Jackie Stephens, the associate chair of biological sciences at LSU, has been awarded a $1.6 million grant renewal from the National Institute of Health. The money will go towards Stephens’ research of the connection between Type 2 diabetes and fat cell metabolism. Stephens is trying to determine the different ways that Type 2 diabetes is caused. Her research group has already discovered several different ways that Type 2 diabetes can develop by changing metabolism in fat cells. “There’s an exceptionally strong connection between obesity and Type 2 diabetes,” she says. “Most obese people do not have Type 2 diabetes; however, most Type 2 diabetic patients are obese. It’s a perplexing research situation that we and other researchers around the globe continue to study.” The funding will support five more years of Stephens’ research.
LSU professor gets $1.6 million grant for diabetes research
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