Corinne Lee's broad research interest is in the neurological complications of diabetes mellitus. One of the primary goals of her current work is to determine causes of painful diabetic neuropathy and to identify potential therapeutics that may alleviate quality-of-life altering symptoms experienced by many patients with diabetes. Corinne is interested in the possibility that pain symptoms from peripheral neuropathies are not caused by the peripheral nervous system at all, but instead may be the result of complications of the central nervous system.