Diabetes and Endocrinology Postdoctoral (DEP) Training Program Preceptors
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Research Interests: Mechanisms involved in improved glucose handling following bariatric surgery; role of the omentum in the treatment of morbid obesity
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Research Interests: The regulation of liver glucose production and storage by hormones, neural mediators, and metabolites
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Research Interests: Longitudinal diabetes care; relapse prevention in diabetes
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Research Interests: Genes that regulate beta cell differentiation, proliferation, and survival
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Research Interests: Connections between optimum nutrition and neuroscience; the roles of vitamin C in neuroprotection, neuromodulation and neuroinflammation in Alzheimer’s disease and other models of cognitive decline
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Research Interests: Impact of diabetes in kidney disease progression
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Research Interests: Animal models of atherosclerosis; the macrophage in atherosclerosis; gene therapy
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Research Interests: Contribution of aldosterone and mineralocorticoid receptor to insulin resistance, metabolic syndrome, and inflammation
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Research Interests: Calcium signaling and pancreatic beta-cell failure
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Research Interests: Antioxidant vitamins and diabetes
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Research Interests: Autoimmunity and immune tolerance in type 1 diabetes
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Research Interests: Development of novel treatments for diabetes by merging human genetics with drug discovery
Lab website: https://www.vumc.org/kd-niswender-lab/niswender-lab-mission
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Research interests: Pancreatic islet biology: studies on development vascularization, and imaging and the potential for regeneration as a cure for type 1 diabetes
Lab website: https://www.powersbrissovaresearch.org/
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Research Interests: Patient education in diabetes; health services research on adults and adolescents with type 2 diabetes
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Research Interests: Type 1 diabetes prevention, ERB signaling in liver regeneration, signal transduction
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Research Interests: Defining the mechanisms for sex differences in dyslipidemia, fatty liver and atherosclerosis using animal models
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Research Interests: Determining how islet-enriched transcription factors impact islet alpha and beta cell identity and activity
Lab website: https://lab.vanderbilt.edu/roland-stein-lab/
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Research Interests: Mechanisms that regulate immune tolerance and why they fail in autoimmune disorders
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Research Interests: Delineating the role of insulin and integrin signaling pathways in the control of metabolism in health and diabetes
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Research Interests: Molecular mechanisms responsible for the coordinated development of complex organ systems
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