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...body fat in the abdomen—what we call central obesity, or apple obesity—those people are more at risk than people with fat in their hips or thighs—peripheral, or pear, obesity,” says Kahn, the section chief on obesity at Joslin Diabetes Center and a Harvard Medical School professor...
...Kahn’s creative and productive career has included responsibilities as senior investigator at the NIDDK, chair of the congressionally mandated diabetes research working group, and, from 2000 to 2007, president and director of the Harvard-affiliated Joslin Center. Kahn said he decided to step down from the presidency in order to focus more on the research he finds “invigorating...
...It’s been a discouragement for new talented individuals who wanted to come in to the field,” said Amy J. Wagers, an assistant professor of pathology at Harvard Medical School who also works with stem cells at the Harvard-affiliated Joslin Diabetes Center. “They wonder if their career will be well-supported in the long term...
Konrad Hochedlinger and other scientists from HSCI, Mass. General Hospital and the Joslin Diabetes Center announced that they have created mouse iPS cells using adenoviruses, according to a press release...
...It’s really an incredible honor...and a wonderful thing that the NIH is doing to support young people,” said Amy J. Wagers, who works with stem cells at the Harvard-affiliated Joslin Diabetes Center. “It’s a tough time in the funding of biological sciences and particularly difficult for those of us trying to get careers off the ground. This is really transformative in new labs like mine...