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Herrick joins meeting with the Vatican’s Pope to advocate for gender-affirming care

On October 12, Cynthia Herrick, MD, MPHS, FACP joined Pope Francis, transgender Catholics and fellow advocates for a private meeting held at Francis’ guesthouse in the Vatican, Italy to discuss a document released by the Vatican’s doctrinal office six months prior, which rejected gender-affirming care for transgender people. Dr. Herrick is co-director of Washington University’s […]

$2.75 million to support type 1 diabetes research

The Division of Endocrinology, Metabolism & Lipid Research in the Department of Medicine has received a $2.75 million gift through the Anita Palmer Corbin Trust to establish the Anita Palmer Corbin Diabetes Research Endowed Fund. The fund augments a spendable fund to support diabetes research in the division that was previously created by Corbin, who […]

Meet the Researcher: Daniel Veronese-Paniagua

Daniel Veronese-Paniagua, a sixth-year graduate student in the Millman Lab, recently published his first first-authorship as a preprint in bioRxiv. The study, titled Coxsackievirus B infection invokes unique cell-type specific responses in primary human pancreatic islets, sheds new light on the intricate mechanisms through which Coxsackievirus B3 (CVB) may trigger type 1 diabetes (T1D). The study was […]

Castelblanco presents at the 2024 EASD Annual Meeting in Spain

Maria S. Remedi, PhD and Esmeralda Castelblanco, PhD recently attended the 2024 60th Annual Meeting hosted by the European Association for the Study of Diabetes (EASD). The four-day meeting took place in Madrid, Spain from September 10-13, welcoming over 12,300 participants from more than 130 countries. Congratulations to Dr. Castelblanco on delivering an exceptional talk […]