Common Resource Development Program

The Common Resource Development Program is intended to facilitate the development of mouse strains that are likely to be of general benefit to the diabetes research community.  Examples of such strains would include those that express reporters, recombinases or inducible regulators of transcription in cell types that are of primary significance for diabetes research.  The UCSF Diabetes Center and the DERC will provide financial support for the development and the initial propagation of such strains by investigators who are prepared to characterize them prior to their release to the general scientific community.  Mouse strains covered by this program will benefit from the full assistance of the DERC Mouse Genetics Core Facility. 

Investigators interested in making use of the Common Resource Development Program should send a concise one-page proposal to the Core Director.  At present, there is no deadline for this program.  Proposals will be reviewed by an ad-hoc committee and will be scored on the basis of relevance to diabetes, feasibility, value to the community, and adequacy of proposed plans for analysis, validation and release to the community.