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South Texas Diabetes and Obesity Institute College of Sciences

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Sarah Williams-Blangero, Ph.D.
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Email: sarah.williams-blangero@utrgv.edu
Phone: (956) 882-7501 (Brownsville campus) Phone: (956) 665-6426 (McAllen Research Building)

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The South Texas Diabetes and Obesity Institute (STDOI) was established on October 13, 2014, to be a focus for world-class biomedical research programs at the UTRGV School of Medicine. With diverse research efforts in the areas of diabetes, obesity, heart disease, fatty liver disease, psychiatric disease, osteoporosis, and infectious diseases of border health relevance such as Chagas disease, Zika virus infection, and tuberculosis, the STDOI is working to address the most critical public health problems in the Rio Grande Valley region. The Institute has state-of-the-art laboratories and genetic research capabilities, a 12,000 processor computer cluster dedicated to genetic analysis, a biorepository containing tens of thousands of samples collected in the STDOI’s numerous studies of complex disease, and a colony of the unique laboratory opossum model (Monodelphis domestica).

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