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Physiologist, Mentor, Prof Medicine, Acting Director UBC Life Sci Inst, IPTN cofounder, exPharmaVP (NNRCO). Views≠employer's RT≠endorse Dad/Hub/HockeyGuy he/him
Aug 1, 2019 8 tweets 5 min read
1/ After ~5y of experiments/analysis, our peer-reviewed manuscript testing the 'insulin-cancer' hypothesis is online. Primarily work of talented PhD student @annizubc co-supervised by @JanelKopp and myself. Funded - @SRC_CRS @CCSResearch BC Pancreas Centre cell.com/cell-metabolis… 2/ The paper is really quite straightforward. Reducing endogenous insulin production, even slightly (first panel), leads to a significant reduction in the development of pancreatic cancer (next 2 panels - dark purple is normal pancreatic acinar tissue, light is PanIN lesions).