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Beta Cell Regeneration

Investigators in this group are using nPOD samples to try and determine if there is evidence for Beta cell regeneration in persons with type 1 diabetes.

Fred Levine
Juan Dominguez-Bendala Douglas Melton
Leonard Harrison* Christopher Rhodes
Mattias Hebrok Patrick Rowe
Luca Inverardi Srinath Sanda
Jake Kushner* Andrew Stewart
Giacomo Lanzoni  

 

Atkinson

University of Florida

Project: The ductal pancreatic progenitor microenvironment in type 1 diabetes

Principal Investigator:
Patrick Rowe, Ph.D.

 

 


 

Amy Cox, Ph.D.
University of Pittsburgh Medical Center

Project: Multidisciplinary approaches to driving human beta cell replication

Principal Investigator:
Andrew Stewart, M.D.

 

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University of Miami

Project: Progenitors of the beta cell lineage in the pancreas and biliary tree of diabetic patients

Co-Investigators:
Luca Inverardi, M.D.
Giacomo Lanzoni, Ph.D.

 

 

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Columbia University

Project: Generation of pluripotent stem cells from diabetics

Co-Investigators:
Rudy Leibel, M.D.
Scott Noggle, Ph.D.

 

 

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Leonard Harrison, D.Sc.*
Walter & Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research

Project: Adult islet progenitor cell markers

 

 

 

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University of California, San Francisco

Project: Investigating the de-differentiated state of the ß-cell in human diabetic patient tissues

 

 

 

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University of Miami

Project: Progenitors of the beta cell lineage in the pancreas and biliary tree of diabetic patients

Principal Investigator:
Juan Dominguez-Bendala, Ph.D.

 

 

 

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Jake Kushner

Baylor College of Medicine

Project: Do de-granulated ß-cells persist in type 1 diabetes?

 

 

 

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Giacomo Lanzoni, Ph.D.
University of Miami

Project: Progenitors of the beta cell lineage in the pancreas and biliary tree of diabetic patients

Principal Investigator:
Juan Dominguez-Bendala, Ph.D.

 

 

 

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Columbia University

Project: Generation of pluripotent stem cells from diabetics

Principal Investigator:
Dieter Egli, Ph.D.

 

 

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University of Miami

Project: Beta-cell regeneration by transdifferentiation

 

 

 

 

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Harvard University

Project: Generation of tools to distinguish human pancreatic cell populations

 

 

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Scott Noggle, Ph.D.
Columbia University

Project: Generation of pluripotent stem cells from diabetics

Principal Investigator:
Dieter Egli, Ph.D.

 

 

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rhodes

University of Chicago

Project: "Empty Beta Cells" in type 1 diabetes

 

 

 

 

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University of Florida

Project: The ductal pancreatic progenitor microenvironment in type 1 diabetes

Co-Investigator:
Mark Atkinson, Ph.D.

 

 

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Benaroya Research Institute

Project: Analysis of beta cell senescence in T1D subjects

 

 

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University of Pittsburgh Medical Center

Project: Multidisciplinary approaches to driving human beta cell replication

Co-Investigator:
Amy Cox, M.D.

 

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*These investigators have received funding from the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation (JDRF).