schilling, MD, PhD and an awardee for the NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program. Her doctoral research focuses on understanding the biology of liver resident macrophages during the development of metabolic dysfunction-associated fatty liver diseases. Specifically, she studies the mechanism of liver macrophage survival and interplay with lipid-laden hepatocytes during obesity. She has presented her work at local and national immunology and diabetes conferences throughout her graduate school years and has authored or co-authored 4 peer-reviewed publications.
Jeongmin Lee is a Graduate Student in Molecular Genetics and Genomics program, working in the Laboratory of David W. Piston, Ph.D., within the Department of Cell Biology and Physiology. Her research focuses on the purification and identification of secreted proteins from brown adipose tissue (BAT) that hold potential to reverse hyperglycemia and hyperglucagonemia in Type 1 Diabetes (T1D). Additionally, her project investigates the molecular mechanisms through which BAT-secreted proteins inhibit glucagon secretion in pancreatic α-cells, aiming to contribute to our understanding of islet biology and T1D management. Throughout her graduate training, she has presented her work through oral and poster presentations at the American Diabetes Association Scientific Session, the International Congress of Diabetes and Metabolism, and Diabetes Day Symposium at WashU.
Chang Gui
Meyer Muscle Lab, led by Gretchen Meyer, PhD
Chang Gui is a PhD student in the Department of Biomedical Engineering. She is working in the Meyer Muscle Lab, led by Gretchen Meyer, PhD. Chang will use the award to investigate the crosstalk between skeletal muscle and adipose tissue in diabetes.
Yiming Zhang
DeBosch Lab, led by Brian DeBosch
Yiming Zhang is a 2nd-year DBBS student in the Program in Developmental, Stem Cell, and Regenerative Biology at Washington University. He completed his undergraduate degree in Biochemistry at the University of Missouri, Columbia, after which he trained as a postbaccalaureate in the lab of Brian DeBosch. He has remained in Dr. DeBosch's laboratory now as a graduate student to continue his work studying how hepatic and systemic arginine status modulates host energy metabolism. He is grateful to the Winston Family and to the Committee for the honor of receiving the 2021 David and Deborah Winston Fellowship in Diabetes Research.
Punn Augsornworawat
Millman Lab, led by Jeffrey Millman
Arthur Sletten
Schaffer Lab, led by Jean Schaffer
Arthurs’s most recent publication is “Manifestations and mechanisms of myocardial lipotoxicity in obesity”, from Late 2018.
Last year he was featured by Thumbroll, a learning tool for all medical trainees & professionals. In exciting personal news, Arthur married fellow WUSM student, Sonya Liu in the summer of 2019.
Trent Evans
Razani Lab, led by Babak Razani
As of October 2019, Trent is a postdoctoral researcher with the Zhang Group in the department of Energy, Environmental & Chemical Engineering at Washington University. He is studying metabolic
heterogeneity in bacteria and its applications in bacterial persistence and metabolic engineering.
Jonathan Lin
Apte Lab, led by Rajendra Apte
Still working with Washington University, Jonathan is finishing up his final year in the MD/PhD Program and currently applying for ophthalmology residency. The research that he did with funding from the Winston Fellowship, “Combined SIRT3 and SIRT5 deletion is associated with inner retinal dysfunction in a mouse model of type 1 diabetes”, was just published in Scientific Reports in March of 2019.
Jonathan said that he is thankful for the opportunity the Winstons provided him to pursue this line of research during his graduate training.
Rebecca Schugar
Crawford Lab, led by Peter Crawford
Rebecca spent October of 2014 through June of 2019 as a research associate with the Cleveland clinic, where she was first author on the paper
“Microbiome Influences Obesity” in 2017.
She has just recently transitioned to the Department of Endocrinology at Stanford University as a research Scientist.
Marlie Maestas
Ilana Olin
Current and past recipients of J&M Foundation Grants
Current and past recipients of J&M Foundation Grants
Washington University in St. Louis School of Medicine
Wolf Trap Foundation for the Performing Arts, Vienna, Virginia
Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beersheva, Israel
CENTROPA, Vienna, Austria
The French-American Cultural Foundation, Washington, DC
The Arizona Opera, Phoenix, AZ
The Fairfax Symphony, Fairfax, Virginia
The National Philharmonic, North Bethesda, MD
The Boca Raton Museum of Art, Boca Raton, FL
Washington Concert Opera, Washington, DC
Vermont Law School, South Royalton, VT
Phi Beta Kappa Society, Washington, DC
Ripon Educational Fund, Washington, DC
American Youth Policy Forum, Washington, DC
Foundation to Eradicate Duchenne, Washington, DC
The Music Academy of North Carolina, Greensboro, NC
The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts
The National Symphony Orchestra, Washington, DC
Fourth Wall Ensemble, New York, NY
Washington Performing Arts, Washington, DC
Washington University in St. Louis School of Medicine
Wolf Trap Foundation for the Performing Arts, Vienna, Virginia
Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beersheva, Israel
CENTROPA, Vienna, Austria
The French-American Cultural Foundation, Washington, DC
The Arizona Opera, Phoenix, AZ
The Fairfax Symphony, Fairfax, Virginia
The National Philharmonic, North Bethesda, MD
The Boca Raton Museum of Art, Boca Raton, FL
Washington Concert Opera, Washington, DC
Vermont Law School, South Royalton, VT
Phi Beta Kappa Society, Washington, DC
Ripon Educational Fund, Washington, DC
American Youth Policy Forum, Washington, DC
Foundation to Eradicate Duchenne, Washington, DC
The Music Academy of North Carolina, Greensboro, NC
The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts
The National Symphony Orchestra, Washington, DC
Fourth Wall Ensemble, New York, NY
Washington Performing Arts, Washington, DC