FOE Diabetes Research Center at the University of Iowa

03/02/2023

Join us Monday, March 6, 2023 at 1:00 PM for our weekly Frontiers in Obesity, Diabetes and Metabolism Seminar with our guest speaker, Kathryn Wellen, PhD, giving a talk titled, "Acetyl-CoA metabolism in health and disease".

03/02/2022

Join us Monday, March 7, 2022 at 1:00 PM for our weekly Frontiers in Obesity, Diabetes and Metabolism Seminar via Zoom with our speaker, Ferhaan Ahmad, MD, PhD, giving a talk titled, "Sodium Glucose Co-Transporter 1 (SGLT1): A Novel Mediator of Diabetic Cardiomyopathy". https://bit.ly/3wXiGEi

06/03/2021

Join us Monday, June 7, 2021 for our weekly Frontiers seminar with our special guest Kris DeMali, PhD from the University of Iowa's Department of Biochemistry.

06/03/2021

Congratulations to DRC member Bhagirath Chaurasia!

Bhagirath Chaurasia, PhD, assistant professor in the Division of Endocrinology and Metabolism, has recieved a four-year, $545,100 Junior Faculty Development Award from the American Diabetes Associa…

06/03/2021

Helena Kenny, PhD, is a postdoctoral research scholar in the Division of Endocrinology and Metabolism and a member of the Abel Lab. In a pairing similar to the mentor/trainee pairing of Renata Pere…

06/03/2021

Luis Miguel Garcia Pena says that even though he had experience working in a genetics laboratory as an undergraduate and doing epidemiological and clinical research for Harvard’s school of public h…

12/22/2020

Join us in congratulating Dr. Matthew Potthoff for receiving the Roy J. Carver Professorship in Neuroscience and Pharmacology!

We are pleased announce that Dr. Matthew Potthoff, Associate Professor of Neuroscience and Pharmacology and member of the FOEDRC is the recent recipient of the Roy J. Carver Professorship in Neuros…

12/17/2020

FOEDRC Director E. Dale Abel, MD, PhD was among the first people in the country to recieve the COVID-19 vaccine on Tuesday. Check out the behind the scenes footage of what it was like.

10/22/2020

Congratulations to DRC member Michael Welsh!

Welsh named a finalist for for Sanford Lorraine Cross Award.

10/19/2020

Join us in congratulating DRC member Vitor Lira, PhD!

Dr. Vitor Lira, Associate Professor in the Department of Health and Human Physiology is the recipient of a High-priority, short term project award (R56) from the National Institutes of Aging of the…

10/06/2020

Join us in congratulating Eric Taylor, PhD from the University of Iowa and Douglas Mashek, PhD from the University of Minnesota on receiving a collaborative pilot and feasibility research grant!

The Fraternal Order of Eagles Diabetes Research Center at the University of Iowa and the Institute for Diabetes Obesity and Metabolism at the University of Minnesota are pleased to announce the res…

09/24/2020

Congratulations to our 2020-2021 Diabetes Research Center
Pilot and Feasibility Grant Award Recipients!

Congratulations to our 2020-2021 Diabetes Research CenterPilot and Feasibility Grant Award Recipients! The Fraternal Order of Eagles Diabetes Research Center is pleased to announce the results of i…