Diane Saunders, PhD, research assistant professor in the Division of Diabetes, Endocrinology & Metabolism in the Department of Medicine, has been selected as a 2023 recipient of an Innovation Award by the Network of Pancreatic Donors with Diabetes (nPOD) at its recent 2023 annual meeting.
Individuals with Type 1 diabetes have a smaller pancreas than people without diabetes. This is surprising because the pancreatic islets and their insulin-producing beta cells account for just a small fraction of the pancreas, so the loss of beta cells in Type 1 diabetes would not be expected to reduce pancreas size.
In 2017, Vanderbilt University Medical Center was selected to be one of four U.S. medical centers in a Strategically Focused Research Network (SFRN) on Obesity funded by a four-year, $15 million award from the American Heart Association to study obesity and train future obesity-focused investigators.
The 2023 Vanderbilt University School of Medicine Faculty Awards for Excellence in Teaching, Extraordinary Performance of Clinical Service, and Outstanding Contributions to Research were presented May 19 during the annual spring faculty meeting.
Four Vanderbilt University Medical Center faculty members have been elected this year to membership in the American Society for Clinical
New biomarker finding strengthens the case for using GLP-1R agonists to treat patients with Type 2 diabetes who also suffer from asthma.
Laboratory and administrative personnel at Vanderbilt University Medical Center were honored on March 31 for research excellence during t
Complex conditions and more specialty drugs lead forward-thinking physicians to forge clinical partnerships with pharmacists. Medical centers increasingly grapple with how best to select and monitor patients’ complex medication regimens amid challenges of multiple morbidities and polypharmacy.
The Vanderbilt Diabetes Research and Training Center (DRTC) is celebrating its 49th year of continual operation with the five-year competitive renewal of a $10.9 million grant from the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK) of the National Institutes of Health (NIH).
In 1973, the Vanderbilt DRTC began its mission to facilitate the discovery, application and translation of scientific knowledge to improve the lives of people with diabetes.
