# Training Program in Diabetes Research

> **NIH NIH T32** · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN DIEGO · 2021 · $306,651

## Abstract

Project Summary
The overall purpose of this program is the training of new scientists capable of performing high
quality biomedical research in the areas of diabetes, obesity and metabolism. The program is
centered within the Division of Endocrinology and Metabolism of the Department of Medicine
and includes 13 faculty participants from several departments at the University of California,
San Diego, the Salk Institute for Biological Studies, the La Jolla Institute for Allergy and
Immunology and the Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Research Institute. The faculty
represent a range of interests and skills, with a decided focus on basic and translational
approaches, including stem cell biology, beta cell biology, genetics, signal transduction,
metabolism, nuclear receptors, and transcriptional mechanisms, among others. The program
will include: (1) intensive laboratory and clinical research training, (2) seminars and other
conferences, and (3) formal course instruction. The primary focus of the training program is the
research undertaken by each trainee in association with a member of the training grant faculty.
Under close supervision by the faculty member, the trainee will be encouraged and expected to
assume an increasingly independent scientific role in all aspects of the research. In addition, the
training program will foster and encourage a scholarly exchange of ideas and intellectual cross
fertilization. Weekly seminars are held in which ongoing research is presented for discussion by
the group as a whole. Another weekly meeting is devoted to discussions by training grant faculty
and trainees of recent scientific advances. In part, this conference functions as a Journal Club.
Finally, all trainees are required to take 4 quarters of formal course work, including a required
course entitled “Biomedical Research Ethics” offered through the UCSD School of Medicine.
Thus, this training program expands and brings together various activities encompassing the
training and education of postdoctoral fellows in the fields of diabetes, obesity and metabolism
in the La Jolla biosciences community.

## Key facts

- **NIH application ID:** 10245318
- **Project number:** 5T32DK007494-35
- **Recipient organization:** UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN DIEGO
- **Principal Investigator:** ALAN R. SALTIEL
- **Activity code:** T32 (R01, R21, SBIR, etc.)
- **Funding institute:** NIH
- **Fiscal year:** 2021
- **Award amount:** $306,651
- **Award type:** 5
- **Project period:** 1984-07-01 → 2023-08-31

## Primary source

NIH RePORTER: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10245318

## Citation

> US National Institutes of Health, RePORTER application 10245318, Training Program in Diabetes Research (5T32DK007494-35). Retrieved via AI Analytics 2026-05-22 from https://api.ai-analytics.org/grant/nih/10245318. Licensed CC0.

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