Word: joslin
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...accurate as those taken from the blood. Others have asked whether this technology—which is still years away from being tested in humans—could be read through different skin pigments. But Gordon C. Weir, a professor of medicine at the Medical School’s Joslin Diabetes Center, remained cautiously optimistic. “Everyone is always coming up with new ideas but if this technology does what it says it does, I believe it would be a great tool for diabetes patients,” he said...
...This study in general supports what we understand," says Dr. Alan Jacobson, chief of psychiatric services at the Joslin Diabetes Center in Boston. "It's another study adding to our recognition that Type 2 diabetes portends some type of problem in terms of cognitive function...
...Diabetes is one of the strongest cardiovascular risk factor, so we were interested in understanding whether the presence of diabetes ‘trumped’ the genetic effect,” said Medical School professor Alessandro Doria, the director of the Genetics Core at Harvard-affiliated Joslin Diabetes Center. According to Doria, diabetes accounts for many coronary artery disease cases. “Other factors of coronary artery disease include smoking, hypertension, and high cholesterol,” Doria said. “Over the years these factors have gone down while diabetes has not. In fact, diabetes rates...
...mentored 150 graduate students and post-docs during his career, and he continues to recruit young researchers from around the world. Enxuan Jing, who came to the Joslin Center from China, calls his experience working with Kahn “probably the best time in my life...
...Steven J. Russell says he was attracted to Joslin by Kahn’s reputation as a mentor, and by his work with the recently developed fat-specific insulin receptor knockout mouse, a genetically modified animal whose fat cells are unaffected by insulin. The lean, long-lived mouse holds potential for treating diabetes and aging in general, and it is only one of the many topics studied in Kahn’s interdisciplinary, collaborative...