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The Human Islet Research Enhancement Center (HIREC) is located within the Department of Diabetes and Cancer Discovery Sciences at City of Hope. The HIREC provides a centralized organizational and administrative infrastructure, an information technology platform, and a research dissemination engine to address the burgeoning needs of the program for the next five years. In short, the HIREC will assist in cultivating and facilitating science within HIRN. |
The goals of the HIREC are to:
- Provide research operations and organizational services to support scientific meetings, annual retreats, workshops, committees, working groups, and panels
- Facilitate and accelerate new research paths through funding opportunities and collaboration with other T1D and related communities.
- Enhance a modern technology platform to provide and preserve access to HIRN materials, data, and other resources, using available or expanded vocabularies, ontologies, identifiers, and data formats.
- Catalyze collaboration and innovation in T1D research through the exchange of ideas, findings, and data generated in HIRN.
City of Hope Personnel
Investigators
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Joyce Niland, PhD
City of Hope
Principal Investigator
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John Kaddis, PhD
City of Hope
Principal Investigator
Staff
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Layla Rouse, MS
City of Hope
Program Manager
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Nelly Berger
City of Hope
Project Assistant
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Dave Ko
City of Hope
Senior Developer
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Sandy Beshir, MPH
City of Hope
Research Data Curator
National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Disease (NIDDK) Program Personnel
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Kristin Abraham, PhD
NIDDK
Project Scientist
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Thomas Eggerman, MD, PhD
NIDDK
Project Officer