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Bioengineering, Biotechnology, & Imaging as applied to Diabetes, Metabolic, & Endocrine Diseases

Cutting-edge technologies that elucidate the mechanisms underlying endocrine and metabolic diseases, including diabetes.

NIDDK Program Staff

  • Guillermo A. Arreaza-Rubín, M.D. Diabetes and endocrine disease bioengineering and glucose sensing
  • Arthur L. Castle, Ph.D. Functional metabolomics and technology development to measure metabolic disease; muscle biology and exercise in diabetes and obesity; fellowships and institutional training grants
  • Albert J. Hwa, Ph.D. 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; microphysiological systems for diabetes modeling
  • Maren Laughlin, Ph.D. Energy balance, thermogenesis and mitochondria biology, lipid metabolism, and functional and metabolic imaging in adipose, pancreas and other metabolic organs.
  • Yan Li, Ph.D. Key regulators of intermediary metabolism; drug discovery; translational research; diabetic wound healing.
  • Salvatore Sechi, Ph.D. Proteomics, Systems Biology, and Structural Biology as applied to diabetes, metabolic, and endocrine diseases
  • Xujing Wang, Ph.D. Data science; computation modeling; integrative genomics; network biology; genotype-phenotype relationship
  • Theresa Teslovich Woo, Ph.D. Human behavior, developmental cognitive neuroscience, and brain-based mechanisms involved in obesity and diabetes

Recent Funding Opportunities

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  1. PAR-25-144

    Dissemination and Implementation Research in Health (R01 Clinical Trial Optional)

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  2. RFA-DK-25-022

    Precision Medicine for Type 1 Diabetic Nephropathy (U01 Clinical Trial Not Allowed)

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  3. RFA-NS-25-023

    HEAL Initiative: Studies to Enable Analgesic Discovery (R61/R33 - Clinical Trial Not Allowed)

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  4. RFA-DK-25-021

    Cellular Models of HIV Pathogenesis within NIDDK Mission Areas (R01 Clinical Trial Not Allowed)

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  5. PAR-24-258

    Research Resource for Human Organs and Tissues (U42 Clinical Trial Not Allowed)

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Research Resources

NIDDK makes publicly supported resources, data sets, and studies available to researchers to accelerate the rate and lower the cost of new discoveries.

  • Ancillary Studies to Major Ongoing Clinical Studies to extend our knowledge of the diseases being studied by the parent study investigators under a defined protocol or to study diseases and conditions not within the original scope of the parent study but within the mission of the NIDDK.
  • NIDDK Central Repository for access to clinical resources including data and biospecimens from NIDDK-funded studies.
  • NIDDK Information Network (dkNET) for simultaneous search of digital resources, including multiple datasets and biomedical resources relevant to the mission of the NIDDK.

Additional Research Programs

Research Training

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NIDDK supports the training and career development of medical and graduate students, postdoctoral fellows, and physician scientists through institutional and individual grants.

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Diversity

Diversity Programs

The NIDDK offers and participates in a variety of opportunities for trainees and researchers from communities underrepresented in the biomedical research enterprise. These opportunities include travel and scholarship awards, research supplements, small clinical grants, high school and undergraduate programs, and a network of minority health research investigators.

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Small Business

Small Business Programs

NIDDK participates in the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) and Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) programs. These programs support innovative research conducted by small businesses that has the potential for commercialization.

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Human Subjects Research

Human Subjects Research

NIDDK provides funding for pivotal clinical research, from preliminary clinical feasibility to large multi-center studies.

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Translational Research

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NIDDK provides funding opportunities and resources to encourage translation of basic discoveries into novel therapeutics.

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Meetings & Workshops

Etiology Discovery Therapy
A 10-Year Anniversary Symposium Organized by The Human Islet Research Network: Changing the Course in Type 1 Diabetes

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Bethesda, MD

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2025 NIDDK K Awardees Workshop

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Bethesda, MD

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dkNET

Supports researchers with tools to enhance scientific rigor, reproducibility, and transparency, and provides a big data knowledge base for genomic and pathway hypothesis generation.

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  • NIH Common Fund

    Learn about current projects and view funding opportunities sponsored by the NIH Common Fund.

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Last Reviewed October 2023