Dr. Michael Schwartz is collaborating with Novo Nordisk on a three-year project to explore the role of the brain in regulating blood glucose and obesity. The collaboration aims to understand factors mediating brain control of blood glucose and appetite with the ultimate goal of developing new therapeutic agents for the treatment of diabetes and obesity. The research will be conducted at UW Medicine’s South Lake Union research campus in Seattle, Washington and at Novo Nordisk’s research facilities in Måløv, Denmark. Over the next three years, Dr. Schwartz and his team together with Novo Nordisk researchers will conduct a research program on the effect of known hormonal factors working in the brain to regulate whole body glucose metabolism and appetite. Dr. Schwartz is the Robert H. Williams Endowed Chair in Medicine, Professor, Division of Metabolism, Endocrinology and Nutrition.

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