Prof Thomas Coffman, Dean, Duke-NUS, talks about the initiatives of DYNAMO (the Diabetes Study in Nephropathy And other Microvascular Complications) towards reducing the prevalence of diabetic kidney disease in Singapore and around the world in an interview on Channel News Asia's 'Singapore Tonight' on 5 July 2019. He was joined by
Prof Nick Wareham, Director, MRC Epidemiology Unit, and Co-Director, Institute of Metabolic Science, School of Clinical Medicine, University of Cambridge, who shared about genetic determinants and obesity traits on this primetime news programme.
The DYNAMO’s Scientific Advisory Board also convened in Singapore on 5 July 2019 to review the study’s progress and held a half-day symposium to share the latest scientific insights on diabetic kidney disease (DKD). The speakers included
Prof Katalin Susztak, Professor of Medicine and Genetics at the University of Pennsylvania, USA, who shared on ‘Advances in diabetic kidney disease: What we learned from Single Cell Sequencing’;
Prof Mark Cooper, Head of the Department of Diabetes, Central Clinical School, Monash University, Australia, who shared on ‘New targets for diabetic kidney disease’ and
Prof Nick Wareham, Director, MRC Epidemiology Unit, and Co-Director, Institute of Metabolic Science, School of Clinical Medicine, University of Cambridge, who shared on ‘Genetic determinants of diabetes and obesity traits’.
