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Progress Report on Diabetes Research Published

cover of Conquering Diabetes: Highlights of Program Efforts, Research Advances and Opportunities--A Scientific Progress Report on the Diabetes Research Working Group's Strategic Plan

The National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases has made available Conquering Diabetes: Highlights of Program Efforts, Research Advances and Opportunities—A Scientific Progress Report on the Diabetes Research Working Group's Strategic Plan. This report describes the steps taken by the National Institutes of Health to implement the scientific recommendations made by the Diabetes Research Working Group (DRWG), an independent, nongovernment panel of experts who issued a 5-year strategic plan in 1999. The areas identified as priorities for research were

the genetics of diabetes
autoimmunity and the beta cell
cell signaling and cell regulation
obesity
clinical research and clinical trials

The DRWG also made recommendations concerning special needs for diabetes-related problems.

A single copy of the full report or its executive summary can be ordered free of charge by calling the National Diabetes Information Clearinghouse at 1–800–860–8747. Both the full report and the executive summary can also be found at www.niddk.nih.gov/federal/dwg/2002/dwg02.htm.

NIH Publication No. 04–4562
May 2004

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