Special Issue

Human Islets for Diabetes Research and Transplantation

Submission Deadline: March 31, 2019 (Open) Submit Now

Guest Editor

Tatsuya Kin, MD, PhD

Clinical Islet Laboratory, University of Alberta Hospital, 210 College Plaza, 8215-112 St, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada T6G2C8

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Research Interests: Islet isolation; islet transplantation

About the Topic

The past decade has seen enormous progress in clinical islet transplantation as a therapy for type 1 diabetes, as well as steady expansion in human islet isolation activity worldwide. Islet isolation centers have been providing human islets for clinical transplantation and for basic research. Thanks to improvement of islet isolation technology and implementation of islet distribution programs, many basic researchers now have access to this valuable resource. In the face of recent recognition that human islets differ in a critical way from nonhuman counterparts, the demand of human islets for basic research is ever increasing and novel findings on human islet biology are accumulating. Also cells derived from human pancreatic tissue have a potential for future development of cellular based therapy for diabetes. The aim of this issue is to serve as a platform to update the current knowledge and recent progress in the basic research utilizing human islets as well as in clinical islet transplantation.

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