Endocrine Abstracts

Alterations in gene expression are a fundamental component of diabetes. These may be occur as a result of specific genetic alterations that underlie diabetes, due to a lack of insulin signaling as a result of insulin deficiency or insulin resistance, or be secondary to the hyperglycemia and altered metabolic state that occurs in diabetes. To help determine which alterations in diabetes are the result of decreased or absent insulin action in tissues or secondary to the metaboli...

C Ronald Kahn, Joslin Diabetes Centre, Harvard Medical School, Boston, USA AbstractDr C Ronald Kahn was born in Louisville, KY and received his undergraduate and medical degrees from the University of Louisville. After training in internal medicine at Barnes Hospital, St Louis, MO, he joined the NIH as a Clinical Associate in the Endocrinology Branch. Over the next 11 years, he rose to become the Head of the Secti...