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Talk on new diabetes therapy

A POTENTIAL new treatment for type-1 diabetes will be discussed at a talk tonight at the ANU.

Guest speaker Dr Charmaine Simeonovic will discuss a discovery she made with Prof Christopher Parish and their research team at The John Curtin School of Medical Research that is now the basis of drugs being developed for patients with type 1 diabetes that will protect the body’s insulin producing cells from damage.

The team, part of  the ANU College of Medicine, Biology and Environment, has identified a previously unknown process which caused the destruction of the insulin-producing beta cells in the pancreas.

The researchers found that the insulin-producing cells need a complex sugar, heparan sulphate, for their survival.

Dr Simeonovic will explain how this remarkable discovery was made and the impact it has for the future treatment of type 1 diabetes.

This will be the first in a series of monthly JCSMR Director’s Health Through Discovery Public Lectures.

Lecture – type 1 diabetes – Prospects for a new therapy, 5.30pm – 6.30pm, Monday May 28 at the Finkel Lecture Theatre, The John Curtin School of Medical Research, Building 131 Garran Road, ANU

 

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2 Responses to Talk on new diabetes therapy

Mrs L. Rutherford says: 29 May 2012 at 9:51 am

Re’ Prof. Parish and Type 1 Diabetes treatment.
Can you please let me know more about this as my little 8 year old son has Type 1 Diabetes and he was diagnosed on the 20.10.10. There is not one day that goes past that I don’t shed tears for him and all the other sufferers of this dreadful condition. Neither myself or his father have Diabetes so Matt’s chances of getting it was 0.03%. Please help us!!

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