Six Million Dollars Awarded to IU Diabetes Research and Training Center
INDIANAPOLIS -- The Indiana University Diabetes Research and Training Center, first funded in 1977, has received $6 million to carry it into the 21st century.
The grant which originally established the center has been renewed for another five years. The funding comes from the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Disease at the National Institutes of Health.
Charles M. Clark, Jr., M.D., professor of medicine and director of the Diabetes Research and Training Center at the IU School of Medicine and associate chief of staff for research and development at the Roudebush VA Medical Center, said IU's Diabetes Research and Training Center is one of six in the nation. The Indiana University DRTC is a multi-disciplinary center involved in many areas of diabetes research and with clinical training.
An estimated 16 million Americans have diabetes but only half have been diagnosed with the disease. Diabetes is the leading cause of adult onset blindness, lower extremity amputations and end-stage kidney disease.
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