Gordon C. Weir MD

Professor Weir holds the Diabetes Research and Wellness Foundation Chair at the Joslin Diabetes Center. He is an investigator at the Center and serves as the section head of the Center’s Islet Transplantation and Cell Biology Department.

Professor Weir is also a Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School. The main goal of the Section on Islet Transplantation and cell Biology is to make islet transplantation available as a treatment for diabetes. Professor Weir’s team focuses on several areas. These include the potential of transplanting animal islets into humans to restore insulin production in people with diabetes; understanding how islet cells grow, differentiate and die; the molecular mechanisms by which beta cells make insulin and the problems that beta cells face when confronted with high glucose levels in diabetes.