Laboratories & Branches | NIDDK

The NIDDK Intramural Research Program (IRP) conducts biomedical research and training related to diabetes, endocrine and metabolic diseases—including liver disease and nutrition—obesity, and kidney, urologic, and hematologic diseases.

Laboratories at the NIDDK generally focus on basic scientific research, while branches generally focus on clinical research. Cores and support services provide internal support for all IRP laboratories, branches, and sections.

Laboratories, branches, and their sections (research groups led by individual Principal Investigators) can be viewed below.

Laboratories

 

Branches

Biomedical & Metabolic Imaging

  • Biomedical & Metabolic Imaging Section

Diabetes, Endocrinology, & Obesity

  • Clinical Endocrinology Section
  • Energy Metabolism Section
  • Integrative Cellular Metabolism Section
  • Neuromodulation and Motivation Section
  • Section on Diabetes, Nutrition, and Health
  • Section on Motivational Processes Underlying Appetite
  • Section on Nutritional and Metabolic Neuroimaging
  • Section on Pediatric Diabetes, Obesity, and Metabolism
  • Section on Translational Diabetes and Metabolic Syndromes
  • Section on Translational Endocrinology
  • Translational Physiology Section

Digestive Disease

  • Gastroenterology Section
  • Gastrointestinal Cell Biology Section
  • Molecular and Clinical Nutrition Section
  • Nutritional Pathophysiology and Epidemiology Section

Genetics and Biochemistry

  • Genetics and Biochemistry Section
  • Genetics of Development and Disease Section
  • Glial Biology Section
  • Human Disease Section
  • Protein Biogenesis Section
  • Section on Replication and Recombination in the Mammalian Germline

Kidney Diseases

  • Clinical Nephrology Section
  • Immunoregulation Section
  • Polycystic Kidney Disease Section
  • Renal Diagnostics and Therapeutics Unit

Liver Diseases

  • Clinical Hepatology Research Section
  • Clinical Research Section
  • Genetics and Metabolism Section
  • Immunology Section
  • Liver Diseases Virology Section
  • Liver and Energy Metabolism Section
  • Translational Hepatology Section

Metabolic Diseases

  • Endocrine Signaling and Oncogenesis Section
  • Thyroid Tumors and Functional Thyroid Disorders

Molecular & Clinical Hematology

  • Molecular Hematology Section
  • Cellular and Molecular Therapeutics Section

Phoenix Epidemiology & Clinical Research

  • Diabetes Epidemiology and Clinical Research Section
  • Diabetes Genetic Epidemiology Section
  • Diabetes Molecular Genetics Section
  • Obesity and Diabetes Clinical Research Section