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Diabetes Research Steering Group 1: Causes of diabetes

Current priorities:

  • Causes of rarer forms of diabetes
  • C-peptide and its role in diabetes
  • Cystic Fibrosis related diabetes
  • Ethnicity and diabetes
  • Gestational diabetes - phenotyping and stratification
  • MODY - the impact of incorrect diagnosis
  • The role of different fat stores on the development of type 2 diabetes
  • Novel imaging techniques in type 1 diabetes
  • Obesity prevention

Chair: Professor Louise Goff, University of Leicester 

Professor of Nutrition Science at the University of Leicester. Louise leads a multi-disciplinary research group investigating ethnic inequalities in health, with a particular focus on understanding differences in the mechanisms underlying the development of type 2 diabetes in different ethnic groups. 

Who's involved?

  • Gareth Turnbull-Jones
  • Francesca Wilson
  • Jasmin Heath
  • Robert Resnick
  • Jo Selwood
  • Samantha McKinnon
  • Dr Atanu Battacharjee
  • Dr Cathal McCarthy
  • Dr Elisa De Franco
  • Dr Kashyap Patel
  • Dr Moneeza Siddiqui
  • Dr Alejandra Thomas 
  • Dr Ana Vinuela 
  • Dr Daniela Nasteska
  • Dr Li Kang
  • Dr Nerys Astbury
     

If you would like to share your views with the group on where research into the causes of diabetes should be focused, please get in touch: drsgs@diabetes.org.uk. 

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