UFDI Medical Director Recipient of Prestigious JDRF George Eisenbarth Award
Desmond Schatz, M.D., professor and interim chair of the Department of Pediatrics, and Pediatric Medical Director of the University of Florida Diabetes Institute, has been selected as the recipient of the prestigious 2021 JDRF George Eisenbarth Award for Type 1 Diabetes Prevention.
COVID-19 Not Likely to Trigger Type 1 Diabetes, UF Health Researchers Find in Joint Study
A protein thought to be the novel coronavirus’ entryway into the body could not be detected in the insulin-producing cells of the... Read More
Todd M. Brusko, Ph.D., Named Scientific Director of the UF Diabetes Institute
Todd M. Brusko, Ph.D., associate professor for UF Department of Pathology, Immunology and Laboratory Medicine, has been named Scientific Director of the... Read More
UF Health Researchers on Team Studying Possible Viral Link With Type 1 Diabetes
A prolonged infection by a common virus might sometimes trigger the immune system attack on the pancreas that ultimately leads to Type... Read More
UF Health Researchers Launch Trial Involving Gut Bacteria’s Role in Type 1 Diabetes
Graciela Lorca, Ph.D., was part of a University of Florida Health research team that discovered about a decade ago that something was... Read More
