The Department of Physiology is pleased to congratulate Drs. Andrea Zsombok, Cooper Woods, and Andrei Derbenev on receiving a Provost’s Proof of Concept (PPOC) Fund award for their project, “Novel Oral Therapy for Type 2 Diabetes.”

The PPOC program supports promising discoveries with the potential to advance from early-stage research toward real-world application and societal impact. Funding from this award will help advance the team’s innovative work aimed at developing a novel oral therapeutic approach for Type 2 diabetes, a condition affecting millions of people worldwide.

This recognition highlights the strength of collaborative research within Tulane’s Department of Physiology and underscores the School of Medicine’s commitment to fostering innovation that improves human health. Congratulations to Drs. Zsombok, Woods, and Derbenev on this achievement.