Tribute to Professor Douglas Melton

Melton’s goal is to cure diabetes by eliminating the current practice of regular blood checks and insulin injections, replacing them with transplants of insulin-producing cells, specifically pancreatic beta cells that measure glucose levels and secrete just the right amount of insulin.

Prof. Melton is currently working with his team and different pharmaceutical companies in some clinical trials on cell therapy as a new treatment for type 1 diabetes. In fact, his studies with patients who have received pancreatic islet cells transplanted together with immunosuppressive drugs have obtained great results, achieving that some of his patients were ‘cured’ for several months of their type 1 diabetes.

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