Diabetes Dateline
Spring/Summer 2008

NIDDK Workshop Explores Diabetes Genes, Beta Cell Function

To review research progress and stimulate new ideas among the diabetes investigative community, the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK) sponsored a 2-day workshop in April entitled “Diabetes Genes and Beta Cell Function: How can we assemble the puzzle?”

The workshop highlighted research related to newly discovered risk loci for type 2 diabetes, specific beta cell functions and pathways potentially influenced by these genes, and the linkage of genes conferring risk to the clinical progression of diabetes. One of the workshop’s goals was to identify new strategies to enable an integrated correlation of at-risk loci with suboptimal beta cell functioning.

For a list of upcoming NIDDK workshops and conferences, go to www.niddk.nih.gov.

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NIH Publication No. 08–4562
August 2008