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...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...
...What I really admire is that he forces himself to put his postdocs first,” says Stephane Gesta, one of Kahn’s current fellows. “When I joined the lab he was president of Joslin, and I was worried I wouldn’t be able to talk to him in the day to day about things on the bench...
...Sudha B. Biddinger, who has worked in Kahn’s lab since 2001, recalls that during her first years at Joslin, Kahn returned all of her e-mails—even between 2 a.m. and 6 a.m. “He has a little plaque on his desk that says, ‘It can be done,’ and I think that’s true,” says Biddinger. “He just gets it done...
...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...