Calendar of Events
Upcoming Board of Trustees Meetings
7:00 PM - Livingston Recreation Center
Wednesday, March 12, 2008 (With special guest speaker Norma Kenyon, Ph.D., a leading researcher and clinician at DRI. Click here to read more about Dr. Kenyon and click here to dowload the flyer for this special event)
Wednesday, June 11, 2008
Wednesday, September 17, 2008
Wednesday, November 12, 2008
Upcoming Executive Board Meetings
7:00 PM - FDR Office
Wednesday, March 5, 2008
Wednesday, May 14, 2008
Wednesday, July 15, 2008
Wednesday, September 10, 2008
Wednesday, November 5, 2008
Educational/Public Meeting
Wednesday, April 16, 2008 - Livingston Community Center
· 50/50 Raffle Drawing will be held
Event Dates
Neiman Marcus Cocktail Reception
Thursday, March 27, 2008
6:30 pm to 8:30 pm
The Mall at Short Hills
Call office for more details.
17th Annual Golf Classic
Mountain Ridge Country Club, West Caldwell, NJ
Thursday, August 7, 2008
Harvest for Hope Fashion Show and Dinner
(to see photos from past fashion shows, click here )
Wednesday, October 22, 2008 - The Birchwood Manor, Whippany, NJ
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Norma S. Kenyon, Ph.D.
Norma Sue Kenyon, Ph.D., is the Martin Kleiman Professor of Surgery, Medicine, Microbiology and Immunology and Director of the Wallace H. Coulter Center for Translational Research at the University of Miami. In addition she serves as the Associate Director of Research and Program Development and Director of Pre-Clinical Islet Transplantation at the Diabetes Research Institute.
Dr. Kenyon has concentrated her work in the area of transplant immunology, identifying the types of cells in the immune system that either enhance or inhibit the rejection process, and translating these findings into new therapies for patients. An established leader in islet transplantation in pre-clinical models, the results of her work have sparked great enthusiasm within the scientific community, and have been published in a number of peer-reviewed journals.
She and her team have focused on ways to transplant islets without the need for anti-rejection drugs (tolerance), and have conducted numerous studies using bone marrow and other methods to help recipients tolerate transplanted tissue. In addition, the team is now looking at agents that limit early loss of islets post-transplant, thereby decreasing the numbers of islets required to achieve insulin independence.
This aspect is especially important for clinical application of tolerance protocols in light of the need to utilize islets and bone marrow cells from one donor and be able to reproducibly attain insulin independence (current clinical strategies generally require the use of islets from more than one donor).
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