# Diabetes Research Center

> **NIH NIH P30** · WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY · 2020 · $1,903,474

## Abstract

ABSTRACT: Center Overview
The mission of the Washington University School of Medicine (WUSM) Diabetes Research Center (DRC) is to
support and enhance research in diabetes and related metabolic diseases. The DRC accomplishes this
mission through Biomedical Research Core services reflecting the evolving needs of diabetes investigators,
vibrant Pilot & Feasibility Programs, and a dynamic Enrichment Program. Now in its 40th year of continuous
NIDDK funding, this DRC is located at an outstanding research institution with a longstanding tradition of
excellence in diabetes investigation. The WUSM DRC Research Base is organized in four Focus Groups:
Metabolic Regulation, Islet Biology & Immunology, Prevention & Epidemiology, and Complications.
Investigators from each group participate in DRC programs that address the Center's central scientific theme
of enhancing approaches across the translational spectrum. There is compelling evidence that the WUSM
DRC is successfully pursuing its mission of supporting and enhancing research, including outstanding
productivity as measured by both by scientific publications and peer-reviewed funding in diabetes and related
research. Our research strategy will build on these accomplishments by:
 1. Creating an environment that supports important as well as innovative research in diabetes and related
 metabolic disorders;
 2. Supporting cutting edge basic and clinical research related to the etiology, pathogenesis, prevention
 and cure of diabetes;
 3. Raising awareness and interest in fundamental and clinical diabetes research in addition to enhancing
 multidisciplinary approaches to diabetes and its complications; and
 4. Translating new knowledge in diabetes to improved treatment of patients with diabetes.

## Key facts

- **NIH application ID:** 9851896
- **Project number:** 5P30DK020579-43
- **Recipient organization:** WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY
- **Principal Investigator:** Clay F. Semenkovich
- **Activity code:** P30 (R01, R21, SBIR, etc.)
- **Funding institute:** NIH
- **Fiscal year:** 2020
- **Award amount:** $1,903,474
- **Award type:** 5
- **Project period:** 1996-12-01 → 2022-11-30

## Primary source

NIH RePORTER: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/9851896

## Citation

> US National Institutes of Health, RePORTER application 9851896, Diabetes Research Center (5P30DK020579-43). Retrieved via AI Analytics 2026-05-22 from https://api.ai-analytics.org/grant/nih/9851896. Licensed CC0.

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