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
Hamblin PS, Abdul-Wahab AL, Xu SFB, Steele CE, Vogrin S
(2022), Intern Med J, 52(6), 1002-8
DOI: 10.1111/imj.15214
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
Szwarcbard N Topliss DJ
(2022), In: Pappachan JM, Fernandez CJ (Editors) Endocrine Hypertension: From Basic Science to Clinical Practice Elsevier, New York, 249-261