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Insulin-producing cells grown from a patient’s own stem cells are safe for transplant, say University of Alberta (U of A) researchers aiming to get diabetes…
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Date Time Share CIHR and JDRF funding drives efforts to find new stem cell-based therapies for Type 1 diabetes University of Alberta researchers are among two Canadian research teams chosen for significant new funding from the Government of Canada and JDRF Canada to develop new stem cell-based therapies for treating Type 1 diabetes. The projects will each receive $1.5 million from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research Institute of Nutrition, Metabolism and Diabetes (CIHR-INMD) along with matching dollars from JDRF Canada, for total funding of $3 million per project over five years. The ...