Alvin Powers
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Study links gene network and pancreatic beta cell defects to Type 2 diabetes
A comprehensive study that integrates multiple analytic approaches has linked a regulatory gene network and functional defects in insulin-producing pancreatic beta cells to Type 2 diabetes. Read MoreDec 4, 2023
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Study links gene network and pancreatic beta cell defects to Type 2 diabetes
A comprehensive study that integrates multiple analytic approaches has linked a regulatory gene network and functional defects in insulin-producing pancreatic beta cells to Type 2 diabetes. Read MoreNov 8, 2023
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VUMC receives $28 million to lead national study of COVID-diabetes link
Researchers at Vanderbilt University Medical Center have received a four-year, $28 million grant from the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases to study the relationship between COVID-19 and diabetes. Read MoreAug 2, 2023
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Beta cell regeneration
Vanderbilt researchers dissected the complex microenvironment of the pancreatic islet to discover the signals that drive beta cell regeneration — as a possible treatment for diabetes. Read MoreMay 20, 2021
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Vanderbilt contributes to the ‘Google Earth’ of the human body, starting with the kidney
Vanderbilt contributes molecular imaging data of kidney to the Human BioMolecular Atlas Program, a consortium of 18 diverse collaborative research teams across the United States and Europe. Read MoreNov 12, 2020
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Research explores link between stem cell transplant, diabetes
Brian Engelhardt is studying why as many as 50 percent of stem cell transplant recipients develop diabetes. Read MoreJan 17, 2019
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Beta cell biomarker findings may speed diabetes research
Researchers at Vanderbilt University Medical Center have identified a biomarker for insulin-producing beta cells. Their finding could lead to improved ways to study and treat diabetes. Read MoreNov 30, 2018
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Five faculty elected AAAS fellows
Five Vanderbilt University faculty members have been elected new fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the world’s largest general scientific society. Read MoreNov 27, 2018
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Discovery by Vanderbilt-led group could lead to improved diabetes treatment
Vanderbilt investigators and colleagues around the country have made a major discovery that could lead to better ways to treat type 1 diabetes (T1D). Read MoreMar 6, 2018
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New phenotyping program to bolster global diabetes research efforts
The use of human pancreatic islets to conduct diabetes-related research has greatly expanded in recent years, and a Human Islet Phenotyping Program (HIPP) at Vanderbilt University Medical Center has been established to provide important islet data to investigators worldwide. Read MoreNov 9, 2017
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VUMC team’s discovery could lead to new diabetes treatment
High circulating glucose, the hallmark of diabetes, is linked to the disease’s most serious complications including heart disease, kidney failure, blindness and amputation. Diabetes is the sixth leading cause of death and costs the nation an estimated $322 billion a year. Restoring the action of insulin has been the traditional… Read MoreJun 15, 2017
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NIDDK renews Vanderbilt’s diabetes research grant
The Vanderbilt Diabetes Research and Training Center (VDRTC) is celebrating its 44th year of operation with a five-year competitive renewal of its $9 million grant from the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK) of the National Institutes of Health (NIH). Read MoreJun 8, 2017
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Three faculty members elected to Association of American Physicians
The Association of American Physicians (AAP) is an honorary medical society founded in 1885 by Sir William Osler and six other physicians for “the advancement of scientific and practical medicine.” This year, 60 additional physician scientists were elected to the association, including three Vanderbilt faculty members. Read MoreMay 4, 2017
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Making human beta cells reproduce
A new method developed at Vanderbilt will speed the search for potential therapeutics for diabetes: compounds that stimulate the replication of insulin-producing beta cells. Read MoreDec 8, 2016
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Family’s diabetes experiences propel Tour de Cure participation
When the Mullis family straps on their helmets on June 11 to ride in the local Tour de Cure, one of a series of cycling events held nationally to benefit the American Diabetes Association (ADA), they will remember a day seven years ago that motivated their annual participation in the event. Read MoreMay 26, 2016
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Ariel Helms: Searching for a diabetes discovery
For Vanderbilt senior Ariel Helms from Oklahoma, twists and turns in her past, including a long-kept family secret, led to her passion for discovery in a Vanderbilt lab. Read MoreApr 1, 2016
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Vanderbilt’s Powers named president-elect of ADA
Alvin Powers, M.D., director of the Vanderbilt Diabetes Center, has been named president-elect, Medicine and Science, of the American Diabetes Association (ADA) for 2016. Read MoreJan 21, 2016
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Major grants bolster VUMC diabetes research
Researchers at Vanderbilt University Medical Center have received more than $11 million in new grant support aimed at slowing the growing burden of diabetes. Read MoreJan 14, 2016
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Diabetes effort aims to boost function of insulin-producing cells
Vanderbilt University is part of a national effort to improve diabetes treatment by developing strategies for proliferating, regenerating and improving the function of insulin-producing beta cells in the pancreatic islets. Read MoreNov 6, 2014
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Diabetes researchers track cells’ ability to regenerate
Vanderbilt University scientists have found evidence that the insulin-secreting beta cells of the pancreas, which are either killed or become dysfunctional in the two main forms of diabetes, have the capacity to regenerate. Read MoreMar 13, 2014