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

Body mass index is inversely associated with capillary ketones at the time of colonoscopy: Implications for SGLT2i use

Hamblin PS, Wong R, Ekinci EI, Sztal-Mazer S, Balachandran S, Frydman A, Hanrahan TP, Hu R, Ket SN, Moss A, Ng M, Ragunathan S, Bach LA

(2022), Clin Endocrinol, 96(4), 549-57

DOI: 10.1111/cen.14621

Q-122 as a novel non-hormonal oral treatment for vasomotor symptoms in women taking tamoxifen or an aromatase inhibitor after breast cancer: a phase 2, randomised, double-blinded, placebo-controlled trial

Vrselja A, Latifi A, Baber RJ, Stuckey BGA, Walker MG, Stearns V, Hickey M, Davis SR

(2022), Lancet, 400(10364), 1704-11

DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(22)01977-8

Classification and laboratory diagnosis of diabetes mellitus

Hare MJL, Topliss DJ

(2022), In: Bandeira F, Gharib H, Griz L, Faria M (eds) Endocrinology and Diabetes – a problem oriented approach 2nd Edition Springer, New York,

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