PNDRI | Researchers: R. Paul Robertson, M.D.

R. Paul Robertson, M.D.

R. Paul Robertson, M.D., President and Scientific Director of PNDRI, completed his doctoral work at Creighton University followed by an internal medicine residency and an endocrinology and metabolism fellowship at the University of Washington. Prior to coming to PNDRI he was the Pennock Chair for Diabetes Research and Director of the Diabetes, Endocrinology, and Metabolism Division at the University of Minnesota. He has been elected to the American Society of Clinical Investigation and the Association of American Physicians. He has been Editor of Diabetes and of the American Journal of Physiology, Chair of the NIH Metabolism Study Section, and is a member of the Journal of Biological Chemistry Editorial Board and Editor-in-Chief of Endocrine Reviews. He has received the Moses Barron Award, the William C. Stadie Award, and the Albert Renold Medal from the American Diabetes Association. He is Professor of Pharmacology and Medicine at the University of Washington and has published over 296 manuscripts. His research interests focus on glucose regulation of pancreatic islet gene expression and the abnormal consequences on gene expression caused by glucose toxicity. He is also very actively involved in metabolic studies of type 1 diabetic patients who have successfully received pancreas and pancreatic islet transplantation.