Report from IPITA-TTS Opinion Leaders Meeting on the Future of β-Cell Replacement

Stephen T Bartlett¹, James F Markmann, Paul Johnson+31

• ¹1 Department of Surgery, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore MD. 2 Division of Transplantation, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston MA. 3 Nuffield Department of Surgical Sciences and Oxford Centre for Diabetes, Endocrinology, and Metabolism, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom. 4 Department of Immunology, Genetics and Pathology, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden. 5 Schulze Diabetes Institute, Department of Surgery, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN. 6 Prodo Laboratories, LLC, Irvine, CA. 7 The Scharp-Lacy Research Institute, Irvine, CA. 8 Department of Medicine, St. Vincent's Hospital, St. Vincent's Institute of Medical Research and The University of Melbourne Victoria, Australia. 9 Division of Transplantation, Department of Surgery, School of Medicine and Public Health, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI. 10 Joslin Diabetes Center and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA. 11 National Institutes of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD. 12 Division of Transplantation, University of San Francisco Medical Center, San Francisco, CA. 13 Department of Surgery, Fukushima Medical University, Fukushima, Japan. 14 Thomas E. Starzl Transplantation Institute, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA. 15 Xenotransplantation Research Center, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Department of Biomedical Sciences, Seoul National University College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea. 16 The Center for Transplant and Renal Research, Westmead Millennium Institute, University of Sydney at Westmead Hospital, Westmead, NSW, Australia. 17 Diabetes Research Institute, School of Medicine, University of Miami, Coral Gables, FL. 18 National Center for Global Health and Medicine, Tokyo, Japan. 19 Otsuka Pharmaceutical Factory inc, Naruto Japan. 20 Department of Medicine III, Technische Universität Dresden, Dresden, Germany. 21 Paul Langerhans Institute Dresden of Helmholtz Centre Munich at University Clinic Carl Gustav