Episode 28: Adebola Giwa, MD, Pediatric Endocrinologist at Johns Hopkins Children’s Center

In this episode, Adebola Giwa joins Monica Westley to discuss his bench and clinical research in the type 1 diabetes space. Dr. Giwa is a research investigator in The Hamad Laboratory. His bench research is focused on identifying unconventional lymphocytes and studying their role in the pathogenesis of type 1 diabetes to possibly target them for future immunotherapies. His clinical research involves multi-center clinical trials utilizing islet cell transplants to reestablished insulin production and other beta cell function in people with established type 1 diabetes. 

Checkout his recent publication:

Current understandings of the pathogenesis of type 1 diabetes: Genetics to environment