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Medical Student Summer Research Program in Diabetes
This is the first year of Penn's participation in a medical student summer research training program in the field of diabetes, obesity and metabolism sponsored by the NIDDK.
Four medical students selected from a national competition will each spend two months working with an IDOM investigator in an area of their interest. Each student will develop a project and prepare results for presentation at a national research symposium being held at Vanderbilt University. - Michael R. Rickels, M.D., M.S., Director, NIDDK Medical Student Research Program.
The first two students are below:
Ben Vereen Speaks at HUP
Tony Award winning Actor Ben Vereen visited HUP on Tuesday to talked about his Type II Diabetes with Rodebaugh Diabetes Center patients. Coverage appeared on 6 ABC and the NBC 10! Show.
Philadelphia Daily News personal fitness columnist Kimberly Garrison caught up with the sensational and suave 62-year-old while he was here at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania to talk about diabetes.
Each year, Philadelphia Magazine compiles its "Top Doctors" list of the region's best physicians. The physicians at Penn Medicine always figure prominently on this list, and 2009 was no exception.
Congratulations to the physicians listed below who were included in Philadelphia Magazine's Top Doctors 2009 - Seth Braunstein, MD, Susan Mandel MD, MPH, & Stanley Schwartz, MD.
Anne R. Cappola, MD, ScM named of the 15 doctors highighted in Philadephia Magazine's Next Generation of Great Philadelphia Doctors.
Early Target: Key Gene in Mouse Embryo Gut Implicated in Congenital Defects, Penn Study Finds.
In a finding that helps resolve a long-standing question in developmental biology, Klaus H. Kaestner, PhD, Professor of Genetics, and colleagues report in the journal Developmental Cell this week about how the mammalian gut forms.
Susan J. Mandel, M.D., M.P.H. elected to Endocrine Society Leadership Council as Physician-in-Practice-Seat
February 2009
Mitchell A. Lazar, M.D., Ph.D. has been awarded the 2009 Stanley J. Korsmeyer ASCI Award, for his outstanding contributions to our understanding of the transcriptional regulation of metabolism.
January 27, 2009
Some People May Simply Be Hard-Wired To Overeat, Brain Scans Show. Rexford Ahima, MD, PhD, Director of the Obesity Unit in the Institute of Diabetes, Obesity and Metabolism, is quoted in an MSNBC.com article on a British study... >> MSNBC Article.
December 22, 2008
Editing Errors: Penn Study Finds Reduction in Antibody Gene Rearrangement in B Cells Related to Type 1 Diabetes, Lupus. Implications for new tests and more personalized treatments for autoimmune diseases.
Three University of Pennsylvania Professors Named 2007 AAAS Fellows
Three faculty members of the University of Pennsylvania have been named Fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). This year AAAS recognized 471 members for their scientifically or socially distinguished efforts to advance science or its applications. The new Fellows will be officially inducted February 16 during the 2008 AAAS annual meeting in Boston
Potential New Target for Type 2 Diabetes
Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine have discovered a potential new target for treating type 2 diabetes, according to a new study that appeared online this week in Nature. The target is a protein, along with its molecular partner, that regulates fat metabolism.
Penn Study Points to New Direction for Pancreas Cell Regeneration
Replacing faulty or missing cells with new insulin-making cells has been the object of diabetes research for the last decade. Past studies in tissue culture have suggested that one type of pancreas cell could be coaxed to transform into insulin-producing islet cells. Now, researchers at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine have demonstrated that these pancreatic acinar cells do not become insulin-producing cells in an animal model. However, they did show that injured pancreatic cells readily regenerate back into healthy acinar cells, which has implications for treating cancer and inflammation of the pancreas.
One in Six Americans Have Pre-Diabetes and Most Don't Know It
Fifty-four million Americans -- that's one in six of us -- have pre-diabetes and most don't even realize it. Mark Schutta, MD, medical director of the Penn Rodebaugh Diabetes Center, is urging at-risk patients to be proactive and ask your doctor to give you a simple blood test for pre-diabetes -- to arm yourself with information before the damage is done.
Three Penn School of Medicine Faculty Named to Institute of Medicine
Three professors at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine were elected yesterday as members of the Institute of Medicine (IOM), one of the nation's highest honors in biomedicine. The new members bring Penn's total to 58, out of over 1500 worldwide. Overall, 65 new members were named this year.
Mitchell Lazar, MD, PhD, Receives Award Lecture from The Endocrine Society
Mitchell Lazar, MD, PhD, Director of the Institute for Diabetes, Obesity, and Metabolism, at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, is the 2006 recipient of The Endocrine Society's Edwin B. Astwood Award Lecture. Lazar will present his talk, entitled,
"Nuclear Receptors and Endocrinology" at the society's 88th annual meeting, this week in Boston, MA.
Aida Turturro Tours the Penn Rodebaugh Diabetes Center
The media wass invited to join The Sopranos TV actress, Aida Turturro, as she toured
the Penn Rodebaugh Diabetes Center. After the tour, the media
attended a discussion between Turturro and several Penn diabetes patients as they talk
about the daily challenges of living with diabetes.