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...distribution,” Gorden said. “What they can control is the quantity of fat.” Procedures like liposuction have been shown to have no effect on diabetes, Kahn said, but fortunately, when people lose weight, they tend to lose abdominal fat first. Kahn??s work, said Gorden, is more about understanding the fundamental “why” of risk. “We need to keep searching for central mechanisms that control why abdominal obesity confers so much risk,” he said. Kahn is now exploring the questions...
...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...
...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...
...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...