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- Relationship to Diabetes
- Type 1
MIAMI – Dr. Camillo Ricordi considers himself a diabetes freedom fighter.
Ricordi, the director of the Diabetes Research Institute at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, is considered one of the world’s leading scientists in diabetes cure-focused research.
“The search for a cure is a full-time job,” said Ricordi, 57, who has been searching for a cure for the degenerative disease for more than 25 years. “It has to be something to consume you completely.”
In his office near Jackson Memorial Hospital, he keeps framed photographs of his most compelling type 1 diabetes patients near his desk, as a reminder of why he continues the crusade.
There is no known cure for the 382 million people diagnosed worldwide with diabetes. Of those, 5 percent have type 1 diabetes, which primarily affects children and young adults. In type 1, the body’s immune system destroys pancreatic cells that make insulin, the hormone needed to regulate the body’s blood sugar. People with type 1 diabetes must have daily insulin injections or be on an insulin pump to survive.
Ricordi thinks that in the next three to seven years there will be a cure for type 1 patients.
http://missoulian.com/lifestyles/he...cle_4850096b-b13b-5e69-a44a-78ac3833c67a.html
Not 10 years then? 😉
Ricordi, the director of the Diabetes Research Institute at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, is considered one of the world’s leading scientists in diabetes cure-focused research.
“The search for a cure is a full-time job,” said Ricordi, 57, who has been searching for a cure for the degenerative disease for more than 25 years. “It has to be something to consume you completely.”
In his office near Jackson Memorial Hospital, he keeps framed photographs of his most compelling type 1 diabetes patients near his desk, as a reminder of why he continues the crusade.
There is no known cure for the 382 million people diagnosed worldwide with diabetes. Of those, 5 percent have type 1 diabetes, which primarily affects children and young adults. In type 1, the body’s immune system destroys pancreatic cells that make insulin, the hormone needed to regulate the body’s blood sugar. People with type 1 diabetes must have daily insulin injections or be on an insulin pump to survive.
Ricordi thinks that in the next three to seven years there will be a cure for type 1 patients.
http://missoulian.com/lifestyles/he...cle_4850096b-b13b-5e69-a44a-78ac3833c67a.html
Not 10 years then? 😉