Michael German, MD

PROF IN RES-HCOMP
M_Diabetes Center
[email protected]
+1 415 476-1030

Michael German, MD teaches classes on research advances and the genetics and development of diabetes at the University of California, San Francisco Diabetes Teaching Center workshops.

Dr. German is a Professor in the Department of Medicine at UCSF, Clinical Director of the UCSF Diabetes Center, Director of the Hillblom Islet Genesis Network and a Principle Investigator in the Hormone Research Institute and the Eli and Edythe Broad Center of Regeneration Medicine and Stem Cell Research. He cares for patients at the UCSF Diabetes Clinic and hospital wards, and teaches medical students, graduate students and house staff, while maintaining a research laboratory investigating diabetes at the most basic level. The central focus of Dr. German’s research program is the pancreatic beta-cell, the cell in the pancreas that makes insulin. He is interested in the genes that control the development of the beta-cells from stem cells. He is also interested in where these processes break down in diabetes, and in how to translate our knowledge of the beta-cell into novel therapies for diabetes.

Dr German received his undergraduate degree from Harvard University and medical degree from the Southwestern Medical School. His residency training was taken at the University of Arizona and fellowship in Endocrinology and Metabolism at the University of California, San Francisco.

Publications

Rfx6 directs islet formation and insulin production in mice and humans.

Nature

Smith SB, Qu HQ, Taleb N, Kishimoto NY, Scheel DW, Lu Y, Patch AM, Grabs R, Wang J, Lynn FC, Miyatsuka T, Mitchell J, Seerke R, Désir J, Vanden Eijnden S, Abramowicz M, Kacet N, Weill J, Renard ME, Gentile M, Hansen I, Dewar K, Hattersley AT, Wang R, Wilson ME, Johnson JD, Polychronakos C, German MS