Proceedings of the October 1994 symposium at Sansum Medical Research Foundation in Santa Barbara, CA, focus on the use of fetal islet tissue in controlling diabetes and repairing islets that have been damaged by autoimmune disease. Papers detail research on fetal islet growth, differentiation, immun
Proceedings of the October 1994 symposium at Sansum Medical Research Foundation in Santa Barbara, CA, focus on the use of fetal islet tissue in contro...
The breadth of research efforts represented by the many excellent papers in these proceedings is an eloquent testimonial to the idea of one man Dr. Josiah Brown-to whose memory this volume is dedicated. His tragic and unexpected loss in a swimming accident in August 1985 brought to an abrupt close a long and distinguished career as a physician and scientist. The possibility of using fetal pancreas tissue for transplantation into insulin-deficient diabetic recipients had intrigued Dr. Brown for several years prior to 1972, when he began in earnest to assemble a research team to explore this...
The breadth of research efforts represented by the many excellent papers in these proceedings is an eloquent testimonial to the idea of one man Dr. Jo...