Dr. Steven Shoelson at The Joslin International Symposium on Diabetes

during the 2013 joslin international symposium on diabetes scientists gathered in Boston to talk about their research in honor of doctor C Ronald Kahn a man who has made tremendous contributions to the fight against diabetes we caught up with a few Joslin researchers who spoke at the event We are trying to understand how to improve diabetes using an old approach an anti-inflammatory approach to bring blood glucose levels down I'll be presenting the data from our most recent trial that is been just recently published and we've also been trying to understand in greater detail how this drug works and we have found that works very similar to the way that metformin works which is the most used diabetes drug in the World whose mechanism isn't understood so that's been very informative to find out that we have similar mechanisms and we actually know a lot about the mechanisms so salicylate so we're learning a lot about how metformin works in parallel