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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
Mechanisms of diabetic complications
The high glucose levels characteristic of diabetes lead to complications such as kidney damage; however, the precise mechanisms by which this occurs is not understood.
Find out moreRegulation of growth factor activity
The insulin-like growth factor (IGF) system is perturbed in many diseases, including diabetic complications and cancer. Professor Bach’s laboratory studies IGF binding protein-6 (IGFBP-6) and, particularly, its role as an IGF-II inhibitor in cancer.
Find out moreNew technologies for diabetes treatment
In type 1 diabetes, damage to the pancreas prevents insulin secretion to regulate glucose levels in the blood.
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Publications
Clinical guidance for radioiodine refractory differentiated thyroid cancer
Gild ML, Topliss DJ, Learoyd D, Parnis F, Tie J, Hughes B, Walsh JP, McLeod DSA, Clifton-Bligh RJ, Robinson BG
(2018), Clin Endocrinol, 88(4), 529-537
DOI: 10.1111/cen.13508
Diabetes reduces severity of aortic aneurysms depending on the presence of cell division autoantigen 1 (CDA1)
Li, J., Huynh, P., Dai, A., Wu, T., Tu, Y., Chow, B., Kiriazis, H., Du, X.-J., Bach, L.A., Wilkinson-Berka, J.L., Biros, E., Walker, P., Nataatmadja, M., West, M., Golledge, J., Allen, T.J., Cooper, M.E., Chai, Z.
(2018), Diabetes, 755-768
DOI: 10.2337/db17-0134
Awareness and use of iodine supplementation among Australian women attending a low-risk pregnancy clinic
Cooray SD, Langston-Cox AG, Robinson PJ, Bahemia N, Davis SR, Bell RJ, Topliss DJ, Schneider HG, Sztal-Mazer S
(2018), Aust N Z J Obstet Gynaecol, 58(5), e16-17
DOI: 10.1111/ajo.12829