NYR-Diabetes Research Center (NYR-DRC)

Albert Einstein College Of Medicine, Bronx NY

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Abstract

Abstract The primary mission of the Translational Research Core (TRC) is to support and promote high-quality diabetes translational research. The TRC accomplishes this through efficient delivery of services including access to gold-standard measures, consultation, technical support and training, and mentoring in clinical research methods specifically applicable to diabetes and related metabolic disorders. The TRC serves a wide spectrum of New York Regional Diabetes Research Center (NYR-DRC) research through broad expertise of Core personnel encompassing investigators with proficiency in mechanistic studies, integrative physiology, clinical trials of diabetes and obesity, and in application of new diabetes technologies. Einstein is one of only five centers to be awarded both a DRC and a P30 Center for Diabetes Translation Research (CDTR), which provides resources to support behavioral and community-based implementation research, highlighting our expertise and commitment to diabetes research. The TRC’s main focus is on clinical physiology, metabolism and diabetes therapeutics (“T1-T2” translational research), however it provides vital services to investigators across the research spectrum including those in the New York Regional CDTR, creating opportunities to bring translational diabetes research “full circle”. The unique strengths of the TRC in the next project period will position us to promote continued growth of diabetes-related translational research at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine (Einstein) and to continue to successfully integrate leading diabetes investigators at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai (Sinai) and Weill Cornell School of Medicine (Cornell), as well as other regional partners, as described in the Overview of this application. The three key features of the TRC in this renewal are: 1) continuation of the TRC’s historical mission to provide consultation and technical services to support clinical physiology, clinical trials and cohort studies; 2) expansion of the NYR-DRC partnership with additional TRC expertise and services and 3) enhanced collaboration with CDTR investigators and cores to create and leverage synergy between these two centers. The TRC provides resources through direct faculty consultation, direct access to core services and technology, and access to trained TRC personnel to assist with crucial aspects of human research protocol implementation.