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Congratulations to @AnaDomingosLab and the team on this beautiful @NatureMetabolism paper! Elegant work uncovering a previously unrecognized neuroendocrine mechanism linking leptin, sympathetic nerves, and protection against obesity. Nat Metab. 2026 Jul 13. doi: 10.1038/s42255-026-01555-3 touchstonelabs.org/wp-content/upl…

Congratulations to @KaiSun and colleagues on this outstanding @CellReports paper! A compelling study revealing how myeloid MMP14 links extracellular matrix remodeling, endotrophin generation, inflammation, and metabolic dysfunction in obesity. An important advance in immunometabolism. Cell Rep. 2026 Jul 9;45(7):117681. touchstonelabs.org/wp-content/upl…

Congratulations to the @LipedemaFdn on the publication of this outstanding collaborative effort! A shared research framework will help move the lipedema field forward through better, more comparable science. Well done to everyone involved! 🎉 Front Glob Womens Health . 2026 Jun 24:7:1833913

Congratulations to Rodrigo Fernandez-Verdejo and Eric Ravussin for their elegant endotrophin measurements during acute weight gain and weight loss. That makes endotrophin a dynamic indicator of adipose tissue remodeling rather than simply a marker of obesity. It also suggests that therapies targeting endotrophin could complement weight-loss approaches by directly addressing the harmful biological consequences of dysfunctional fat tissue. Metabolism. 2026 Jun 19:182:156679 touchstonelabs.org/wp-content/upl…

Congratulations to Clair Crewe for her work published in Nature Communications on the remarkable observation that adipocytes lacking the gene encoding SMPD3 can replenish SMPD3 mRNA by signaling to surrounding immune cell-like preadipocytes to release EVs that carry SMPD3 mRNA! A remarkable observation! Nat Commun,. 2026;17(1):5119 touchstonelabs.org/wp-content/upl…

Touchstone Diabetes Center group meeting 7/6/26 Link for full presentation touchstonelabs.org/wp-content/upl…

Touchstone Diabetes Center group meeting 6/29/26 Link for full presentation touchstonelabs.org/wp-content/upl…

Touchstone Diabetes Center group meeting 6/22/26 Link for full presentation touchstonelabs.org/wp-content/upl…

Congratulations to Takashi Kadowaki for winning the Banting Prize and to Timo Mueller for winning the Outstanding Scientific Achievement Award at the recent scientific sessions of the American Diabetes Association in New Orleans!

Congratulations to Timo Mueller for his quintuple agonist paper in Nature (Nature. 2026 May;653(8115):776-785) and to the Kusminski group who contributed to it! touchstonelabs.org/wp-content/upl…

Touchstone Diabetes Center group meeting 6/1/26 Link for full presentation touchstonelabs.org/wp-content/upl…

Touchstone Diabetes Center group meeting 5/18/26 Link for full presentation touchstonelabs.org/wp-content/upl…

Touchstone Diabetes Center group meeting 5/11/26 Link for full presentation touchstonelabs.org/wp-content/upl…

Touchstone Diabetes Center group meeting 5/4/26 Link for full presentation touchstonelabs.org/wp-content/upl…

I’m thrilled to be a Keynote Speaker at the International Diabetes Federation Western Pacific Region Congress 2026, held in conjunction with the Australasian Diabetes Congress (ADC 2026) and Metabolic Diseases 2026, in Melbourne from 18 - 21 August 2026. Together, the combined Congress will bring clinicians, researchers, educators and policy leaders from across the Western Pacific Region and internationally to explore the latest advances in diabetes and metabolic disease research, care and policy.

Touchstone Diabetes Center group meeting 4/27/26 Link for full presentation touchstonelabs.org/wp-content/upl…

Touchstone Diabetes Center group meeting 4/13/26 Link for full presentation touchstonelabs.org/wp-content/upl…

Touchstone Diabetes Center group meeting 4/6/26 Link for full presentation touchstonelabs.org/wp-content/upl…

Touchstone Diabetes Center group meeting 3/30/26 Link for full presentation touchstonelabs.org/wp-content/upl…

Touchstone Diabetes Center group meeting 3/16/26 Link for full presentation touchstonelabs.org/wp-content/upl…