Inaugural lecture of Professor Shareen Forbes

Professor of Diabetic Medicine

Future therapies for type 1 diabetes

After a century of insulin could cell transplants be the future?

The discovery of insulin was a breakthrough that changed entire futures for people with type 1 diabetes; but using insulin as a therapy has the potential side-effect of creating dangerously low blood sugar levels.

Professor Shareen Forbes is leading work to overcome this problem by changing how diabetes is treated.

Together with her colleagues, she is trying to improve the success of islet cell transplants so that people can generate insulin themselves and solve the blood sugar level challenge without injecting insulin. Join us to hear about her progress.

This lecture is free and open to all.

You can also attend this event online via a live-stream on the evening, please register to receive joining details: https://future-therapies-online.eventbrite.co.uk

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