News & Events

Jenny Kanter, a graduate student working in the laboratory of Diabetes & Obesity Center of Excellence Associate Director, Karin Bornfeldt PhD, was awarded The Samuel and Althea Stroum Endowed Graduate Fellowship in Diabetes Research. The purpose of this fellowship is to support the training of a promising graduate student in the area of diabetes-related research.

The Diabetes & Obesity Center of Excellence (DOCE), in partnership with the Institute for Stem Cell and Regenerative Medicine (ISCRM), is actively moving ahead to create the Diabetes Stem Cell Program (DSCP) at UW Medicine Research at South Lake Union. The DSCP is the interface between the DOCE and ISCRM.

Diabetes & Obesity Center of Excellence Director and Researcher, Michael Schwartz MD, was awarded a one year NIH Instrumentation Grant under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) program. This award will provide Dr. Schwartz’s group with state-of-the-art equipment to perform energy balance and metabolic phenotyping of rodent models relevant to nutrition, obesity, diabetes and related disorders.

The Diabetes & Obesity Center of Excellence (DOCE) and the Division of Metabolism, Endocrinology & Nutrition, are pleased to welcome two new Acting Associate Professors, Vincenzo Cirulli MD, PhD and Laura Crisa MD, PhD.

UW Medicine at South Lake Union Phase II was recognized with an AIA Washington Council 2009 Civic Design Award. The Annual AIA|WA Civic Design Awards were held May 14, 2009.

Karen Foster-Schubert and David E. Cummings, both from the Division of Metabolism, Endocrinology and Nutrition, have received the Endocrine Society’s annual Pfizer International Award for Excellence in Published Clinical Research, recognizing the four best clinical research papers published in the Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism each year.

The American Diabetes Association awarded Dr. Christiane Hampe a 3 year Basic Science Award for her project entitled “Humoral network in type 1 Diabetes.”

As noted December 1, 2008 in DOM Week: “Dr. Kim is associate professor of medicine at Harborview Medical Center. A graduate  of UC Berkeley and the UCSF School of Medicine, he came to the Department in 1992 for medicine residency and a fellowship in cardiology before joining the faculty. In 2006 he was appointed a

On Wednesday November 26, 2008, Dr. Michael Schwartz was featured in the New Scientist Magazine article “Anti Fat Pill Could Help Keep The Weight Off.” To view the complete article, click here: http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn16148-antifat-pill-could-help-keep-the-weight-off.html

The inauguration of the Diabetes & Obesity Center of Excellence at UW Medicine South Lake Union took place on Friday November 14, 2008.