Research
Research in Endocrinology Overview
Research continues to expand in the Division. In FY ’08, faculty within the Division received a total of $11,000,000 in research support from the NIH, the ADA, the JDRF, the AHA, the VA, and from pharmaceutical trials, with the large majority coming from the NIH. 15 of 20 research faculty cover all or most of their salary from NIH grants, and the remainder covers the large majority of their salary from the NIH and other foundations. Areas of excellence include clinical research in diabetes, obesity, calcium metabolism and osteoporosis, and basic research in diabetes, insulin resistance, pancreatic beta cell function, survival and regeneration, osteoblast and osteoclast biology, and arterial smooth muscle in health and disease. Research is supported by an NIH Training Grant, now in its 34th year, by the NIH-funded Clinical Translational Research Center, and by the NIH-funded Obesity and Nutrition Research Center. Outstanding facilities for microarray gene profiling, DNA and protein synthesis and sequencing, animal care, proteomics, cellular imaging, and bioinformatics and biostatistics are available. From a research prospective, then, the Division clearly ranks among the top ten in the U.S. This excellence in research within the Division is complemented by the NIH ranking of the overall University of Pittsburgh, which ranked #6 out of 130 US Medical Schools in NIH support for 2006, the most recent year for which these numbers are available.
Please see the annual report for details of individual faculty research programs.
Research Laboratories
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