Suneil Koliwad, MD, PhD: A scientist’s journey at the intersection of nutrition, immunity, and metabolism

Dr. Koliwad is an endocrinologist who specializes in diabetes, obesity and other metabolic disorders and conditions linked to metabolism. He serves as chief of UCSF’s endocrinology and metabolism division. Dr. Koliwad directs a research lab focused on the intersection of nutrition, inflammation and metabolic tissue function in healthy patients as compared with those with conditions

Jeffrey Millman, PhD: A New Era of Diabetes Treatment: The Use of Human Pluripotent Stem Cell-Derived Islets

Dr. Jeffrey Millman is  an Associate Professor of Medicine and Biomedical Engineering at Washington University School of Medicine. He received his Ph.D. from MIT and completed his postdoctoral training in the laboratory of Dr. Douglas Melton at Harvard University. His current research is focused on synergizing both biomedical engineering and cell biology approaches to use