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

Re: A system to detect unrecognised diabetes in a tertiary hospital

Ng E, Scholes G, Bach LA, Topliss DJ, Schneider HG, Sztal-Mazer S

(2022), Diabetic Med, 39(8), e14841

DOI: 10.1111/dme.14841

Thyroid hormone replacement therapy in hypothyroidism

Rosi L, Topliss DJ

(2022), Endocrinology Today, 11, 31-35

Functional hypothalamic amenorrhoea, a diagnosis of exclusion

Ng E, Sztal-Mazer S, Davis SR

(2022), MED J AUSTRALIA, 216(2), 73-6

DOI: 10.5694/mja2.51376

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