Diabetes Research Center affiliate Jenny Kanter, Research Assistant Professor (Metabolism, Endocrinology and Nutrition), has received an R01 award from the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases for her project “APOC3 mediated dyslipidemia in diabetic kidney disease and atherosclerosis.” Another Center affiliate Charles Alpers, Professor (Department of Pathology) is a Co-Investigator. Their proposed studies will address the overall hypothesis that diabetes and kidney disease raise APOC3 levels and that increased levels of triglyceride-rich lipoproteins and their remnants, driven by APOC3, accelerate diabetic kidney disease as well as atherosclerosis.