Executive Summary of IPITA-TTS Opinion Leaders Report on the Future of β-Cell Replacement

James F Markmann¹, Stephen T Bartlett, Paul Johnson+31

• ¹1 Division of Transplantation, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA. 2 Department of Surgery, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD. 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 St. Vincent's Institute of Medical Research, Victoria, Australia. 9 Department of Medicine, St. Vincent's Hospital, The University of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. 10 Division of Transplantation, Department of Surgery, University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, Madison, WI. 11 Joslin Diabetes Center and Harvard Medical School, Boston MA. 12 National Institutes of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD. 13 Division of Transplantation, University of San Francisco Medical Center, San Francisco, CA. 14 Department of Surgery, Fukushima Medical University, Fukushima, Japan. 15 Thomas E. Starzl Transplantation Institute, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA. 16 Xenotransplantation Research Center, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Department of Biomedical Sciences, Seoul National University College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea. 17 The Center for Transplant and Renal Research, Westmead Millennium Institute, University of Sydney at Westmead Hospital, Westmead, NSW, Australia. 18 Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL. 19 Otsuka Pharmaceutical Factory inc, Naruto Japan. 20 National Center for Global Health and Medicine, Tokyo, Japan. 21 Department of Medicine III, Technische Universität Dresden, Dresden, Germany. 22 Paul Langerhans Institute Dresden of Helmholtz Centre Munich at University Clinic