City of Hope Levine-Riggs Diabetes Research Symposium Scientific Achievement Awards

11/21/2025

Congratulations to Veronica Cochrane PhD, Parent Lab, UCSF Diabetes Center, and Stephan Ramos, PhD Kim Lab, Stanford Diabetes Research Center, who were named recipients.

Type 1 Diabetes Cured in Groundbreaking Study with mice by BT1D investigators

11/18/2025

A novel transplantation strategy resets the immune system and protects replacement islet cells, offering a path to cure Type 1 diabetes.

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.

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.

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.