Garvan Institute of Medical Research

Leaders in Science

Dr Rohit Kulkarni Senior Investigator, Islet Cell and Regenerative Medicine, Joslin Diabetes Center

Associate Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School

“Using induced pluripotent stem cells for investigating diabetes pathophysiology”

Monday 9 December, 2013 12PM, NAB AUDITORIUM

Host: A/Professor Jenny Gunton

Rohit N. Kulkarni MD PhD is a physician scientist and is currently a Senior Investigator in the Section on Islet Cell and Regenerative Medicine at the Joslin Diabetes Center and Associate Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School. After competing his medical training in Bangalore, Dr Kulkarni

trained in Endocrinology at Hammersmith Hospital and earned his doctoral degree from the University of London in Prof. Sir Steve Bloom’s lab. He subsequently moved to the Joslin Diabetes Center and completed a Post-Doctoral Fellowship in the lab of Prof. C. Ronald Kahn MD and subsequently

appointed to the Faculty at Joslin and Harvard. The major interests of the Kulkarni laboratory have focused on investigating growth factor signaling mechanisms in islet cells, understanding inter-organ cross talk (e.g. between islets and liver/adipose), and differentiation of induced pluripotent stem cells

derived from patients with MODY and type 1 and type 2 diabetes with the long term goal of producing functional beta cells. He is the recipient of the Endocrine Society’s Ernst Oppenheimer Award for Outstanding Research, an elected member of the American Society for Clinical Investigation, recipient

of the Endocrine Society Visiting Professorship of Endogenous Pancreas Preservation and is a Merck-Frosst Distinguished Speaker.