4th annual conference
Current challenges in diabetes research
January 15th 2016
Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland
08:30
Registration
09:00
Official opening
Dr. Ruth Davis 3U Partnership
Dr. Donal O’Gorman, 3U Diabetes Partnership
09:30
Update on National Clinical Programme for Diabetes
Dr. Ronan Canavan, National Clinical Lead in Diabetes, Consultant Endocrinologist St. Vincent’s University
Hospital, Dublin.
10:00
All in the mind? A research-based approach to stopping problematic hypoglycaemia in diabetes
treatments
Prof. Stephanie Amiel, RD Lawrence Professor of Diabetic Medicine, Kings College, London.
10:50
Coffee
11:10
Chair: Dr. Rachel Crowley, Consultant Endocrinologist, St. Vincent’s University Hospital, Dublin.
Pancreatic Islet Transplantation
Prof. James Shaw, Professor of Regenerative Medicine for Diabetes, Newcastle University, UK and Chair of
the UK Islet Transplantation Consortium.
12:00
Enhancing Islet Delivery Using Biomaterials – the DRIVE Consortium
Dr. Garry Duffy, Lecturer in Anatomy RCSI, Director, DRIVE consortium.
12:50
Lunch
13.30
Chair: Dr. Maria Byrne, Consultant Endocrinologist, Mater University Hospital, Dublin.
Regulation of Incretin Secretion
Dr. Josephine Egan, Chief, Diabetes Section, National Institute of Aging, Baltimore, USA.
14.20
Modulation of enteroendocrine cell lineage: impact of metabolic diseases in Human and mice
Dr. Agnes Ribeiro, Centre de Recherche des Cordeliers, Paris.
15:10
Coffee
15:30
Chair: Dr. Maeve Durkan, Consultant Endocrinogist, Bons Secours Hospital, Cork
Unravelling causal mechanisms for beta-cell dysfunction in type 2 diabetes
Prof. Anna Gloyn, Wellcome Trust Senior Fellow, Oxford Centre for Diabetes, Endocrinology and
Metabolism, Oxford, UK.
16:20
Beta-cell dedifferentiation as a cause of beta-cell failure in diabetes
Prof. Domenico Accili, Director, Columbia University Diabetes and Endocrinology Research Centre, New
York, USA.
17:10
Concluding remarks:
Dr. Donal O’Gorman