BT1D NORCAL COE
CONFERENCES, PROGRESS MEETINGS, AND EVENTS
UPCOMING EVENTS
2026 BT1D NorCal COE Trainee-Led Collaboration Awards
The Breakthrough T1D Northern California Center of Excellence is pleased to announce the second round of Trainee-Led Collaboration Awards, designed to foster innovative, cross-institutional science and empower the next generation of T1D researchers.
This seed-funding mechanism supports collaborative pilot studies led by trainees—including doctoral students, pre-doctoral trainees, and postdoctoral fellows—from UCSF and Stanford COE member labs. Projects should advance new hypotheses in type 1 diabetes and be co-led by at least two trainees from two different COE laboratories.
Award Details
Funding: $5,000–$10,000 (total costs)
Awards Available: 2–4 projects
Eligibility: Trainees in UCSF or Stanford COE member labs
Earliest Start Date: February 1, 2026
Application Requirements
Trainee PI names, affiliations, and training stage
A 1-page Specific Aims document including a one-sentence statement on T1D relevance
Submission Deadline: 5:00 PM on Monday, January 5, 2026
UCSF submissions: Myra Gloria (Myra.Gloria@ucsf.edu)
Stanford submissions: Jessica Sarthi (jsarthi@stanford.edu)
Awarded teams will provide a brief 6-month progress report.
We welcome trainees who are passionate about interdisciplinary T1D research to apply.
For questions, please contact Dr. Qizhi Tang (Qizhi.Tang@ucsf.edu) or Dr. Seung K. Kim (seungkim@stanford.edu).
BT1D NorCal CoE Progress meeting
Our next BT1D NorCal CoE Progress Meeting will take place Friday, November 7th, 2025, from 2:00 to 3:00 PM. An updated calendar invitation has been sent for this meeting time.
The speaker for the November 2025 meeting will be:
UCSF Speaker: Arjan Bains, PhD, Postdoctoral Fellow, Bhushan Lab
Presentation Topic: How Islet Associated Stromal Cells Shape Immune Response in T1D
BT1D NorCal CoE Progress meeting (PAST EVENT)
Our next BT1D NorCal CoE Progress Meeting will take place next Friday, October 3rd, 2025, from 2:00 to 3:00 PM. An updated calendar invitation has been sent for this meeting time.
The speaker for the October 2025 meeting will be:
Stanford Speaker: Xiangyue Zhang, PhD, Postdoctoral Fellow, Engleman Lab
Presentation Topic: Erythropoietin receptor on cDC1s dictates immune tolerance
BT1D NorCal CoE Progress meeting (PAST EVENT)
Our next BT1D NorCal CoE Progress Meeting will take place next Friday, September 12th, 2025, from 2:00 to 3:00 PM. An updated calendar invitation has been sent for this meeting time.
The speaker for the September 2025 meeting will be:
UCSF Speaker: Shabrina Amirruddin, PhD, Postdoctoral Fellow, Sneddon Lab
Presentation Topic: Enhancing Cell Replacement Therapy for Diabetes with Vascularized Stem Cell-Derived Pancreatic Islets
BT1D NorCal CoE Progress meeting (PAST EVENT)
Our next BT1D NorCal CoE Progress Meeting will take place next Friday, June 6th, 2025, from 2:00 to 3:00 PM. An updated calendar invitation has been sent for this meeting time.
The speaker for the June 2025 meeting will be:
Stanford Speaker: Kyle Loh, Ph.D. – Assistant Professor, Developmental Biology (Stem Cell)
Presentation Topic: Improved approaches to create human vascular cells, with the ultimate goal of vascularizing islets
BT1D NorCal CoE Progress meeting (PAST EVENT)
Our next BT1D NorCal CoE Progress Meeting will take place next Friday, May 9th, 2025, from 2:00 to 3:00 PM. An updated calendar invitation has been sent for this meeting time.
The speaker for the May 2025 meeting will be:
UCSF Speaker - Roberto Castro Gutierrez, PhD, Postdoctoral Scholar (Tang lab), UCSF Diabetes Center
Presentation Title: Developing a beta cell specificity Treg therapy for Type 1 Diabetes
BT1D NorCal CoE Progress meeting (PAST EVENT)
Our next BT1D NorCal CoE Progress Meeting will take place next Friday, April 4th, 2025, from 2:00 to 3:00 PM. An updated calendar invitation has been sent for this meeting time.
The speaker for the April 2025 meeting will be:
UCSF Speaker: Mehdi Soleymani-Goloujeh, PhD. – Postdoctoral Fellow, Parent and Tang Labs
Presentation Title: Modeling stem cell-derived islet rejection using engineered immune cells
BT1D NorCal CoE Progress meeting (PAST EVENT)
Our next BT1D NorCal CoE Progress Meeting will take place next Friday, February 7th, 2025, from 2:00 to 3:00 PM. An updated calendar invitation has been sent for this meeting time.
The speaker for the February 2025 meeting will be:
Stanford Speaker - Dr. Stephen Ramos, PhD
Postdoctoral Scholar (Kim lab), Developmental Biology, Stanford University
Presentation Title: Hematopoietic stem cell transplantation to promote replacement islet tolerance
