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DRI Receives Prestigious Designation from the NIH as Islet Cell Transplant Center

DRI Receives Prestigious Designation from the NIH as Islet Cell Transplant Center

by stephen | Oct 4, 2004 | 2004

Miami, FL (October 4, 2004) — The Diabetes Research Institute (DRI) at the University of Miami School of Medicine has been selected as one of only five centers worldwide to receive funding from the National Institutes of Health for clinical islet cell transplant...
DRI Receives Prestigious Designation from the NIH as Islet Cell Transplant Center

New Directors Join National Board of Diabetes Research Institute Foundation

by stephen | Aug 15, 2004 | 2004

Hollywood, FL (August, 2004) — The Diabetes Research Institute Foundation (DRIF), the nonprofit diabetes organization whose sole mission is to support the cure-focused work of the Diabetes Research Institute (DRI), recently elected four new members to serve on...
DRI Receives Prestigious Designation from the NIH as Islet Cell Transplant Center

Two UM School of Medicine Scientists to Participate in United Nations Debate

by stephen | May 28, 2004 | 2004

Miami, FL (May 28, 2004) — Camillo Ricordi, M.D., Scientific Director of the Diabetes Research Institute, and W. Dalton Dietrich, Ph.D., Scientific Director of The Miami Project to Cure Paralysis, both at the University of Miami School of Medicine, will take...
DRI Receives Prestigious Designation from the NIH as Islet Cell Transplant Center

Arthur H. Hertz Joins Board of Directors of Diabetes Research Institute Foundation

by stephen | Mar 26, 2004 | 2004

Hollywood, FL (March, 2004) — The Diabetes Research Institute Foundation (DRIF), the not-for-profit diabetes organization whose sole mission is to support the Diabetes Research Institute at the University of Miami School of Medicine, is pleased to announce the...
DRI Receives Prestigious Designation from the NIH as Islet Cell Transplant Center

UM School of Medicine Researcher Receives Prestigious Diabetes Funding

by stephen | Feb 2, 2004 | 2004

Miami, FL (February 2, 2004) — Luca Inverardi, M.D., research professor of medicine, microbiology and immunology and co-director of the Cell Transplant Center at the Diabetes Research Institute at the UM School of Medicine, is just one of seven researchers...

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