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Tampa Prep Grad Receives Record Grant
Posted Dec 1, 2006 by Sherri Lonon
Updated Dec 1, 2006 at 01:50 PM
$15 MILLION TO GO TO DIABETES RESEARCH
By STEPHEN HAMMILL
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One of Tampa’s native sons is making a name for himself in the fight against diabetes.
Tampa Preparatory School alumnus Rick McIndoe, class of 1980, has been awarded a $15 million, five-year grant for research into the study of diabetes complications.
McIndoe is currently the associate director of the Center for Biotechnology and Genomic Medicine at Medical College of Georgia in Augusta, Ga. The state’s only public medical school, the grant is the largest amount ever awarded to it.
McIndoe’s work has centered on the effects of diabetes complications. Currently using mice in his study, he hopes that by studying why these complications occur that the medical community can come up with therapy models for diabetes patients, he said. Additionally, hopes that they can better understand how genetic and environmental factors interact with the disease.
A Tampa native, McIndoe was raised in the Bay Crest neighborhood of Town ‘N Country.
His parents, Douglass and Ronda, are still Tampa residents after more than 40 years. They recall that as a Tampa Prep student, their son “was thinking of being a dentist.”
“But when he got into his second year of college, he got into research and never stopped,” remembers his mother.
He received his doctorate in immunology and molecular pathology from the University of Florida in 1991 at the age of 27.
In 1999, he returned to the University of Florida as an assistant professor, where he remained until 2002. He’s spent the last four years at the Georgia school.
While some doctors choose a disease research path that may hit close to home, McIndoe wasn’t drawn to diabetes research due to family history.
“Honestly, it was the funding,” he said.
However, McIndoe’s family does have something to say about his career.
“We’re very proud,” McIndoe’s parents said of their son. “He’s worked hard, and he travels all over the world to speak to people.”
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