Local Diabetes researchers win awards at National Conference

Many diabetes researchers from the Exeter Medical School attended the recent Diabetes UK annual proffesional conference in Glasgow to present their research and meet up with other researchers from around the country. 

Two reseachers won presidious awards for their presentations. Dr Tim McDonald won the Lilly Diabetes Clinical Research prize, for his work on screening for genetic causes of diabetes in babies and Dr Kashyap Patel won the Nick Hales Young Investigator award for his work investigating a gene that causes diabetes in young people. 

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