12700 East 19th Ave, Mail Stop C-225
Research Complex II, Room 5111
Aurora, CO 80045
Email: kristen.boyle@cuanschutz.edu
Work Phone: 303-724-5969
Education:
Years | Institution/Degree |
1996-2001 | University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA
B.S. in Exercise Science and Nutrition, cum laude |
2002-2005 | Ohio University, Athens, OH M.S. in Exercise Physiology |
2005-2009 | East Carolina University, Greenville, NC Ph.D. in Bioenergetics |
2009-2012 | University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, Aurora, CO Postdoctoral Fellowship |
Research Interests:
My research focuses on clinical interventions combined with mechanistic investigations by using primary human cell culture models. Most recently, we have developed a model for investigating human intrauterine phenotype development using umbilical cord-derived mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs). In the context of obesity in pregnancy, these infant stem cells demonstrate greater adiposity and metabolic dysfunction consistent with the adult obesity phenotype. It is our goal to further our understanding of how maternal obesity or diabetes impact the infants born to these mothers by evaluating the epigenetic and metabolic outcomes in the infant MSCs. Moreover, longitudinal assessments of the children from which the MSCs were derived will clarify the potential role of umbilical cord MSC phenotype for predicting obesity or diabetes risk in the children.
Current Projects Include:
Funding:
1-18-ICTS-016 PI: Boyle 01/01/2018 – 12/31/2020
The American Diabetes Association
Role: Principal Investigator
1UG3OD023248-01 PI: Dabelea 10/16/2016 – 09/31/2022
NIH
Role: Investigator
P30GM118430-RedmanPF-01 PI: Redman 10/27/2016 – 07/31/2018
IMAGINE COBRE Pilot With: The Pennington Biomedical Research Center
Role: Co-Investigator (subaward)
K01 DK106347 PI: Boyle 07/14/2015 – 04/30/2018
NIH NIDDK
Role: Principal Investigator
Publications: