The Nobel Assembly at Karolinska Institutet have award the 2025 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine to Mary E. Brunkow, Fred Ramsdell, and Shimon Sakaguchi and their discoveries which have completely helped change the landscape of our understanding of how autoimmune diseases are prevented and controlled.
The Rally for Medical Research has one urgent purpose: to make funding for the National Institutes of Health a national priority. What began as a single day of advocacy in 2013 has become an annual nationwide movement uniting millions of patients, advocates, researchers, clinicians, and partner organizations.
William J. Rutter PhD, who in 1977 with his colleagues achieved the first major triumph of genetic engineering by isolating the gene for rat insulin and transplanting it into bacteria, eventually leading to the mass production of genetically engineered insulin to treat diabetes, passed away on June 11, 2025.
Diabetes Center looks brightly into the future when it will in large part move into the new Barbara and Gerson Bakar Research and Academic Building, along with other research programs for cancer, microbiology, immunology and cell biology. The Research space will be focused on promoting team-based science, with labs organized by discovery themes rather than specialty areas, to hasten scientific breakthroughs. Built into the hillside, the 323,000 square-foot facility will have nine stories above ground to the west and eight to the east.
The California Institute for Regenerative Medicine (CIRM), one of the world’s largest institutes dedicated to regenerative medicine, granted over $22.5 million to nine projects through the Quest Awards Program, which fosters the discovery of innovative stem cell-based and gene therapy technologies.
One of these projects was award to Qizhi Tang, PhD, for her project "Genome editing of human Tregs to enable combinational tolerogenic therapy with T cell targeted biologics for T1D."
Diabetes Center Director Mark Anderson MD PhD has been awarded the prestigious Coley Award from the Cancer Research Institute. The Coley Award honors groundbreaking contributions to cancer research, validating and highlighting the impact of innovative work, particularly in immunotherapy and recognizes Dr.
For more than half a century, the W.M. Keck Foundation has funded projects that are distinctive and novel in their approach, question the prevailing paradigm, and have the potential to break open new territory in their field by the finest researchers at the most innovative institutions in the United States, seeing real-world impact brilliant ideas come to fruition.
Two members of Tang Lab, who are at the forefront of new approaches to islet transplantation, have received JDRF fellowships designed for various points in one's career. Peng Xiao PhD has received a JDRF Postdoctoral Fellowship, designed to attract qualified, promising scientists entering their professional career in the T1D research field.
Diabetes Center held their annual UCSF Obesity & Diabetes Research Scientific Retreat in March, bringing together UCSF, UC Berkeley, UC Davis, and Buck Institute. The keynote speaker was Dale Abel MD PhD, William S. Adams Distinguished Professor and Chair at David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA.
