Vanderbilt Diabetes Research and Training Center
May 21, 2013

Information about the DRTC

The Vanderbilt DRTC, an interdisciplinary program involving 98 participating faculty distributed among 18 departments in two schools and four colleges at Vanderbilt and at neighboring Meharry Medical College, consists of:

  1. Administrative Component that coordinates the scientific, organizational, and outreach activities of the DRTC
  2. Biomedical Research Component that recruits and selects DRTC-affiliated investigators and supervises research cores that facilitate and enhance their research
  3. Prevention/Control Core with a Clinical Outcomes and Behavioral Sciences Unit at Vanderbilt and a Community Outreach and Health Disparities Unit (at Meharry Medical College), that work cooperatively;
  4. Pilot and Feasibility Program that facilitates the development of new investigators into fully independent scientists and encourages scientists in other fields to enter the field of diabetes research;
  5. Enrichment, Training, and Outreach Program that fosters an environment conducive to collaborative, interdisciplinary research (DRTC Seminar Series, Vanderbilt Diabetes Center Diabetes Day, visiting scientists), and to training new diabetes scientists

The Vanderbilt Diabetes Research and Training Center is supported by NIH grant DK20593.