The Diabetes Action Canada Training and Mentoring Group is pleased to invite you to a webinar – Beyond Banting: From insulin to islet transplants, Canada’s ongoing contribution to diabetes research Objectives: Raise awareness of the achievements Canadian diabetes researchers have made; Share stories about the research process that go beyond the data; Provide information on research […]

By Krista Lamb *This article originally appeared on the BBDC website. It has been 100 years since the discovery of insulin, a seminal event in medical history that has saved the lives of millions of people around the world. It is an exceptional reason to celebrate, which is why the Banting & Best Diabetes Centre, […]

By Krista Lamb Share in an evening of storytelling and science in honour of this life-saving discovery On April 14, 2021 from 4:30 to 8:15 p.m. ET, the Banting & Best Diabetes Centre, Diabetes Action Canada, and the University of Toronto Department of Medicine will bring together a diverse group of speakers to share their […]

Congratulations to our Health Technology Assessment and Network Analytics team, who collaborated on a recent research protocol: Impact of Intersecting Systems of Oppression on Diabetic Retinopathy Screening Among Those Who Identify as Women of Low Socioeconomic Status: Protocol for a Convergent Mixed Methods Study. The protocol, whose lead author is Dr. Aleksandra Stanimirovic, was published […]

  This year, we celebrate the 100th anniversary of the discovery of insulin. To mark this occasion the Banting & Best Diabetes Centre, Diabetes Action Canada, and the University of Toronto Department of Medicine have brought together a diverse group of speakers to share their diabetes stories. On April 14th, 2021 learn the latest approaches […]

[siteorigin_widget class=”SiteOrigin_Widget_Image_Widget”][/siteorigin_widget] At Diabetes Action Canada sex-and gender-based analysis plus (SGBA+) is incredibly important in what we do, but is there a clear understanding of what it means?  Diabetes Action Canada’s Sex and Gender Research Enabling Program would like to shed some light on why SGBA+ is so important in health research and how it can be considered and applied […]

As part of Dr. Jon McGavock’s type 1 diabetes (T1D) and exercise research at the Children’s Hospital Research Institute of Manitoba (CHRIM), his team has developed a series of webinars on this topic. These webinars have been designed based on the lab’s recent priority-setting project, which was done to determine what the most important questions […]