University gets $69.9 million to study potential cause of diabetes

NIH grant allows USF to continue looking at how genetics and environmental exposures affect children with a high risk of developing diabetes.

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COURTESY: Jeffrey Krischer, director of the Health Informatics Institute at the USF Health Morsani School of Medicine

Tampa Bay-Lakeland

TAMPA —Type-1 diabetes researchers at the University of South Florida will get $69.9 million over the next four years to continue studying how children develop the autoimmune disease.

The university will use the grant money from the National Institute of Health to continue looking at how genetics and environmental exposures, including infectious agents, diet and psychosocial stress, affect children with a high risk of developing diabetes.