GW Researcher Receives $1.3 Million for Type 2 Diabetes Study

A Columbian College researcher will receive $1.3 million over the next five years from the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK) for research that will help better understand how type 2 diabetes develops, possibly informing the development of novel treatments to reverse the disease. The research by Aleksander Jeremic is particularly important given 150 million people worldwide suffer from type 2 diabetes--a number expected to double over the next 20 years.