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NIDDK	NIDDK Program Director for Health Equity Research Position	The National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK) is seeking an individual with Health Equity Research experience to lead a program in addressing health disparities in diabetes and related diseases in the Division of Diabetes, Endocrinology and Metabolic Diseases.
NIH	NCBI SARS-CoV-2 Resources	The National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) provides access to NCBI SARS-CoV-2 literature, sequence, and clinical content.
	Roger H. Unger, M.D., visionary endocrinologist and preeminent authority on diabetes: 1924-2020	Roger Unger, who studied the hormonal underpinnings of diabetes for more than 60 years, died on August 22 at age 96. During his long tenure at the University of Texas Southwestern (UTSW) Medical Center that ended in July when he retired, he discovered the roles of the hormones glucagon and insulin in controlling blood sugar levels in the body.
	NORC Initiative to Advance the Careers of Researchers from Groups Underrepresented in Academia (URiA)	The Nutrition Obesity Research Centers (NORCs), supported by the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK), host an initiative to identify the barriers and challenges to success of scientists from URiA groups and to identify actionable strategies to overcome these challenges. The goal is to provide specific recommendations to improve equity and inclusion for the NORCs, NORC-associated institutional leadership, and scientific societies such as the American Society for Nutrition (ASN) and The Obesity Society (TOS).
NIH	Coronavirus (COVID-19) Information	Get the latest research information from NIH including Grants and Funding information. This is a rapidly evolving situation and we will provide updated guidance and information as it becomes available.
NIDDK	Request for Information: National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK) Strategic Plan	The National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK) is embarking on an Institute-wide strategic planning process. The goal of the process is to develop a broad vision for accelerating research into the causes, prevention, and treatment of diseases and conditions within the Institute’s mission. This overarching trans-NIDDK Strategic Plan will complement NIDDK’s disease-specific planning efforts. The strategic plan will have a 5-year time horizon but will also include planning for longer term efforts that could be initiated within this time frame.
NIH	Request for Information: Challenges and Opportunities in Understanding Cellular Senescence and Senolytics	The NIH is considering the possibility of developing a Common Fund program to address the role of senescent cells in health and disease. In spite of the burgeoning efforts already in the field attempting to test therapies based on attacking senescent cells, it has become clear that many aspects of cell senescence research are currently in need of answers before the full potential of such therapies can be safely developed in humans. As part of the initial planning process, we are requesting input from the scientific community on the challenges in this field that can best be addressed through a concerted and coordinated effort.
NIDDK	NIDDK Recent Advances & Emerging Opportunities 2020	The publication, NIDDK Recent Advances & Emerging Opportunities, is a report that the NIDDK has issued annually since 2001. It is a compendium that highlights examples of the many research advances published by NIDDK-funded scientists and their colleagues.
NIDDK	NIDDK Director's Update Winter 2019	We never know where the next discovery will lead us, and so NIDDK persistently couples a long-term vision with basic and innovative research to put what seems impossible within our reach.
NIH	Request for Information (RFI): Increasing the diversity of applications to the NIH Common Fund High-Risk, High-Reward Research Program	The purpose of this Request for Information (RFI) is to solicit information from the broad community about factors that lead to underrepresentation of certain groups in the applicant pool of the Common Fund’s High-Risk, High-Reward Research Program and approaches that the NIH might take to increase applicant diversity.
NIDDK	dkNET: Connecting Researchers to Resources	The NIDDK Information Network (dkNET), is a search portal and information hub that helps researchers find research resources and data repositories relevant to their research and keep up to date on new tools, services and mandates to support robust and reproducible science, including funding opportunities, resource authentication and data sharing.
	Summer 2019 Type 2 Diabetes Knowledge Portal Newsletter	The Summer 2019 T2D Knowledge Portal Newsletter lists upcoming webinars, new videos, and venues, plus articles on mining genomic data, genetic association analysis, and burden test improvements.