Diabetes Month » - Purpose: to spread the news about diabetes awareness, prevention and control
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Diabetes Day » - Purpose: to highlight diabetes research at Vanderbilt
2009 Diabetes Day Photos HERE »
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Spring 2009, Gerald I. Shulman, M.D., Ph.D. presented the Vanderbilt Discovery Lecture Series lecture entitled: Cellular mechanisms of insulin resistance: "Implications for obesity, lipodystrophy and type 2 diabetes."
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Fall 2008, Douglas A. Melton, Ph.D. presented the Irwin B. Eskind Vanderbilt Discovery Lecture. This lecture honored Dr. Eskind and was entitled "Making Pancreatic β cells for Diabetics."