Ottawa Hospital Research Institute

Type 1 diabetes

The Ottawa Hospital is conducting cutting-edge research to improve our understanding of type-1 diabetes and develop better treatments. This page includes selected news stories about our type-1 diabetes research and links to researchers working in this area. Learn more below.

Research News

	Chance discovery linking diet to type 1 diabetes started whole new field of research October 22, 2018 - In the early 1980's, Dr. Fraser Scott was conducting nutritional studies on rats that were supposed to develop type 1 diabetes—except they didn't. He discovered that changing the diet of these diabetes-prone rodents had prevented the disease. Making
	New blood sugar monitoring a game-changer for pregnant women with type 1 diabetes October 24, 2017 - Fifteen women at The Ottawa Hospital took part in an international clinical trial that could change the way mothers with type 1 diabetes monitor their blood sugar levels. Mothers with this condition have a higher risk of having children with health c

Researchers

Name	Scientific appointment	Diseases, conditions and populations of interest	Research and clinical approaches
Burger, Dylan PhD	Senior Scientist (Chronic Disease)	Aging, Chronic disease, Diabetes, Heart disease, Hypertension, Kidney disease, Maternal and fetal health, Obesity, Thrombosis / thromboembolism, Type 1 diabetes, Vascular cognitive impairment, Vascular, heart and metabolic disease	Basic research, Biomarkers, Disease models, Exercise, Extracellular vesicles / exosomes, Imaging, Model organisms, Molecular and cellular biology, Pharmacology, Proteomics, Regenerative medicine, Stem cells, Transgenic/knockout models, Translational research

Related Resources

Diabetes research at The Ottawa Hospital

The Ottawa Hospital’s Diabetes, Obesity, Metabolism and Endocrinology (DOME) Research Centre

The Ottawa Hospital’s Foustanellas Endocrine and Diabetes Centre

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