By Cristina D’Imperio
Kanhaiya Singh, PhD, McGowan affiliated faculty, received the American Diabetes Association (ADA) Professional Interest Group Early Career Abstract Award in the category of Foot Care.
His work, titled “Single-Cell RNA-Sequencing Identifies Novel Molecular Targets of Endothelial MicroRNA-200b in the Diabetic Ischemic Wound,” was submitted to the ADA’s 83rd Scientific Sessions held in San Diego.
This year’s Scientific Sessions gathered together, in person and virtually, more than 12,000 physicians, scientists, and healthcare professionals from around the world. It included more than 190 sessions and 2,000 original research presentations. The ADA’s Scientific Sessions are the world’s largest diabetes meetings.
Dr. Singh stated he was honored to receive the award, which he said, “recognizes our team’s effort and encourages us to build on our current findings.”
His recent research includes investigating implications of single-cell transcriptomics and single-cell ATAC sequencing approaches to study compromised molecular pathways in diabetic wound healing.
Dr. Singh’s work was also published in the June 2023 issue of Diabetes, a journal of the ADA. Co-authors on the study include McGowan affiliated faculty Dr. Manishekhar Kumar, Dr. Savita Khanna, and Dr. Sashwati Roy, as well as McGowan co-director Dr. Chandan K. Sen. The study was conducted at Indiana University and funded by the National Institutes of Health and the U.S. Department of Defense.