Manufacturing insulin-producing β cells from diabetic patients for cellular therapy

Jeffrey Millman, Ph.D., authored a review article published this month in the American Diabetes Association (ADA) journal Diabetes entitled “Autologous Pluripotent Stem Cell-Derived β-Like Cells for Diabetes Cellular Therapy”. This article discusses the state-of-the-art in stem cell technology for treating diabetes by replacing dead or dysfunctional insulin-producing β cells with cells manufactured in the laboratory. Included his discusses […]

Alvin C. Powers, MD speaking at 16th Julio C. Santiago Lecture

Alvin C. Powers, MD, the Joe C. Davis Chair in Biologic Science and Professor of Medicine, Molecular Physiology and Biophysics at Vanderbilt University will be giving a lecture titled: Changes in Our Understanding of the Pathogenesis of Type 1 Diabeteson January 12, 2017 in the Malvern B. Clompton Amphitheater. Powers is the Chief of the Vanderbilt […]

Diabetes Research Center Diabetes Day 2016 – Poster Prize Winners Announced

Diabetes Day poster winners

The Diabetes Research Center is pleased to announce the Poster Prize winners of the Diabetes Day Poster Session held in the Farrell Learning and Teaching Center at Washington University on November 10, 2016. The Diabetes Research Center’s Annual Diabetes Day is designed to showcase outstanding recent developments in diabetes research and to foster new scientific […]