The 2018 HIRN Annual Investigator Meeting will be held from May 8 – 11, 2018 at the Capital Hilton in Washington DC.
Author: Layla Rouse, MS
New Awards: RFA-DK-17-003: Therapeutic Targeting of the Human Islet Environment (UC4)
New HIRN Grants from RFA-DK-17-003: Therapeutic Targeting of the Human Islet Environment (UC4)
Paolo Serafini (Univ. of Miami)*
Midhat Abdulreda (Univ. of Miami)
Co-Investigator: Peter Buchwald (Univ. of Miami)
Co-Investigator: Camillo Ricordi (Univ. of Miami)
Co-Investigator: Natasa Strbo (Univ. of Miami)
Jeffrey Bluestone (Univ. California, San Francisco)*
Wendell Lim (Univ. California, San Francisco)
Co-Investigator: Qizhi Tang (Univ. California, San Francisco)
Co-Investigator: Kole Roybal (Univ. California, San Francisco)
Seung Kim (Stanford Univ.)*
Everett Meyer (Stanford Univ)
Co-Investigator: Philip Streeter (Oregon Health & Science Univ.)
CTAR
Development of Small Molecule-based Methods for Targeted Cargo Delivery to Beta Cells
UC4 DK116255
Amit Choudhary (Broad Institute)*
Bridget Wagner (Broad Institute)
Rohit Kulkarni (Joslin Diabetes Center)
* Denotes Contact PI
RFA-DK-17-004: Competitive Collaborative Projects for Human Islet Biology (UC4)
New Awards: RFA-DK-17-004: Competitive Collaborative Projects for Human Islet Biology (UC4)
CTAR
Generating Novel Sources of Functional Human Insulin-secreting Cells for T1D Modeling
UC4 DK116280
Qiao Zhou (Harvard Univ.)*
Stephan Kissler (Joslin Diabetes Center)
Sally Kent (Univ. of Massachusetts Medical School)*
David Harlan (Univ. of Massachusetts Medical School)
Lawrence Stern (Univ. of Massachusetts Medical School)
Co-Investigator: Dirk Homann (Mount Sinai School of Medicine)
Michael Roper (Florida State Univ.)*
Christopher Hughes (Univ. of California, Irvine)
Ryan White (Univ. of Cincinatti)
CBDS
Non-invasive Detection of Cell Death in Type 1 Diabetes: Insight into Novel Disease Mechanisms
UC4 DK116274
Desmond Schatz (Univ. Florida)*
Yuval Dor (Hebrew Univ. of Jerusalem)
Carla Greenbaum (Benaroya Research Institute at Virginia Mason)
Rohit Kulkarni (Joslin Diabetes Center)*
Chuan He (Univ. of Chicago)
Klaus Kaestner (Univ. of Pennsylvania)*
Yuval Dor (Hebrew Univ. of Jerusalem)
Ali Naji (Univ. of Pennsylvania)
* Denotes Contact PI
HIRN CHIB In-Person Investigator Meeting: October 23 – 24, 2017
HIRN CHIB In-Person Investigator: The meeting will take place The CHIB in-person Investigator Meeting will be held on Monday, October 23 – Tuesday, October 24, 2017 at the University of California, San Diego in California. A Welcome Reception will be held on late afternoon on Sunday, October 22, 2016
New HPAP Consortium – October 2016
A fifth consortium, Human Pancreas Analysis Program (HPAP), has been added to HIRN. These two awards were made in response to a NIH NIDDK initiative (RFA-DK-15-027). The primary goal of HPAP is to accumulate, analyze, and distribute high value T1D datasets to the diabetes research community.
New CMAI Award – October 2016
One new project has been added to the CMAI portfolio, “Using Human Stem Cell-derived Thymic Epithelium to Remodel T1D Immune Tolerance“. This project is led by Drs. Mark Anderson, Jeffrey Bluestone and Matthias Hebrok at the University of California, San Francisco.
HIRN 2017 Annual Investigator Meeting: March 7 – 10, 2017
The HIRN 2017 Annual Investigator Meeting will be held March 7 – 10, 2017 at the Hyatt Regency Hotel in Bethesda, MD.
HIRN CHIB In-Person Investigator Meeting: October 25 – 26, 2016
The CHIB in-person Investigator Meeting will be held on Thursday, October 26, 2016 at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, PA. A Welcome Reception will be held on late afternoon on Wednesday, October 25, 2016
Year 1 Executive Summary Report
July 2022 Webinar: “A Library of Diabetes Resources: Opportunities and Applications for your Lab”
Click HERE to access the YouTube video of the recording.
July 21, 2022 (1:00 PM Eastern / 10:00 AM Pacific)
Presented by: 
Joyce Niland, PhD, City of Hope
John Kaddis, PhD, City of Hope
Sarah Tersey, PhD, University of Chicago
Eddie James, PhD, Benaroya Research Institute
Topics discussed:
– Introduction to the Human Islet Research Network (HIRN)
– Overview of the HIRN Resource Browser
– Tools and Datasets Useful for Studying T1D (Mouse to Human Models)
– Highlighting Resources to Enable Antigen Specific Studies
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