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Department of Internal Medicine: Division of Metabolism, Endocrinology & Diabetes (MEND)

MEND Press Releases

 

2011

• Dr. Haymart reports that thyroid cancer treatment using radioactive iodine varies by hospital - 08/16/11
• Dr. Oral awarded R01 grant for further research on leptin therapy in nonalcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH) - 07/18/11
• Drs. Oral and Amarnath present metreleptin findings at Endo 2011 Conference - 06/06/11
• Drs. Tae-Hwa Chun and Keiko Asao carry out Japan relief mission post-tsunami - 04/15/11
• Dr. Burant named one of seven new Taubman Scholars - 04/12/11
• Thirteen MEND researchers inducted to UMMS League of Research Excellence - 03/29/11
• New NIH grant will allow Ronald Koenig to study mutant gene thought to cause thyroid cancer - 03/08/11
• Post-Bariatric Surgery Clinic provides specialty care, prevention of metabolic issues - 03/2011
• Bernal-Mizrachi receives grants for new studies of Beta Cell Reprogramming in Type 1 Diabetes and Glucose Intolerance in Type 2 Diabetes - 01/2011

2010

• Fellowship Training Program in Endocrinology and Metabolism receives renewal of $1.5 million NIH grant
• Arvan and Liu find a mutant gene protein that can derail normal insulin production in animal pancreatic beta cells, related to non-autoimmune type 1 diabetes - 10/11/2010
• Pietropaolo's latest grant will allow study of new immunotherapy treatment for type 1 diabetes - 09/15/10
• NIH funds new Michigan Nutrition and Obesity Research Center - 08/19/10
• TZD drugs such as Avandia and Actos associated with bone fractures in type 2 diabetes patients - 07/14/10
• Myers earns American Diabetes Association's outstanding scientific achievement award - 06/23/10
• $2.3M NIH grant funds novel research by Pop-Busui on the effects of wide blood sugar fluctuations on the heart - 06/10/10
• Bernal-Mizrachi installed as Larry D. Soderquist Professor - 04/22/10
• Brehm Center for Diabetes Research moves into new Brehm Tower - 02/25/10
• Fajans Lecture in Diabetes established in honor of Stefan S. Fajans, M.D. - 02/23/10
• Stephen Lentz, Ph.D., develops innovative technique to visualize mitochondrial DNA replication - 02/2010
• Ariel Barkan, M.D., elected to Pituitary Society's board of directors - 02/2010
• Jennifer Wyckoff, M.D., co-edits book on "Diabetes in Women" - 01/2010
• Massimo Pietropaolo, M.D., appointed chair of federal diabetes subcommittee - 11/2009

 

 

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