My research focus is on early life determinants of type 2 diabetes and renal disease in children and adolescents, with a particular interest in the impacts of the psychological, economic, and social impacts on wholistic health of all children living with diabetes. Current research is evaluating the fetal origins of childhood onset type 2 diabetes, including in utero and epigenetic … Read More
Elizabeth Sellers, MD, MSc
My main areas of research focus are on pediatrics, endocrinology and metabolism, epidemiology, type 1 diabetes, type 2 diabetes, obesity, and metabolic syndrome. Contact: esellers@hsc.mb.ca Currently accepting students.
Meaghan Jones, PhD
My current focus is on the role of epigenetic changes in the link between environmental exposures in early life and later-onset chronic illness, including diabetes. Students and staff in my lab have the opportunity to use large epigenetic data sets from human birth cohort studies to discover epigenetic changes associated with specific environmental exposures. These findings inform further experiments using … Read More
Christine Doucette, PhD
Research in the Doucette Lab is focused on defining the molecular and metabolic factors that regulate pancreatic insulin secretion and importantly, learning how these factors are disrupted in the development of type 2 diabetes. Being a pre-clinical laboratory, Dr. Christine Doucette and her team use rodent and cell models to “reverse engineer” diabetes so they can explore the pathological mechanisms … Read More
Vern Dolinsky, PhD
Gestational diabetes mellitus is the most common complication of pregnancy. It is also a risk factor for the development of diabetes in children. My research is focused on investigating the fundamental mechanisms involved in the development of gestational diabetes and how gestational diabetes contributes to the development of obesity, diabetes and related cardiovascular disease in youth. Our aim is to … Read More