{"id":48477,"date":"2018-07-18T12:30:42","date_gmt":"2018-07-18T16:30:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsroom.carleton.ca\/?p=48477"},"modified":"2025-08-19T09:36:42","modified_gmt":"2025-08-19T13:36:42","slug":"cihr-supports-carleton-study-on-the-impact-of-pollutants-on-diabetes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/2018\/cihr-supports-carleton-study-on-the-impact-of-pollutants-on-diabetes\/","title":{"rendered":"CIHR Supports Carleton Study on the Impact of Pollutants on Diabetes"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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\n CIHR Supports Carleton Study on the Impact of Pollutants on Diabetes\n <\/h1>\n \n \n <\/header>\n\n <\/div>\n\n <\/div>\n\n <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n

Carleton University\u2019s Jenny Bruin<\/a>, professor in the Department of Biology<\/a> is receiving approximately $750,000 from the Canadian Institutes for Health Research<\/a> (CIHR) to support her innovative research on the factors that trigger diabetes onset and progression.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThis funding will enable Bruin\u2019s team to carry out thorough studies on factors impacting this serious health issue facing Canadians and to contribute to informed policy development,\u201d said Rafik Goubran, vice-president (Research and International).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Cases of diabetes are rising at an alarming rate, yet the factors that trigger its onset and drive its progression are still poorly understood. Generally, diabetes is caused by a deficiency in insulin-secreting beta cells, which are located throughout the pancreas in endocrine clusters called islets. There is mounting evidence that exposure to environmental chemicals is linked to increased diabetes risk, but the effects of pollutants on beta cells are only beginning to emerge.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“We will study how environmental pollutants impact the specialized cells in our pancreas that produce insulin and regulate blood sugar levels,\u201d said Bruin. \u201cWe will also measure the concentration of pollutants in the pancreas of human organ donors to evaluate the level of exposure in Canadians. Our work will inform clinicians and policy-makers about chemicals that may be involved in diabetes risk.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Carleton University\u2019s Jenny Bruin, professor in the Department of Biology is receiving approximately $750,000 from the Canadian Institutes for Health Research (CIHR) to support her innovative research on the factors that trigger diabetes onset and progression. \u201cThis funding will enable Bruin\u2019s team to carry out thorough studies on factors impacting this serious health issue facing […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":410,"featured_media":48478,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[88,175,91],"class_list":["post-48477","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-releases","tag-awards","tag-biology","tag-research"],"acf":{"cu_post_thumbnail":false},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48477","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/410"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48477"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48477\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48480,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48477\/revisions\/48480"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/48478"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48477"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48477"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48477"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}