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| Welcome! The UCSF Diabetes & Endocrinology Research Center (DERC) brings together researchers with an interest in diabetes from across the UCSF campus, providing support for Core Laboratories, an enhanced Enrichment Program and extended Pilot and Feasibility program. The UCSF DERC is supported through funds from the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases. The goal of the DERC is to support a highly interactive team involved in Type 1 and Type 2 diabetes research to advance the study and treatment of the disease. The Center encompasses a broad range of intellectual and research expertise from over 12 departments and organized research units and three UCSF campuses that are focused on basic research, with an eye towards clinical application. The center combines immunology, metabolic research, cell biology and genetics in the field of diabetes, to develop unique approaches to understanding and treating this devastating disease. A substantial amount of the core activity and number of pilot and feasibility projects will be directed at prevention and control of diabetes through a focused translational research effort. Investigators of the DERC are organized in the following programmatic areas:
Six Core facilities are designed to facilitate interdisciplinary investigations of these scientists
A Pilot & Feasibility Grant Program serves to foster new initiatives in diabetes research primarily among junior faculty and senior faculty from outside the diabetes focus area. An intensive academic enrichment program which organizes seminars and various symposia is designed to keep Center investigators abreast of the latest discoveries and to maintain the research program at this center at the forefront of biomedical science.
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