Center News
Ashraf publishes review in Current Opinion in Lipidology
UAB Comprehensive Diabetes Center (UCDC) Associate Director Ambika Ashraf, M.D., published the review “Altered lipid metabolism and the development of metabolic-associated fatty liver disease” in the journal Current Opinion in Lipidology.
Read moreAgarwal awarded AACE H. Jack Baskin, MD, Endocrine Teaching Award
The American Association of Clinical Endocrinology (AACE) awarded UAB Comprehensive Diabetes Center Member and Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes, and Metabolism Professor Monica Argawal, M.D., the Jack Baskin, MD, Endocrine Teaching Award.
Garvey and researchers publish findings on cardiometabolic risk prediction models
UAB Comprehensive Diabetes Center (UCDC) Associate Director W. Timothy Garvey, M.D., and collaborators recently published “Cardiometabolic Disease Staging and Major Adverse Cardiovascular Event Prediction in 2 Prospective Cohorts” in the journal JACC: Advances.
UCDC researchers to present in Boston and Orlando
June 2024 brings with it many endocrinology and diabetes conference opportunities. Notably, the Endocrine Society meeting, ENDO 2024, the American Diabetes Association (ADA) 83rd Scientific Session, and others.
UCDC welcomes Wang to the Department of Genetics
The UAB Comprehensive Diabetes Center (UCDC) is pleased to welcome Weidong Wang, Ph.D., who will serve as an associate professor in the Department of Genetics.
Alsharif awarded best overall oral presentation at Boshell Diabetes Research Day
Hafia (Saba) Alsharif, a doctoral student in the lab of Sushant Bhatnagar, Ph.D., recently won the Best Overall Presentation Award at the Boshell Diabetes Research Day program in Auburn, Alabama.
UCDC members present research, speak at Boshell Diabetes Research Day
Justin Alexander (left) and Saba Alsharif (right)This year’s Boshell Diabetes Research Day featured W. Timothy Garvey, M.D., associate director of the UAB Comprehensive Diabetes Center, director of the UAB Diabetes Research Center, and professor in the UAB Department of Nutrition Sciences, as the banquet speaker.
Ananda and Rita Basu named to endowed professorships
The UAB Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes, and Metabolism Professors and UAB Comprehensive Diabetes Center (UCDC) Senior Scientists Ananda Basu, M.D., and Rita Basu, M.D., were each awarded an endowed professorship.
Couple brought together by Type 1 diabetes continues to give to diabetes research
When Chelsey LaRussa Heslop was just five years old, she received a Type 1 diabetes diagnosis. Her entire family–the LaRussa family–was taken by surprise but met the diagnosis head on.
Pierre secures prestigious NIH predoctoral fellowship award
Tanya Pierre, a fourth-year graduate student in the lab of Chad Hunter, Ph.D., has secured a National Institutes of Health (NIH) Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Award Individual Predoctoral Fellowship (F31).