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Interview at JDCA Blog
December 23rd, 2011
The Juvenile Diabetes Cure Alliance sometimes features an interview with a type 1 diabetes researcher. Recently they published an interview of me discussing the Islet Sheet. Here is the text reproduced; for the original click the link. Scott King was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes in 1978. He worked as an investment analyst specializing in [...]
How Islet Autotransplantation Led to the Islet Sheet
December 12th, 2011
When I tell the story of the Islet Sheet these days, I find that I am emphasizing the importance of islet autotransplantation, or autografting. It’s success was the inspiration for the research that led to the Islet Sheet. The story in brief: The Islet Sheet is a second-generation islet encapsulation device intended to make the [...]
The Year of the Dog
November 27th, 2011
Welcome to our new website! It is a pleasure to resume this blog, now named The Sheet—for the Islet Sheet, of course. (It’s also journalism slang for a periodical.) This is an exciting time at Islet Sheet Medical. We have made an important addition to our team. VoxPop Films is making a documentary about our [...]
Farewell to The Solving Diabetes Project Web Site
September 27th, 2011
This is my final posting to this blog at the Solving Diabetes Project. My Islet Sheet Project blog will continue at a new URL in October. I am in the midst of consolidating our new three-way (or five-way) collaboration. We have achieved our technical goals in Islet Sheet fabrication and are ready to commence large [...]
Highlights of ADA Scientific Sessions III – What A1C for T2D?
August 15th, 2011
Here is my final post based on what I learned at the June ADA meeting. It was the final session I attended, titled: POST ACCORD – IS GLYCEMIA A MOVING TARGET? Three (clinically active) experts dissected the corpse of the ACCORD study. (Here is an overview; here is a discussion of the unexpected results.) These [...]
diaTribe Report: Targeting a Cure for Type 1 Diabetes
July 31st, 2011
“Targeting a Cure for Type 1 Diabetes” has been published on diaTribe by Kelly Close’s Close Concerns diabetes research organization. It is detailed, well considered, and makes room for personal opinions, observations and predictions. I recommend you download and read it, here. Our work on the Islet Sheet is described in page 67 in the [...]
Highlights of ADA Scientific Sessions II – 2011 Banting Lecture
July 20th, 2011
One of the pleasures of attending a big meeting is that sometimes you learn something. That was certainly case at this year’s Banting Lecture, delivered by Banting Medal winner Barbara Corkey of Boston University. She delivered a very stimulating and thought-provoking lecture with observations from the edge of obesity research that suggest new research directions. She believes [...]
Highlights of ADA Scientific Sessions I – BGC Trial
July 4th, 2011
The American Diabetes Association held its annual Scientific Sessions last week in San Diego. Everybody else in the Islet Sheet research group had work to do so I attended alone. Next time I will summarize all the presentations I found interesting. This week I will fill you in on the poster that made the front [...]
Function and Viability of Human Islets Encapsulated in Alginate Sheets: The Poster
June 19th, 2011
Soon I am off to the ADA meeting in San Diego that starts Friday. So I’ll give you a report on what the diabetes clinicians know after the conference. So this week a little supplement on the IPITA conference in Prague (see previous post). Some people let me know they want to see the poster [...]
IPITA 2011: Islet Researchers in Prague
June 6th, 2011
As promised, here is my report from the 2011 meeting of the International Pancreas and Islet Transplant Association meeting in Prague. The highlight for the Islet Project team was unveiling some significant results in the poster to the right, “Function and viability of human islets encapsulated in alginate sheets: in vitro and in vivo culture.” [...]
