A Molecular Link Between Diabetes and Dementia: Implications for Prevention
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Type 1 diabetes (T1D) patients have lost almost all their insulin-producing beta cells in the pancreatic islets owing to their autoimmune destruction by the body’s own immune system. However, recent studies suggest that intrinsic non-immune beta-cell dysfunction or degeneration could play a central role in the disease process, initiated by anti-islet autoimmunity, but then proceeding independently of the immune system.
Date
10 Apr 2017
Time
5:30pm – 7:00pm
Venue
JC 2, Level 1, Sunway University
Speaker
Professor John Todd FRS
Jeffrey Cheah Professorial Fellow in Medicine, Brasenose College and
Professor of Precision Medicine,
University of Oxford
