Training Grant Positions

Title

Endocrinology, Diabetes, and Metabolism

Director

Eberhardt, Norman L., Ph.D.

Summary

The Program in Diabetes and Metabolism is a postdoctoral training program for Ph.D., M.D., and M.D.-Ph.D. candidates who are citizens or permanent residents of the United States. The program is designed to serve as a gateway toward independence. It provides for up to three years of support.

Specific aspects of the program include:

• Breeding familiarity with all components of the scientific method
• Providing a focused approach to scientific investigation that emphasizes the formulation and testing of hypotheses
• Providing experience with the most modern analytical tools and methodologies
• Preparing the individual to design, create, and submit grants; toward this end a formal requirement of our program is the submission of an individual NRSA or equivalent grant application at the start of the second year of support
• Honing the candidates skills to become independent biomedical research scientists

Of particular note is the focused approach to training goals for each laboratory-based trainee; a commitment to provide maximal training duration; the uniform extramural funding of the independent investigators that serve as faculty; the productive record of the program; the presence of a knowledgeable junior training faculty; the availability of adjunct faculty whose primary areas of basic science and/or clinical investigation are tied to those of metabolism, diabetes and endocrinology; and the diversity of the faculty research programs which range from molecular endocrinology to clinical research.

Faculty

• Bahn, Rebecca S., M.D.
• Conover, Cheryl A., Ph.D.
• Eberhardt, Norman L., Ph.D.
• Jensen, Michael D., M.D.
• Khosla, Sundeep M.D.
• Kirkland, James L., M.D., Ph.D.
• Kudva, Yogish C., MBBS
• Miles, John M., M.D.
• Morris III, John C., M.D.
• Nair, K. Sreekumaran M.D., Ph.D.
• Oursler, Merry Jo., Ph.D.
• Rizza, Robert A., M.D.
• Spelsberg, Thomas C., Ph.D.
• Tindall, Donald J., Ph.D.
• Veldhuis, Johannes D., M.D.
• Vella, Adrian M.D.
• Westendorf, Jennifer Jane (Jennifer)., Ph.D.

Eligibility

Predoctoral appointees must have received a baccalaureate degree by the beginning date of their NRSA appointment, and be enrolled in Mayo's program leading to a Ph.D. in science.

Postdoctoral appointees must have received, as of the beginning date of the NRSA appointment, a Ph.D., M.D. or comparable doctoral degree. Appointees must also be a citizen or non-citizen national of the United States or must have been legally admitted as a permanent resident.