Betacell Therapy

Publications

At the San Raffaele Scientific Institute (Milan, Italy), Lorenzo Piemonti serves as Director of Diabetes Research Institute and Director of Human Islet Transplantation Program. He also serves as Head of the Beta Cell Biology Unit, Director of Human Islet Processing Facility, and coordinator of European Consortium for Islet Transplantation. He also serves as Professor in Endocrinology at University Vita Salute San Raffaele of Milan and as Honorary Visiting Professor at Brussels Free University-VUB. His areas of expertise are diabetes, pancreatology and pancreatic cancer. He has in the past studied the role of innate immunity in islet cell biology and in pancreatic cancer biology. In addition, his research interests include beta cell replacement, immune tolerance induction strategies, dendritic cell biology, and stem cells. He currently serves as section Editor of Cell Transplantation, the Regenerative Medicine Journal and of Current Diabetes Reports, as editorial board of Acta Diabetologia, as Councilor of the International Pancreas and Islet Transplantation Association (IPITA), of The Transplantation Society (TTS) and previously as member of the European Pancreas and Islet Transplantation Association (EPITA) committee of European Society for Organ Transplantation (ESOT). Lorenzo Piemonti authored more than 168 original articles published in international peer-reviewed journals.