# Michigan Diabetes Research Center (MDRC)

> **NIH NIH P30** · UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN AT ANN ARBOR · 2024 · $1,452,807

## Abstract

MDRC Center Overview Project Summary/Abstract
The mission of the MDRC is to promote new discoveries and enhance scientific progress in diabetes, its
complications, and related metabolic disorders through the support of cutting-edge basic and clinical research
by its highly interactive research base. The MDRC research base comprises 148 members with $56.8 million
annual direct cost funding for diabetes-related research (over $80 million including center and training grants):
106 University of Michigan (U-M) members with $42.4 million ($64.9 million including center and training
grants) of annual direct cost diabetes-related funding, plus 42 regional members with $14.4 million of annual
direct cost diabetes-related funding at five nearby Regional Partner Institutions: Michigan State University
(MSU), Ohio State University (OSU), the University of Toledo (UT), the Van Andel Institute (VAI), and Wayne
State University (WSU). The investigators that make up the MDRC research base perform ground-breaking
research in five broad areas relevant to diabetes: Cellular Aspects of Diabetes and Metabolism; Integrative
Aspects of Diabetes and Metabolism; Islet Biology; Diabetic Complications; and Clinical Research in Diabetes
and Metabolism. To support and empower research by its members, the MDRC will:
 1. Coordinate activities that raise awareness of, interest in, and support for basic and translational
 research in diabetes, its complications, and related endocrine and metabolic disorders at U-M and
beyond.
 2. Advance learning and promote scientific exchange related to diabetes, its complications, and related
 metabolic disorders.
 3. Provide research cores that provide shared, specialized technical resources and expertise that
 enhance the efficiency, productivity, and multidisciplinary nature of research performed by MDRC
investigators.
 4. Support a Pilot and Feasibility grant program.
 5. Provide support for research in diabetes, its complications, and related endocrine and metabolic
 disorders at Regional Partner Institutions. The MDRC provides membership, enrichment activities, an
 Expanded (Regional) Pilot and Feasibility Grant Program, and access to the MDRC Molecular
 Genetics Core for researchers at Regional Partner Institutions who study diabetes, its complications,
 and related endocrine and metabolic disorders.

## Key facts

- **NIH application ID:** 10811782
- **Project number:** 5P30DK020572-47
- **Recipient organization:** UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN AT ANN ARBOR
- **Principal Investigator:** Scott Soleimanpour
- **Activity code:** P30 (R01, R21, SBIR, etc.)
- **Funding institute:** NIH
- **Fiscal year:** 2024
- **Award amount:** $1,452,807
- **Award type:** 5
- **Project period:** 1996-12-01 → 2027-11-30

## Primary source

NIH RePORTER: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10811782

## Citation

> US National Institutes of Health, RePORTER application 10811782, Michigan Diabetes Research Center (MDRC) (5P30DK020572-47). Retrieved via AI Analytics 2026-05-27 from https://api.ai-analytics.org/grant/nih/10811782. Licensed CC0.

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