NIDDK Laboratories

Research overview

• NIDDK's intramural research
  Learn about basic biomedical research and training related to diabetes; endocrine, bone, and metabolic diseases; digestive diseases; and kidney, urologic, and hematologic diseases.

Senior scientists' projects

• Senior scientists' projects
  Individual research statements and links to selected publications.

Laboratories/Branches

• Office of the Director
• Section on Biological Chemistry
• Laboratory Animal Section
• Core Labs
• Laboratory of Biochemistry and Genetics
• Laboratory of Biological Modeling
• Laboratory of Bioorganic Chemistry
• Laboratory of Cell Biochemistry and Biology
• Laboratory of Cellular and Developmental Biology
• Laboratory of Chemical Biology
• Laboratory of Chemical Physics
• Laboratory of Genetics and Physiology
• Laboratory of Medicinal Chemistry
• Laboratory of Molecular Biology
• Laboratory of Molecular and Cellular Biology
• Autoimmunity Branch
• Clinical Endocrinology Branch
• Diabetes Branch
• Digestive Diseases Branch
• Liver Diseases Branch
• Genetics and Biochemistry Branch
• Genetics of Development and Disease Branch
• Metabolic Diseases Branch (includes Kidney Disease Section)
• Molecular and Clinical Hematology Branch
• Phoenix Epidemiology and Clinical Research Branch
• Transplantation Branch

Research and training opportunities

• NIH Office of Education
  Obtain information about graduate student, postdoctoral, clinical, and tenure track positions.
  
  

Scientific databases and resources

• Hembase from NIDDK
  Database of genetic-based studies of hematopoietic cells. Maintained by the Molecular Biology and Genetics Section, Laboratory of Chemical Biology, NIDDK.
  
  
• Human Genome
  Different, but complementary, assembled views of the human genome, along with useful browsing tools, are posted by the
  • National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI, NIH)
  • University of California at Santa Cruz
  • European Bioinformatics Institute (EBI)
  
  
• National Hormone and Peptide Program (NHPP)

The NHPP makes available to the research community human and animal pituitary hormones, antisera to these hormones, and selected other hormonal and biological products. Dr. A. F. Parlow (Parlow@humc.edu) is the Scientific Director of the NHPP. A listing of available reagents and application forms to obtain reagents are available via the NHPP website: www.humc.edu/hormones/


• Mammary Genome Anatomy Project
  Initiated to discover, isolate, and understand the genes and signaling pathways operating during normal development and neoplastic transformation of the breast. Maintained by Lothar Hennighausen, Laboratory of Genetics and Physiology, NIDDK.
  
  
• NIH Scientific Resources
  Human Embryonic Stem Cell Registry, Intramural research, special interest groups, library catalogs, journals, training, labs, scientific computing.
  

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