Facilitating the discovery, application, and translation of scientific knowledge to improve the lives of people with diabetes.

Researchers from around the world attend the Islet Biology Workshop, hosted this year by Vanderbilt University.
2018 NIDDK Medical Student Research Program Symposium: Students from 70 medical schools present their summer research in diabetes, digestive disease, and kidney disease at VUMC.
Jack Virostko, Ph.D. showing visitors of the Pancreas MRI Study Reception examples of different pancreas images used in the study.
Attendees at the 28th annual South Eastern Lipid Research Conference during the research poster session.
Participants in the 2018 JDRF OneWalk held annually at the Bicentennial Capitol Mall State Park.
Congrats to the Islet Core for winning this year's Halloween door decoration contest and to Heather Nelson, from the Powers lab, who won best costume.
Vanderbilt hosted this year's South Eastern Lipid Research Conference in conjunction with the annual Vanderbilt Diabetes Day. Established investigators, junior faculty members, post-doc fellows, and graduate students come to present their research.
Vanderbilt's Justin M. Gregory, MD, answers questions from the audience during his presentation at the 2018 Diabetes Day conference.
Casey Vickers, MD, helps lead discussions at the round table lunches as part of Diabetes Day activities.
Postdoc Fellow Sophia Yu, MD, accepting the Oscar B. Crofford Scholar in Diabetes Award at the annual Diabetes Day conference.
Vanderbilt faculty and staff volunteer at the annual Diabetes Glucose Screening in a joint effort with the Hold the Stuffing event to encourage everyone to make healthy choices this holiday season.
Pictured from left to right: Melissa Hilmes, MD, Dan Moore, PhD, Jack Virostko, PhD, and Jon Williams, PhD standing with the MRI machine used to study pancreas volume in patients recently diagnosed with T1D. This clinical trial has, so far, seen 130 individuals with or without T1D.
A new publication from DRTC researchers suggests a newly identified beta cell biomarker may speed diabetes research. From left, Chunhua Dai, MD, Greg Poffenberger, John Walker, Diane Saunders, PhD, Marcela Brissova, PhD, and Radhika Aramandla. (photo by Susan Urmy). Click the photo to read more.

About the DRTC

The Vanderbilt Diabetes Research and Training Center (DRTC)
is a NIH-sponsored Diabetes Center that facilitates the discovery, application, and translation of scientific knowledge to improve the lives of people with diabetes.

The DRTC highlights the research of its members by brief videos. Click here to watch DRTC members describing his/her research.

Calendar of Events

Attend one of our upcoming meetings or seminars! Note that this calendar includes the BIG and MetabIG series!

Research Headlines

Featured Investigator

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Marcela Brissova, PhD

Research Associate Professor of Medicine
Division of Diabetes, Endocrinology, & Metabolism
Director, Islet Procurement & Analysis Core

Research Specialty:
Dr. Brissova’s research interests include the biology of pancreatic islets with a focus on the regulation of beta cell gene expression to provide insight into processes controlling normal pancreatic beta cell function in rodent models and translating this research to human islet biology. Her research also includes the study of molecular events involved in the development of pancreatic islet vasculature and innervation and their role in regulation of pancreatic islet function.

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About the DRTC

Calendar of Events

Attend one of our upcoming meetings or seminars! Note that this calendar includes the BIG and MetabIG series!

Research Headlines

Featured Investigator

Marcela Brissova, PhD

Research Associate Professor of Medicine
Division of Diabetes, Endocrinology, & Metabolism
Director, Islet Procurement & Analysis Core

Follow Us on Twitter @vumcdiabetes

Contact Us

Al Powers, MD
Director

Jessica Kimber
Web Admin

Suzanne Starr
Admin officer

Phone: 615-322-7004

E-mail

Facilitating the discovery, application, and translation of scientific knowledge to improve the lives of people with diabetes.

About the DRTC

Calendar of Events

Attend one of our upcoming meetings or seminars! Note that this calendar includes the BIG and MetabIG series!

Research Headlines

Featured Investigator

Research Associate Professor of Medicine Division of Diabetes, Endocrinology, & Metabolism Director, Islet Procurement & Analysis Core

Follow Us on Twitter @vumcdiabetes

Al Powers, MD Director

Jessica Kimber Web Admin

Suzanne Starr Admin officer

Phone: 615-322-7004

Research Associate Professor of Medicine
Division of Diabetes, Endocrinology, & Metabolism
Director, Islet Procurement & Analysis Core

Al Powers, MD
Director

Jessica Kimber
Web Admin

Suzanne Starr
Admin officer