The BC Diabetes Research Network GCRC cluster will strengthen diabetes research in BC from the lab bench to clinical trial across themes from cure-oriented diabetes research to diabetes prevention to diabetes complications.
| Name | Role | Research Interests |
|---|---|---|
| Allan, Douglas | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Nervous system |
| Beauchamp, Mark | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Kinesiology; social determinants of health; Health Promotion; Quality of Life and Aging; Mental Health and Society; Children; Exercise Psychology; Group Processes; Health Psychology; Intervention; Leadership; Older Adults; Physical Activity; Social Cognition; Sport Psychology |
| Boushel, Robert | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Natural sciences; Exercise, physiology, oxygen transport, cardiovascular regulation, bioenergetics, mitochondria |
| Bundon, Andrea | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Kinesiology; Social Contexts; critical disability studies; disability; Paralympics; social media; sociology; sport |
| Carpenter, Mark | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | neural control of movement, fear of falling, Neural control of movement, postural control, fears of falling, balance disorders, Parkinson's disease |
| Conklin, Annalijn | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Public health nutrition policy; Other basic medicine and life sciences; Social Determinants of Dietary and Metabolic Disorders; social nutritional epidemiology; women's health; Health Equity; Chronic Diseases in Elderly; Obesity; CVD risk factors; healthy ageing; food and nutrition policy; Indigenous health; Community Health / Public Health; disease management evaluation; healthcare quality improvement |
| Devlin, Angela | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Human nutrition and dietetics; Human reproduction and development sciences; Pathology (except oral pathology); cardiovascular disease; Children; developmental programming; Diabetes; Obesity |
| Dutz, Jan Peter | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Immunity in Health & Disease, diabetes, dermatology |
| Francis, Gordon | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | lipoproteins; Cholesterol metabolism; Cardiovascular risk factors; Prevention of cardiovascular disease and diabetes; High density lipoproteins (HDL) |
| Gibson, William | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Genetic Diseases; Chromosomes: Structure / Organization; Epigenetics; Genetic Diseases, Chromosomes: Structure / Organization, Epigenetics |
| Gill, John | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Clinical outcomes in kidney transplant patients; Access to kidney transplantation; Living donor transplantation; Cardiovascular risk in transplant patients |
| Hayden, Michael | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Genetic medicine; Health counselling; Neurosciences, biological and chemical aspects; Neurosciences, medical and physiological and health aspects; Diabetes; Disease progression; Drug development; Gene Therapy; Genetic Diseases; Huntington disease; Neurodegenerative diseases; Neurodegenerative disorders |
| Hoffman, Bradford | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Understanding how the genes critical to endocrine pancreas development, as well as ?-cell function and proliferation are regulated is essential for the development of novel strategies for the production of insulin-secreting cells, and for improving the efficacy of available transplantable material. |
| Hoppmann, Christiane | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Psychology and cognitive sciences; Aging Process; Social Aspects of Aging; stress; Health Promotion; social determinants of health; Health and well-being across the adult lifespan and into old age; individual differences in goals |
| Jan, Eric | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Biochemistry; Virus; Nucleic Acids; Proteomics; Antiviral innate immunity; Zika; coxsackievirus; enterovirus; Innate immunity; molecular biology; picornavirus; protease; Protein synthesis; RNA; RNA structure function; RNA virus; ribosome; SARS; tRNA; translation; Virology; virus host interactions; mRNA therapeutics |
| Johnson, James | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | diabetes, hormones, cell biology, signal transduction, apoptosis or programmed cell death, heart failure, heart disease, calcium signalling, pancreatic cancer, obesity, longevity, imaging, Causes of type 1 and type 2 diabetes at a molecular level discovery of genes and associated gene networks linked to diabetes risk and by known risk factors that predispose individuals to diabetes |
| Karakochuk, Crystal Dawn | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Human nutrition and dietetics; Nutrition; Global Health and Emerging Diseases; Hematology; Biochemical markers of iron status; Clinical dietetics; Determinants and causes of anemia; Inherited blood disorders (sickle cell, thalassemia, glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase deficiency); International nutrition; Maternal and child nutrition; Micronutrients (namely iron, folic acid, and zinc); Risk-benefit of micronutrient supplementation |
| Khan, Nadia Ahmed | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Ethnic and gender differences in chronic disease incidence and outcomes; Chronic disease prevention and management of Type 2 diabetes, hypertension, stroke, and cardiovascular disease; Hypertension outcomes research |
| Kieffer, Tim | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Diabetes |
| Kopp, Janel | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Genomics; Modeling cancer; Pancreas; Pancreatic cancer; Pancreatic development |
| Laher, Ismail | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Pharmacology and pharmaceutical sciences (except clinical aspects); Cardiovascular diseases; animal models of sleep apnea; Diabetes; exercise; oxidative stress; regulation of small artery tone, mechanisms of pressuce-induced vasomotor responses, exercise, sleep |
| Levin, Adeera | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Hypertension/Renal Transplantation; Medical Education; Outcome/Evaluation Method Applied to Renal Patients |
| Levings, Megan | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Immunology; Cell therapy; Immune tolerance; Transplantation; Autoimmunity; Gene Therapy; Regulatory T cells |
| Loewen, Christopher | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Genomics; Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS); Autism; Cancer Cell Metabolism; Cell Biology; Cell polarity; Endoplasmic Reticulum; Genetic Networks; Golgi; Lipid Signalling; Lipid Traffic; Membrane Contact Sites; Membrane Diffusion Barriers; Membranes and Organelles; Super Resolution Microscopy; Systems Biology |
| Luciani, Dan | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Cell metabolism; Cell differentiation, proliferation and death; Organelle function; Other basic medicine and life sciences; Diabetes; Pancreatic beta-cell function and failure; Mitochondrial physiology; Lysosomal physiology; Cell calcium signalling; Cell stress signalling; Mechanisms of cell death; autophagy; Cellular senescence; fluorescence microscopy |