AUB PARTNERSHIP
UT partners with American University of Beirut to bring diabetes research to Middle
East
With diabetes diagnoses increasing at an alarming rate across the Middle East, The
University of Toledo and the American University of Beirut (AUB) in Lebanon have initiated
one of the first international diabetes research centers in the Arab region. “Estimates
indicate that the number of people in our region living with diabetes will double
in the next two decades,” said Dr. Peter Dorman, president of the American University
of Beirut. “At AUB, we recognize that inaction on our part is unthinkable when we
have the capacity to counter the region’s diabetes epidemic by collaborating on research
and education with esteemed partners such as The University of Toledo.” UT and AUB
officials recently signed a memorandum of understanding for a collaboration between
the two entities in which faculty and staff at UT Medical Center will use their experience
in the UT Center for Diabetes and Endocrine Research to help create a similar center
at AUB: the Middle East Diabetes Research Center.
UT News, Monday August 19, 2013
