In a new series, the UAB Comprehensive Diabetes Center (UCDC), a leader in the field of diabetes research, will highlight researchers from the across the UCDC, particularly those who manage day-to-day operations in the lab space. 

Director of the UAB Division of Pediatric Endocrinology and DiabetesAmbika Ashraf, M.D., recently published a study on hybrid diabetes (HD) in children and adolescents in the journal Endocrine Practice. Ashraf is also an associate director of the UAB Comprehensive Diabetes Center (UCDC).

UAB Comprehensive Diabetes Center members and collaborators recently published “Leptin resistance in children with in utero exposure to maternal obesity and gestational diabetes” in the journal of Pediatric Obesity.

Sasanka Ramanadham, Ph.D., co-authored the paper recently published “A proteomic meta-analysis refinement of plasma extracellular vesicles” in the peer-reviewed journal Scientific Data.

The American Diabetes Association (ADA) selected Kirk Habegger, Ph.D., associate professor in the Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes, and Metabolism and scientist in the UAB Comprehensive Diabetes Center (UCDC), as the cohost of the new podcast DiabetesBio of its flagship journal Diabetes.

The UAB Comprehensive Diabetes Center (UCDC) was recently featured in the Heersink School of Medicine (HSOM) UAB Medicine Magazine fall issue, within the eight-page spread, “A Canopy of Care: UAB is leading the way in advancing diabetes research.”

The Beatson Foundation recently awarded Sasanka Ramanadham, Ph.D., UAB professor in the Department of Cell, Developmental and Integrative Biology and senior scientist in the Comprehensive Diabetes Center (UCDC) a two-year grant award.

The UAB Comprehensive Diabetes Center (UCDC) has compiled a list of diabetes-focused UAB MedCast podcast episodes from the last several months.

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