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Miami, FL (October, 2002) -- The Esformes Pavilion, a newly-constructed conference and education center, was recently added to the Diabetes Research Institute (DRI), a center of excellence at the University of Miami School of Medicine. Donated in memory of Mary...

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...

Miami, FL (August 27, 2002) -- Studies conducted at the Diabetes Research Institute have shown that a bone-seeking radioactive compound can successfully re-educate the immune system of mice, enabling them to accept transplanted bone marrow for extended periods of time...

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...

Miami, FL (August 27, 2002) -- Scientists at the Diabetes Research Institute have successfully transplanted cultured islet cells into nine consecutive diabetic patients and achieved insulin-independence in all nine. The proven ability to isolate and maintain...

Miami, FL (June 17, 2002) -- Dr. Camillo Ricordi, Scientific Director and Chief Academic Officer at the University of Miami School of Medicine's Diabetes Research Institute, has been awarded the 2002 Outstanding Scientific Achievement Award by the American...

Houston, TX (January 23, 2002) -- Within 24 hours of receiving insulin-producing cells from the Diabetes Research Institute at the University of Miami, a Houston woman has begun to produce the life-saving hormone on her own for the first time in 30 years, and in doing...

Miami, FL (October 18, 2001) -- Scientists at the Diabetes Research Institute have successfully transplanted islet cells that have been cultured an average of 34 hours into diabetic patients and achieved insulin-independence in all the patients participating in the...

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...

Miami, FL (December 13, 2000) -- Armed with a $10.4 million grant from the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation International, University of Florida and University of Miami researchers announced today they will launch a new center devoted to the study of gene therapy...

Miami, FL (May, 1998) – Jackie Warren Demijohn has made medical history in the diabetes world. She, along with twenty-two other people with hard to manage Type 1 diabetes, had been waiting for the first of its kind cellular transplant study to begin at the University...