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DRC Virtual Seminar Series |
Upcoming Seminar: Samuel Klein, MD, Washington University Diabetes Center Wednesday, September 10th, 2025, 2:00 PM ET. This seminar series is organized by several NIDDK-funded Diabetes Research Centers. Each seminar in the series features an outstanding scientist or panel of scientists discussing the latest in diabetes, obesity, or metabolic research.
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ADA |
2025 Pathway to Stop Diabetes Awards | The Pathway program aims to attract outstanding early-career scientists in the field of diabetes research and accelerate their progress by providing resources and support for conducting transformative science. The call for nominations will prioritize investigators across the spectrum of diabetes research, spanning basic science through public health research and implementation science. Application Submission Deadline: Wednesday, July 23 2025. |
ADA |
2025 Postdoctoral Fellowship Awards | This award recognizes and supports outstanding researchers in their pursuit of innovative and impactful research projects. The call for applications aims to support exceptional training opportunities that will enable fellows to make significant advances in scientific research and contribute to the ADA's mission to prevent and cure diabetes and to improve the lives of people affected by diabetes. Application Submission Deadline: Wednesday, July 23, 2025 |
NIDDK |
Symposium in Honor of Dr. David Wasserman | We are excited to announce that a special symposium will be held on June 13, 2025, at Vanderbilt University, to honor the outstanding contributions of Dr. David Wasserman to the field of metabolism research. The event will feature several distinguished speakers, each reflecting Dr. Wasserman's enduring legacy and impact on the scientific community. This symposium will be a wonderful opportunity to celebrate his work and connect with fellow researchers, scholars, and colleagues. |
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dkNET Webinar | dkNET Upcoming Webinar: Integrating RAG Chatbots Into Bioinformatics Platforms, May 16, 2025, 11am PT. Webinars are recorded and will be posted to dkNET Youtube Channel after the presentation. |
NIDDK |
227th Meeting of the NIDDK Advisory Council | 227th Meeting of the National Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases Advisory Council Division of Diabetes, Endocrinology, and Metabolic Diseases, May 14, 2025. NIH Building 31, C-Wing 6th Floor Conference Center. |
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HIRN Data Scholars Initiative | The Human Islet Research Network (HIRN) announces a new funding initiative to support the use of existing HIRN datasets and resources to explore unique and innovative hypotheses designed to accelerate breakthroughs and advances in type 1 diabetes (T1D) research. |
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dkNET Summer of Data Student Program | The 2025 Summer of Data program provides students the opportunity to learn data management, FAIR data, rigor and reproducibility, and data science skills while performing their research. It is a 7-week virtual summer program where students engage in weekly sessions with dkNET staff and associates to learn about how to use dkNET and other tools to support their research, while engaging in research projects within their labs. A $500 stipend is provided. Application due April 14, 2025. |
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Introducing PanKbase: A Knowledge base for the Pancreas & Type 1 Diabetes community | We welcome you to join us on Thursday, February 13th, 2025 from 12-1 PM ET for our Knowledge Portal Webinar: "Introducing PanKbase: A Knowledge base for the Pancreas & Type 1 Diabetes community." The session will begin with Anna Gloyn who will introduce the resource, followed by Noël Burtt with a portal demonstration, Jie Liu discussing PanKgraph, and conclude with Marcela Brissova sharing future directions for PanKbase. |
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2024 dkNET AI Pilot Funding Program | This pilot funding program, through the NIDDK Information Network (dkNET, https://dknet.org), is designed to capitalize on the rapid advances in AI and other data science areas in addressing major gaps in the study of Type 2 Diabetes (T2D) heterogeneity, including opportunities in extracting knowledge from the enormous amount of data and literature, and in recruiting AI experts to this area of domain science. Letter of Intent Due: October 11, 2024. |
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NIDDK Director's Update: FALL 2024 | NIDDK is committed to assisting the research community to ensure that all NIH-supported research that generates scientific data involves a plan and budget for how the data will be responsibly and effectively shared and managed. |
NIH |
HTORR Pilot Award Program | The Pilot Award Program is a new component of our NIH-supported U42 program the Human Tissues and Organs for Research Resource (HTORR). The 2-year awards provided through our Pilot Award Program will include up to ~10 biological samples per awarded investigator, covering all costs associated with obtaining the biospecimens, including tissue preservation reagents and shipping costs. |