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

Diabetic ketoacidosis: a canary in the mine for mental health disorders?

Hamblin PS, Abdul-Wahab AL, Xu SFB, Steele CE, Vogrin S

(2022), Intern Med J, 52(6), 1002-8

DOI: 10.1111/imj.15214

Lenvatinib for the treatment of radioiodine-refractory differentiated thyroid cancer: treatment optimization for maximum clinical benefit

Wirth LJ, Durante C, Topliss DJ, Winquist E, Robenshtok E, Iwasaki H, Luster M, Elisei R, Leboulleux S, Tahara M

(2022), Oncologist, 27(7), 565-72

DOI: 10.1093/oncolo/oyac065

Hypertension in thyroid disease and primary hyperparathyroidism

Szwarcbard N Topliss DJ

(2022), In: Pappachan JM, Fernandez CJ (Editors) Endocrine Hypertension: From Basic Science to Clinical Practice Elsevier, New York, 249-261

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