Can-SOLVE CKD held their 10th Annual Meeting in Quebec City from May 7-9, 2026. Brianna Hunt, Patient Engagement Coordinator and Onalee Garcia-Alecio, iCARE patient partner shared how youth and families helped develop kidney function education resources for pediatric and adolescent patients.

🎉 Congratulations to Dr. Allison Dart! 🎉 We are proud to celebrate Dr. Dart on being recognized as the recipient of the Howard Vincent Reconciliation Award for her meaningful commitment to advancing Reconciliation with Indigenous Peoples within the network. Read more: cansolveckd.ca/network_upda...

Congratulations to Dr. Giliana Garcia!🙌 After winning the 38th Annual Local Pediatric Resident Competition, she represented the department at the National Pediatric Resident Research Competition in Ottawa, presenting her iCARE research on diabetic kidney disease screening in youth w/ type 2 diabetes

Retrospective cohort study: Detection of young-onset type 2 #diabetes using deep learning across primary and secondary care: Nationwide study from Denmark (n=16828 youth-onset T2D population) @thelancet.com @dreamdiabetes.bsky.social www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

REVIEW: #Metabolic syndrome and #kidney dysfunction: emerging molecular and cellular mechanisms at the metabolic–renal interface #mitochondria @dreamdiabetes.bsky.social www.frontiersin.org/journals/end...

Progressive HNF1A-MODY pathophysiology revealed by a translational mouse model #diabetes @dreamdiabetes.bsky.social @chrisadoucette.bsky.social insight.jci.org/articles/vie...

📅Save the Date! The 15th Annual DREAM Symposium: New Perspectives in Diabetes will be held on Nov 5 and the DREAM Trainee Day on Nov 4 in Winnipeg, MB. More info and abstract guidelines: tinyurl.com/msa657rp Abstracts due Sept 9. Register here: forms.office.com/r/aAeqTaiS0z @chrimanitoba.bsky.social

🌟New Member Announcement🌟 We’re excited to welcome assistant professor and clinical psychologist Dr. Sukhpreet Tamana to the team! Her research focuses on improving mental health and well-being for children and teens living with diabetes and other chronic conditions, as well as their families.

And we had a tie for second, shared amongst the dream team of @bruceverchere.bsky.social @mathieuferron.bsky.social @thompsonisletlab.bsky.social and @annagloyn.bsky.social Congrats and thanks all around!

We’ve started an award for Best Lecture for the 2026 🇨🇦 National Grad Course in Islet Biology and Diabetes, voted on by the trainees (23 this year). The winners of the inaugural award [drum roll]..... @theodoreds.bsky.social and @chrisadoucette.bsky.social! Congratulations!

Better late than never! 2025 was another fantastic year for the @dreamdiabetes.bsky.social theme. Let’s look back and highlight some important achievements and successes from #2025 in no particular order (🧵1/9):

🌟DREAM Trainee Spotlight🌟 Meet Rushie Tyagi! Rushie is a PhD student supervised by Dr. Lucy Marzban in the College of Pharmacy, as well as the Chair of the DREAM Trainees Executive Team. Rushie was recently a Three Minute Thesis (3MT) finalist at the University of Manitoba! 👏 Huge congratulations!

Congratulations to all the recipients, and a special congratulations to DREAM Trainees alumni Michael Byun on receiving The William G. Eamer Graduate Achievement Fellowship! 👏 @chrimanitoba.bsky.social

You’re invited! The Madox’s Warriors Graduate Studentship Ceremony takes place on April 22, 2026 (1:00–3:00 PM) at the John Buhler Atrium. Join us as we celebrate this year’s recipients and the impact of supporting pediatric, adolescent, and young adult cancer research. #CHRIM#CCMB#CancerResearch

On March 23, 2026, the iCARE Participant Advisory Group began expanding nationally, welcoming three patient partners from Ontario iCARE sites for the first time for an arts-based workshop on advancing youth and family partnership in equitable, patient-centred type 2 diabetes research.

Happening TODAY, Apr 10! 11am CST Dr. Kacey Prentice from @utoronto.ca will be presenting "Targeting NDPK to Improve Beta Cell Function" in-person at 431 BMSB or Zoom: 698 2944 0437 PW: 058747 @chrimanitoba.bsky.social @um-radyfhs.bsky.social

DREAM researcher Dr. Brandy Wicklow was recently featured on @ctvnewswinnipeg.bsky.social, where she shared insight on the growing type 2 diabetes crisis among youth in Manitoba—especially in First Nations communities. Watch here: www.ctvnews.ca/winnipeg/vid... @chrimanitoba.bsky.social #diabetes

Korean birth cohort study with follow-up to 14yrs(n=424K): gestational #diabetes increases risk of offspring T2D and #insulin treatment of gestational diabetes increases type1 and type2 diabetes risk in offspring @dream-diabetes.bsky.social @dohadcanada.bsky.social link.springer.com/article/10.1...

β-Cell adaptation to #metabolic stresses requires prolactin receptor signaling @apspublications.bsky.social @dream-diabetes.bsky.social journals.physiology.org/doi/full/10....

#obesity Associated Gestational #diabetes Promotes Cellular Heterogeneity and Dysfunction in Neonatal Offspring Islets @chrisadoucette.bsky.social @dream-diabetes.bsky.social @dohadcanada.bsky.social #DOHaD www.mdpi.com/3706196

Epigenetically regulated pancreatic GABA-somatostatin signaling underlies gestational #diabetes induced glucose intolerance in offspring #DOHaD @dohadcanada.bsky.social @dream-diabetes.bsky.social www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Incretin hormones GLP-1 and GIP connect #metabolism and cardiovascular #health. Our new REVIEW highlights the latest about how endogenous incretins shape cardiometabolic disease @dream-diabetes.bsky.social @um-pharmacology.bsky.social @um-radyfhs.bsky.social cdnsciencepub.com/doi/10.1139/...

Interesting mechanistic study: Branched chain keto acids inhibit glucose stimulated #insulin secretion by redirecting glucose metabolism to the lactate dehydrogenase-lactate axis @dream-diabetes.bsky.social @chrisadoucette.bsky.social @natcomms.nature.com rdcu.be/e8RK5

From Michel Aliani @DREAM_diabetes A lipidomics approach identifies the #lipid classes modulated in response to fatty liver in #obesity fa/fa rats relative to lean Zucker rats changes in cardiolipin and PE suggesting altered mitochondrial structure www.plefa.com/article/S095...

Earlier this month, the iCARE and NextGeneration teams visited Island Lake communities—Garden Hill, Wasagamack, and St. Theresa Point. We saw participants, hosted our first Feast in Wasagamack, and launched the Anisininew Youth T2D Advisory Group. A successful outreach—we look forward to returning!

Check out this great feature of DREAM investigator Dr. Lucy Marzban and her incredible research on amyloid formation in diabetes 👏🔬 @chrimanitoba.bsky.social @uofmpharmacy.bsky.social #diabetes #research #islets

New research at @chrimanitoba.bsky.social is shedding light on what may trigger gestational diabetes. @verndolinsky.bsky.social found that low levels of the protein SIRT3 may disrupt insulin-producing cells, offering new clues for prevention and treatment during pregnancy. umtoday.ca/stories/unco...

Join us today for Manuel Sebastian’s (@chrisadoucette.bsky.social lab) PhD Oral Examination: “Using Rodent Models to Determine if the Anisininew-related HNF1α G319S Gene Variant Promotes Metabolic Resilience” happening in 431 BMSB at 2:00 PM CST @chrimanitoba.bsky.social @umanitoba.bsky.social

Happening TODAY, Mar 6! 12pm CST the DREAM theme is excited to welcome @dnachicken.bsky.social from @umontreal.ca to present "Dissecting the Hepatic Fasting Response and how this helps to understand MASLD". Join us in-person at A207 Chown or Zoom: 689 7854 4741 PW: 782086 @chrimanitoba.bsky.social

Last week DREAM was honoured to attend FNHSSM's Anti-Indigenous Racism Conference. DREAM researcher @jonmcgavock.bsky.social delivered a powerful keynote and was gifted a Star Quilt in recognition of partnership and commitment to Indigenous health @chrimanitoba.bsky.social

Next Friday, Mar 6 at 12pm CST we are excited to welcome @dnachicken.bsky.social from @umontreal.ca to present "Dissecting the Hepatic Fasting Response and how this helps to understand MASLD" to DREAM and @chrimanitoba.bsky.social. Join us in-person at A207 Chown or Zoom: 689 7854 4741 PW: 782086

Happening TODAY! Join us in 500 JBRC from 12 - 1 p.m. for the first DREAM Trainee Series of 2026! Mystica Amonyi from @thompsonisletlab.bsky.social's lab will be presenting "A Novel Inducible GFP Reporter Mouse for Isolating Beta-cell Extracellular Vesicles during Type 1 #Diabetes Pathogenesis"

Congratulations to Drs. Sellers and Wicklow who received $1,484,100 from CIHR for their project titled "Co-designing enhanced models of care for First Nations Children at risk for childhood-onset type 2 diabetes: The Next Generation Birth Cohort"! 👏 Read more: www.chrim.ca/2026/2025-fa...

Congratulations to DREAM investigator Dr. Samantha Pauls on receiving the Bioscience Educator of the Year Award! 👏 This award recognizes an educator who inspires and empowers young people to explore science, fostering curiosity, confidence, and pathways into bioscience careers 💫

Six community organizations are receiving grants to support innovative mental health projects, thanks to new donations to @primetheme.bsky.social, a @chrimanitoba.bsky.social research theme founded by UM’s Dr. Mandy Archibald and Dr. Leslie Roos. umtoday.ca/stories/new-...

Maternal GLP-1 receptor activation inhibits fetal growth @apspublications.bsky.social @dream-diabetes.bsky.social #diabetes #DOHaD journals.physiology.org/doi/full/10....

Happy International Day of Women and Girls in Science! 🌟🔬 Today we celebrate the brilliant women and girls whose passion and discoveries are shaping a brighter, healthier future. Here’s to inspiring the next generation of scientists and innovators! #WomeninSTEM

DER-CA successfully brought back the Type 1 #Diabetes Family #Research Day after nearly 10 years! Strong attendance and engaging talks from Drs. Andrew Pepper, Jennifer MacMullin, and @thompsonisletlab.bsky.social made this day a great success. Thanks to all who joined — see you next year! 🎉 #t1d

Congratulations to all recipients of the @diabetescanada.bsky.social End Diabetes Awards, and a special shout out to @verndolinsky.bsky.social who received funding for his project "Beta Cell SIRT3 and Gestational Diabetes". 👏🎉 Read more: www.diabetes.ca/media-room/p... @chrimanitoba.bsky.social

TODAY don't miss this great science by @glim2016.bsky.social join us on ZOOM @um-radyfhs.bsky.social @dream-diabetes.bsky.social @um-pharmacology.bsky.social

This week FRIDAY JAN23 at NOON CST we are thrilled to welcome @glim2016.bsky.social from @umontreal.ca @crchum.bsky.social to the pharmacology seminar series speak "Can we identify 14-3-3 zeta inhibitors to treat type 1 #diabetes" @dream-diabetes.bsky.social Join us Via ZOOM: 660 7073 7150 PW:594459

Nanotreat was founded on technology developed by Department of Pharmacology and Therapeutics researchers Dr. Donald Miller, Dr. Vernon Dolinsky and Dr. Vinith Yathindranath to develop new tools for the prevention of airborne infections at the site of exposure. #Medsky

New year, same great team 🥳 nothing like a DREAM theme get-together to start the year right! 🎉✨ @chrimanitoba.bsky.social

✨ T1D Family Research Day ✨ Join families, clinicians & researchers to learn about beta cell therapies, mental well-being, and local T1D research. 📅 Jan 24, 2026 | ⏰ 9:45 – 2:30 📍 Inn at the Forks, Winnipeg 🍽️ Lunch + childminding available 🔗 Register: tinyurl.com/4d6zk96v #T1D #ResearchDay #Winnipeg

📈Ozempic claims in Manitoba have more than quadrupled in 4 years. DREAM PI @verndolinsky.bsky.social was featured on CBC News, highlighting rising use for type 2 diabetes and weight loss—and the implications for access, cost, and long-term health➡️ www.cbc.ca/news/canada/... @chrimanitoba.bsky.social

Highlights from the 2025 Diabetes Canada Conference 🌟 Meaningful conversations, great sessions and excellent presentations from our DREAM trainees, including an oral presentation from Jasmine Pipella 👏 So proud of our team! #diabetes #conference @chrimanitoba.bsky.social @diabetescanada.bsky.social

Lipid profiling of childhood #obesity (n=958) reveals increased ceramides, phosphatidylethanolamine and phosphatidylinositol associated with insulin resistance and detects fatty liver @dream-diabetes.bsky.social @natmed.nature.com rdcu.be/eXIaJ

Genetic factors shaping the plasma lipidome and the relations to cardiometabolic risk in children and adolescents @dream-diabetes.bsky.social @ebiomedicine.bsky.social www.thelancet.com/journals/ebi...

🚨 Early-onset Type 2 #Diabetes is rising globally: +222% cases since 1990. Rising disparities, the strong impact of high BMI, and projected increases highlight the urgent need for targeted prevention in youth and other high-risk groups. Read more👉 pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/41208610/

How does the timing of in utero exposure to maternal #diabetes shape offspring health risk? This paper from the Next Generation birth cohort (n=210) explores this question @dream-diabetes.bsky.social @meaghanjones.bsky.social #DOHaD link.springer.com/article/10.1...