{"id":17675,"date":"2016-12-21T14:36:29","date_gmt":"2016-12-21T19:36:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/chemistry\/?p=17675"},"modified":"2016-12-21T14:36:29","modified_gmt":"2016-12-21T19:36:29","slug":"dr-arturo-vegas-highlighted-in-bu-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/chemistry\/2016\/12\/21\/dr-arturo-vegas-highlighted-in-bu-today\/","title":{"rendered":"Dr. Arturo Vegas Highlighted in BU Today"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Chemist Arturo Vegas wins $1.4 million NIH grant to develop therapies that intervene at early stage of disease<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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Dr. Arturo Vegas was recently featured in BU Today for his research into Type 1 Diabetes. The full article is called “New Targets to Treat Type 1 Diabetes”<\/a>\u00a0and there’s an excerpt from the article by Barbara Moran is below.<\/p>\n

For more information about Dr. Vegas visit his Faculty Page<\/a>\u00a0and for more on his research group visit the Vegas Group Page<\/a>.<\/p>\n

“Type 1 diabetes is rare but devastating. A person\u2019s own immune system attacks the pancreas, destroying insulin-producing tissue and the body\u2019s ability to regulate blood sugar. About five percent of people with diabetes\u2014approximately 1.25 million Americans\u2014have this form of the disease, according to the American Diabetes Association<\/a>. Unregulated blood sugar can lead to blindness, kidney failure, and death.<\/p>\n

Scientists aren\u2019t sure what causes type 1 diabetes, though they suspect that a genetic predisposition, combined with an environmental trigger, causes a sudden disruption in the immune system that causes it to attack the body\u2019s own tissue. The only treatment is a lifetime of careful blood sugar monitoring, with insulin injections as needed.<\/p>\n

But what if there were a way to block the immune system before the damage was done, preserving at least some of the pancreas\u2019 ability to produce insulin? That\u2019s the goal of Arturo Vegas, a Boston University College of Arts & Sciences assistant professor of chemistry, whose lab combines biology, chemistry, materials science, and engineering to develop targeted therapies for complex diseases like diabetes. He recently was awarded a prestigious $1.4 million Type 1 Diabetes Pathfinder Award from the National Institutes of Health<\/a> (NIH) to pursue the work.”<\/p>\n

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Congratulations Dr. Vegas!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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