Links

• UAB Comprehensive Diabetes Center
  The UAB Comprehensive Diabetes Center faculty are engaged in providing the highest-quality innovative care to diabetes patients, conducting cutting-edge research into the causes and mechanisms of diabetes, and training future generations of diabetes clinicians and researchers.
• Diabetes Research Centers
• Human islet Research Network (HIRN)
• Making Systems Changes for Better Diabetes Care
  Offers continuing education credits and practice strategies for primary care providers, educators, nurses, dietitians etc.
• National Diabetes Education Program
  from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
• diabetesatwork.org
  Information for businesses and managed-care companies and their employees
• UAB Nutrition Trends
• Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation
• PubMed
  The U.S. National Library of Medicine online
  View publications funded by the DRC at PubMed website.

Other Diabetes Research Centers:

• University of Chicago Diabetes Research and Training Center
• Michigan Diabetes Research and Training Center
• Vanderbilt Diabetes Research and Training Center

Grant Resources

• PHS 398 forms (PDF)
• PHS 398 forms example (docx)
• RFA for Diabetes Pilot Grant Program 2026 (PDF)

2026 Advanced Diabetes Graduate Level Course

This Advanced Diabetes course is designed to provide PhD students with a comprehensive understanding of the complex biology underlying diabetes, encompassing diabetes pathophysiology, molecular mechanisms, and evolving therapeutic strategies. Emphasis will be placed on critical thinking, data interpretation, and recent research-driven learning to prepare students for groundbreaking discoveries in diabetes and metabolic disease research.

• Multidisciplinary Approaches to Study Diabetes (GBS VTC 788): Syllabus for Circulation
  SHEL Bldg. 1215, 10 a.m.-noon, Wednesdays, January 14, 2026 – April 16, 2026