Professor Meredith Hawkins and the Global Diabetes Institute at Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York have been partnering with Professor Nihal Thomas and the Endocrinology Department at CMC Vellore for the past five years.
Together, these teams have been investigating a novel, poorly-understood form of diabetes formerly known as Malnutrition-Modulated Diabetes Mellitus (MMDM), or Lean Diabetes, believed to originate in the womb or in early childhood development.
The groups have been collaborating to study patients with Lean Diabetes using highly sophisticated hormone infusion studies. The goal of this project is to generate a conclusive, comprehensive disease profile of Lean Diabetes.