Lori Sussel, PhD
Director of Basic and Translational Research
Barbara Davis Center for Diabetes
University of Colorado
Interests: Molecular pathways specifying islet cell differentiation and function; transcriptional networks regulating pancreas development
Alan Attie, PhD
Jack Gorski Professor of Biochemistry
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Interests: Genetics of Diabetes, beta-cell biology, lipid metabolism
Alvin Powers, MD
Joe C. Davis Chair in Biologic Sciences and Professor of Medicine, Molecular Physiology and Biophysics
Chief of the Vanderbilt Division of Diabetes, Endocrinology, and Metabolism
Director of the Vanderbilt Diabetes Research and Training Center
Vanderbilt University
Interests: Understanding and reversing β cell and islet abnormalities and dysfunction in type 1 and type 2 diabetes
Desmond Schatz, MD
Professor of Pediatrics
Associate Chairman of Pediatrics
Director of Clinical Research Center
University of Florida
Interests: Prediction, natural history, genetics, immunopathogenesis and prevention of type 1 diabetes, management of children and adolescents with type 1 diabetes