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Diabetes Research Center

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Breakthrough T1D 

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Nutrition Obesity Research Center

A History of Innovation, a Vision of a Cure

Founded in 2000, Diabetes Center at UCSF is an integrated team of researchers and physicians in fields of immunology, cell and stem-cell development, and obesity, endocrinology and metabolism at the cutting-edge of basic, clinical, and translational research in both Type 1 and Type 2 diabetes.

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November 21, 2025

Diabetes Research Center Award

The National Institute of Health National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIH NIDDK) has named UCSF Diabetes Center a Diabetes Research Center, one of a premier group of...

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Campus News ● October 06, 2025

2025 Nobel Prize in Physiology

The Nobel Assembly at Karolinska Institutet have award the 2025 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine to Mary E. Brunkow, Fred Ramsdell, and Shimon Sakaguchi and their discoveries which have...

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September 22, 2025

Rally For Medical Research

The Rally for Medical Research has one urgent purpose: to make funding for the National Institutes of Health a national priority. What began as a single day of advocacy in 2013 has become an annual...

Recent Publications & Related Links

How to Keep Cells Out of Limbo and Prevent Lung Scarring

Feroz Papa reveals cells under stress can change their identity in harmful ways

Scientific American

"Diagnosing Type 1 Diabetes before Symptoms Strike," featuring Mark Anderson and collaborators.

Cell Stem Cell

"Face off: Stem cell therapy versus the immune system," R. Castro-Gutierrez, Q. Tang, et al.

Diabetes (NIDDK 75th Anniversary Collection)

"Closing the Gap Between Vision and Victory in Type 1 Diabetes: The NIDDK Human Islet Research Network (HIRN) Initiative," A. Parent, el al.

Cell Reports Q&A

S. Koliwad and M. Valdearcos on their scientific journeys leading to their paper investigating the role of microglia in shaping blood glucose homeostasis.

Cell Reports

"Microglia mediate the early-life programming of adult glucose control," M. Valdearcos, S. Koliwad, et al.

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