The incidence of type 2 diabetes mellitus is on the rise to the extent that diabetes rapid and widespread nature has been referred to as pandemic in the United States; type 1 diabetes is also increasing at an unexpected rate. There is an urgent need for innovative therapeutics and technologies to deal with this situation, and a need to train a cadre of future scientists who can engineer devices and therapeutics with in-depth knowledge and training to link their research to clinical care to address the prevention and treatment of diabetes.

The Indiana Bioengineering Interdisciplinary Training for Diabetes Research Program provides interdisciplinary, integrated research training to develop predoctoral students into bioengineers capable of leading integrative and team-based approaches to solve issues relevant to the understanding, prevention, and treatment of diabetes and diabetic complications.

Highlights of the program include:

• Co-mentoring of students from a select group of exemplary bioengineering and diabetes-based research faculties.
• Carefully designed flexible curriculum that provides in-depth training for students in engineering relevant to diabetes.
• Coursework that broadens research training at the bench with quantitative skills, provides opportunities for public speaking, provides a range of enriching extracurricular opportunities, and allows for integration of medicine and science/engineering.
• Training in an environment and culture that provides strong interdisciplinary support for bioengineering and diabetes research.

For more information, view the Interdisciplinary Training for Diabetes Research webpage.