«It's good to build on our previous
research on miRNA processing and Dicer in aging and find that a decline in Dicer may also
play an important role in HIV lipodystrophy by dramatically changing the biology of fat and the tendency towards diabetes and metabolic syndrome,» says lead author C. Ronald Kahn, MD, Chief Academic
Officer at Joslin Diabetes Center and the Mary K. Iacocca Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School.
He is the former vice president and chief operating
officer of Sanford
Research and
played a critical role in establishing the Edith Sanford Breast Cancer
Research program and Sanford Health BioBank.