John Koethe, MD, MSCI, left, Kevin Niswender, MD, PhD, LaToya Hannah, MSN, APRN, Matt Luther, MD, associate professor of Medicine, and colleagues have formed a new Human Metabolic Physiology Core at VUMC to support studies requiring human adipose tissue.
Heidi Hamm, Ph.D. and colleagues have generated a new mouse model with defects in SNAP25, a SNARE protein,which decreased the inhibition of neurotransmitter exocytosis and led to physiological and behavioral phenotypes. Click the image to read more.
Jack Virostko, Ph.D. showing visitors of the Pancreas MRI Study Reception examples of different pancreas images used in the study.
Vance Albaugh, MD, PhD, left, Robb Flynn, PhD, and Naji Abumrad, MD, seated, in collaboration with the MMPC, are studying how weight-loss operations cause positive metabolic effects, even before weight loss happens. (photo by John Russell) Click the image to read more.
Participants in the 2018 JDRF OneWalk held annually at the Bicentennial Capitol Mall State Park.
Congrats to the Islet Core for winning this year's Halloween door decoration contest and to Heather Nelson, from the Powers lab, who won best costume.
A collaboration spearheaded by Ken Lau and Guonqiang Gu has recently identified the earliest detectable marker of pancreatic progenitors. Click the image to read more.
Vanderbilt's Justin M. Gregory, MD, answers questions from the audience during his presentation at the 2018 Diabetes Day conference.
Casey Vickers, MD, helps lead discussions at the round table lunches as part of Diabetes Day activities.
Postdoc Fellow Sophia Yu, MD, accepting the Oscar B. Crofford Scholar in Diabetes Award at the annual Diabetes Day conference.
Vanderbilt faculty and staff volunteer at the annual Diabetes Glucose Screening in a joint effort with the Hold the Stuffing event to encourage everyone to make healthy choices this holiday season.
Pictured from left to right: Melissa Hilmes, MD, Dan Moore, PhD, Jack Virostko, PhD, and Jon Williams, PhD standing with the MRI machine used to study pancreas volume in patients recently diagnosed with T1D. This clinical trial has, so far, seen 130 individuals with or without T1D.
A new publication from DRTC researchers suggests a newly identified beta cell biomarker may speed diabetes research. From left, Chunhua Dai, MD, Greg Poffenberger, John Walker, Diane Saunders, PhD, Marcela Brissova, PhD, and Radhika Aramandla. (photo by Susan Urmy). Click the photo to read more.

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Marcela Brissova, PhD

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