President's Professors of Biomedical Research...

William C. Knowler, M.D., Ph.D., M.P.H.
Diabetes and Arthritis Epidemiology Section, Chief
Phoenix Epidemiology and Clinical Research Branch
NIDDK, National Institutes of Health
1550 East Indian School Road
Phoenix, AZ 85014
Tel:602-200-5206
Fax:602-200-5225
Email: knowler@nih.gov
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Dr. Knowler conducts research on several aspects of type 2 diabetes.  He works primarily with American Indians in the Southwestern United States, but also works on several multi-center clinical trials and genetics studies involving people of many ethnic groups in the U.S.  His main research areas are the behavioral and genetic risk factors for type 2 diabetes and its complications, especially diabetic nephropathy; obesity and its relationship to diabetes; diagnostic criteria for diabetes; and statistical methods in genetic epidemiology.  Current activities concentrate on the genetics and prevention of diabetes and its complications. These include pedigree and genetic linkage studies, and the Diabetes Prevention Program, a multi-center clinical trial of weight loss in prevention of cardiovascular complications of type 2 diabetes.