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  • The Discovery of Tregs Wins Nobel!

    10/6/2025

    BT1D NorCAL investigators celebrate the 2025 Nobel Prize of Physiology and Medicine awarded to Drs. Mary Brunkow, Fred Ramsdell, and Shimon Sakaguchi for their discovery of Tregs. Our work aims to harness the therapeutic potential of Tregs to treat T1D and promote immune tolerance to transplanted beta cells.

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  • BT1D 2024 Kick off Event

    10/24/2024

    NorCal CoE BT1D (formerly JDRF) launched its kick-off event to mark the renewal of another 4 year grant award.

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  • JDRF CoE Annual Scientific Meeting

    09/30/2021

    The JDRF Northern California Center of Excellence annual meeting (held virtually) brought the scientific teams from UCSF and Stanford together for a half-day of presentations and data sharing from ongoing projects. The keynote presentation was provided by Dr. Doug Melton, Professor of Harvard Stem Cell Institute. Invited attendees included Karen Jordan, Esther Latres and Mark Fischer-Colbrie from JDRF.