Ivan A. Valdez, PhD

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My PhD work at Harvard, in Rohit Kulkarni's lab at the Joslin Diabetes Center, showed that inflammatory signals can push pancreatic duct cells toward an endocrine fate. In Ralph DeFronzo's group at UT Health San Antonio, Luke Norton and I found that inflammatory lipotoxicity keeps β-cell function impaired in islets from obese mice, even after glucose is corrected.

I now teach anatomy and physiology at the University of San Diego, and I write about diabetes and metabolism for readers outside the lab.

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