The UAB Diabetes Research Center (DRC) (P30 DK-079626) and the Student Research Training Program (T32 DK-062710) are sponsoring summer research fellowship opportunities for medical students interested in performing diabetes-related research between their freshman and sophomore years. Diabetes-related research is broadly defined. This can include basic, clinical, health services delivery, or community-based research, and can be pertinent to Type 1 or Type 2 diabetes, micro- and macro-vascular complications, basic biology and disease mechanisms, obesity, cardiometabolic disease/Metabolic Syndrome, and disease treatment or prevention. Any one of the senior scientists or scientists who are active members of the UAB Diabetes Research Center (DRC) can serve as mentors for the project.

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