UC San Diego Receives $5.9M Grant to Study Diabetes

National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases, part of the National Institutes of Health, has granted a UC San Diego researcher nearly $6 million to study kidney complications related to type 1 and type 2 diabetes.

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Kumar Sharma, MD, professor of medicine at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine and director of the Center for Renal Translational Medicine, and his colleagues will examine the hypothesis that excess calories are processed via hyper-functioning mitochondria, resulting in accumulation of reactive oxygen species. The researchers will utilize live animal imaging and mitochondrial measurements.

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