[2] He attended Grover Cleveland High School, graduating in 1965, and received a scholarship to enroll at Columbia University.
[1] As an endocrinology research fellow under Harold Lebovitz at Duke, he ran a study that demonstrated the association between human leukocyte antigen and autoimmune polyendocrine syndrome type 2.
[2] Eisenbarth developed an interest in type 1 diabetes, and the possibility that it is caused by autoimmunity, while working at the National Institutes of Health in Marshall Warren Nirenberg's laboratory.
[3] In an obituary, Mark Atkinson wrote of Eisenbarth's graph, "it would be my contention that no concept in the modern history of type 1 diabetes has been more recognized, plagiarized, conceptualized, questioned or tested than 'the figure'", which was first published in 1986 in The New England Journal of Medicine.
[3] In 1992, Eisenbarth was appointed to chairs of pediatrics and immunology at the University of Colorado, and also became the executive director of the Barbara Davis Center for Diabetes;[3] he would remain there for twenty years, until his death.