Year: 2012

nPOD Viral Workgroup After months of hard work and an overwhelming spirit of collaboration, the nPOD-Viral working group, which focuses on the role of viruses in type 1 diabetes, has defined key questions that the group will address together. The work has been organized in major tasks, and experimental plans have been developed and submitted […]

Thanks to generous Breakthrough T1D support, nPOD has recently established the nPOD-Transplantation (nPOD-T) program. Building on the nPOD infrastructure, nPOD-T will collect tissues (transplanted and native pancreas, peripancreatic lymph nodes, spleen and peripheral blood) from patients with T1D who received a pancreas or pancreas/kidney transplants.  Specifically, nPOD-T plans to: obtain donated organs/tissues from pancreas transplant […]

We wish Amy the best of luck as she leaves the nPOD family to get married and begin a family of her own. Congratulations to Amy and Dylan, we will miss you! Please contact Carmen Retrum with any investigator related questions or concerns you might have, including those for the Viral Workgroup, as she will […]

We are pleased to announce the Call for Abstracts for the 2012 nPOD Annual Meeting. The meeting will be held January 15-17 in sunny Miami, Florida. For more information on the Call for Abstracts and to access the abstract template, please click here

nPOD hosted its 4th Annual Meeting in Miami, Florida on January 15th, 16th, and 17th of this year. There were over 100 participants in this year’s meeting where type 1 diabetes science was presented in 8 sessions. We are excited to report that the underlying theme of the meeting was investigator collaboration and our hope […]