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

Demographics and outcomes of inpatients with diabetic foot ulcers treated conservatively and surgically in a metropolitan hospital network

Rosi LM, Jones AS, Topliss DJ, Bach LA

(2021), DIABETES RES CLIN PR, 175, 108821

DOI: 10.1016/j.diabres.2021.108821

Cardiovascular Events with Finerenone in Kidney Disease and Type 2 Diabetes

Pitt B, Filippatos G, Agarwal R, Anker SD, Bakris GL, Rossing P, Joseph A, Kolkhof P, Nowack C, Schloemer P, Ruilope LM; FIGARO-DKD Investigators

(2021), NEW ENGL J MED, 385(24), 2252-63

DOI: 10.1056/NEJMoa2110956

Determinants of Cardiovascular Risk in 7000 Youth With Type 1 Diabetes in the Australasian Diabetes Data Network

Couper JJ, Jones TW, Chee M, Barrett HL, Bergman P, Cameron F, Craig ME, Colman P, Davis EE, Donaghue KC, Fegan PG, Hamblin PS, Holmes-Walker DJ, Jefferies C, Johnson S, Mok MT, King BR, Sinnott R, Ward G, Wheeler BJ, Zimmermann A, Earnest A

(2021), J CLIN ENDOCR METAB, 106(1), 133-42

DOI: 10.1210/clinem/dgaa727

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