{"id":69999,"date":"2025-10-30T11:13:27","date_gmt":"2025-10-30T15:13:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/medicine\/?p=69999"},"modified":"2025-10-30T12:03:20","modified_gmt":"2025-10-30T16:03:20","slug":"hwang-to-lead-unc-center-for-diabetes-and-metabolic-health-funding-by-niddk-renewed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/medicine\/news\/hwang-to-lead-unc-center-for-diabetes-and-metabolic-health-funding-by-niddk-renewed\/","title":{"rendered":"Hwang to Lead UNC Center for Diabetes and Metabolic Health, Funding by NIDDK Renewed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">Diabetes and obesity are two of the most pressing health challenges in North Carolina. <strong>More than 1 million North Carolinians live with diabetes, and over 2 million struggle with obesity.<\/strong> Diabetes is a leading cause of blindness, kidney failure, amputations, and cardiovascular disease, significantly shortening lives and contributing billions of dollars in health care costs.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_70003\" class=\"thumbnail wp-caption alignright\" style=\"width: 284px\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-70003 \" src=\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/medicine\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/945\/2025\/10\/Untitled-design-22-300x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"274\" height=\"274\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/medicine\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/945\/2025\/10\/Untitled-design-22-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/medicine\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/945\/2025\/10\/Untitled-design-22-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/medicine\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/945\/2025\/10\/Untitled-design-22-301x301.png 301w, https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/medicine\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/945\/2025\/10\/Untitled-design-22.png 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 274px) 100vw, 274px\" \/><figcaption class=\"caption wp-caption-text\">Drs. Janice Hwang (left) and John Buse (right)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">The UNC Diabetes Center of Excellence was established in November of 2006 by a vote of the UNC School of Medicine\u2019s Deans Advisory Committee. The Center was led by John Buse, MD, PhD, Verne S. Caviness Distinguished Professor of Medicine from its founding until 2025. Going forward, the UNC Diabetes Center will be renamed the UNC Center for Diabetes and Metabolic Health to reflect the Center\u2019s expanding focus on diabetes, obesity, and other metabolic disorders. Janice Hwang, MD, MHS, chief of the UNC Division of Endocrinology &amp; Metabolism will assume the role of director.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">UNC has partnered with institutions, including Wake Forest University, Duke University, Agricultural and Technical State University, to form a state-wide consortium and further improve diabetes care, since 2015. The North Carolina Diabetes Research Center (NCDRC) was funded by the NIDDK in 2020 and has been successfully renewed this year.<\/p>\n<h4>Mission of the UNC Center for Diabetes &amp; Metabolic Health<\/h4>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">The missions of this center have been to:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Foster the development of both basic biomedical research and clinical investigation in the areas of diabetes, obesity and metabolism<\/li>\n<li>Serve as a resource for all investigators within the University of North Carolina who have a research or service interest in these areas<\/li>\n<li>Be recognized as a model of translational application of the most efficient and cost effective provisions for improving quality of care for patients with diabetes based on new research findings<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4>Looking Forward<\/h4>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">To continue supporting its missions, the center will:<\/p>\n<ul style=\"font-weight: 400\">\n<li>Coordinate activities that raise awareness of, interest in, and support for basic and translational research in diabetes, its complications, and related endocrine and metabolic disorders at UNC<\/li>\n<li>Advance learning and promote scientific exchange related to diabetes, endocrinology and metabolism.<\/li>\n<li>Deliver\u00a0<strong>world-class, integrated care<\/strong>\u00a0for children and adults<\/li>\n<li>Accelerate\u00a0<strong>discovery and translation<\/strong>\u00a0of new therapies<\/li>\n<li>Expand\u00a0<strong>training and workforce development<\/strong>\u00a0to address the shortage of diabetes and metabolic disease specialists<\/li>\n<li>Lead\u00a0<strong>statewide dissemination<\/strong>\u00a0of best practices to improve outcomes across North Carolina.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Diabetes and obesity are two of the most pressing health challenges in North Carolina. 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