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Merci de l’invitation! C’est un honneur de pouvoir présenter mes recherches à ce congrès. Félicitations à ma collègue de longue date Amélie Fradet-Turcotte pour son prix!

Junior or Assistant Specialist University of California, San Francisco is hiring. Apply now!

WE ARE HIRING! CDI and Lim Lab at UCSF are looking for technicians (pre-PhD level) for a variety of cell engineering and synthetic biology projects. Past trainees have gone on to PhD/MD/careers at great places including UCSF, Harvard, Genentech, UCSD, etc!
Apply here: aprecruit.ucsf.edu/JPF05588

A Life-Changing Scientific Study Ended by the Trump Administration Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., declared chronic diseases an “existential threat.” Then his agency terminated one of the world’s longest-running diabetes trials.

How many NIH supported "life-changing" studies have been or will be terminated?
This one on the Diabetes Prevention Program Outcomes Study, by @dhruvkhullar.bsky.social @newyorker.com
www.newyorker.com/news/the-led...

Very happy to have contributed to this perspective paper on the Human Islet Research Network! Please take a look at this series of articles if you are curious about the critical role NIDDK has played improving the health of people with diabetes diabetesjournals.org/collection/2...

Professors (2 positions) - Canada Excellence Research Chairs - Health - Sherbrooke (City), Quebec (CA) job with Universite de Sherbrooke | 12837575 Université de Sherbrooke is inviting applications for two professor positions, with the selected candidates expected to hold a prestigious chair

Canadian Diabetes Job! www.nature.com/naturecareer...

Excited to launch this new journal with a great team, and the support of both RUP and IAPIDS, and the entire community of human inborn errors of immunity !

Synthetic organizer cells guide development via spatial and biochemical instructions Synthetic organizer cells, engineered to spatially self-assemble around stem cells, can be used to create specific morphogen gradients and systematically guide in vitro development.

The latest from Lim Lab at CDI out today in Cell! "Synthetic organizer cells guide development via spatial and biochemical instructions" led by star postdocs Toshi Yamada and Coralie Trentesaux

www.cell.com/cell/abstrac...

Our paper is out in Science! Congrats to Nish and the team for making the cover 🎉

Long-term in vitro expansion of a human fetal pancreas stem cell that generates all three pancreatic cell lineages Identification of an LGR5 as a marker for a tripotent stem/progenitor cell of the human fetal pancreas. Organoids derived from single LGR5+ cells are capable of long-term expansion in vitro and genera...

Exciting study by Amanda Andersson Rolf et al: In vitro expansion of a human fetal #pancreas #stemcell that generates all three pancreatic cell lineages”. www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...
New #organoid protocol allows the seemingly indefinite expansion of human fetal pancreatic Lgr5+ stem cell 1/

Save the dates! June 11-13, 2025.

The European Islet Study Group Meeting of 2025 will take place in Malmö, Sweden hosted by our friends at Lund University Diabetes Centre.

#eisg2025 #islet #research #malmö

Excited to have the Dumesic lab as our new neighbor in the Diabetes Center. Welcome Phillip!

Hiring announcement from UCSF Broad Stem Cell Center for a faculty position in biology or regenerative medicine. Includes application link.

Join our UCSF Broad Stem Cell team! Faculty position (#JPF05360) for candidates with a background in Developmental & Stem Cell Biology or Regenerative Medicine, particularly genome editing or hematopoietic stem cell biology. Check out the job description and apply now ➡️ aprecruit.ucsf.edu/JPF05360

Would love to be added too. Thanks!