The central scientific objective of the Diabetes and Obesity Center is to support molecular, cellular, experimental, epidemiological, and clinical investigations into the cardiovascular causes and consequences of diabetes and obesity.

Each working towards a common goal, Center investigators expect to make important and significant discoveries that, in the future, may enable the development of new therapeutic modalities for treating diabetes and obesity.

Research Projects

► Project I - Endothelial Progenitor Cell Mobilization Defects in Diabetes

► Project II - Stem Cells and Diabetic Cardiomyopathy

► Project III - Bioenergetic Regulation of Cardiac Progenitor Cells

► Project IV - Foam Cell Formation and Diabetic Atherogenesis

► Project V - Resolution of Diabetic Vascular Inflammation: Role of Lipid Mediators