Latest news from Poitout Lab

July 2010 -- Dr. Ghislaine Fontés' new article "Glucolipotoxicity age-dependently impaired beta cell function in rats despite a marked increase in beta cell mass" is e-published in Diabetologia 2010. View Abstract in PubMed.

June 2010 -- Dr. Poitout was appointed as a National Board member of the American Diabetes Association for a 3-year term starting January 1, 2011.

June 2010 -- Meriem Semache, PhD student, received a grant from Diabète Québec.

May 2010 -- Isma Benterki, a second year student at University of Montreal and doing a summer stage in the Poitout Lab, received a grant from Diabète Québec.

May 2010 -- The Poitout lab is part of a research project recently funded by the Consortium Québécois sur la décourverte du médicament (CQDM). This project is entitled "Evanescent field biosensor for label-free and real-time in situ monitoring of multiple analyses ex vivo and in vivo". This is a collaborative project headed by Dr. Emanuel Escher from Sherbrooke University. 

March 2010 -- Dr. Vincent Poitout's new article: "Glucolipotoxicity of the pancreatic beta cell" is published in Biochimica et Biophysica Acta 2010. View Abstract in PubMed

March 2010 -- Dr. Melkam Kebede received a Travel Award from the Montreal Diabetes Research Center (MDRC) to attend the Keystone Symposia Diabetes meeting in Whistler, British Columbia, next April 12 to 17. 

February 2010 -- Dr. Ghislaine Fontés' new article: "Lack of preservation of insulin gene expression by a Glucagon-Like Peptide 1 agonist or a Dipeptidyl Peptidase 4 inhibitor in an in vivo model of glucolipotoxicity" is published in Diabetes Research and Clinical Practice 2010. View Abstract in PubMed