Recently, Jing Hughes, MD, PhD and her collaborator Matthew Merrins, PhD, of the University of Wisconsin-Madison, were awarded nearly four million dollars in funding from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to support their joint research project titled “Metabolic signaling of the beta cell primary cilium.” The funding will stretch from July of 2024 to […]
During the weekend of April 21-23, Jing Hughes, MD, PhD; fellows Samantha Adamson, MD, PhD and Max Petersen, MD; and student Sarah Speck attended an annual meeting in Chicago, Illinois. The joint meeting was hosted by The Association of American Physicians (AAP), The American Society for Clinical Investigation (ASCI), and The American Physician-Scientists Association (APSA). […]
On December 14, Jing W. Hughes, MD, PhD and Hughes Lab members had their research titled, “Islet primary cilia motility controls insulin secretion,” published in “bioRxiv.” “Primary cilia are specialized cell-surface organelles that mediate sensory perception and, in contrast to motile cilia and flagella, are thought to lack motility function.” People with type 2 diabetes […]