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Division of Diabetes, Endocrinology, & Metabolic Diseases
Select staff are listed in alphabetical order by last name. Read a description of the Division of Diabetes, Endocrinology, & Metabolic Diseases.
| Name | Email Address | Phone Number | Title | Research Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cefalu, William | william.cefalu@nih.gov | 301-435-1011 | Director | Diabetes, endocrinology, and metabolic diseases |
| Abraham, Kristin | kristin.abraham@nih.gov | 301-123-4567 | Program Director | Development of resources and infrastructure to support provision and exploration of human tissues for studies of diabetes, and improvements in innovative mouse models to advance diabetes research. |
| Akolkar, Beena | beena.akolkar@nih.gov | 240-593-1733 | Program Director | Clinical research in the prevention and immunopathogenesis of Type 1 Diabetes and the genetics and genomics of Type 1 and Type 2 Diabetes |
| Arreaza-Rubin, Guillermo | guillermo.arreaza-rubin@nih.gov | 301-594-4724 | Program Director | Diabetes and endocrine disease bioengineering and glucose sensing |
| Arrowchis, Leeanna | leeanna.arrowchis@nih.gov | 301-594-3612 | Program Analyst | Diabetes, Endocrinology and Metabolic Diseases and Common Fund Metabolomics Program |
| Artis Dickerson, Shavon | shavon.artisdickerson@nih.gov | 301-435-3055 | Program Director | Health Equity and Implementation Science |
| Blondel, Olivier | olivier.blondel@nih.gov | 301-263-4342 | Program Director | Pathophysiology of the endocrine pancreas in diabetes; technology development (i.e. genomics and systems biology) in metabolic disease |
| Broadney, Miranda | miranda.broadney@nih.gov | 301-594-6841 | Program Director | Pediatrics, Pediatric Endocrinology, Clinical Management of Diabetes Mellitus, Insulin Resistance, Pediatric Obesity |
| Burch, Henry | henry.burch@nih.gov | 301-827-0827 | Program Director | Clinical studies utilizing existing digital health technology for the prevention and treatment of type 2 diabetes, clinical and basic science studies involving non-neoplastic disorders of the thyroid, clinical studies involving medical and novel dietary treatment of type 2 diabetes. |
| Castle, Arthur | arthur.castle@nih.gov | 301-594-7719 | Program Director | Functional metabolomics and technology development to measure metabolic disease; fellowships and institutional training grants |
| Center, Maureen | maureen.center@nih.gov | 301-402-3269 | Program Director, Diabetes Behavioral Science | Health Psychology, Behavioral Science, Clinical Management of Diabetes |
| Cooke, Bradley | brad.cooke@nih.gov | 301-480-9896 | Program Director | Developmental Neuroendocrinology, Electrophysiology, and Cognitive Neuroscience |
| Cowie, Catherine | catherine.cowie@nih.gov | 301-594-8804 | Program Director | Epidemiology of diabetes, including development, control, interventions and complications |
| Deabrew Rajapakse, Chandima | chandima.rajapakse@nih.gov | 301-451-9003 | Program Director | Health Equity Research, Minority Health, Type 2 Diabetes in Adults, Translation research and Implementation Science |
| Eggerman, Thomas | thomas.eggerman@nih.gov | 301-594-8813 | Program Director | Cystic fibrosis research and translation centers, Cystic Fibrosis basic research and clinical trials, rare metabolic diseases basic and clinical trials, clinical islet transplantation registry; advanced artificial pancreas clinical trials, post COVID-19 new onset diabetes |
| Gorospe, Jose Rafael | gorospejr@mail.nih.gov | 301-594-2556 | Program Director | Pediatrics, Genetics |
| Green, Neal | neal.green@nih.gov | 301-594-8815 | Project Manager (Contractor) | Clinical trials specialist, Islet transplantation, DSMB/OSMB/EEC Administration |
| Gupta, Dhananjay | dhananjay.gupta@nih.gov | 301-827-3739 | Program Director | Basic research on pathogenesis of obesity and Type 2 Diabetes; Role of gene-environment interaction in regulation of metabolism; Transcriptional regulation of gene expression; Cellular signaling pathways regulating intermediary metabolism and cellular identity |
| Haft, Carol Renfrew | carol.haft@nih.gov | 301-594-7689 | Program Director | Adipocyte development and biology in various fat depots; protein trafficking, secretion, processing and ER stress in metabolic disease |
| Hwa, Albert | albert.hwa@nih.gov | 301-451-1525 | Program Director | Basic mechanisms underlying the organogenesis and regeneration of pancreatic islets during health and disease; generation of islet cells from stem cells for disease modeling and regenerative medicine |
| Jones, Teresa | teresa.jones@nih.gov | 301-123-4567 | Program Director | Diabetic Foot Consortium and other special projects in diabetes complications |
| Lancaster, Destiny | destiny.lancaster@nih.gov | 301-827-0767 | Travel Coordinator/Administrative Support (Contractor) | Travel and administrative support to Program Directors managing Common Fund Programs |
| Laughlin, Maren | maren.laughlin@nih.gov | 301-594-8802 | Program Director | Energy balance, thermogenesis and mitochondria biology, whole body intermediary carbohydrate, lipid and protein metabolism, and functional and metabolic imaging in adipose, pancreas and other metabolic organs. |
| Lawrence, Jean | jean.lawrence@nih.gov | 301-594-8804 | Program Director | Gestational diabetes; Type 2 diabetes in Adults; Epidemiology; Natural experiments |
| Leschek, Ellen | ellen.leschek@nih.gov | 301-402-8291 | Program Director | Type 1 and type 2 diabetes clinical research |
| Li, Yan | yan.li5@nih.gov | 301-435-3721 | Program Director | Key regulators of intermediary metabolism; drug discovery; translational research; diabetic wound healing. |
| Liang, Hanyu | hanyu.liang@nih.gov | 301-443-8737 | Program Director | Hepatic Metabolism; Insulin Resistance; Type 2 Diabetes; Obesity; Bariatric Surgery |
| Linder, Barbara | linderb@extra.niddk.nih.gov | 301-594-0021 | Program Director | Type 2 diabetes in children and youth; human studies of metabolic imprinting |
| Malozowski, Saul | saul.malozowski@nih.gov | 301-451-4683 | Program Director | Neuroendocrinology of hypothalamic-pituitary axis, neuropeptide signaling and receptors; hormonal regulation of bone and mineral metabolism; HIV/AIDS-associated metabolic and endocrine dysfunction |
| Martey, Louis | louis.martey@nih.gov | 301-594-7733 | Program Analyst | Coordination and preparation of pre and post council materials, analysis and evaluation of project funding for all grant mechanisms by DEM, supervision of administrative support staff |
| Mehta, Mansi | mansi.mehta2@nih.gov | 301-480-1616 | Scientific Program Analyst | |
| Mensah, Michael | michael.mensah@nih.gov | 301-594-3308 | Program Analyst (Contractor) | 4DNucleome (4DN) |
| Otradovec, Heidi | heidi.otradovec@nih.gov | 301-451-7609 | Program Analyst | Coordination and preparation of pre, sub, and post Council materials; analysis and evaluation of project funding for DEM grant mechanisms; track dollar commitments and grant initiatives for the T1D funds; division web liaison |
| Sechi, Salvatore | salvatore.sechi@nih.gov | 301-594-8814 | Program Director | Proteomics, Systems Biology, and Structural Biology as applied to diabetes, metabolic, and endocrine diseases |
| Silva, Corinne | corinne.silva@nih.gov | 301-451-7335 | Program Director | The role of circadian rhythms and sleep in metabolic diseases; mechanisms by which the intrauterine environment alters metabolic responses in the offspring; Diabetes Research Centers. |
| Spain, Lisa | lisa.spain@nih.gov | 301-451-9871 | Program Director | Disease-modifying clinical trials in type 1 diabetes, etiology and pathogenesis of type 1 diabetes |
| Thornton, Pamela | pamela.thornton@nih.gov | 301-480-6476 | Program Director, Centers for Diabetes Translation Research | Health Equity and Translational Research; Centers for Diabetes Translation Research (P30) Program |
| Wang, Xujing | xujing.wang@nih.gov | 301-451-2862 | Program Director | Data science; computation modeling; integrative genomics; network biology; genotype-phenotype relationship |
| Woo, Theresa | theresa.woo@nih.gov | 301-480-1871 | Program Director | Human behavior, developmental cognitive neuroscience, and brain-based mechanisms involved in obesity and diabetes |
| Xia, Ashley | ashley.xia@nih.gov | 301-480-9505 | Program Director | Common Fund Molecular Transducers of Physical Activity, Omics Analysis, Computational Biology and Data Science |
| Zaghloul, Norann | norann.zaghloul@nih.gov | 301-435-6677 | Program Director | Genetics and genomics of Type 2 diabetes and functional genomic studies in Type 2 diabetes and metabolic diseases |