Article cites study co-authored by Prof. Louis Philipson on preventative diabetes treatments

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

Prof. Louis Philipson comments on significance of finding diabetes-reducing gene mutation for drug development

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

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

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

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

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

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