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Michael Wheeler

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ProfessorDepartment of PhysiologyUniversity of Toronto

Michael Wheeler

Professor

Department of Physiology

Temerty Faculty of Medicine

University of Toronto

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

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No publications on record.
Principal investigator on 11 research grants (7 CIHR, 4 NSERC), most recently in 2025.
Supervised 3 trainees who won CIHR awards, most recently in 2017.

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Gestational Diabetes Biomarkers Islet Biology Metabolism Diabetes Insulin Secretion Alpha Cells Beta Cells

Latest funding

Understanding diabetes risk and early stage pathology: Gestational Diabetes (GDM) and Type 2 Diabetes after a GDM Pregnancy
CIHR · 2025 · Nominated PI
$1,151,325
Connecting Specific Central GLP-1 Receptors Functionally with Glucose Homeostasis and Energy Balance
NSERC · 2023 · Principal investigator
$78,000
Understanding the metabolic underpinnings of future Type 2 Diabetes in women with a history of Gestational Diabetes: Disrupting the gluco-centric view of risk assessment and disease development.
CIHR · 2021 · Nominated PI
$960,075

All 14 grants and awards

Understanding diabetes risk and early stage pathology: Gestational Diabetes (GDM) and Type 2 Diabetes after a GDM Pregnancy

Nominated PICIHR2025Project Grant

Principal investigators: Wheeler, Michael B

Keywords: Alpha Cells; Beta Cells; Diabetes Pathology; Diabetes Risk; Genetic Mouse Models Of Diabetes; Gestational Diabetes; Islet Biology; Type 2 Diabetes

$1,151,325

Connecting Specific Central GLP-1 Receptors Functionally with Glucose Homeostasis and Energy Balance

Principal investigatorNSERC2023Discovery Grants Program - Individual

Principal investigators: Wheeler, Michael

Keywords: appetite regulation; arcuate nucleus (ARC); central feeding centres; glucagon-like peptide 1; glucose homeostasis; hypothalamus; incretin receptors; insulin secretion

$78,000

Understanding the metabolic underpinnings of future Type 2 Diabetes in women with a history of Gestational Diabetes: Disrupting the gluco-centric view of risk assessment and disease development.

Nominated PICIHR2021Project Grant

Principal investigators: Wheeler, Michael B

Keywords: Beta Cell Biology; Biomarkers; Diabetes Mellitus; Diabetes Risk Assessment; Gestational Diabetes; Human Diabetes Prospective Cohorts; Islet Biology; Knockout Mice; Metabolism

$960,075

Investigation of GABAA-R PAM-stimulated beta-cell regeneration and its correction of hyperglycemia and glucose intolerance in prediabetes and type 2 diabetes

SupervisorCIHR2017Fellowship - Priority Announcement - Diabetes

Principal investigators: Untereiner, Ashley

Keywords: Beta-Cell Proliferation; Gaba; Pre-Diabetes; Regenerative Medicine; Type 2 Diabetes

$67,500

Identification and characterization of interactome of glucagon receptor subfamily

Principal investigatorNSERC2015Discovery Grants Program - Individual

Principal investigators: Wheeler, Michael

$34,000

Pancreatic Beta Cell Health and Diabetes

Nominated PICIHR2014Foundation Grant

Principal investigators: Wheeler, Michael B

Keywords: Beta Cell; Biomarkers; Diabetes; Glucagon; Insulin Secretion; Islets; Metabolism; Regenerative Medicine; Stem Cells

$3,619,964

Mechanisms linking beta cell dysfunction to type 2 diabetes

Nominated PICIHR2014Operating Grant

Principal investigators: Wheeler, Michael B

Keywords: Biomarkers; Diabetes; Gestational Diabetes; Insulin Secretion; Metabolomics; Pancreatic Beta Cell

$1,025,435

Improving the Generation of Pancreatic Beta cells from Pancreatic Multipotent Precursors for the Treatment of T1D

SupervisorCIHR2011Doctoral Award - Frederick Banting and Charles Best Canada Graduate Scholarships

Principal investigators: Prentice, Kacey J

Keywords: Calcium Imaging; Development; Diabetes Mellitus; Electron Microscopy; Immunohistochemistry; Microarray; Pancreatic Beta Cells; Proteomic Analysis; Quantitative Pcr; Stem Cells

$105,000

Identification of novel GLP-1 receptor interacting proteins

Principal investigatorNSERC2011Discovery Grants Program - Individual

Principal investigators: Wheeler, Michael

$40,000

Characterization of human embryonic stem cell- and adult pancreatic multipotent precursor-derived beta cells.

Nominated PICIHR2010Operating Grant

Principal investigators: Wheeler, Michael B

Keywords: Adult Pancreatic Derived Stem Cells; Beta Cells; Gene Array; Glucose Metabolism; Human Embryonic Stem Cells; Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells; Insulin Secretion; Islet; Proteomics; Type 1 Diabetes

$675,050

From CIHR, NSERC and SSHRC funding decisions: CIHR since 2008, NSERC since 1991 and SSHRC since 1998, including their latest published competition results.

Profile data last refreshed on September 25, 2026 from the university directory, publication records and CIHR, NSERC and SSHRC funding.

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