Kaylia Reynolds and Nora Franceschini on diabetes genetic clusters, Stephanie Holm & Christoffer Clemmensen on sustained weight loss with LEAP2 & Semaglutide, plus "Sweet Talk" with Banting Medal recipient Jens Juul Holst

Welcome to the November 2025 episode of DiabetesBio—the American Diabetes Association's podcast for its flagship research publication, Diabetes. In this episode of DiabetesBio, Drs. Kirk Habegger, Darleen Sandoval, and Kevin Williams discuss the latest and greatest content in the November 2025 issue of Diabetes.

6:00 In the first segment, our hosts are joined by Kaylia Reynolds, MS and Nora Franceschini, MD, MPH, FAHA, both of the Department of Epidemiology at the Gillings School of Global Public Health at the University of North Carolina. Their paper, "Diabetes Genetic Clusters and Clinical Outcomes in American Indians," is available for free at doi.org/10.2337/db25-0322.

20:40 To discuss the latest Paper of the Month, our hosts are joined by first author Stephanie K. Holm, a postdoctoral student in the Clemmensen group, and Christoffer Clemmensen, Associate Professor in the Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Basic Metabolic Research at the University of Copenhagen. Their paper, "Sustained Weight Loss With Combined LEAP2 and Semaglutide Treatment in Mice," is available for free at doi.org/10.2337/db24-1056.

38:15 In the latest edition of "Sweet Talk," Kevin and Kirk speak with Banting Medal recipient Jens Juul Holst, MD, DMSc, of the University of Copenhagen, whose work with incretin hormones laid the foundation for therapies now used around the world. His article, "Treatment of Type 2 Diabetes and Obesity on the Basis of the Incretin System: The 2021 Banting Medal for Scientific Achievement Award Lecture," is available for free at doi.org/10.2337/dbi21-0026.

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