by sarahcmay | Mar 15, 2024 | Awards
At this year’s Janet Rowley Research Day at the University of Chicago, postdoctoral fellow Titli Nargis, PhD, won an award for her top abstract “12-Lipoxygenase Inhibitor Delays Diabetes Development in a Humanized Mouse Model.” Graduate student Andy Anderson received...
by sarahcmay | Jan 24, 2024 | Publications, Uncategorized
The Mirmira lab, led by first author Batoul Hammoud, MD, published a new study in Endocrinology demonstrating the effects of polyamine depletion by DENSpm on mice. Unlike DFMO (see previous study), DENSpm had only modest effects on type 1 diabetes outcomes in NOD mice...
by sarahcmay | Dec 13, 2023 | Publications
The Mirmira lab published a new study in Journal of Biological Chemistry. First author Ebru Ermis, a former lab undergraduate, found that leukotriene B4 receptor 2 (or BLT2) promotes macrophage migration during inflammation in mice and zebrafish. The next step is to...
by sarahcmay | Nov 2, 2023 | Publications
The Mirmira Lab, together with investigators at Indiana University School of Medicine, published a new study in Cell Reports Medicine that investigates α-difluoromethylornithine (DFMO) as a potential therapeutic for type 1 diabetes. In a randomized controlled trial of...
by sarahcmay | Sep 25, 2023 | Presentations
Mirmira Lab graduate student Kierstin Webster and postdoctoral fellow Jacob Enriquez presented at the Human Islet Research Network (HIRN) meeting held September 19-21 in Washington, D.C. Kierstin reported that “Human Islets Exhibit Sex Differences in...
