Swedish news channel SVT Vetenskap reports on the InSight Technology on the 19th of November 2013. The islets of Langerhans placed in the mouse eye behave in the same way as the islets in the pancreas. It opens for a possibility to study the progress of diabetes by looking into a patient’s eye. One can …
Swedish Crown Princess Victoria visited Rolf Luft Research Center at KI and Professor P-O Berggren’s group on the 14th of November, the International Diabetes Day. During the visit, the Crown Princess got introduced to diabetes and its complications, as well as to new findings, the research group’s projects and InSight Technology. Read more: Report published …
On the 26th of September the European Research Council (ERC) announced 284 senior research leaders, who will be awarded funding after the last Advanced Grant competition. The competition was carried out under the EU’s Seventh Research Framework Programme (FP7). Professor P-O Berggren is one of the 8 Swedish researchers to receive the Advanced ERC Grant. The …
DiabetesMines reports on InSight Technology on the 5th of July, 2011 The website DiabetesMines reports on the transplantation of pancreatic islet cells into the anterior chamber of the eye, being performed at the Diabetes Research Institute (DRI) in Florida. Using the eye as a local transplantation site reduces the amount of insulin needed in diabetic …