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Physician, writer. Elliott Proctor Joslin (June 6, 1869 – January 28, 1962) was the first medical doctor in the United States to specialize in diabetes and was the founder of the present-day Joslin Diabetes Center in Boston, Massachusetts. Joslin was involved for seven decades in most aspects of diabetes investigation and treatment, save for ...
Joslin Diabetes Center. Joslin Diabetes Center is the world's largest diabetes research center, diabetes clinic, and provider of diabetes education. It is located in the Longwood Medical and Academic Area in Boston, Massachusetts, United States. Among the Harvard Medical School affiliated institutions, Joslin is unique in its sole focus on ...
Denise Louise Faustman [1] (born 1958 [2]) is an American physician and medical researcher. An associate professor of medicine at Harvard University and director of the Immunobiology Laboratory at Massachusetts General Hospital, her work specializes in diabetes mellitus type 1 (formerly called juvenile diabetes) and other autoimmune diseases. [3]
April 14, 1957. (1957-04-14) (aged 78) Maine, U.S. Occupation. Physician. Frederick Madison Allen (March 16, 1879 – April 14, 1957) was an American physician who is best remembered for his carbohydrate-restricted low-calorie diet for sufferers of diabetes mellitus. He was known for pioneering the "starvation diet". [1]
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Studies with monkeys show that injecting high-insulin-producing forms of these cells into the animals can “cure” type-1 diabetes for about six months. Human trials are underway. But a better ...
Douglas A. Melton is an American medical researcher who is the Xander University Professor at Harvard University, and was an investigator at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute until 2022. [5] Melton serves as the co-director of the Harvard Stem Cell Institute and was the first co-chairman (with David Scadden) of the Harvard University ...
Jeffrey Flier is an American physician, endocrinologist; widely cited scientist; the Higginson Professor of Medicine and Physiology at Harvard Medical School; and a Distinguished Service Professor at the same institution. He was the 21st Dean of the Faculty of Medicine at Harvard University from 2007 to 2016. [1] [2] [3]