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- Relationship to Diabetes
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A group of Curtin University researchers have been awarded a Diabetes Australia Research Trust Grant for research to improve diabetes treatment, potentially eliminating the need for insulin injection.
Professor Philip Newsholme, Professor Erik Helmerhorst, Dr Kylie Munyard and Dr Cyril Mamotte, from Curtin?s School of Biomedical Sciences, will work collaboratively to define the molecular nature of a key event in insulin action, namely binding of insulin (or insulin-like drugs) with the insulin receptor.
Professor Newsholme said the development of new medicines that might replace insulin injections for diabetics demands an intimate understanding of how the hormone insulin communicates with cells and this research would focus on that relationship.
http://news.curtin.edu.au/media-releases/curtin-investigates-new-treatments-for-diabetes/
Professor Philip Newsholme, Professor Erik Helmerhorst, Dr Kylie Munyard and Dr Cyril Mamotte, from Curtin?s School of Biomedical Sciences, will work collaboratively to define the molecular nature of a key event in insulin action, namely binding of insulin (or insulin-like drugs) with the insulin receptor.
Professor Newsholme said the development of new medicines that might replace insulin injections for diabetics demands an intimate understanding of how the hormone insulin communicates with cells and this research would focus on that relationship.
http://news.curtin.edu.au/media-releases/curtin-investigates-new-treatments-for-diabetes/