Vanderbilt Diabetes Research And Training Center

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    NIH training program in engineering and diabetes competitively renewed for another five years

    The National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases of the National Institutes of Health has renewed a five-year grant through the NIH’s flagship T32 institutional training grant program. T32 grants provide funding to support students and postdoctoral trainees working in focused areas of research that advance the NIH mission. Read More

    Jul 29, 2024

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    Study links gene network and pancreatic beta cell defects to Type 2 diabetes

    A comprehensive study that integrates multiple analytic approaches has linked a regulatory gene network and functional defects in insulin-producing pancreatic beta cells to Type 2 diabetes. Read More

    Dec 4, 2023

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    Beta cell regeneration

    Vanderbilt researchers dissected the complex microenvironment of the pancreatic islet to discover the signals that drive beta cell regeneration — as a possible treatment for diabetes. Read More

    May 20, 2021

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    Pseudoislet system expected to advance pancreas and diabetes research

    The multicellular, 3-D structure of human pancreatic islets — the areas of the pancreas containing hormone-producing or endocrine cells — has presented challenges to researchers as they study and manipulate these cells’ function, but Vanderbilt University Medical Center researchers have now developed a pseudoislet system that allows for much easier study of islet function. Read More

    Jul 30, 2020

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    Vanderbilt Diabetes Day set for Nov. 2

    "Vanderbilt Diabetes: Molecules to People" is set for Friday, Nov. 2, at the Student Life Center. The event is sponsored by the Vanderbilt Diabetes Research and Training Center (DRTC) and the Vanderbilt Center for Diabetes Translation Research (CDTR). Read More

    Oct 7, 2018

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    Diabetes Day

    Research achievement was recognized recently during Diabetes Day at the Student Life Center. Among those honored were (beginning second from left) Bryan Gitschlag, Danielle Dean, PhD, Ian Williams, Caroline Presley, MD, and Suzanne Starr. Award winners are flanked by Tom Elasy, MD, MPH, (left) and Alvin Powers, MD. Diabetes Day was sponsored by the Vanderbilt Diabetes Research and Training Center and the Vanderbilt Center for Diabetes Translation Research and supported by the National Institutes of Health. Read More

    Dec 14, 2017

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    Pilot and feasibility grants available for research related to diabetes and obesity

    The Vanderbilt Diabetes Center, the Vanderbilt Diabetes Research and Training Center, and the Vanderbilt Center for Diabetes Translation Research announce the availability of pilot and feasibility grants in the following areas. Read More

    Oct 25, 2017

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    Cellular calcium handling in diabetes

    Potassium channels in a cellular organelle regulate calcium flux and appear to play a critical role in pancreatic beta cell health. Read More

    Sep 28, 2017

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    Pancreatic islets study may spur diabetes treatment advances

    Investigators in the Vanderbilt Diabetes Research and Training Center (VDRTC) and collaborators at Stanford University have discovered new insights into the molecular mechanisms of cell proliferation in juvenile human pancreatic islets, information that could lead to new treatments for diabetes. Read More

    Sep 21, 2017

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    Student’s summer research program honors her mother

    As a teenager, Ashley Duhon realized she wanted to become a doctor so she could help people, like her mother, who suffer from medical complications due to type 1 diabetes. Read More

    Jul 27, 2017

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    VUMC team’s discovery could lead to new diabetes treatment

    High circulating glucose, the hallmark of diabetes, is linked to the disease’s most serious complications including heart disease, kidney failure, blindness and amputation. Diabetes is the sixth leading cause of death and costs the nation an estimated $322 billion a year. Restoring the action of insulin has been the traditional… Read More

    Jun 15, 2017

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    NIDDK renews Vanderbilt’s diabetes research grant

    The Vanderbilt Diabetes Research and Training Center (VDRTC) is celebrating its 44th year of operation with a five-year competitive renewal of its $9 million grant from the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK) of the National Institutes of Health (NIH). Read More

    Jun 8, 2017

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    Making human beta cells reproduce

    A new method developed at Vanderbilt will speed the search for potential therapeutics for diabetes: compounds that stimulate the replication of insulin-producing beta cells. Read More

    Dec 8, 2016

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    Gifts highlight strong, lasting bonds between patients and healers

    Sometimes saying thank you just isn’t enough. Read More

    Mar 24, 2016

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    Diabetes Day

    Service and research achievement was recognized recently during the annual Diabetes Day sponsored by the Vanderbilt Diabetes Research and Training Center and the Vanderbilt Center for Diabetes Translation Research. Read More

    Dec 10, 2015

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    Pilot and feasibility grants available for research related to diabetes and obesity

    The Vanderbilt Diabetes Center, the Vanderbilt Diabetes Research and Training Center (DRTC) and the Vanderbilt Center for Diabetes Translation Research (CDTR) announce the availability of pilot and feasibility grants in the following areas: Translational or behavioral science research (Type II translational research) related to… Read More

    Jan 28, 2014