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Dr Linford Briant, a postdoc with Prof Patrik Rorsman, has secured a prestigious Sir Henry Wellcome Fellowship. He’ll use pharmacological, electrophysiological and computational techniques to take a closer look at glucagon secretion by alpha-cells — and how it goes awry in type-2 diabetes.

Whole mount immunostaining of a lymphatic vessel and blood capillary in mouse dermis.

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