Joined July 2021
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Congratulations to Takashi Kadowaki for winning the Banting Prize and to Timo Mueller for winning the Outstanding Scientific Achievement Award at the recent scientific sessions of the American Diabetes Association in New Orleans!
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Congratulations to Timo Mueller for his quintuple agonist paper in Nature (Nature. 2026 May;653(8115):776-785) and to the Kusminski group who contributed to it! touchstonelabs.org/wp-conten…
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Touchstone Diabetes Center group meeting 6/1/26 Link for full presentation touchstonelabs.org/wp-conten…
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Touchstone Diabetes Center group meeting 5/18/26 Link for full presentation touchstonelabs.org/wp-conten…
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Touchstone Diabetes Center group meeting 5/11/26 Link for full presentation touchstonelabs.org/wp-conten…
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Touchstone Diabetes Center group meeting 5/4/26 Link for full presentation touchstonelabs.org/wp-conten…
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I’m thrilled to be a Keynote Speaker at the International Diabetes Federation Western Pacific Region Congress 2026, held in conjunction with the Australasian Diabetes Congress (ADC 2026) and Metabolic Diseases 2026, in Melbourne from 18 - 21 August 2026. Together, the combined Congress will bring clinicians, researchers, educators and policy leaders from across the Western Pacific Region and internationally to explore the latest advances in diabetes and metabolic disease research, care and policy.
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Touchstone Diabetes Center group meeting 4/27/26 Link for full presentation touchstonelabs.org/wp-conten…
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Touchstone Diabetes Center group meeting 4/13/26 Link for full presentation touchstonelabs.org/wp-conten…
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Touchstone Diabetes Center group meeting 4/6/26 Link for full presentation touchstonelabs.org/wp-conten…
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Touchstone Diabetes Center group meeting 3/30/26 Link for full presentation touchstonelabs.org/wp-conten…
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Touchstone Diabetes Center group meeting 3/16/26 Link for full presentation touchstonelabs.org/wp-conten…
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Touchstone Diabetes Center group meeting 3/9/26 Link for full presentation touchstonelabs.org/wp-conten…
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Congratulations to Kyounghee Min on her commentary in Cell Research highlighting a recent Science paper from the Kajimura lab. The study uncovers the functional role of the mitochondrial trimethyllysine transporter SLC25A45 in carnitine biosynthesis, revealing how cells enable adaptive fuel switching. A great contribution to our understanding of metabolic flexibility! touchstonelabs.org/wp-conten…
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Touchstone Diabetes Center group meeting 3/2/26 Link for full presentation touchstonelabs.org/wp-conten…
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Touchstone Diabetes Center group meeting 2/23/26 Link for full presentation touchstonelabs.org/wp-conten…
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Congratulations to Catherine Muller and her team for these elegant studies on periprostatic adipose tissue, local endotrophin levels and prostate cancer! Estève et al., 2026, J Pathol., in press touchstonelabs.org/wp-conten…
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Congratulations and many thanks to Daniel Tews and Pam Fischer-Posovszky for their Commentary on our seipin paper in Nature Reviews Endocrinology!! Nat Rev Endocrinol. 2026 Feb 10. doi: 10.1038/s41574-026-01234-z touchstonelabs.org/wp-conten…
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Touchstone Diabetes Center group meeting 2/16/26 Link for full presentation touchstonelabs.org/wp-conten…
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Congratulations to Jan-Bernd Funcke and Leon Straub for their Trends in Molecular Medicine – Disease of the Month summary of Lipidema as a chronic adipose tissue disease!! Trends Mol Med. 2026 Feb;32(2):197-198 touchstonelabs.org/wp-conten…
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