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Diabetes Center at UCSF

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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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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...

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Campus News ● July 15, 2025

Mourning The Loss of William J. Rutter

William J. Rutter PhD, who in 1977 with his colleagues achieved the first major triumph of genetic engineering by isolating the gene for rat insulin and transplanting it into bacteria, eventually...

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April 30, 2025

Diabetes Center Future Space

Diabetes Center looks brightly into the future when it will in large part move into the new Barbara and Gerson Bakar Research and Academic Building, along with other research programs for cancer...

Recent Publications & Related Links

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.

Science

Engineering synthetic suppressor T cells that execute locally targeted immunoprotective programs," A. Parent, M. Hebrok, et al.
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