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Official handle of UIC Health Diabetes Center. Our mission is to foster an environment for Research, Clinical Care and Community Outreach.
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📢📅Monday May 5th - Chioma Nnyamah Chioma Nnyamah will have her PhD Thesis Defense - on Moss Auditorium COMRB 1020 at 2,30 pm. GEMSSA @ UIC UIC Physiology University of Illinois College of Medicine Thesis Title: "The Role of Adipose-Specific Free Fatty Acid Receptor 2 in Obesity and Associated Metabolic


New research article published by Dr. Layden's lab in #Endocrinology Endocrine Society Dr. Zapater used Townes mouse model of #sickle cell disease to show that "that having two copies of the #Hemoglobin S gene promotes early #hyperglycemia and the development of pancreatic β cell


Fasting-induced ketogenesis sensitizes bacteria to antibiotic treatment: Cell Metabolism "#ketone body acetoacetate ...increasing antibiotic lethality and outer and inner membrane permeability. ....acetoacetate depletes bacterial amino acids, particularly positively charged



Examining the reach of a diabetes screening program in an urban emergency department, was published by Dr. Brian Layden, MD, PhD and Dr. Janet Lin of UIC Diabetes Center UI Health in Public Health in Practice. This research project funded by an independent investigator-initiated study of



📢From 20-23 of June 2025 📅, the annual meeting of the American Diabetes Association American Diabetes Association - DiabetesPro will be in #Chicago. Chicago Biomedical Consortium UI Health Kovler Diabetes Center Northwestern Feinberg School of Medicine University of Illinois College of Medicine Register ⬇️ and contribute to end #diabetes

UIC Diabetes Research UIC Diabetes Center insiders: Trump is ‘dismantling and destroying everything’ | Science | AAAS Please repost this if you want to see new treatments for diseases that impact your loved ones. science.org/content/articl…


Hi!!Please take a break from surfing the Internet for a moment—do you know what exciting event happened in May? The Xu Lab at UIC's College of Medicine celebrated the graduation of three PhD students at once! Huge congratulations to all of them!@Diabetes_UIC University of Illinois Chicago UI Health


Our talented postdoc, Kai Xu Kai Xu won the best poster award at the 19th Diabetes Day Kovler Diabetes Center Xu Lab (UIC) UIC Physiology University of Illinois College of Medicine


Our PhD candidate Izabela Hawro will show her work-in-progress next Wednesday University of Illinois College of Medicine #COMRB2175
