Diabetes
By John Easton
August 7, 2017
A University of Chicago-based research team has overcome challenges that have limited gene therapy and demonstrated how their novel approach with skin transplantation could enable a wide range of gene-based...Read more
Executive Vice President for Medical Affairs, Dean of the Division of the Biological Sciences, Dean of the Pritzker School of Medicine , Richard T. Crane Distinguished Service Professor of Medicine
A prominent diabetes researcher, physician and educator, Polonsky has served as the Adolphus Busch Professor and chair of the Department of Medicine at Washington University in St. Louis and physician-in-chief...Read more
Source: Associated Press
July 7, 2015
Article cites study co-authored by Prof. Louis Philipson on preventative diabetes treatments
By John Easton
November 18, 2014
Donald F. Steiner, a pioneer whose research improved lives for millions of diabetic patients worldwide, died Nov. 11 at his home in Chicago. A member of the UChicago faculty since...Read more
Source: New York Times
March 5, 2014
Prof. Louis Philipson comments on significance of finding diabetes-reducing gene mutation for drug development
By John Easton
December 11, 2012
Graeme Ian Bell, the Louis Block Distinguished Service Professor of Medicine and Human Genetics and an investigator in the Kovler Diabetes Center at the University of Chicago, has been awarded...Read more
By John Easton
January 9, 2012
A new study suggests that middle-aged adults recently diagnosed with diabetes and hypertension have time to try to learn how to control their high blood pressure without medications — but...Read more
By William Harms
October 19, 2011
Low-income women with children who move from high-poverty to lower-poverty neighborhoods experience notable long-term improvements in some aspects of their health, namely reductions in diabetes and extreme obesity, according to...Read more
Associate Professor of Medicine
Elbert Huang is associate professor of medicine, research associate of the Center on Demography and Economics of Aging, and associate director of the Chicago Center for Diabetes Translation Research at...Read more
Professor of Endocrinology, Department of Medicine and Committee on Cell Physiology
Dr. Philipson's research focuses on how pancreatic Beta-cells "know" when to secrete insulin and define defects in this process in diabetes that could be therapeutic targets. His focus is the...Read more
Kovler Family Distinguished Service Professor in Medicine and Human Genetics, Director of the University of Chicago Diabetes Research and Training Center
Dr. Bell is a leading authority on the molecular genetics of diabetes mellitus and directs a large and active program which aims to identify diabetes susceptibility genes. He has identified...Read more