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USF Receives Record Grant To Study Diabetes

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By CAROL GENTRY

Published: October 3, 2007

TAMPA - TAMPA - TAMPA - TAMPA -- The University of South Florida announced that it will receive $169 million in federal funds to study diabetes. USF said it is the largest grant it has ever received.

The National Institutes of Health made the 10-year award to a USF Health team led by pediatrics Professor Jeffrey P. Krischer, co-director of a research effort known as Project TEDDY, an acronym for The Environmental Determinants of Diabetes in the Young.

The grant will be used by the project to study why some children have Type 1 diabetes, sometimes called juvenile diabetes, and why the incidence has doubled since the 1980s. It will track 8,000 babies at clinical sites around the world.

Only 10 percent of the children who are at genetic risk for diabetes eventually develop the disease, Krischer said, so the team wants to determine what environmental factors trigger the disease.

Reporter Carol Gentry can be reached at (813) 259-7624 or cgentry@tampatrib.com.

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