UMBC researchers win $1.4M grant for diabetes study

Two researchers at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County received a nearly $1.4 million grant from the National Institutes of Health to study how people with diabetes manage the condition.

J. Kevin Eckert, chair of UMBC’s department of sociology and anthropology; and Sarah Chard, an associate professor of anthropology, will use the grant to interview 80 elderly people in Baltimore to learn how they manage type-2 diabetes. The study will be conducted through UMBC’s Center for Aging Studies…