We're looking forward to welcoming four internationally renowned guest speakers to Toronto in 2026/2027. Attendance to our Seminar Series is open to faculty, staff, students, and trainees at the University of Toronto and University of Toronto-affiliated institutions. Join us! bbdc.org/events/

🌟 Grant opportunity! 🌟 This program provides grants of up to $40,000 per application to enable eligible investigators to explore new diabetes research initiatives in the area of biomedical research. Up to two awards are available for this competition. bbdc.org/funding/fund...

Diabetes Team Of The Year Award 2026! This award recognizes a diabetes team’s efforts and achievements that go above and beyond evidence-based practices in the field of diabetes education, patient care, or advocacy. Learn more and apply! bbdc.org/funding/fund...

⏰ Deadline approaching! The Innovative Diabetes Quality Improvement Grants 2027/2028 are aimed at healthcare professionals who wish to pursue innovative projects for improving the quality of diabetes care. Deadline is 4 p.m. ET on September 15, 2026. bbdc.org/funding/fund...

Innovative Diabetes Quality Improvement Grants 2027/2028 - Banting & Best Diabetes Centre

We are the nexus for diabetes research and education across the University of Toronto and its affiliate institutes.

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Thanks to everyone who joined us for today's Charles Hollenberg Summer Student Poster Session. And special congratulations to our winner, Brooke D'Mello and runner up Aryen Muravvej!

The Novo Nordisk-BBDC New Investigator Award supports an independent scientist or clinician-scientist in the early stage of their career who is conducting diabetes research. Learn more: bbdc.org/funding/fund...

Join us for the Charles Hollenberg Summer Student Poster Day on August 5 from 1 - 3:30pm at the UofT Medical Sciences Building; David Naylor Student Commons, ground floor. See a list of the posters here: mcusercontent.com/1c03b180f92a...

Congratulations to BBDC members Drs. Mahavir Agarwal and Margaret Hahn, along with Kateryna Maksyutynska, on their brief, published in Nature's Neuropsychopharmacology journal. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Is abnormal brain insulin action implicated in the biology of depression? A pilot neuroimaging study in adolescents - Neuropsychopharmacology

Neuropsychopharmacology - Is abnormal brain insulin action implicated in the biology of depression? A pilot neuroimaging study in adolescents

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Our Trainee Travel Awards are now open! Awards of up to $1,000 CAD are available for trainees to present a first-authored or co-first authored diabetes-focused abstract at an online or in-person conference between July 1 to December 31, 2026. bbdc.org/funding/fund...

Our recent BBDC member feature looks at the research of Dr. Sonia Grandi, MSc PhD from The Hospital for Sick Children. Learn more about her work: bbdc.org/newsletters/...

BBDC members - apply for our Innovative Diabetes Quality Improvement Grants 2027/2028! This funding opportunity is aimed at healthcare professionals who wish to pursue innovative projects for improving the quality of diabetes care. bbdc.org/funding/fund...

The Drucker Family Innovation Fund Grants is a joint funding program between the BBDC and the University Health Network/Mount Sinai Hospital Department of Medicine. Up to four grants of $75,000 are available this year - learn more and apply! bbdc.org/funding/fund...

Join us on Monday, June 22, 2026 from 12:00 - 1:30 p.m. when ​Ido Goldstein, Ph.D. will give a seminar on the metabolic logic of fasting-feeding cycles and how transcription factors control it. For more information and to register: luma.com/hlqenm2f

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PRiME Connaught Global Speaker Series, co-hosted by PRiME and the Banting & Best Diabetes Centre,, continues in May 2026 with Ido Goldstein, PhD The Hebrew…

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Congratulations to BBDC member Dr. Tony Lam from University Health Network on having his Tier 1 Canada Research Chair in Diabetes and Obesity renewed!

Our 2025 Diabetes Team of the Year is the Langs Diabetes Education Program in Cambridge. The award recognizes a diabetes team’s efforts and achievements that go above and beyond evidence-based practices in diabetes education, patient care, or advocacy. Learn more! bbdc.org/news/langs-d...

Langs Diabetes Education Program Named 2025 Diabetes Team of the Year - Banting & Best Diabetes Centre

We are the nexus for diabetes research and education across the University of Toronto and its affiliate institutes.

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Today was our 35th Annual Scientific Day - and what a terrific day of learning and networking it was! Thanks to all our speakers and attendees. And special congratulations to all of our poster award winners on an excellent job!

Today is National Physicians Day, which is an opportunity for the BBDC to recognize the extraordinary contribution physicians make to diabetes care. We are lucky to have a number of clinician-scientists as members, and we're pleased to highlight some of them in the photo below.

Research from the @danieljdrucker.bsky.social lab, led by María Jesús González Rellán, have found that semaglutide acts directly on a subset of liver cells to improve organ function – independently of weight loss. Learn more in this article from UofT! www.utoronto.ca/news/glp-1-m...

GLP-1 medicine improves liver health independent of weight loss: Study

Researchers have found that semaglutide, the active ingredient in popular weight loss drugs that mimic the gut hormone GLP-1, acts directly on a subset of liver cells to improve organ function – and d...

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BBDC member @danieljdrucker.bsky.social discusses his research in the latest University of Toronto Magazine. Read the story now! magazine.utoronto.ca/research-ide...

The Story Behind Ozempic | U of T Magazine - U of T Magazine

A scientific detour reshaped how we treat diabetes and obesity Read More

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⏰ Deadline approaching! Registration for our upcoming Scientific Day is required and will close at 4 p.m. on May 1st - don't miss out!! Learn more and register: www.eventbrite.com/e/bbdc-35th-...

BBDC 35th Annual Scientific Day

In-person event to be held on Friday, May 8, 2026 at the Old Mill, Toronto.

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Congrats to BBDC researcher Jacqueline Beaudry on being a 2026 recipient of a Temerty Faculty of Medicine Research Excellence Award. These awards celebrate excellence and innovation of early to mid-career researchers in basic and clinical sciences. rhse.temertymedicine.utoronto.ca/news/temerty...

Please note that due to unforeseen circumstances, this session and the trainee meeting to follow has been cancelled. We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause.

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BBDC Members - Join us on Tuesday, April 14 at 10 a.m. for a presentation by Sonja Schrepfer, M.D., Ph.D. on Protecting Allogeneic Transplants from Immune Rejection is the Key to Bringing Cell-based Therapies to Patients. This session will be in person only. bbdc.org/event/protec...

Thanks to everyone who attended today's BBDC Trainee Lab Seminar! We had excellent presentations from Farhan Khan (supervised by Daniel Winer MD), Mihir Parikh (supervised by Jacqueline Beaudry, PhD) and Kyla Bruce (supervised Tony Lam).

BBDC members - Join us on May 8 for our 35th Annual Scientific Day. This is a day of education and networking for BBDC members, trainees, and U of T endocrine residents interested in collaborative diabetes-related research. Learn more and register: www.eventbrite.com/e/bbdc-35th-...

BBDC 35th Annual Scientific Day

In-person event to be held on Friday, May 8, 2026 at the Old Mill, Toronto.

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Excited to share our new paper in Nat Comms on how human stem cell-derived pancreatic progenitors choose between islet and enterochromaffin (EC)-like fates - and how we can steer that choice! A story in a few tweets… Full paper 👉 doi.org/10.1038/s414...

BBDC Members - Join us for the next Trainee Lab Seminar on April 10 at 12pm. Trainees supervised by Drs. Tony Lam, Daniel Winer, and Jacqueline Beaudry, will present their latest research. Learn more and register! bbdc.org/event/traine...

BBDC Members - Join us on Tuesday, April 14 at 10 a.m. for a presentation by Sonja Schrepfer, M.D., Ph.D. on Protecting Allogeneic Transplants from Immune Rejection is the Key to Bringing Cell-based Therapies to Patients. This session will be in person only. bbdc.org/event/protec...

Protecting Allogeneic Transplants from Immune Rejection is the Key to Bringing Cell-based Therapies to Patients - Banting & Best Diabetes Centre

Protecting Allogeneic Transplants from Immune Rejection is the Key to Bringing Cell-based Therapies to Patients

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Thanks to all who attended today's Seminar Series with Maléne Lindholm PhD. This was a wonderful opportunity to learn about the molecular terrain of exercise.

Thanks to all who attended today's Seminar Series with Maléne Lindholm, PhD. This was a wonderful opportunity to learn about the molecular terrain of exercise.

BBDC members - join us tomorrow at 10am for our Seminar Series. Maléne Lindholm, PhD will join us from Stanford University to discuss Charting the molecular terrain of exercise – towards the goal of precision exercise health. This event is in-person only. bbdc.org/events/bbdc-...