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400 N. Ingalls
Room G 148
Ann Arbor, MI
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The Michigan Diabetes Research and Training Center is a multidisciplinary unit of the University of Michigan Health System funded by the National Institutes of Health since 1977. MDRTC is one of seven NIH Diabetes Research and Training Centers in the United States.

MDRTC supports and strengthens U-M interdepartmental activities in research, training and outreach in the field of diabetes, its complications, and related endocrine and metabolic disorders.

Our research investigators are our most important resource, orchestrating many successful programs.

 

The Michigan Diabetes Research and Training Center's mission is to serve as a key component of the overall National Institutes of Health approach to improve the health of Americans with diabetes and related endocrine and metabolic disorders. The MDRTC supports cutting-edge basic and clinical research related to the etiology and complications of diabetes in order to generate knowledge that can be translated into novel prevention and treatment strategies. The MDRTC provides funding for core laboratories to support biomedical and translational research, patient and physician education activities, and pilot and feasibility grants to support new investigators and novel ideas.

To accomplish this mission, the MDRTC:

  • Creates an environment that supports important and innovative research
  • Raises awareness and interest in diabetes research and clinical care at the University of Michigan and locally, regionally and nationally
  • Enhances diabetes education and training opportunities for patients, students, scientists and clinicians
  • Attracts and retains new and young investigators
  • Provides core services that leverage funding and unique expertise
  • Fosters interdisciplinary collaborations, especially in emerging areas of research, to catalyze new ideas and scientific approaches
  • Promotes the translation of scientific discoveries from bench to bedside to community

 

Cores

Administration : The Administration Core formulates MDRTC goals and objectives through internal committees and interactions with external experts and organizations including: the American Association of Diabetes Educators, American Diabetes Association, Juvenile..

Animal Physiology & Phenotyping : The Michigan Diabetes Research and Training Center's Animal Phenotyping Core provides state-of-the-art metabolic analysis of rodent models following their genetic, dietary, molecular or pharmacological manipulation.The core provides..

Molecular Biology, Genomics & Genetics : The Cell and Molecular Biology Core:Provides access to relevant technologies and equipment,Provides education, training and consultative advice regarding these technologies and equipment,Provides financial..

Assay & Analytical : The Chemistry Laboratory performs many assays related to diabetes, heart disease, hypertension. View the current complete Chemistry Laboratory Assay and Price..

Prevention & Control: Measurement : The Measurement Core supports translational research studies that evaluate interventions directed at improving health outcomes of people with diabetes, including studies that evaluate barriers to adoption and dissemination of state-of-the-art..

Cell Biology & Image Analysis : The Morphology and Image Analysis Core (MIAC) of the Michigan Diabetes Research and Training Center (MDRTC) is focused on providing state-of-the-art quantitative morphological analysis of fixed and living cells.The purposes of the MIAC..

Protein : The goal of the MDRTC Peptide and Proteomics Core is to enhance and stimulate research in diabetes, its complications and related endocrine and metabolic disorders by providing the broadest range of resources for the analysis of peptides and..

Prevention & Control: BCHS Intervention Research : Behavioral, Clinical and Health Systems Intervention Research Core The MDRTC Behavioral, Clinical and Health Systems (BCHS) Intervention Research Core provides..

Prevention & Control: Biostatistics And Economic Modeling : Biostatistics and Economic Modeling  The Biostatistics and Economic Modeling Core helps investigators make quantitative inferences about the causes,..

People

Linda D. Potter : Director for Administration, Administration Core, . Phone: 734-764-6103

Pamela A. Campbell : Administrative Associate, Administration Core, . Phone: 734-763-5730

Martin G. Myers,Jr., M.D., PhD. : Director, Animal Phenotyping Core and Director, Pilot & Feasibility Program, . Phone: 734-647-9515

Nathan Qi, Ph.D : Laboratory Director, Animal Phenotyping Core, . Phone: 734-764-7043

Robert M. Anderson, Ed.D. : Director, Behavioral, Clinical and Health Systems (BCHS) Intervention Research Core , . Phone: 734-763-1153

Martha M. Funnell, M.S., R.N., CDE : Behavioral, Clinical and Health Systems (BCHS) Intervention Research Core , . Phone: 734-936-9237

William H. Herman, M.D., M.P.H. : Center Director and Behavioral, Clinical and Health Systems (BCHS) Intervention Research and Biostatistics and Economic Modeling Cores , . Phone: 734-936-8279

John D. Piette, Ph.D. : Chief Prevention and Control Division, . Phone: 734-930-5123

Caroline R. Richardson : M.D./Consultant, Behavioral, Clinical and Health Systems (BCHS) Intervention Research Core , . Phone: 734-998-7120 x 319

Morton B. Brown, Ph.D. : Director, Biostatistics and Economic Modeling Core , . Phone: 734-936-0992

Wen Ye, Ph.D : Co-Investigator, Biostatistics and Economic Modeling Core , . Phone: 734 615 9051

Sarah Krein, Ph.D. : Co-Investigator, Biostatistics and Economic Modeling Core , . Phone: 734-845-3621

Sandeep Vijan, Ph.D. : , . Phone: 734 845-3504

Philip C. Andrews, Ph.D. : Director, Peptide and Proteomics Core, . Phone: 734 763-3130

Ronald J. Koenig, M.D., Ph.D. : Director, Cell and Molecular Biology Core, . Phone: 734-763-3056

Donald A. Giacherio, Ph.D. : Director, Chemistry Laboratory , . Phone: 734-936-6775

Alice Koshy, B.S. : Research Associate, Chemistry Laboratory Core, . Phone: 734-763-4524

Christin Carter-Su, Ph.D. : Associate Director and Chief, Biomedical Research Division, . Phone: 734-763-2561

Rodney A. Hayward, M.D. : Director, Measurement Core, . Phone: 734-647-4844

J. Thomas Fitzgerald, Ph.D : Co-Investigator, Measurement Core, . Phone: 734-763-1153

Michele Heisler, M.D., M.P.A. : Co-Investigator, . Phone: 734-930-5123

Eve M. Kerr, M.D., M.P.H. : Co-Investigator, Measurement Core, . Phone: 734-930-5109

John A. Williams M.D., Ph.D. : Director, Morphology and Image Analysis Core, . Phone: 734-764-4376

Stephen A. Ernst Ph.D. : Associate Director, Morphology and Image Analysis Core, . Phone: 734-763-8109

Stephen I. Lentz Ph.D : Laboratory Director, Morphology and Image Analysis Core, . Phone: 734-647-8233

Henriette Remmer, Ph.D. : Co-Director, Peptide and Proteomics Core, . Phone: 734-763-6285

Charles F. Burant, MD, PhD : Dr. Robert C. and Veronica Atkins Professor of Metabolism, . Phone: 734-936-5035

Barbara Hawkins : , . Phone: