Banting & Best Diabetes Centre

The nexus for diabetes research and education across the University of Toronto and its affiliate institutes. We will improve diabetes-related health globally.

[Sinai Health @SinaiHealth]

Last night, Sinai Health's Dr. Bernard Zinman took his place in the @CdnMedHallFame, joining the ranks of the country's most celebrated health sciences pioneers 🏅👏

Read more about Dr. Zinman's outstanding contributions to diabetes care: https://t.co/q4yuY9meM5

[Banting & Best Diabetes Centre @BBDC_UofT]

The Drucker Family Innovation Fund Grants is a joint funding program between the BBDC and the University Health Network/Mount Sinai Hospital Department of Medicine. Up to four grants of $75,000 are available this year - learn more and apply! https://t.co/GbehXH7s5m

[Banting & Best Diabetes Centre @BBDC_UofT]

Join us on Monday, June 22, 2026 from 12:00 - 1:30 p.m. when ​Ido Goldstein, Ph.D. will give a seminar on the metabolic logic of fasting-feeding cycles and how transcription factors control it.

For more information and to register: https://t.co/k7AvnrF1sS

[Banting & Best Diabetes Centre @BBDC_UofT]

Congratulations to BBDC member Dr. @TonyKTLam from University Health Network on having his Tier 1 Canada Research Chair in Diabetes and Obesity renewed!

[Banting & Best Diabetes Centre @BBDC_UofT]

Our 2025 Diabetes Team of the Year is the Langs Diabetes Education Program in Cambridge. The award recognizes a team’s efforts and achievements that go above and beyond evidence-based practices in diabetes education, patient care, or advocacy. Learn more! https://t.co/zLSLOOP21A

[Banting & Best Diabetes Centre @BBDC_UofT]

Congratulations to BBDC member Dr. Mahavir Agarwal on being named a Canada Research Chair!

[CAMH @CAMHnews]

The Canada Research Chairs Program aims to make #Canada a top country in #research.

We’re thrilled to share that Dr. Daisy Singla and Dr. Mahavir Agarwal have each been awarded a Canada Research Chair in recognition of their outstanding research leadership.

[Banting & Best Diabetes Centre @BBDC_UofT]

Today was our 35th Annual Scientific Day - and what a terrific day of learning and networking it was! Thanks to all our speakers and attendees. And special congratulations to all of our poster award winners on an excellent job!

[Banting & Best Diabetes Centre @BBDC_UofT]

Today is National Physicians Day, which is an opportunity for the BBDC to recognize the extraordinary contribution physicians make to diabetes care. We are lucky to have a number of clinician-scientists as members, and we're pleased to highlight some of them in the photo below.

[Banting & Best Diabetes Centre @BBDC_UofT]

Research from the @DanielJDrucker lab, led by María Jesús González Rellán, have found that semaglutide acts directly on a subset of liver cells to improve organ function – independently of weight loss. Learn more in this article from UofT!
https://t.co/veDsos06ew

[Banting & Best Diabetes Centre @BBDC_UofT]

BBDC member @DanielJDrucker discusses his research in the latest University of Toronto Magazine. Read the story now!
https://t.co/sxuSA0siyA

[CIHR @CIHR_IRSC]

We’re proud to announce that CIHR-funded researcher @DanielJDrucker has won the Governor General’s Innovation Award for his groundbreaking work on GLP‑1 and GLP‑2, advancing life-changing therapies for diabetes and obesity: https://t.co/0SnfPCTTia

[Banting & Best Diabetes Centre @BBDC_UofT]

Congrats to BBDC researcher Jacqueline Beaudry, PhD on being a 2026 recipient of a Temerty Faculty of Medicine Research Excellence Award.
These awards celebrate excellence and innovation of early to mid-career researchers in basic and clinical sciences.
https://t.co/2TMwSxMIqC

[Banting & Best Diabetes Centre @BBDC_UofT]

Please note that due to unforeseen circumstances, this session and the trainee meeting to follow has been cancelled. We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause.

[Banting & Best Diabetes Centre @BBDC_UofT]

BBDC Members - Join us on Tuesday, April 14 at 10am for a presentation by Sonja Schrepfer, M.D. on Protecting Allogeneic Transplants from Immune Rejection is the Key to Bringing Cell-based Therapies to Patients. This session will be in person only. https://t.co/BRkaH4Dtc0

[Banting & Best Diabetes Centre @BBDC_UofT]

Thanks to everyone who attended today's BBDC Trainee Lab Seminar! We had excellent presentations from Farhan Khan (supervised by Daniel Winer MD), Mihir Parikh (supervised by Jacqueline Beaudry, PhD) and Kyla Bruce (supervised Tony Lam).

[Sinai Health @SinaiHealth]

Congratulations to Dr. @DanielJDrucker, a 2026 Governor General's Innovation Award laureate! 🏅

This award celebrates Canadians who improve lives through innovation & Dr. Drucker's GLP-1 & GLP-2 discoveries have done exactly that.

Learn more ➡️ https://t.co/XgjB2nWLV5

[Paraish S. Misra, M.D. @ParaishM]

Excited to share our new paper in Nat Comms on how human stem cell-derived pancreatic progenitors choose between islet and enterochromaffin (EC)-like fates - and how we can steer that choice! A story in a few tweets…
Full paper 👉 https://t.co/auNYTcqIqG

[Banting & Best Diabetes Centre @BBDC_UofT]

BBDC Members - Join us for the next Trainee Lab Seminar on April 10 at 12pm. Trainees supervised by Drs. Tony Lam, Daniel Winer, and Jacqueline Beaudry, will present their latest research. Learn more and register! https://t.co/YkFC6r3EBz

[Banting & Best Diabetes Centre @BBDC_UofT]

BBDC Members - Join us on Tuesday, April 14 at 10am for a presentation by Sonja Schrepfer, M.D. on Protecting Allogeneic Transplants from Immune Rejection is the Key to Bringing Cell-based Therapies to Patients. This session will be in person only. https://t.co/BRkaH4Dtc0

[Banting & Best Diabetes Centre @BBDC_UofT]

Today, we are highlighting the five talented women in science who sit on our Research Excellence Committee: Drs. Jacqueline Beaudry, Tara MacDonald, Caitlin Maikawa, Kacey Prentice, and Sara Nunes Vasconcelos.

[Banting & Best Diabetes Centre @BBDC_UofT]

March 8 is International Women's Day. This is an opportunity to recognize the extraordinary role women play in our organization and in diabetes research happening here in Toronto and around the world.