Professor, Department of Medicine, Section of Endocrinology, Diabetes, and Metabolism
Research Director, Kovler Diabetes Center
 Chair
Committee on Molecular Metabolism & Nutrition
University of Chicago

Dr. Rhodes, a leader in diabetes research, joined the University of Chicago faculty as Professor in Medicine in 2006, where he is currently the Research Director of the Kovler Diabetes Center and Chair of the graduate education program in Molecular Metabolism & Nutrition.

His diabetes research is at the cellular level, focusing on molecular mechanisms of insulin production and secretion as well as signal transduction pathways that control pancreatic beta cells growth and death relative to the pathogenesis of type 1 and type 2 diabetes. He has published over 150 manuscripts, chapters and reviews with funding from organizations such as the Juvenile Diabetes ResearchFoundation, the American Diabetes Association and the National Institutes of Health in nearly 30 years of diabetes research.

Besides his professional responsibilities, Dr. Rhodes has participated as a member of the National Institutes of Health Endocrinology and CADO Study Sections, and is an associate editor of Diabetes. He has served as an investigator at Joslin Diabetes Center in Boston, MA, Associate Scientific Director of the Pacific Northwest Research Institute and taught at Harvard Medical School, the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center and the University of Washington.

Rhodes is a past chairman of the medical and scientific research committees at the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation as well as chairman of the American Diabetes Association Council for Molecular, Cellular and Biochemical Aspects of Diabetes. Among his other honors is the David Rumbough award from the Juvenile Diabetes Foundation and various visiting lecturer and professorships.

He earned his B.Sc. in biochemistry from the University of Bath in the United Kingdom, and in 1984, he earned his PhD in the same subject from the University of London.