# Vanderbilt Diabetes Research and Training Center

> **NIH NIH P30** · VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER · 2020 · $1,772,398

## Abstract

Center Overview: Project Summary/Abstract
The Vanderbilt Diabetes Research and Training Center (VDRTC), in its 43rd 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 VDRTC is an
interdisciplinary program involving 121 participating faculty distributed among 15 departments in two schools
and three colleges at Vanderbilt and neighboring Meharry Medical College. The VDRTC consists of: 1)
Administrative Component that coordinates the scientific, organizational, and outreach activities; 2) Biomedical
Research Component that recruits and selects VDRTC-affiliated 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) Enrichment, Training, and Outreach Program that fosters an environment
conducive to collaborative, interdisciplinary research (seminar series, Diabetes Research Day), and to training
new diabetes scientists. The VDRTC oversees three NIDDK-funded diabetes-related training programs and
also serves as the coordinating and organizing center for the NIDDK Medical Student Research Program
which has allowed more than 550 medical students from more than 100 US medical schools to conduct
diabetes-related research at one of 15 NIH-supported Diabetes Research Centers. NIH support for the VDRTC
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 VDRTC is evolving and dynamic, including additions to its investigator base,
expansion of VDRTC 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 regional and
national resource for the diabetes research community. Because of the VDRTC and the environment it creates,
VDRTC-affiliated investigators have made important scientific contributions related to diabetes, obesity, and
metabolism.

## Key facts

- **NIH application ID:** 9933889
- **Project number:** 5P30DK020593-43
- **Recipient organization:** VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER
- **Principal Investigator:** ALVIN C POWERS
- **Activity code:** P30 (R01, R21, SBIR, etc.)
- **Funding institute:** NIH
- **Fiscal year:** 2020
- **Award amount:** $1,772,398
- **Award type:** 5
- **Project period:** 1996-12-01 → 2022-03-31

## Primary source

NIH RePORTER: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/9933889

## Citation

> US National Institutes of Health, RePORTER application 9933889, Vanderbilt Diabetes Research and Training Center (5P30DK020593-43). Retrieved via AI Analytics 2026-05-22 from https://api.ai-analytics.org/grant/nih/9933889. Licensed CC0.

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