Chat Tonight With Dr. Bob Elliott

[Ellen]

Just a friendly reminder that there will be a chat tonight at 9:00 p.m. eastern (NY USA) and 2:00 p.m. October 1 New Zealand time with Dr. Bob Elliott of LCT - the company that is doing trials with encapsulated porcine islets in humans. They are working not only to solve the availability of islets issue, but also avoiding the use of toxic immunosuppression. This is research on the cutting edge and may be a giant step forward. Please come and chat and bring your questions.

www.diabetestalkfest.com (http://www.diabetestalkfest.com)

It takes a little while for the chat room software to load so be patient :-)

[Ellen]

Transcript:

http://diabetestalkfest.ning.com/forum/topic/show?id=855504%3ATopic%3A7896

[OSUMom]

Thank you so much for posting the transcript link, Ellen!!!

This is could be a stupid question, but I know this all started with the pigs on the island. If they are only using the pigs on the island, won't they run out of cells from these pigs? It's so basic and silly. :p Do you know Ellen?

I loved how he said he can hardly contain his excitement. Awesome hope!!

[Ellen]

I imagine they are breeding the pigs. You can post questions at The Islet Foundation Forum. http://www.islet.org/forum/wwwboard.htm . Dr. Elliott often answers questions there.