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A History of Innovation, a Vision of a Cure

Founded in 2000, Diabetes Center at UCSF is an integrated team of researchers and physicians in fields of cell development, endocrinology and metabolism, and immunology.

Recent Publications & Related Links

Science Immunology

Vaccine breakthrough hypoxemic COVID-19 pneumonia in patients with auto-Abs neutralizing type I IFNs, M. Anderson et al

Diabetes

Autoantibodies to Perilipin-1 Define a Subset of Acquired Generalized Lipodystrophy, M. Anderson et al.

Science Signaling

ASB4 modulates central melanocortinergic neurons and calcitonin signaling to control satiety and glucose homeostasis, A. Xu et al

Nature Experimental & Molecular Medicine

Metabolic factors in the regulation of hypothalamic innate immune responses in obesity, S. Koliwad et al

Nature

Obesity alters pathology and treatment response in inflammatory disease

Stem Cell Reports

Development of a scalable method to isolate subsets of stem cell-derived pancreatic islet cells

Beloved Emeritus Professor Passes Away

January 06, 2023

Dr. Gerold Morton Grodsky (Professor of Biochemistry & Biophysics and Medicine, UCSF, Emeritus, Active), science professor and bon vivant, who...

FDA Approves Teplizumab To Delay Onset of Type 1 Diabetes

US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved the use of Teplizumab under the brand name Tzield, an immunotherapy drug, which has been shown to significantly delay the onset of type 1 diabetes. This...

Campus News ● November 03, 2022

UCSF Diabetes Center 20th Anniversary Symposium

Thursday November 3, 2022 9:00a-5:00p Join us to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the UCSF Diabetes Center. Hear from our distinguished researchers who will share updates on their groundbreaking...

Campus News ● August 18, 2022

Diabetes Literacy Campaign Wins WHO Initiative

Last year the World Health Organization (WHO) launched the NCD LAB, an initiative leveraging community-driven grassroots innovations with the potential to be game changers in beating non-communicable...