Recipients
of the EFSD Grant Awards

for Collaborative Diabetes Research between China and Europe
supported by Bristol Myers-Squibb Company (BMS)



2007:

Weiping Jia - Shanghai Diabetes Institute/Oxford Centre for Diabetes
Analysis in samples of East Asian origin of type 2 diabetes susceptibility regions found in genome-wide association scans in European subjects

Ying Liu - Peking Union Medical College/Karolinska Institute
Genetic and functional analyses of the genes related to oxidative metabolisms in the development of type 2 diabetes

Shuixian Shen - Fudan University Children's Hospital/Karolinska Institute
Study on the role of genes of innate immunity in the aetiology of type 1 diabetes

Hongbin Sun - China Pharmaceutical University/University of Newcastle
Curing diabetes in a natural way: research and development of pentacyclic triterpenes as natural modulators of glycogen metabolism

Qihua Tan - Qingdao University/Odense University Hospital
A genome-wide linkage analysis on metabolic/intermediate phenotypes predisposing to type 2 diabetes in the Chinese population

2006:

Dai-Qing Li - Tianjin Medical University/Malmö University Hospital
Biphasic insulin release regulated by calcium- and chloride-channels

Guangwei Li - China-Japan Friendship Hospital/Aarhus University Hospital
Glucotoxicity and the pancreatic alpha cell function: does glucotoxicity induce insulin resistance to the alpha cell?

Zhiguang Zho - Central South University/University of London
Prevalence and genetic characteristics of LADA patients in Chinese