Diabetes is a complex and heterogenous disease and so are the approaches to understand, prevent and cure it.

 
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Research Affinity Groups

For organizational purposes, we have grouped SDRC investigators into four broad research ‘affinity’ areas:

1. Pancreas and Islet Research

2. Metabolism and Signaling in Diabetes

3. Diabetes Immunology, Transplantation & Stem Cells in Diabetes

4. Diabetes Bioengineering & Behavioral Sciences

Investigators are aligned by their interests in insulin signaling, insulin resistance, insulin regulation, islet biology, islet inflammation and transplantation, islet auto- and allo-immunity, improved replacement of islets or insulin in diabetes, and the psychosocial aspects of insulin and glucose regulation. SDRC investigations focus on all forms of diabetes, including type 1, type 2 and type 3c diabetes, and the complications of these. Thus, there are several broad themes that link collaborative multidisciplinary SDRC studies.


STANFORD DRC RESEARCH BASE INVESTIGATORS

* Denotes research interest group leader

# denotes adjunct members

Pancreas and islet research group
 

Justin Annes  
Amin Arbabian
Mike Bassik
Carolyn Bertozzi
Howard Chang
Jerry Crabtree

Karl Deisseroth
Utkan Demirci
Anna Gloyn*
Will Greenleaf
Sohail Husain Jen Ikle Peter Jackson

Mark Kay Seung Kim
Brian Kobilka
Roel Nusse
Lucy O'Brien
Walter Park Steve Quake

Mike Snyder
Avnesh Thakor*
Monte Winslow
Richard Zare
Trish Berger#
Mark Huising#

Metabolism and signaling in diabetes

Fahim Abbasi
Marwa Abu El Haija
Aijaz Ahmed
Tim Assimes
Salman Azhar
Vivek Bhalla
Tara Chang
Vivek Charu
Mike Cherry

Glenn Chertow Danny Chou* Jennifer Cochran
Ron Dalman
Manisha Desai
Christopher Gardner
Eric Gross
Geoff Gurtner

Francois Haddad
Mark Hlatky
Andrew Hoffman
John Ioannidis
Sun H. Kim
Ray Kim Josh Knowles*
Rick Kraemer
Jennifer Lee

 

Mary Leonard
Joyce Liao
Jonathan Long
Michael Longaker
Ken Mahaffey Tracey McLaughlin
Tom Quertermous
Jinnie Rhee
 

Manuel Rivas
Kevin Schulman
Randall Stafford Marcia Stefanick
Katrin Svensson* Marilyn Tan
Natalie Torok Phil Tsao

Joe Wu
Joy Wu
Sean Wu
Allison Ehrlich#
Nicole Glaser#
Sona Kang#
Anders Naar#
Andreas Stahl#
Hei Sook Sul#
John Yoon#

Diabetes Immunology, Transplantation and Stem Cells
 

Lay Teng Ang
Marina Basina
Paul Bollyky
Stephan Busque
Agnieszka Czechowicz
Mark Davis
 

Ed Engleman
Gary Fathman
Kevin Grimes Jin Billy Li Varia Kirchner Calvin Kuo

Kyle Loh* Holden Maecker Everett Meyer*
Sara Michie
Garry Nolan
Maria-Grazia Roncarolo

Vittorio Sebastiano Judy Shizuru
Sam Strober
Brendan Visser
Irving Weissman

Diabetes, Bioengineering, & Behavioral Sciences

Alyce Adams
Eric Appel
Tandy Aye
Bruce Buckingham
Danny Chou
Laya Ekhlaspour Drew Endy

Korey Hood * Ngan Huang
Abby King
Rayhan Lal *
David Maahs Diana Naranjo
Latha Palaniappan

Anisha Patel
Ada Poon Priya Prahalad Alan Reiss Thomas Robinson

David Scheinker Manpreet Singh
Tom H. Soh
Molly Tanenbaum
Darrell WIlson Renee Zhao