Preceptor List:
Preceptors of the DRTC are carefully selected based on both their research interest and their desire to provide a research opportunity for medical students. The research of VDRTC preceptors includes metabolism, molecular physiology, immunology, nephrology, ophthalmology, behavioral psychology, health outcomes, and racial health disparities. The preceptors range from clinical investigators to a basic scientists and include many internationally recognized investigators.
| Faculty Name | Research Interest | Department | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Abumrad, Naji | Surgical treatment of obesity | Surgery | ||
| Brown, Nancy J. | ACE inhibitors | Clinical Pharmacology | ||
| Buchowski, Maciej S. | Cultural underpinnings of obesity | Medicine | ||
| Carter, Bruce D. | Neurotrophic signaling | Biochemistry | ||
| Cherrington, Alan | In vivo control of CHO metabolism | Molecular Physiology & Biophysics | ||
| Davidson, Jeffrey | Wound healing in diabetes | Pathology | ||
| Fazio, Sergio | Apo E - bone marrow gene therapy - hyperlipidemia | Medicine | ||
| Gannon, Maureen | Molecular and cell biology of pancreas development | Medicine | ||
| Guzman, Raul | Diabetic vascular disease | Surgery | ||
| Ikizler, Talat A. | Metabolism in acute renal failure | Nephrology | ||
| Linton, McRae F. | Animal models of atherosclerosis | Medicine | ||
| Magnuson, Mark | Glucokinase-regulation of transcription and expression | Molecular Physiology & Biophysics | ||
| May, James M. | Glucose transport/antioxidants | Medicine | ||
| McGuinness, Owen | Metabolism & nutritional support in sepsis in vivo | Molecular Physiology & Biophysics | ||
| Niswender, Kevin | Obesity and metabolic syndrome | Medicine | ||
| Phillips, John A. III | Molecular basis of familial endocrine disorders | Pediatrics/Medical Genetics | ||
| Piston, David | Ca2+ imaging in islets & other cells | Molecular Physiology & Biophysics | ||
| Powers, Alvin C. | Islet transplantation - autoimmunity | Medicine | ||
| Rothman, Russell | Obesity and diabetes | Medicine | ||
| Russell, William E. | Erb signalling in liver regeneration | Pediatrics | ||
| Shiota, Masakazu | Glucokinase and diabetes | Molecular Physiology & Biophysics | ||
| Stafford, John | Control of metabolism altered in obesity and diabetes | Medicine | ||
| Stein, Roland | Control of insulin gene transcription | Molecular Physiology & Biophysics | ||
| Swift, Larry L. | Lipid and lipoprotein metabolism: atherosclerosis | Pathology | ||
| Wasserman, David | Metabolic changes during exercise in vivo | Molecular Physiology & Biophysics | ||
| Wright, Chris | Islet developmental biology | Developmental Biology | ||
This Diabetes Research and Training Center Pre-Doctoral and Post-Doctoral Training Program is supported by an NIH training grant (NIH grant T32 DK07563) and by the Vanderbilt Diabetes Research and Training Center (NIH grant DK20593). |
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