Diabetes Research Center Team

Principal Investigator and CEO of the company, Professor Jean Louis Selam, is committed to the research protocols full-time, and directly involved in the performing and documentation of study visits. Currently a regular lecturer at USC, Dr. Selam is a former Associate Professor of UC Irvine and the University of Paris, France, and has a world reputation in the field of intensive diabetes therapy, e.g. insulin pumps and diabetes remissions.

He is assisted by a permanent team of 4-8 study coordinators, a budget and regulatory manager, and dedicated clinical trials recruiter. Two sub-investigators with several years experience in research, and 2 electrophysiologists with more than 10 years experience in neuropathy studies are also available as needed.


Dr Selam received his undergraduate education and medical doctorate in France, University of Montpellier. He is a specialist in internal medicine and endocrinology in France since 1979 and is licensed in California since 1987. He has worked as an associate professor at University of California Irvine Diabetes Research Program 1986-90 then as an associate professor at University Medical School of Paris, dept of Diabetology 1990-2003. He has been appointed in 2005 as Visiting Professor by the USC School of Medicine, Los Angeles.

Dr. Selam joined the Diabetes Research Center in Tustin California ( dba University Clinical Investigators Inc ) in 2003 which he became CEO in 2006 . The Diabetes Research Center has performed over 200 phase 1-4 diabetic studies, the majority in the fields of insulin, oral medications, neuropathy and obesity. Dr Selam is the author of 116 peer-reviewed publications, 128 invited articles or chapters in books, and 354 conference presentations, the majority in the field of new techniques of insulin therapy including intensive insulin and implantable insulin pumps, which he is considered as a world leader. He also has performed pioneer work on intraperitoneal insulin and insulin-induced remissions. He is the Editor in Chief of the Journals Infusystems, which he founded in 1983, a world leading journal in the field of insulin delivery systems. Dr Selam has maintained direct clinical responsibility of diabetic patients in France as well as in his current position in the US.

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