Verchere, Bruce
Professor
Department of Surgery, and Department of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine
University of British Columbia
Canada
Biography
Degrees / Designations: PhD Primary Area of Research: Childhood Diseases Grants CIHR Operating Grant - Project: "Amyloid-induced islet inflammation and beta cell dysfunction" Honours & Awards CIHR Institute of Nutrition, Metabolism and Diabetes New Institute Advisory Member Best overall abstract, World Artificial-Organ, Implants and Transplantation Society (WAITS) Symposium, Ottawa - 2001 Outstanding Young Alumnus Award, University of British Columbia - 2000 Research and Discovery Award, Department of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine, University of British Columbia - 1999 Medical Research Council of Canada Scholarship / Canadian Institutes of Health Research New Investigator Award - 1998 Albert Renold Fellowship (European Association for the Study of Diabetes) - 1996 Medical Research Council of Canada Post-Doctoral Fellowship - 1993 Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation Post-Doctoral Fellowship - 1992
Research Interest
Type 1 diabetes and type 2 diabetes Beta cell biology, islet amyloid, amylin, insulin, prohormone processing, apoptosis, hormone secretion, transgenic mice, islet transplantation, autoantigens, histology
