UBCO Diabetes & Obesity Research Day 2025 was held at the UBC Okanagan campus in Kelowna, British Columbia on May 29, 2025.
This academic research day hosted by the University of British Columbia’s BC Diabetes Research Network highlighted the academic diabetes and obesity research from across British Columbia. The academic research day invited graduate students and post doctoral research fellows to present their research discoveries.
We would like to thank our invited keynote speakers Dr Shazhan Amed MD, BC Children’s Hospital and Dr John Ussher, PhD, University of Alberta for sharing their exciting research. Thank you to our sponsors and UBC faculty steering committee for making the meeting possible: Angela Devlin, PhD Mary Jung, PhD, Jonathan Little, PhD, Bruce Verchere, PhD.
Congratulations to our award winners and all the presenters for their incredible work.
Regan Thompson: Moving through time: A longitudinal study of physical activity in children with T1D and CHD
Roderick Sandilands: Metabolic responses to 48-hour fasting and refeeding in adults with and without obesity
Jake Winkler: The DiEt ChoIce to promote type 2 Diabetes rEmission (DECIDE) Trial: A preliminary analysis of dietary preference and baseline characteristics
Serena Trang: The impact of chronic risperidone treatment on the metabolic health of adolescent mice
Melody Cheng: Harnessing regenerative medicine to model type one diabetes in a dish
Hadiil Alfares: Dual incretin agonism and cold exposure improve glucose homeostasis in DIO mice housed at thermoneutrality
Angelina Damico: Investigating effects of movement breaks on glycemic regulation in individuals with type 2 diabetes under free-living conditions
David Tan: Immune modulation by CD19-CAR T cells to prevent type 1 diabetes onset in pre-diabetic mice