Meet One of the Worldâs Most Influential Diabetes Scientists
Written by Moira McCarthy on February 5, 2021 â Fact checked by Jennifer Chesak
In the world of diabetes research, there are superstar names you just
know.
For example, Banting and Best, who discovered insulin. Elliot Joslin, who pioneered modern treatment and care. Kamen, Tamborlane, and others who led technology development.
And then there are the names that may not be as familiar: researchers who spent years in labs studying and testing, who broke down barriers to reveal a better understanding of diabetes and, yes, better outcomes.
Dr. Jesse Roth of the Feinstein Institutes for Medical Research in Manhasset, New York, is one of those quiet heroes.
We can officially say it. Lacrosse is back, Y’all!
It was a much slower first weekend of action than usual with only two games on the docket, but college lacrosse officially returned on Saturday. Bellarmine took down Mercer on in the first game of the season and just a few hours later we saw Denver best Utah.
Denver 9, Utah 8
The Denver Pioneers overcame missing 12 players, including Schuyler Blair, Alex Simmons, and Colin Squires, struggling heavily on the power play (1-for-8), and going 8-for-20 at the faceoff dot, to get hot in the second half and put away the visiting Utah Utes, 9-8, in their home opener.
Photo courtesy of Bellarmine Athletics)
The 2021 college lacrosse season got underway in a manner befitting the oddness of the last 10 months.
Two conference foes played a non-conference game in January in Macon, Ga. In the absence of a formal live stream, hundreds of starved lacrosse fans watched a Periscope stream via a Bellarmine player (junior midfielder Cameron Herbert) recovering from illness and saw field level highlights courtesy of an injured Mercer player (sophomore midfielder Cole Leggett) posting to IL’s Instagram. One face-off specialist one all but one face-off and the teams combined for just seven fewer turnovers than shots.
The most meaningful part of my professional career has come from mentoring young scholars and watching them develop. I have mentored more than 200 trainees, with a large percentage of them going on to enjoy highly successful careers in academe or industry. Many have won major research awards, and one has even received the Nobel Prize. Due to this track record, I have often been asked, How do you do it? What is your secret formula for producing generation after generation of standout scientists?
For many years, I was flummoxed by such questions. I had no secret formula for mentoring. In fact, in my first two decades running my own lab, I hardly thought about mentoring at all. Yogi Berra, the legendary Yankees catcher, was once asked what he thought about while batting, and his response was, “How ya gonna think and hit at the same time?” That was exactly how I felt about mentoring. I wasn’t thinking about it I was just doing research and trying to exhort the students in my