Focuses on noninsulin-dependent diabetes, the most common form of the disease affecting our population today. By investigating the genes responsible for risk factors such as obesity, high blood pressure and high cholesterol, we may provide physicians with the new tools to help diagnose and treat diabetes long before debilitating complications can arise, or even before the disease itself can strike.

Mikhail Kolonin, PhD – Professor & Director

Vihang Narkar, PhD– Professor

Qingchun Tong, PhD – Professor

Kristin Eckel Mahan, PhD – Associate Professor

Nick Justice, PhD– Associate Professor

Kai Sun, MD, PhD – Associate Professor

Sheng Zhang, PhD – Associate Professor

Aaron R. Cox, PhD – Assistant Professor

Yu (Aaron) An, MD, PhD– Assistant Professor