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Esformes Family Gift Creates Conference Center at Diabetes Research Institute

Diabetes Research Institute Foundation Receives Million Dollar Gifts

Miami, FL (August, 2002) -- The Diabetes Research Institute Foundation has recently received two substantial gifts in support of the cure-focused research at the Diabetes Research Institute (DRI) at the University of Miami. The two contributions, an initial gift from...

Esformes Family Gift Creates Conference Center at Diabetes Research Institute

Who Says You’re Too Old to Be an Organ Donor?

Miami, FL (August 27, 2002) -- About 4,500 pancreases from the scant 6,000 organ donors available each year never get used for a variety of reasons, including many organs deemed too old for transplant purposes. But all that may soon change, if scientists at the...

DRI’s Ricordi Wins World Prize in Surgery

DRI’s Ricordi Wins World Prize in Surgery

DRI Scientific Director Camillo Ricordi, M.D., and the Ricordi Chamber. Miami, FL (February, 2001) -- The Ricordi Method, an automated procedure for isolating pancreatic islet cells, was developed in 1986 by the Diabetes Research Institute’s scientific director...

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