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The German Center for Diabetes Research (DZD) is a national association that brings together experts in the field of diabetes research and combines basic research, epidemiology and clinical applications to accelerate the translation of promising basic research findings into clinical praxis. The DZD is funded by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research and the respective Federal States.
Founded in 2009, the DZD includes the Helmholtz Zentrum München – German Research Center for Environmental Health, the German Diabetes Center in Düsseldorf, the German Institute of Human Nutrition in Potsdam-Rehbrücke, the Paul Langerhans Institute Dresden of Helmholtz Center Munich at the University Clinic Carl Gustav Carus of TU Dresden and the Institute for Diabetes Research and Metabolic Diseases of the Helmholtz Zentrum München at the Eberhard-Karls-University of Tübingen and associated partners at the Universities in Heidelberg, Cologne, Leipzig, Lübeck and Munich. In 2015 the members of the Competence Network Diabetes mellitus were integrated as additional project partners.