Engineering optimization and scaling enables high quality pancreatic islet cryopreservation for banking and transplant
Description: Project Narrative We seek to develop a method for the long-term cryopreservation, or banking, of pancreatic islets prior to transplant. If successful this approach could revolutionize how islets are isolated, allocated, and stored prior to transplant. Further, it would help lessen the organ shortage problem, reduce the risk of transplantation, and improve islet transplantation's success rate for the cure of diabetes.
Funding type: research
Funder scheme: R01
Start date: 2021-09-22
End date: 2025-07-31
Investigator: JOHN C BISCHOF
Institution: UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA
Subfield: Surgery
Field: Medicine
Domain: Health Sciences
Funded outputs count: 16
Funder award ID: R01DK131209
OpenAlex ID: G6253547614