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

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Publications

Aggressive pituitary tumours and carcinomas, characteristics and management of 171 patients

Burman P, Trouillas J, Losa M, McCormack,A, Petersenn S, Popovic V, Theodoropoulou M, Raverot G, Dekkers OM for the ESE survey collaborators

(2022), Eur J Endocrinol, 187(4), 593-605

DOI: 10.1530/EJE-22-0440

Finerenone in patients with chronic kidney disease and type 2 diabetes by sodium-glucose cotransporter 2 inhibitor treatment: the FIDELITY analysis

Rossing P, Anker SD, Filippatos G, Pitt B, Ruilope LM, Birkenfeld AL, McGill JB, Rosas SE, Joseph A, Gebel M, Roberts L, Scheerer MF, Bakris GL, Agarwal R; FIDELIO-DKD and FIGARO-DKD Investigators

(2022), DIABETES CARE, 45(12), 2991-8

DOI: 10.2337/dc22-0294

Re: A system to detect unrecognised diabetes in a tertiary hospital

Ng E, Scholes G, Bach LA, Topliss DJ, Schneider HG, Sztal-Mazer S

(2022), Diabetic Med, 39(8), e14841

DOI: 10.1111/dme.14841

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