Severn Pumpers - Another Successful Annual Meeting

Severn Pumpers - another successful annual meeting

Friday, 13 June saw another successful Annual Pumpers Meeting, held at the Shrewsbury Town football ground. The annual meeting has been growing over the last 10 years and with such an impressive turnout of over 250 of our pump patients, they had the pleasure of national guest speakers Professor Partha Kar and Dr Rose Stewart to talk about the psychological aspects of type 1 diabetes care and insulin pump care.

Accelerating Cures: Four New Grants from the Breakthrough T1D - SCN Partnership

We’ve made major progress in the development of cell replacement therapies for type 1 diabetes (T1D) over the past few decades – much of it right here in Canada. We know that manufactured islets can be safely implanted into people, where they start to make insulin. But there is more work to do to advance these therapies to bring them to more people with T1D. To drive new work in this area, Breakthrough T1D is pleased to announce a partnership wi…

Stem Cell Network partnership for cell therapy research in Canada

We’ve made major progress in the development of cell replacement therapies for type 1 diabetes (T1D) over the past few decades. We know that manufactured islets can be safely implanted into people and produce insulin. Yet, there is more work to do to advance cell therapy research and bring these therapies to the larger T1D community. Breakthrough T1D’s Project ACT (Accelerate Cell Therapies) will make manufactured cell replacement therapies that…