Home > Centers Overview > DERC - UCSD/UCLA
DERC - UCSD/UCLA
San Diego, CA
[WEBSITE]

UCSD and UCLA and their affiliated campuses at Cedars-Sinai and Salk, respectfully, have integrated, highly productive and well-funded programs in diabetes and its complications and in endocrinology. Because of growing interaction and collaboration between Los Angeles-based and San Deigo-based investigators, the Southern California Diabetes Endocrinology Consortium (SCDEC) was conceived as a means to formalize, enhance, and continue to fertilize these relationships.

By joining forces and aligning common interests, basic and clinical scientists at both Centers have recognized the enormous potential to strengthen and expand their research opportunities and resources. Thus, the SCDEC DERC represents a critical foundation to consolidate diabetes and endocrinology investigation at two premier academic centers. The objectives of the SCDEC DERC are to:

  • Unite investigators from relevant disciplines in a manner that will enhance and extend the effectiveness of their research in diabetes/endocrinology and the complications of diabetes.
  • Foster collaborations between diabetes/endocrinology researchers at UCLA and UCSD so the whole is greater than the sum of its parts.
  • Enhance, support and develop Cores to facilitate diabetes/endocrinology research at UCLA and UCSD.
  • Develop new areas of research and foster young investigators focused in diabetes and its complications through pilot and feasibility grants.

Cores

Animal Physiology & Phenotyping : Core Description and Goals: The Mouse Phenotyping Core will provide expertise and equipment to..

Administration : The interdisciplinary SCDEC DERC involves faculty members distributed among departments at UCSD/Salk and UCLA. These departments include Internal Medicine, Pediatrics, Surgery, Genetics,..

Transgenic & Gene Modification : Core Description and Goals:It is clear that the progress of diabetes and endocrine research during the coming decade will depend upon the ability to utilize the mouse as an experimental model to investigate both basic and clinically..

Molecular Biology, Genomics & Genetics : Core Description and Goals:A major goal in efforts to understand the mechanisms by which..

Genetics : Core Description and Goals: Recent successes in genetic mapping have demonstrated that..

People

Alan R. Collins, Ph.D. : Director, Mouse Phenotyping Core, . Phone: 310-794-7555

Pamela L. Mellon, Ph.D. : Associate Director of Core Support Facilities and Director, Transgenic Core, . Phone: 858-534-1312

Pronuclear Injection : Jun Zhao, Core Manager , . Phone: 858-822-3270

Gene Targeting : Ella Kothari, Core Manager , . Phone: 858-534-3178

Embryo Cryopreservation : Heather Oakley, . Phone: 858-822-210

Christopher K. Glass, M.D., Ph.D. : Director, Genomics Core, . Phone: 858-534-6011

Gary Hardiman, Ph.D. : Director, Genomics Core, University of California San Diego2234 Bonner Hall9500 Gilman DriveLa Jolla CA 92093-0349 . Phone: 858-822-3792

Jerome I. Rotter, M.D. : Associate Center Director and Co-Director, Human Genetics Core, . Phone: 310-423-6467

Leslie J. Raffel, M.D. : Co-Director, Human Genetics Core, . Phone: 310-423-6451

Cynthia Hernandez : R.N.Genetics Study CoordinatorDivision of Medical Genetics , Cedars-Sinai Medical Center8700 Beverly Blvd. SSB378Los Angeles, California 90048 . Phone: (310) 423-1457

Jerrold Olefsky, M.D. : Center Director, . Phone: 858-534-6651

Pinchas Cohen, M.D. : Co-Center Director and Associate Director, Pilot and Feasibility Program, . Phone: 310-825-6244