Executive summary of IPITA-TTS opinion leaders report on the future of b-cell replacement

JF Markmann; ST Bartlett; P Johnson; O Korsgren; BJ Hering; D Scharp; TWH Kay; J Bromberg; JS Odorico; GC Weir; N Bridges; R Kandaswamy; P Stock; P Friend; M Gotoh; DKC Cooper; CG Park; PJ O'Connell; C Stabler; S Matsumoto; B Ludwig; P Choudhary; B Khovatchev; MR Rickels; M Sykes; K Wood; K Kraemer; A Hwa; E Stanley; C Ricordi; M Zimmerman; J Greenstein; E Montanya; T Otonkoski

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Executive summary of IPITA-TTS opinion leaders report on the future of b-cell replacement

JF Markmann, ST Bartlett, P Johnson, O Korsgren, BJ Hering, D Scharp, TWH Kay, J Bromberg, JS Odorico, GC Weir, N Bridges, R Kandaswamy, P Stock, P Friend, M Gotoh, DKC Cooper, CG Park, PJ O'Connell, C Stabler, S Matsumoto Show all

Transplantation | Published : 2016

DOI: 10.1097/TP.0000000000001054

Abstract

The International Pancreas and Islet Transplant Association (IPITA), in conjunctionwith the Transplantation Society (TTS), convened a workshop to consider the future of pancreas and islet transplantation in the context of potential competing technologies that are under development, including the artificial pancreas, transplantation tolerance, xenotransplantation, encapsulation, stem cell derived beta cells, beta cell proliferation, and endogenous regeneration. Separate workgroups for each topic and then the collective group reviewed the state of the art, hurdles to application, and proposed research agenda for each therapy that would allow widespread application. Herein we present the execut..

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