Qinghua Wang
management team
Diamyd Medical
Sweden
Biography
Wang serves as Senior Scientist in the Keenan Research Centre of the Li Ka Shing Knowledge Institute of St. Michael's Hospital in Toronto, and as Staff Scientist in the Division of Endocrinology and Metabolism, St. Michael's Hospital. He is also Lecturing Professor at Fudan University, Shanghai, in China. Professor Wang and colleagues were first to demonstrate that GABA has dual actions: beta cell replication and anti-inflammation, and showed that GABA treatment prevented and partially reversed type 1 diabetes in mice. Efforts are under way to investigate whether GABA is effective in treating type 1 diabetes in humans. Professor Wang has been a member of the Scientific and Medical Advisory Board since 2013.
Research Interest
Endocrinology
