Negev Research Hub for Improving Obesity and Diabetes Care

​The Negev Research Hub for Improving Obesity and Diabetes Care is an interdisciplinary collaborative research initiative bringing together academic researchers, hospital- and community-based physicians and health practitioners in order to improve obesity and diabetes prevention and care.

Goals:

1. Establish a functional network of primary- and hospital-based clinicians, health practitioners and basic researchers as a basis for multidisciplinary research and care of obese and diabetic patients in the Negev
2. Create research infrastructure: community-based and hospital-based clinical cohorts, and an adipose tissue biobank.
3. Conceptualize and realize novel research aimed at promoting academic medicine in the field of diabetes, obesity and related comorbidities.

For more information, contact the hub coordinators:

• Dr. Idit F. Liberty, ​Diabetes Clinic (IditL@Clalit.org.il; iliberty@bgu.ac.il)
• Prof. Assaf Rudich, Clinical Biochemistry & Pharmacology (rudich@bgu.ac.il)​