A French Lilac transforms into pancreatic buds.
Metformin is derived from the French Lilac and is the most common oral Type 2 Diabetes medication.
I am a pediatric endocrinologist. This means that I spend my clinical time helping to care for children with diabetes and metabolic disease. This rewarding work has fueled my passion to understand how to identify children at risk of diabetes at a young age and design interventions to prevent this from happening. My dream is that our research may one day help to slow the progression of or prevent diabetes, a demanding lifelong disease. Did you know that a child’s risk for diabetes may start in the womb or early in life? Our group works every day to understand how these critical early time periods so that we can find the molecular key to improving lifetime metabolic health.