BCM Named National Diabetes Research Center

The National Institutes of Health's designation of Baylor College of Medicine as a Diabetes and Endocrinology Research Center signaled a new emphasis on the treatment and cure of diabetes—a scourge around the world and particularly in Texas.

BCM's diabetes center is the only one designated by the NIH in the state of Texas and one of only 17 in the country. As a member of the network, BCM will collaborate with other centers and act as a national resource on diabetes and diabetes research. Joining the NIH network of programs will give BCM up to $5 million over five years to accelerate its diabetes initiatives.

Lawrence Chan, D.Sc., M.B.B.S., Betty Rutherford Chair for Diabetes Research at BCM, will serve as Director of the center. Morey Haymond, M.D., Professor of Pediatrics, and Ming-Jer Tsai, Ph.D., Professor of Molecular and Cellular Biology, will serve as Co-directors.

"The designation will allow Baylor's diabetes program to grow, especially in the areas of clinical and translational research and in genomic medicine and metabolomics as related to diabetes," said Chan, also Chief of the Division of Diabetes, Endocrinology and Metabolism at BCM. "This also will enable us to establish new collaborative research programs across all clinical and basic science departments and potentially bring more research dollars to the center."

The biomedical research base for the center consists of 57 researchers in 10 different BCM departments. The designation allows BCM to serve as a resource for the more than 1 million Texans affected by diabetes.

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