Endocrinology & Diabetes research

The Department of Endocrinology and Diabetes performs clinical research in the areas of diabetes and thyroid cancer as well as basic research in diabetic complications and regulation of growth factor activity.

Achievements

Professor Leon Bach (CIF) is part of a team led by Professor Mark Cooper (Baker Heart & Diabetes Institute), who were awarded $2.5 million for the JDRF/NHMRC Diabetes Complications Centre of Research Excellence for 2014-2019.

Dr Kathryn Hackman and James Lee completed PhDs on their respective topics of ‘Diabetes and lung transplantation’ and ‘Thyroid cancer and microRNA’.

Postgraduate students

2 PhD students

Our partners

Monash University

Publications

Sodium-glucose cotransporter type 2 inhibitors: managing the small but critical risk of diabetic ketoacidosis

Hamblin PS, Wong R, Bach LA

(2020), MED J AUSTRALIA, 212(7), 294-6.e1

DOI: 10.5694/mja2.50525

Six Months of Hybrid Closed-Loop Versus Manual Insulin Delivery With Fingerprick Blood Glucose Monitoring in Adults With Type 1 Diabetes: A Randomized, Controlled Trial

McAuley SA, Lee MH, Paldus B, Vogrin S, de Bock MI, Abraham MB, Bach LA, Burt MG, Cohen ND, Colman PG, Davis EA, Hendrieckx C, Holmes-Walker DJ, Kaye J, Keech AC, Kumareswaran K, MacIsaac RJ, McCallum RW, Sims CM, Speight J, Stranks SN, Sundararajan V, Trawley S, Ward GM, Jenkins AJ, Jones TW, O'Neal DN; Australian JDRF Closed-Loop Research Group

(2020), Diabetes Care, 43(12), 3024-33

DOI: 10.2337/dc20-1447

Diabetes caused by pancreatic dysfunction: what you need to know

Warren AM, Bach LA

(2020), Endocrinology Today, 9(3), 21-3

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Prof Duncan Topliss