Diabetes Research Forum 2025
To mark November as Diabetes Awareness Month, the Stanford Diabetes Research Center (SDRC) organizes a Diabetes Research Forum each year. The tenth iteration of this series was held on November 21, 2025 at the Berg Hall in Li Ka Shing Center. The Diabetes Research Forum is a symposium which provided an opportunity for past P&F awardees to showcase their exciting research and offer updates on their work. Attendees included faculty members, graduate students, and postdoctoral fellows from within the center. This year's keynote speaker was Jonathan Campbell, PhD, Associate Professor, Departments of Medicine and Pharmacology & Cancer Biology, Duke University. We had the following speakers:
Past Awardees:
Antonios Chronopoulos, PhD, Instructor, Department of Medicine, Stanford University:
"Mechanoregulation of Hepatic Stellate Cells by Hyperglycemia-Induced Matrix Remodeling in MASH"Mindy Lee, MD, PhD, Instructor, Department of Pediatrics, Stanford University:
"Using LLM to Support Remote Patient Monitoring in Pediatric Diabetes"Tracey McLaughlin, MD, Professor, Department of Medicine, Stanford University:
"What happens to body composition and metabolic health when you stop tirzepatide?"Stephan Lammel, PhD, Associate Professor, Department of Neuroscience, UC Berkeley:
"Neuropeptidergic Mechanisms Linking Feeding and Metabolic Disease"Marie Heffern, PhD, Associate Professor, Department of Chemistry, UC Davis:
"Illuminating Metal Interactions in Metabolic Dysfunction"
Dr. Anna L Gloyn and Dr. Sun Kim, Co-Directors of the SDRC Pilot and Feasibilty Program, showcased the success of the program over the last 10 years. It was exciting to see the breadth of projects that have been funded since the center has received NIH funding. Dr. Gloyn and Dr. Kim highlighted publications and grants that have benefited from pilot funding from SDRC. They also thanked the support of partnering departments and institutes at Stanford that have co-funded pilot awards. The 2025 P&F awardees presented updates on their progress so far and received valuable feedback from members of the diabetes research community. 8 Stanford and 5 regional new pilot awards have been granted in 2025 and the awardees will begin their work in January 2026.