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Those with type 1 diabetes typically rely on artificial insulin delivered via a needle or an insulin pump to manage their condition. These invasive methods can be painful and inexact, as it’s difficult to pinpoint the correct amount of insulin to inject from moment to moment. In addition, insulin can be expensive.

But new research conducted by Oliver Trunschke, a PhD student in the UW Department of Molecular Biology, could lead to treatments for type 1 diabetes that are as easy and painless as flipping a light switch.

Christopher Bastian has been selected as the inaugural Doug and Deniz Stark Ranch Management and Agricultural Leadership Professor at the University of Wyoming.
Bastian joined UW in 1993 and currently serves as a teaching-research professor in the Department of Agricultural and Applied Economics, where he has more than 30 years of service.