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DRTC - University of Alabama at Birmingham
1530 3rd Avenue South
Birmingham, AL 35294-3361
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The UAB Diabetes Research and Training Center (DRTC) focuses on developing new methods to treat, prevent, and ultimately cure diabetes and its complications. The DRTC is a multi-disciplinary operation with faculty researchers from UAB's Schools of Health Professions, Medicine, and Public Health, among other units. It operates in collaboration with the UAB Comprehensive Diabetes Center to promote excellence in diabetes research and patient care. The DRTC supports research in the areas of pathology, animal physiology, human biology, metrics and health services research, and community research. It is one of six NIDDK-sponsored diabetes research and training centers in the U.S.

Cores

Prevention & Control: Metrics & Health Services Research : The Metrics & Health Services Research (MHSR) Core addresses a fundamental challenge in research on prevention and control: to generate the knowledge that will allow us to..

Prevention & Control: Community Engagement : The Community Engagement Core (CE Core) develops, implements, and evaluates a community-based infrastructure to maintain linkage (engagement) between DRTC researchers and targeted..

Clinical Investigation & Informatics : Because diabetes is both a metabolic and a vascular disease, the Human Physiology Core was designed to promote interactions and collaborations oriented towards better understanding the pathophysiology of diabetes and cardiometabolic disease..

Administration : The Administrative Core encompasses the Administrative Unit, the Pilot & Feasibility Program, and Enrichment and Training.  The Administrative Core assures the effectiveness of the DRTC in meeting the center's stated goals and specific..

Animal Physiology & Phenotyping : The Animal Physiology Core (APC) provides for diabetes related phenotyping in small animal models. Services offeredi nclude the assessment of body composition, energy balance, glucose..

Assay & Analytical : The Bio-Analytical Redox Biology (BARB) core promotes redox biology in diabetes-related research, emphasizing that diabetes is both a metabolic and a vascular disease. Because it..

People

Michelle Y. Martin, Ph.D. : Co-Director; Metrics & Health Services Resources Core, . Phone: (205)-934-6866

W. Timothy Garvey, M.D. : Center Director, . Phone: 205-934-6103

Stuart J. Frank, M.D. : Associate Center Director and Director, DRTC Pilot and Feasibility Program, . Phone: 205-934-9877

Timothy R. Nagy, Ph.D. : Director, Animal Physiology Core, . Phone: 205-934-4088

Louis Dell'Italia, M.D. : Associate Director, Animal Physiology Core, . Phone: 205-934-0850

Kurt Zinn, Ph.D. : Associate Director, Animal Physiology Core, . Phone: 205-975-6414

Scott Ballinger, Ph.D. : Director, Bioanalytical Redox Biology Core, . Phone: 205-996-2660

Victor Darley-Usmar, Ph.D. : Co-Director, Bioanalytical Redox Biology Core, . Phone: 205-975-9686

Stephen Barnes, Ph.D. : Co-Director, Bioanalytical Redox Biology Core, . Phone: 205-934-7117

Mona Fouad, M.D., M.P.H. : Director, Community Engagement Core, . Phone: 205-934-4307

Jamy Ard, M.D. : Co-Director, Community Engagement Core, . Phone: 205-934-5564

Dennis J Pillion, Ph.D. : Co-Director, Enrichment Program and Co-Director, Community Engagement Core, . Phone: 205-934-4570

Barbara Gower, Ph.D. : Director, Human Physiology Core, . Phone: 205-934-4087

Bradley Newcomer, Ph.D. : Associate Core Director - Imaging, . Phone: 205-934-2664

David Calhoun, M.D. : Associate Core Director - Cardiovascular, . Phone: 205-934-4633

Beth Lewis, M.D. : Co-Director, Metrics & Health Services Resources Core, . Phone: 205-934-6383