Can Type 1 Diabetes be Cured with Islet Cell Therapy?
Discover How Islet Cell Transplants May Finally End Insulin Dependence for People with Type 1 Diabetes
Explore with this video:
✔ Why scientists are calling islet cell transplantation our closest approach yet to a Type 1 diabetes cure
✔ The fascinating breakthrough of synthetic islet cells
✔ A surprising new home for insulin production in your body
✔ Has the clinical data shown success?
✔ What you should know about the gentler immunosuppression needed compared to other transplants
✔ Who qualifies for current clinical trials and how to explore this option if you experience severe lows
Endocrinologists Dr. Steve Edelman and Dr. Jeremy Pettus reveal how islet cell transplantation could cure Type 1 diabetes by replacing destroyed insulin-producing cells with synthetic ones. This breakthrough overcomes previous limitations of cadaver donors, making treatment scalable worldwide. The procedure delivers cells through an IV to the liver, where clinical trials show most patients achieve insulin independence and eliminate severe hypoglycemia. While requiring immunosuppression (at lower doses than organ transplants), this treatment represents the first viable cure entering final trial phases. Current Vertex clinical trials at T1Dstudy.com focus on patients with recurrent severe hypoglycemia episodes.
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Interested? Been T1Doabetic since 1992 with no major complications.
Interested
I have been type one since 1968. No major complications. Had two c Sections to have my children. Had some problems with highs and lows as a teenager.
Thinking about doing something now because I’ve been up and down a lot. I’m no scientist, but things are weird with my BG’s lately
I went on the Medtronic insulin pump in 2003, took 3 shots a day prior to that since 1968. I’m now on the Tandem TSlimx2 insulin pump now since 2020.
I’m tired of all of it. I’m constantly looking at my pump day in and day out at least once or twice hourly.
I might have a problem taking a lot of pills, if they are big, no problem with small pills.
That’s a bit of my info. But would need a lot more info from you
Thank you
Hi Cynthia,
The study has an application site you can access here:
https://880.t1dstudy.com/
Good luck – hope you’re able to be part of it!
More than interested! I’m now 68 and have had it since I was 18…50 yrs of estimating carbs and insulin. Was hospitalized twice in those 50 yrs with low, low glucose levels (in the 20’s)- I can’t really feel them till I’m in the high 40’s.
I’m in Central Florida and starting with a new endocrinologist (Dr.Sista) and hoping she is more cutting edge than my last.
Hope she’s a good fit for you too. 🙂
I have what my doctor says is brittle diabetics just last week I came home and dropped low so fast I passed out and hit my head on the door and my daughter came home found me on the floor four hours later this has been happening to me for the last several years I once passed out and was down for 22 hours and when I didn’t show up for a service the church member came and found me laying on the hallway floor. I wear a Dexcom and it helps by letting my daughter know that I am having a problem. I would love to be apart of this study if I can
Hope you are able to be part of the study! You can start the application process here:
https://880.t1dstudy.com/
Would be interested in being part of the research. I have doe several trial testing for many diabetic studies but not this.
Hope you are able to be part of the study! You can start the application process here:
https://880.t1dstudy.com/
Good luck!
Plain and simple 53 years of diabetes. Hell yes I would love to try.
Good luck Sue! Hope you’re able to be part of the study!
I have a 6-year-old daughter that just got diagnosed with type 1 diabetes we’re really having a hard time with this and can use some help if you guys are able to help please let me know thank you
We’ll reach out to you via email Jason.
Hi Jason,
The email I sent you bounced back. Please email me at lynne@tcoyd.org and I can send you some resources for parents.
Yes I’d be interested…diagnosed type 1 since 2018,
Thanks for your interest! You can start the application process here:
https://880.t1dstudy.com/
Hope you’re able to be part of the study!
Yes I would love to do this. I have had type 1 diabetes for 30 years. Diagnosed as gestational while pregnant with my daughter and it never went away.
Hope you’re able to be part of the study, and thank you for your interest in taking part! 🙂
You had me at Islet Cell
Haha!!😂
I’ve been T1D SINCE 1987
Have been praying and hoping for something like this! Very interested.
I’m type 1