March 8, 2019

 

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CFI would like to congratulate Dr. Brian Fife, he has been awarded one of the five collaborative two-year research grants supported by the Minnesota Partnership for Biotechnology and Medical Genomics

This marks the partnership's 16th year of spearheading new scientific ideas from Minnesota to improve health care for Minnesotans. The state-funded grants for these team science proposals total nearly $5.2 million and will target diabetes, stress-induced aging, immigration-related obesity, implantable drug testing devices and Alzheimer's disease, each team includes investigators from Mayo Clinic and the University of Minnesota. Dr. Fife's team aims to develop a cell replacement therapy to restore insulin-producing pancreatic islet beta cells and reduce autoimmune attacks on tissue. The goal is to develop designer islet beta cells and arm these cells with molecules to protect them from attack by the immune system. The application shows promise as a cure for and prevention of Type 1 diabetes. To learn more about the Fife lab, click here.