Diabetes/Obesity Research

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Updated Nov.04, 2009

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Scourge of Diabetes

Diabetes affects nearly 24 million people in the U.S. and more than 200 million people worldwide today.  Type 2 diabetes is associated with obesity and insulin resistance, a condition where normal insulin action is blunted.

Try the Diabetes Risk Test to find out if you could be at risk for diabetes. Diabetes also increases the risk for heart disease. The Heart Disease Risk Assessment test, based on the Framingham Heart Study, predicts the chance of a heart attack over the next ten years.

Research Interests

Metabolic diseases, insulin signal transduction, mechanism of insulin resistance, gene expression and metabolism in animal models of obesity, type 2 diabetes and transgenic/knockout mice.

Grant Funding

American Diabetes Association
Diabetes Action Research & Education Foundation
United States Department of Agriculture
Alabama Agricultural Experiment Station

In the News: Fetuin-A linked to the incidence of diabetes in older adults

Welcome! Guang Ren - newest graduate student, and AJ, undergrad researcher

Congratulations! Albert Zhang, Ph.D student, awarded the Malone Zallen Graduate Research Fellowship for 2009

Congratulations: Rebecca Ludvigsen, undergraduate researcher, awarded U.S. Fulbright Scholarship for 2010 to pursue advanced studies and research in Germany

Congratulations: Jessica Davis and Rebecca Ludvigsen, undergraduate researchers, who completed their Honors thesis. Both Jessica and Rebecca graduated in Spring 2009

Congratulations : Teayoun Kim, who secured a postdoctoral position in the Department of Nutrition at University of Alabama in Birmingham.

PROSPECTIVE GRAD STUDENT? Apply to the Graduate School, send email enquiry to Dr. Mathews

 

 

BOSHELL DIABETES RESEARCH JOURNAL CLUB meets Mondays @ 4 pm, 203 Greene Hall, College of Vet. Med.