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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
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Publications
Sodium-glucose cotransporter type 2 inhibitors: managing the small but critical risk of diabetic ketoacidosis
Hamblin PS, Wong R, Bach LA
(2021), MED J AUSTRALIA, 214(2), 94-94.e1
DOI: 10.5694/mja2.50898
Insulin-like growth factor-1 directly affects cardiac cellular remodelling via distinct pathways
Huang KW, Wang IH, Fu P, Krum H, Bach LA, Wang BH
(2021), International journal of cardiology. Heart & vasculature, 36, 100852
The Utility of Prophylactic Zoledronic Acid in Patients Undergoing Lung Transplantation
Ng E, Topliss DJ, Paraskeva M, Paul E, Sztal-Mazer S
(2021), J Clin Densitom, 24(4), 581-90