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Diabetes Clinical Research

Clinical research is patient-oriented research. Research may be conducted in human volunteers or on samples from humans. NIH-funded studies are carefully designed to answer specific medical questions while protecting participants' safety. Well conducted clinical trials are the fastest and safest way to find improved treatments and preventions for diseases. Clinical trials or interventional trials determine whether experimental preventions, treatments, or new ways of using known therapies are safe and effective under controlled conditions. Observational or natural history studies examine health issues and disease development in groups of people or populations. The National Library at Medicine explains more about clinical research in Understanding Clinical Trials.
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Consortia, Registries, Repositories
  • Beta Cell Biology Consortium (BCBC)
    The mission of the Beta Cell Biology Consortium (BCBC) is to facilitate interdisciplinary approaches that will advance the understanding of pancreatic islet development and function.

  • Collaborative Islet Transplant Registry
    The CITR expedites progress and promotes the safety of islet transplantation by collecting, analyzing, and communicating data on islet transplants in the U.S. and Canada.

  • Endocrine Pancreas Consortium
    The Endocrine Pancreas Consortium was formed in late 1999 to derive and sequence cDNA libraries enriched for rare transcripts expressed in the mammalian endocrine pancreas.

  • Environmental Determinants of Diabetes in the Young (TEDDY)
    | www.teddystudy.org/
    This consortium is organizing international efforts to identify infectious agents, dietary factors, or other environmental factors that trigger type 1 diabetes in genetically susceptible people.

  • Genetics of Kidneys in Diabetes (GoKinD)
    The purpose of the GoKinD Study is to establish a repository of DNA and clinical information from 1,100 adults with Type 1 diabetes, along with their parents to better understand how genetics contributes to the development of diabetic kidney disease.

  • International Type 1 Diabetes Genetics Consortium
    This consortium is organizing international efforts to identify genes that determine a person's risk of type 1 diabetes.

  • International Type 2 Diabetes Linkage Analysis Consortium
    This consortium is organizing international efforts to combine existing data sets for linkage analysis in an effort to map genes for type 2 diabetes. In addition, the availability of a large number of samples allows for analysis of individual ethnic groups for predominant diabetes susceptibility genes.

  • Islet Cell Resource Centers
    The mission of the Islet Cell Resource Centers (ICRs) is to provide pancreatic islets for basic science studies and clinical trials and to optimize the harvest and shipment of islets while developing tests that characterize the quality and predict the effectiveness of islets transplanted into patients with diabetes mellitus.

  • NIDDK Central Repositories
    The Biosample, Genetics, and Data Repositories have been established to store biosamples and data collected in designated NIDDK-funded clinical studies. The purpose of the NIDDK Central Repositories is to expand the usefulness of these studies by allowing a wider research community to access these materials beyond the end of the study.

  • Type 1 Diabetes Special Funding Program
    Information on research funding opportunities, resources, consortia, and networks supported by the Special Funding Program for Type 1 Diabetes Research.

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Last Updated: 11/10/2005

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