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UWMDI Investigator Dr. Vincenzo Cirulli, MD, PhD, has been elected to the Board of Directors of the Diabetes Research Connection (https://diabetesresearchconnection.org/), a non-profit organization devoted to support early-career scientists to perform innovative research designed to prevent and cure Type 1 diabetes. Over the past three years, the Diabetes Research Connection has funded more than 30 young scientists

New LatinX Diabetes Clinic Featured on Kiro7 News, “Western Washington Gets Real: A critical lack of Latina doctors” Read Article

UWMDI Co-Director Stephanie Page, MD, PhD, is quoted in “‘Creativity Is Simply Lost’ as Covid Cripples Academic Research” from Bloomberg Government.

UWMDI investigator Dr. Alan Chait is senior author of “Serum amyloid A–containing HDL binds adipocyte-derived versican and macrophage-derived biglycan, reducing its antiinflammatory properties” in JCI Insight.    

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The LatinX community is the largest and fastest growing minority group in the state of Washington and the country. LatinX individuals are disproportionately affected by diabetes. Diabetes affects the LatinX community at a younger age, and LatinX patients are more likely to die from complications of diabetes than white patients. The increased morbidity and mortality

COVID and Diabetes Webinar – UWMDI clinicians Drs. Desantis and Chao discuss the complications of managing diabetes in the COVID era Watch the webinar here

UWMDI postdoctoral fellow, Chelsea Faber, PhD, is first author on a manuscript entitled “CNS control of the endocrine pancreas” in the journal Diabetologia Senior author on the manuscript is Dr. Gregory Morton, PhD, and co-authors include Jennifer Deem, PhD, Carlos Campos, PhD and Gerald Taborsky Jr., PhD.

Dr. Gregory Morton has been awarded an NIH R01 for his project entitled “Thermoregulatory circuits that regulate feeding”. This 4-year award, totaling $2,097,213, seeks to advance the understanding of the neurocircuitry linking thermoregulation to Agrp neurons and feeding and may identify novel strategies for the treatment of obesity by blunting the associated hyperphagic response. Co-investigators

Dr. Karin Bornfeldt, Edwin L. Bierman Professor of Medicine (Metabolism, Endocrinology and Nutrition), and professor of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology, has received a new Program Project Grant from the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute. The primary focus of the new Triglycerides, Diabetes and Cardiovascular Disease Program Project is to investigate whether diabetes causes changes