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Mark Anderson, MD, PhD is the Director of the Diabetes Center. He studies immune tolerance and the role of the thymus in type 1 diabetes and autoimmune disease.

Scott Baraban, PhD studies pediatric malformation-associated epilepsies in genetic mouse models to explore how seizures develop. He also researches the potential of embryonic progenitor cells to inhibit epilepsy following transplantation.

Daniel Bikle, MD, PhD studies the hormonal regulation of calcium metabolism in the formation, differentiation and repair of bone and skin tissue, as well as in skin cancer development.

Kelsey Collins, PhD uses induced pluripotent stem cells, CRISPR-Cas9 genome engineering, mouse models, human tissues, and state-of-the-art multi-omic spatial approaches to define mechanisms and create therapies that have implications for aging, obesity, diabetes, and other chronic diseases.