Seung Kim, MD, PhD
Assistant Professor
Departments of Developmental Biology and Medicine
Stanford University School of Medicine
Palo Alto, CA
Project Title: "Islet Stem Cells for Diabetes Mellitus"

To address the need for replacement islets in diabetes, we propose to produce new human ES cell lines and to identify methods for production of islet replacement tissue. We anticipate that these approaches will provide the means to produce, or prospectively isolate, islet-generating cells useful for islet replacement strategies in diabetes mellitus. The primary focus of our network grant is diabetes mellitus. It is likely, however, that success in these projects will generate materials or experience that will impact other targeted focus areas of the Hillblom Foundation, including disorders of aging and developmental disorders of childhood.