Executive Committee
The BCBC Executive Committee is composed of the BCBC Chair, BCBC Investigators - appointed every two years - and NIDDK program administrators.
| Member | Position |
|---|---|
Kristin Abraham
NIDDK/NIH |
animal models, developmental biology, signal transduction |
Olivier Blondel, Ph.D.
NIDDK/NIH |
Diabetes, beta-cell function and development, genomics, epigenomics, small molecules, humanized mouse models. |
Gerard Gradwohl, Ph.D
Institute of Genetics and Molecular and Cellular Biology (IGBMC) |
Genetic control of pancreatic and intestinal endocrine cells differentiation |
Mark A Magnuson, M.D.
Vanderbilt University |
Pancreas Development, Mouse Models, Mouse ES Cells, Insulin Secretion, Next Generation Sequencing |
Sheryl Sato, Ph.D.
NIDDK/NIH |
Vertebrate Embryology, Stem Cells, Diabetes, Obesity |
Phil Smith
NIDDK |
Integrative Physiology, Obesity, and Genomics |
Kenneth S. Zaret, Ph.D.
University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine |
specification of pancreatic progenitors, endocrine progenitors, beta cells cell signaling, chromatin, and transcriptional mechanisms |
