Congratulations to Dr. Beiyan Zhou and Dr. Anthony Vella on the award of their new R01 through the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases entitled, “MiR-150 regulated adipose tissue B cells in obesity”. Dr. Zhou will serve as Communicating PI on this project which delineate a novel regulatory loop of small RNA molecules, microRNA, that can impose regulation on gene expression, on B cells that are found in adipose tissue during obesity. The collaborative team will test the idea that this circuit of regulation between microRNA and B cells in fat tissue is a major mechanism that controls the damaging inflammation. We postulate that understanding this process will lead to important therapeutic opportunities to treat metabolic disease that result from obesity.