Posted by Camilo Ricordi this morning:
“It’s a remarkable time for T1D research efforts worldwide as this investigational treatment enters the clinic,” said Camillo Ricordi, M.D., Professor of Surgery, Director of the Diabetes Research Institute and the Cell Transplant Center at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, Steering Committee Chair for the VX-880 clinical trial and Principal Investigator at the University of Miami Health System clinical site. “The field’s experience with the limited cadaveric islet transplants available, where some patients have experienced prolonged insulin independence for years, provides important proof-of-concept for the potential of cell therapy to be transformative for patients living with T1D.”
Mr. Shelton was the first patient. On June 29, he got an infusion of cells, grown from stem cells but just like the insulin-producing pancreas cells his body lacked.
Now his body automatically controls its insulin and blood sugar levels.
Mr. Shelton, now 64, may be the first person cured of the disease with a new treatment that has experts daring to hope that help may be coming for many of the 1.5 million Americans suffering from Type 1 diabetes.
“It’s a whole new life,” Mr. Shelton said. “It’s like a miracle.”
This was first base to possibly solve the challenge of developing an unlimited supply of insulin producing cells … now if you combine it with a technology that could eliminate the need for chronic immunosuppression of the recipients (www.iTolerance.com) and we could have the long waited home run - Camillo Ricordi
Now more than ever, let’s keep focused on a biologic cure without anti rejection drugs !!!
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/11/27/health/diabetes-cure-stem-cells.html?referringSource=articleShare
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