# Vanderbilt Diabetes Research Center

> **NIH NIH P30** · VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER · 2024 · $1,776,785

## Abstract

Center Overview: Project Summary/Abstract
The Vanderbilt Diabetes Research Center (VDRC), in its 48th continuous year of operation as a NIH-
sponsored Diabetes Center, seeks to continue its efforts to facilitate the discovery, application, and translation
of scientific knowledge to improve the care of patients with diabetes. The VDRC is an interdisciplinary program
involving 142 participating faculty distributed among 15 departments in two schools and three colleges at
Vanderbilt and neighboring Meharry Medical College. Because of the VDRC and the environment it creates,
VDRC investigators have made important scientific contributions related to diabetes, obesity, and metabolism.
The VDRC consists of: 1) Administrative Component that coordinates the scientific, organizational, enrichment,
training, and outreach activities; For example, the VDRC established the National Diabetes Research Center
Virtual Seminar Series early in the COVID crisis and this is now part of efforts by 15 Diabetes Research
Centers to promote communication and interaction. 2) Biomedical Research Component that recruits and
selects VDRC investigators and supervises the research cores that facilitate and enhance their research; 3)
Pilot and Feasibility Program that facilitates the development of new investigators into independent scientists
and encourages scientists in other fields to enter the field of diabetes research; and 4) National Enrichment
Program in which the VDRC serves as the coordinating and organizing center for the NIDDK Medical Student
Research Program which has allowed more than 1000 medical students from more than 140 US medical and
osteopathic schools to conduct diabetes-related research at one of 16 NIH-supported Diabetes Research
Centers. As part of its efforts to promote the next generation of scientists, the VDRC also enhances the efforts
of 6 diabetes-related training grants, four of which are supported/funded by NIDDK The NIH support for the
VDRC is greatly amplified by: 1) Vanderbilt’s sustained commitment to provide research space and additional
financial resources; 2) a diverse, comprehensive array of research core services at Vanderbilt, which allows
NIH funds to target unique, diabetes-related research cores; and 3) collaborative efforts with other NIH-funded
research Centers at Vanderbilt. The VDRC is evolving and dynamic, including additions to its investigator
base, expansion of VDRC research areas, expanded focus on clinical and translational research, realignment
and evolution of core support to provide unique, indispensable core services, and service as a national
resource for the diabetes research community.

## Key facts

- **NIH application ID:** 10846729
- **Project number:** 5P30DK020593-47
- **Recipient organization:** VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER
- **Principal Investigator:** ALVIN C POWERS
- **Activity code:** P30 (R01, R21, SBIR, etc.)
- **Funding institute:** NIH
- **Fiscal year:** 2024
- **Award amount:** $1,776,785
- **Award type:** 5
- **Project period:** 1996-12-01 → 2027-03-31

## Primary source

NIH RePORTER: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10846729

## Citation

> US National Institutes of Health, RePORTER application 10846729, Vanderbilt Diabetes Research Center (5P30DK020593-47). Retrieved via AI Analytics 2026-05-24 from https://api.ai-analytics.org/grant/nih/10846729. Licensed CC0.

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