Endocrinology & Diabetes research

The Department of Endocrinology and Diabetes performs clinical research in the areas of diabetes and thyroid cancer as well as basic research in diabetic complications and regulation of growth factor activity.

Achievements

Professor Leon Bach (CIF) is part of a team led by Professor Mark Cooper (Baker Heart & Diabetes Institute), who were awarded $2.5 million for the JDRF/NHMRC Diabetes Complications Centre of Research Excellence for 2014-2019.

Dr Kathryn Hackman and James Lee completed PhDs on their respective topics of ‘Diabetes and lung transplantation’ and ‘Thyroid cancer and microRNA’.

Postgraduate students

  • 2 PhD students

Our partners

Publications

Less Nocturnal Hypoglycemia but Equivalent Time in Range Among Adults with Type 1 Diabetes Using Insulin Pumps Versus Multiple Daily Injections

McAuley SA, Vogrin S, Lee MH, Paldus B, Trawley S, de Bock MI, Abraham MB, Bach LA, Burt MG, Cohen ND, Colman PG, Davis EA, Hendrieckx C, Holmes-Walker DJ, Jenkins AJ, Kaye J, Keech AC, Kumareswaran K, MacIsaac RJ, McCallum RW, Sims CM, Speight J, Stranks SN, Sundararajan V, Ward GM, Jones TW, O'Neal DN; Australian JDRF Closed-Loop Research Group

(2021), DIABETES TECHNOL THE, 23(6), 460-6

DOI: 10.1089/dia.2020.0589

Effect of a Hybrid Closed-Loop System on Glycemic and Psychosocial Outcomes in Children and Adolescents With Type 1 Diabetes: A Randomized Clinical Trial

Abraham MB, de Bock M, Smith GJ, Dart J, Fairchild JM, King BR, Ambler GR, Cameron FJ, McAuley SA, Keech AC, Jenkins A, Davis EA, O'Neal DN, Jones TW; Australian Juvenile Diabetes Research Fund Closed-Loop Research group

(2021), JAMA Pediatr, 175(12), 1227-35

DOI: 10.1001/jamapediatrics.2021.3965

Sodium-glucose cotransporter type 2 inhibitors: managing the small but critical risk of diabetic ketoacidosis

Hamblin PS, Wong R, Bach LA

(2021), MED J AUSTRALIA, 214(2), 94-94.e1

DOI: 10.5694/mja2.50898

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