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Renewal of Diabetes Research Centers (DRCs)

June 2025 Council

Lead Division/Office

DEM

Point(s) of Contact

Christopher Lynch, Ph.D.

Executive Summary

This is a proposal to extend the Congressionally mandated Diabetes Research Centers (DRC) program that has been a prominent catalyst of diabetes research across the country for over 45 years. In 2024, seventeen centers were supported by the program with a Fiscal Year 2025 budget of ~$27M (total costs). The DRCs promote new discoveries and enhance scientific progress through by supporting cutting-edge basic and clinical research biomedical cores for diabetes research, strategies to increase and enhance collaboration and Pilot and Feasibility (P&F) grant programs aimed at elucidating the etiology and complications of diabetes, endocrine and metabolic disorders.

The DRCs are a key component of the overall NIH/NIDDK plan to improve health of Americans with diabetes and related endocrine and metabolic disorders. They are intended to improve the quality and multidisciplinary nature of research on diabetes by providing shared access to specialized and technical resources and expertise. DRCs facilitate progress in research with the goal of developing new methods to treat, prevent and ultimately cure diabetes mellitus and its complications. The centers have a proven track record of increasing cost-effective collaboration among multidisciplinary groups of investigators at institutions with an established, comprehensive research base in diabetes and related areas of endocrinology and metabolism.