Brehm Center Research

Furthering innovations to advance science more rapidly, such as through the Islet Program, which is uncovering important new aspects of islet biology, positioning U-M as a top center for islet research in the world.

Learn more about the Islet Program

Key to Brehm Center activities, Joyce Lee, MD, MPH, U-M Brehm Center Investigator and Professor of Pediatrics, is leading efforts to leverage health informatics with the Epic Electronic Health Record and Tableau business intelligence software to support operations, enhancing quality and safety measures, and propelling discovery forward. Dr. Lee is collaborating with human computing specialists and both machine learning and artificial intelligence experts to better understand how data can be used to solve real and pressing healthcare problems.

Learn more about the Informatics & Clinical Research Innovation program

The Brehm Center for Diabetes Research, in the Brehm Tower, houses a variety of scientists whose focus is to understand, improve, prevent, and cure diabetes. Brehm Investigators, Brehm Professors, and the rest of the Brehm Center Researchers share resources and collaborate in the Brehm Tower, where the open lab layout and proximity to each other allow for a unique intellectual synergy.

These multidisciplinary scientists represent the spectrum of diabetes inquiry: type 1 diabetes, diabetes management, complications of diabetes, and factors leading to type 2 diabetes — such as metabolism and obesity issues. These facets are explored in bench labs, as well as clinical studies with human patients.

The Brehm Investigators are a group of U-M researchers (most of them housed in the Brehm Center) that represent a variety of scientific areas. They are designated as "U-M Brehm Investigators" because they bring their unique skills to address the puzzle of type 1 diabetes. 

Peter Arvan, MD, PhD

Joyce Lee, MD, MPH

Malcolm Low, MD, PhD

Leslie S. Satin, PhD

Type 1 Diabetes/Animal and Cell Research

Peter Arvan, MD, PhD

Corentin Cras-Meneur, PhD

Nathan Qi, PhD

Scott Soleimanpour, MD

Type 2 Diabetes, Metabolism and Obesity

Charles Burant, MD, PhD

Malcolm Low, MD, PhD

Ormond MacDougald, PhD

Martin Myers, MD, PhD

Elif Oral, MD

Subramaniam Pennathur, MD

Diabetes Complications and Management

William Herman, MD, MPH

Stephen Lentz, PhD

Pediatric Diabetes, Metabolism and Obesity

Brigid Gregg, MD

Joyce Lee, MD, MPH

David P. Olson, MD, PhD

Pharmacology

David Lorberbaum, PhD

Leslie S. Satin, PhD