Links

• UAB Comprehensive Diabetes Center
  The UAB Comprehensive Diabetes Center faculty are engaged in providing the highest-quality innovative care to diabetes patients, conducting cutting-edge research into the causes and mechanisms of diabetes, and training future generations of diabetes clinicians and researchers.
• Diabetes Research Centers
• Human islet Research Network (HIRN)
• Making Systems Changes for Better Diabetes Care
  Offers continuing education credits and practice strategies for primary care providers, educators, nurses, dietitians etc.
• National Diabetes Education Program
  from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
• diabetesatwork.org
  Information for businesses and managed-care companies and their employees
• UAB Nutrition Trends
• Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation
• PubMed
  The U.S. National Library of Medicine online
  View publications funded by the DRC at PubMed website.

Other Diabetes Research Centers:

• University of Chicago Diabetes Research and Training Center
• Michigan Diabetes Research and Training Center
• Vanderbilt Diabetes Research and Training Center

Grant Resources

• PHS 398 forms (PDF)
• PHS 398 forms example (docx)
• RFA for Diabetes Pilot Grant Program 2024 (PDF)

2024 Advanced Diabetes Graduate Level Course

The course is designed for graduate students who are currently doing research in the diabetes area or are interested in learning about diabetes. It will include discussion of topics related to development, consequences, and treatment of diabetes including insulin secretion, beta-cell death, metabolic syndrome, obesity, insulin resistance, and islet/beta-cell replacement/translational approaches. The students will be introduced to different contributors to diabetes development, including the immune system, metabolic and secretory dysregulation, lipid signaling, and epigenetic events.

• Multidisciplinary Approaches to Study Diabetes (GBS788 VTC): Syllabus for Circulation