University of Tennessee Health Science Center team awarded $1.9M for novel diabetes research

(University of Tennessee Health Science Center) A team of researchers in the University of Tennessee Health Science Center's College of Medicine has been awarded a $1.98 million grant from the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Disease (NIDDK), a division of the National Institutes of Health, for a novel approach to studying diabetes by focusing on a specific protein related to metabolic function.