On Jul. 27, 2020, Albert Einstein College of Medicine announced that it had received a $9.5 million, five-year grant from the National Institutes of Health to support the Einstein-Mount Sinai Diabetes Research Center. The multi-institutional center is a leader in basic, translational, clinical, and community-based research and training in type 1 and type 2 diabetes, obesity, and other metabolic disorders.

Einstein first established its diabetes center in 1976 and has long focused its efforts on minority and other underserved populations in the Bronx, Manhattan, Westchester county, and across New York City. Five years ago, it expanded into a regional collaborative, partnering with Mount Sinai to increase its capacity to support research studies and services. Today, ES-DRC faculty members include more than 140 scientists and clinicians at Einstein and Montefiore Health System, Mount Sinai, Cornell University, Weill Cornell Medical College, NYU Langone Medical Center, Stony Brook University, New York Medical College, and Rutgers University.  

“The ES-DRC is one of only 16 NIH DRCs awarded in the entire country,” said Andrew Stewart, M.D., associate director of the ES-DRC, director of the Diabetes, Obesity and Metabolism Institute at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, and the Irene and Dr. Arthur M. Fishberg Professor of Medicine in the department of endocrinology, diabetes, and bone disease at Mount Sinai. “It has provided a major boost to basic science and clinical diabetes and obesity research and training efforts at both Mount Sinai, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, and multiple other medical schools in the greater NYC region. The Einstein team has been an extraordinary scientific partner.