Currently, all of our funding is focused on a method to reproduce islet cells for transplantation and encapsulate the islets so they are not rejected by the patient's immune system. This eliminates the need for immunosuppressant drugs after transplantation.
How will your gift make a difference?
| $10 | Testing tubes |
| $25 | Sample slides for islet cell evaluation |
| $100 | Laboratory chemicals |
| $250 | Test kit for evaluation of islet cell function |
| $500 | Laboratory solution and reagent |
| $1000 | Disposable labware and glass lab equipment |
| $5000 | Cost of one research pancreas |
| $10,000 | Cost of one islet isolation process |
| $25,000 | Equipment and instrumentation (microscope, plate reader etc.) |
| $50,000 | Post Doctorate research fellowship for one year |
| $100,000 | Subsidy for pre-clinical encapsulation trial |
| $250,000 | Subsidy for clinical phase I encapsulation trial |
| $500,000 | Subsidy for clinical phase III islet transplantation trial |
| $1,000,000 | Support for Global research contributions to the CDP |
