Facilities & Partnerships
Under the co-direction of David M. Harlan, MD and Dale Greiner, PhD, the UMass Diabetes Center of Excellence (DCOE) fosters clinical & basic diabetes research with clinicians and investigators from all over the world. The UMass Chan Medical School is consistently ranked as one of the leading medical schools in the nation for primary care education by U.S. News & World Report.
Albert Sherman Center
DCOE research labs are located on the 7th floor of this 512,000-square-foot facility on the UMass Chan Medical School campus. It was designed for advanced biomedical research and medical education. The building brings together world-class experts with laboratories conducting basic and clinical research, and it promotes interdisciplinary collaboration to facilitate the transition of therapeutic innovations from the laboratory to clinical practice.
Breakthrough T1D New England Research Collaborative
Fourteen UMass Chan DCOE scientists collaborate with researchers at Harvard Medical School, Joslin Diabetes Center, Children's Medical Center, and The Jackson Laboratory to create and transplant stem cell-derived (SC) pancreatic islets into our novel "humanized" mouse models to recreate and study human type 1 diabetes. This collaborative research group, led by UMass Chan DCOE co-director David Harlan, MD, is studying human cells and tissues, and utilizing gene editing technology to engineer the SC islets so they evade autoimmune attack. The goal is a cell replacement therapy without the need for toxic immunosuppressive drugs, that can be scaled for clinical trials and ultimately a cure for type 1 diabetes.
UMass Memorial Health
Our diabetes care team sees about 10,000 patients annually who receive the best available treatment. Personalized care is provided to help with all aspects of diabetes management.
The adult & pediatric diabetes care clinics are located on the second floor of the Ambulatory Care Center at UMass Memorial Medical Center in Worcester. Clinical and translational research are also conducted in the ACC building.
The UMass Memorial Diabetes Center of Excellence partners with the following Central Massachusetts hospitals and health care centers to assist their clinicians in providing comprehensive diabetes care within their communities.
- HealthAlliance-Clinton Hospital in Leominster
- Heywood Hospital in Gardner
- Milford Regional Medical Center
- Tri-River Family Health Center in Uxbridge