Diabetes/Obesity Research

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Updated Jul.18, 2008

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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
Alabama Agricultural Experiment Station

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

Congratulations! Jessica Davis, undergraduate researcher, awarded first place for Outstanding Research Presentation, Cellular and Molecular Biosciences, at the Auburn University Undergraduate Research Forum, Apr.21-22, 2008

Congratulations: Edmond Huang, graduate student, awarded FIRST PLACE for outstanding poster presentation at the 2008 Boshell Diabetes Conference, March 14, 2008

Congratulations: Teayoun Kim, postdoctoral fellow, awarded THIRD PLACE for outstanding poster presentation at the 2008 Boshell Diabetes Conference, March 14, 2008. Also congratulations on the excellent oral presentation at the International Conference on Science of Botanicals at Oxford, Mississippi, April, 12-16, 2008

Congratulations: Edmond Huang, graduate student, awarded the 2008 Keystone Symposia scholarship through the National Institutes of Health, National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases

New undergrad researcher : Meet Rebecca Ludvigsen, Animal Science major, currently studying the role of fetuin-A in metabolic syndrome

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.