Senior Research Scientist Linda Yip, PhD, was selected by the Network of Pancreatic Donors with Diabetes (nPOD) as the 2016 recipient of its Young Investigator Award. She was honored during the organization’s annual meeting in Miami, Fl.

The award is presented annually to an early-career investigator who has made outstanding research contributions to the field of Type 1 diabetes.

Yip’s research focuses on the identification and characterization of genes that are involved in the pathogenesis of Type 1 diabetes. An official press release detailed Yip’s scientific contributions: “Her studies of gene splicing and cell signaling events that occur from inflammation and hyperglycemia associated with Type 1 diabetes have led to a number of publications in high impact journals, and her findings have revealed an important role for the transcriptional regulator, Deaf1, in controlling immunological tolerance in both human disease and mouse models of Type 1 diabetes.”

Yip has been involved with nPOD since 2008. She is currently a co-chair of the organization’s Omics Working Group, which is committed to the standardization and unrestricted sharing of data recovered from donor tissue samples.

“I am honored and extremely grateful to be recognized,” Yip said. “I have studied the pathogenesis of Type 1 diabetes for the last seven years, and I will continue to do so, with the hope of finding better ways to diagnose, treat, and prevent this disease.”